Campfire Porcupine | Outdoor Cooking on Himalayan Salt Block
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- Опубликовано: 23 мар 2022
- We are grateful to harvest our first Alaskan porcupine on a beautiful early spring day. Back at the cabin we process and cook the porcupine over a warm campfire. Porcupine meat is rich and fatty, often compared to the taste of pork.
Fun Fact - Porcupines are Alaska's second largest rodent.
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I remember trying to eat porcupine. More than 50 years ago in northern Michigan, when times were tough, and we were hungry, we got a porcupine. My mother carefully roasted it, and two families sat down to eat. It was inedible. The taste was a composite of pine needles and acorns - apparently it’s diet. I recited your video to her this afternoon (she is 93 and in a nursing facility) and she recalled the meal exactly as I did. It was good to resurrect old memories. Perhaps if we had prepared it properly……
No experience with porcupines, but some with black bear, and their diet is everything in the taste department.
@@blinddogroofer we took a black bear from the Rocky mountains at 10k elevation where the mountainsides are covered in wild blueberries and raspberries and the meat had a sweet berry like flavor to it. We made the best spaghetti ever with that ground meat lol.
@@MK-ti2oo A friend of mine has been telling me about "blueberry bears" across Kachemak Bay from where we work. Said exactly what you just did.
Suppose to roast it on a cedar plank. Properly season it. Roast it on the plank for 10 mins per pound at 325 degrees... Once finished, scrap it into the garbage can and eat the plank ha.
My uncle sent down some moose steaks from Alaska. The rest of the family didn't like it, tasted like chewing on a willow stick. I'm a garbage can, so I got 4 steaks!
This my favorite channel because this is how I got my meals everyday as a kid. We hunted and fished constantly while mom was working to pay bills. honestly now that im 50 and broken down from chasing dollars in shipyards I regret not continuing living simple.
You two are an amazing couple!! My grandmother had a saying we would hear a lot and it fits you guys perfectly. “ A couple that works together stays together “
Arielle, you go girl! You skinned that porcupine like it was nothing. I'm living life vicariously through you. You are so my hero! I wish I was young again and can do all the things you guys do. Love your channel.
Ditto!! I miss my life back in my days on a small property and trying to survive as much as possible on our own food production. I LOVE this channel........
Although , I like to watch your videos, I am not comfortable to see an animal to be slaughtered in your shows. Have a great spring. 👍
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My immigrant Dad would have said, What a Woman!
What can I say, I am a meat eater. What’s the difference between a cow and a whatever? 🤷♀️
Or a chicken…….
I’m just saying. Not intended to offend anyone.
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If I ever come by for dinner, please leave this one off the menu.❤
Lol!
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What you don't know won't hurt you. You've had hot dogs, right?
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 🤣🤣🤣
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 good point, lol!
You guys are rockstars!! I thought to myself-“why a porcupine” but as a hunter Ed instructor for many years, your showing what it takes to live in a world of harvest to table. Your giving commitment to real harvest to table survival even in times of plenty- practice what you preach!!! Love it!!!
The hide was probably worth much more than any calories they gained from the meat. Even back in the day it would have been. They could have traded it for more staple food and maybe something more normally palpable.
@@kiki29073Why is the hide valuable? What is done with it? Just curious.
I guess we should Google it ….
I love when there is no music but the nature sounds - it's like ASMR!
I never thought I would say this but watching you skin this animal was actually beautiful showed respectfulness to its life.
There was an elderly lady down the street when I was growing up that did amazing quill embroidery. She learned the art from her mother who was among the last full blooded Chochenyo.
I would love to see how it was.
You two are awesome. Those porcupine tacos looked good! Arielle, you made skinning that porcupine look easy. Another great video!
A country boy, and a country girl, will never go hungry!!! Thanks for the video.
The sight of a barbecue when it's snowy outside is fun. I have never seen snow
Crazy how deep the snow is, the fire really showed just how much snow falls
You two are flat out amazing! I so appreciate the work you put into these videos, sharing your lives, your hard work, your knowledge and with such a sense of fun...and great cooks besides. In many ways, yours is the best channel on RUclips. Thank you.
Look forward to seeing what you do with the hide. The quills are precious to the native culture.
She looks like she may be of Native ancestry. He does slightly too but not as much as her to me.
