Bear Meat

[Belsnickel]

(10-22-2020, 10:44 AM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: I'm 100% a believer in any game meat; I love it all, though I've only had bear (black bear, to be exact, which I believe is the most-common bear species eaten) twice in my life: first time was minced, in a tomato sauce with pasta (Italians ruin things sometimes), the second was sliced from a roast done in the oven, with a reduced red-wine/bear juice (IE the natural juices from the bear) sauce (my dad made it; he makes most of his game sauces like this, it's a French Provencal/Northern-Italian style of cooking) and it was superb, not too fatty and not too lean.

Not sure of what cut it was though... still, delicious.

As my dad only owns shotguns and doesn't do anything big-game (Canada Goose, Ducks and wild Turkey are what he goes for), we only eat big-game from what we're given... but, as mentioned, we don't complain; we love it all.

There are a lot of people that won't eat bear, thinking it to be too fatty or too gristly. I find it to be delicious. Bear hams can be done just like a pork ham, even, and tastes a lot like domestic pork just with a tiny bit of wild flavor. The bear fat can be used for all sorts of applications and, while not the healthiest thing, is delicious to cook with.

But I am of the same mind where I don't turn up my nose at any meat. Usually, if someone says a meat tastes bad it is because it was either processed or prepared incorrectly, or the diet of the animal wasn't very good for some reason.