Very interesting to see it’s hide with all the different layers and textures. Great video. Thank you
The way Eric held his paw when y’all took him down 🤣
And then “the gentleman liked to eat” lol
Before I even watch this episode, I have to say that an unwritten rule was quill pigs were off limits and saved as a survival food for people in trouble in the bush. As they are very slow and easy to kill. That said, I did kill one and cooked the poor guy low and slow in simmering water, then toasted it on a alder stick over the fire. Delicious. Again, this was the 70s, Chugach range. In the logging camps of south east Alaska, we would drive along until we found a porcupine and thow a large wad of wet paper towels and use a stick to remove it and harvest quills. The women and kids made jewelry along with cod, halibut, and red snapper ear bones that was pure ivory that looks like a tiny feather. Even at a young age, using my fathers heavy welding gloves I would run up and grab the quill pig by his hind legs and pick him up. Believe it or not he didn't seem to see me as a threat. And I would scratch him under the chin. Peace out man.
P.S. I highly recommend a pressure cooker. Works very well for quill pigs and snowshoe hares. Whole. Very tender. That said, you two are much better cooks than I was at a very young age. Though I am much older than you now, I was much younger than you then. Much more rustic. Great job! Ciao!
What’s a porcupine’s favorite game to play? --------- Poker
Interesting video, I have never thought of what a porcupine tastes like before today lol.
Ariel certinaly is a "Jill of all trades "when it comes to processing game
Both are 😊
Never knew there were porcupine in Alaska & sure didn't know ppl are able to eat them! Learn something from this channel all the time!
You obviously never been to China .. people will eat ANYTHING!
Ate many a porcupine in my younger years, not that bad actually.
Same here this was new to me.
Tons of porcupine in Alaska, they are especially adept at getting into things and chewing on cabins!
We have porcupines on the prairies of outstate Nebraska.
I do like Pork E Pines.
Nice skinning there Arielle.
You've got the precision of a surgeon.👍
I’m on a cruise ship which just left the Cayman Islands and I’m watching y’all skin a porcupine. Outstanding!
It's good to see you all harvesting furbearers and using the hide. I trap and it really teaches one to appreciate each fur and its unique qualities!
What did you do with the hide?
The quills can be used as sewing utensils . They taste a lot like bear, a bit sinewy but rich meat 🍖
Had porcupine a long time ago. Red meat greasy like bear but not as oily greasy.
You two have lived more life in your combined perhaps 66 years than I have lived in my entire 80 years. Arielle you are the perfect Frontiersewoman, or Clan of the Cave Bear woman, you go toe to toe with Eric, partners in everything. I watch you both in total awe and fascination. Thanks for many hours of pure virtual living pleasure.
You guys are definitely adventurous! I have eaten lots of different wild game, but I would have never considered eating porcupine. Thanks for sharing that adventure with us!
Oh wow, save those quills, the native ladies love sewing with those. We are always looking for some.
I think it sounds like a very slow cook on a low heat would be good. IN plenty stock - even with a little wine! Other field flavours would go well with it including mushrooms and thyme. Onion and garlic were good but maybe also some root vegetables in there like carrot and swede. Just thought that juniper berries would be a good addition too! Really interesting though. Well done on trying new things.
Anything to take away the taste of the porcupine lol 😊👍🏻
More Campfire ‘n’ Cook videos please! Awesomeness 😉
Love it guys! I'm so into harvesting and utilizing under appreciated species whether it be game or rough fish etc. My feeling is that this really helps take the pressure off of the more popular species and also helps with the balance of the ecosystem. And sometimes these "other meats" turn out to be quite good.
Amen brother. I live in Florida and we have alot of "trash fish" here. Like pinfish. I think people tend to believe pinfish taste bad because it's what they've heard.. but I smoked some and I can tell you... THEY'RE DELICIOUS!!! Taste just like bluegill. Next time I'm going to pan fry about 3 of them and eat them like Momma taught me to eat bluegill. Fantastic way to look at it. If I can eat off pinfish that taste so good, I might just throw back that big Bull Red.
Welllll, I’m not feeling like porcupine is something on my bucket list. 👍🏻💕
You two are meant for each other.
My grandmother said you needed to soak it in a mild salt brine to remove the gamey taste. If you leave it to "age" about a week in your fridge it will be a 100 times better.
I've heard ppl say to soak wild game like raccoon, opossums,deer,etc in milk,sage or something to take the wild taste out.
Or three days in buttermilk and cook it with some carrots in the broth too. Yum.
I grew up on nothing but wild game and we always used buttermilk or milk for that purpose, I still use it to this day.
I am longing for the day you say “never again “! 😂
My father LOVED them , they parboiled it , then baked it . Was their Sunday dinner .
Have never heard of campfire salt rock cooking, really cool!
Great catch. I've had it years ago at a deer camp. Was good as I remember. The closest taste was unicorn or young t rex. Just kidding. You always m are me envious of the great times you two have together. Hope you got a smile from this. Till next time.
Lol
You guys made skinning the porcupine look sooo easy. His little feet were so cute! Such an interesting video to watch.
Love how you treated the porcupine with such respect. Processing and the cooking. Enjoy all your videos. Thank you
Never in a million would I have ever thought you could eat a porcupine. Crazy, yet fascinating. 🙃
I have tasted Raccoon Roasted and it was delicious, so yes I would try porcupine for sure, sounds yummy 😋
Thanks so much for this! I would have loved to seen how you tracked the porcupine; I really appreciated you showing how you skinned it and processed it for cooking. With a little more footage of said events, this could be an incredible 'How To'. I really appreciate you sharing all your adventures and if this was the first time ever harvesting porcupine, then wow! Great job!
Remember they said they saw it in a tree . Porcupine don’t move quickly when walking so you can go home and come back tomorrow and with luck and a good eye see it in a nearby tree . They move a lot in August during the mating season .😃
I was hungry watching this video. Is there anyone like me? 😝😝😝
I remember my first porcupine meal. Put it on sticks over the campfire and I can honestly say it was one of the most ODD tastes of any meat I have ever tried. Ours was very oily and dark meat. The flavor was like a really dark chicken or turkey meat mixed with a fishy flavor. We asked other people if that was typical and they said it all depends on where the porky has been living and what it has been eating. Ours was living down near a beaver dam and eating from that pond and area. Not my favorite wild game meat for sure. LOL!
That sounds gross
@@vanlifevibes9241 LOL! well, we might not have been hungry enough! If I was truly hungry, I can say that porcupine wasnt so bad that I would hesitate to eat it again, it just wouldnt be a 'favorite' go-to meal.
Always a good day when you guys post!
Wasn’t expecting this … I appreciate you respecting the wild life . Not sure if they are a food source to continue hunting ….
Thank you .
Laughing at your fire melting down into the snow. LOL. it is like that around my garden right now.
I like her, she's the type of girl you need with you in a survival situation.
Thank you for making content that is appropriate for younger viewers. We don't have our boys watch TV but once a week we all watch your videos together. It's inspired us to plan a trip to Alaska for 2023. My boys are hoping to see you and your dogs on the trip. 😋 Thank you for your positive attitude, hard work, and clean language!
Holy hotdog😲?! Wow! I just love this channel💜💛💜💛💜💛
You two are a match made in heaven...best example of a twin flame that I've ever witnessed❤
I feel like I have seen it all now. You guys never cease to amaze my family and I.
Now this is something I've DEFINITELY never seen before. Yet another amazing one-of-a-kind video guys! Never seen a porcupine slaughtered, and never seen someone cook on a salt block before either. Lots of firsts for me today apparently haha.
The series .. Life below Zero .. Glen killed and eat one years ago.
I can’t get pass rodent sorry
@@margieskaggs3167 same here along with beaver.
@@margieskaggs3167 muskrat is delicious! They are herbivores!!
@@margieskaggs3167 yeah me too , very apprehensive about trying meats other than what I’m accustomed to. Also I’m not into gamey meats, and I love seeing wild animals alive, than dead in me belly.
Wow I can’t believe how easy you made it look to skin that porcupine. Good job. I didn’t know Alaska had porcupines. I learned something today. Thanks. Enjoy your porcupine. Thanks for sharing. Take care😀
They skin super easy like a rabbit super soft skin
YAMMY !!!! ~~~~~~~
It's amazing how as the fire melts the snow, you can see just how deep your snow it! Wow, that's quite the well in the snow!
Totally, Awesome!
Nice to see the dressing of a porcupine. Totally loved this video!
awesome to watch...certainly never happens here in england,we would all die of starvation if we had to do this for ourselves,,thanks for sharing life skills xx
Porcupine has saved the lives of many desperate for food over the centuries
I'm glad i saw this video when my husband wasnt home. he would have cried. he's got a huge affinity for porcupines and this would have broke his heart.
Oh perfect! The Himalayan salt block we got at thrift store is still sitting wrapped and we need to use!!! Looking forward to seeing this❤️ from Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love the channel guys. Just a tip, age the porcupine for around 5 days in the fridge. Changes rodent taste like aging whitetail changes it's taste and tenderness. Cheers
Totally agree. The moose, ptarmigan, venison etc should also be aged or hung. Mind you I’ve no idea what you mean by rodent taste lol.
I age all my wild game. Tried it fresh before and rather sinewy, if that is a word.
@@kennethyoung3002 it's a word.
I thought this was rather interesting... On Rodents: From the Latin Rodere "to gnaw"... are mammals characterized by a single pair of continuous growing Incisors in each of the upper & lower jaws.
About 40% of all mammal species are rodents.
Note: Rabbits are not rodents.
Who knew?
They don’t have an actual fridge.
My grandmother always cooked it low and slow in the oven for 4 to 5 hours and would make gravy with the liquid. Always reminded me of wild rabbit.
totally awesome!!
You two never cease to amaze me and that is why I enjoy watching your channel always.
Love how you two are willing to try the wild game you catch. Not so sure I would! I'm sure that contributes to your health greatly.
I guess I somehow missed this video but glad I found it. I have eaten porcupine myself while out hunting 40 years ago and my memory of it was that it needed some spice as it didn’t have a ton of flavour but I quite enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing back memories and for not having fear of unknown food!❤
This is a great first date food to surprise her with 😂😂 😂
I never know what you guys are going to post.
Back in the early 70s I was taking an anthropology course. The final was a presentation. I made a traditional stew out of a porcupine. The whole class got to try it out without being told what it was. The general consensus was pork and they loved it. That is until one young lady found a piece of quill. It took a while for them to figure that out. I still passed with flying colors however.
Great story, thanks for sharing.
All I can say is I have never been that hungry.
Same 🤪
Porcupine is amazing.
You guys never cease to amaze. Porcupine .... hell yeah.
For my 16th birthday I caught, skinned and butchered my first one, it is much easier head up position, it also has some of the best tasting meat I have ever had personally. Great job guys!! Coodos from Alberta Canada.
Heck yeah! Another Albertan 😀
Yea head up & against a wall so the don't spin around.. We presser cooked em hour or so,, til the meat came off the bone easy,, then into baked beans,, or potato, & veggie dish whatever you have,, little water & salt pork,, covered & baked..
@@richardsabean5781 Mmmmmm sounds great! Now I am hungry lol.
Poor porcupine. Probably didn't realize it's day was gonna end up with criticism of how it tasted. Was just minding its own business then ended up in a food critic blog. 😉
Alright! Porcupine fajita taco con salsa!!
Thank you for sharing this video with us.
Looks tasty! Was always told to leave them alone...Save them in case you get lost/stranded one day.
Same here. Back in the day they were protected because it's food a stranded person can harvest without a weapon.
Had porcupine about 20 years ago. I was actually quite surprised at how much I liked it. The name says it all, texture of pork with a pine taste to the meat.
😆 🤣 😂
Well I never expected to see a campfire roasted porcupine. That's a first for me.
After watching this... you are definitely a Man's Man.
I will take your word for the taste and tenderness. Acadian friends from New Brunswick said porcépic was soaked in water with baking soda for 48 hours, very slowly braised in the oven for hours, and tasted like plywood.
You can't soak meat in water or baking soda without ruining it.
Heard it was super fatty and slimy
Baking soda? Why?
@@BG-bx4ey Yes, in water you can.
i never ever eat plywood
Thank you so much for sharing this I personally would love to try it and you know what I really appreciate of your videos is that if anytime something would happen I know how to survive because I have learned from you guys so much awesome things. Keep up the good job 👏🏻👍🏻🦔
Wow porcupine 😋
I admire you two so much. You are hard workers. Growing and preserving food is not an easy task. I also think it’s so refreshing to see how unmaterialistic you are. Not many your age or any age would be content with what that life style. It’s food and fun for you! Awesome! Thanks for sharing with us!
This chick on this channel is SO bad ass. They both are. I think that just as a 30 year old female existing in the suburbs there is something so neat about watching another lady flex these kind of survival skills! A lot of the same ladies in the city who are screaming out for "feminism" are the ones who would cringe at an opportunity like harvesting their own food for sustainability and survival stake. Ain't nothing more "equality" flexing than seeing this lady just know how to survive. It's just wholesome and human and raw. Cheers for the content!
You nailed it saying what all of the other women watching this thinks too. Arielle is bad ass.💥
Arielle is a total bad ass! 💪 👩
That's awesome! I really enjoy the whole process of hunting, skinning and butchering! I think there is great skill and an art to it! You guys are awesome, and I love watching you with your native animals. I am in South Carolina, so I have a whole different set of fish and furbearers.
I love how you two are together. 😁
Oh Oh, Ariel is pulling out the blade, it`s time for surgery, she skinned that like she has been doing it for 20 years, impressive. It`s dark red like beef or deer meat, I was suprised, me i`m quartering that and putting it spaghetti sauce for 8 hours, until it falls apart hehe. My buddy would put a whole large rabbit in his sauce, wrap it in cheese cloth, after 6 hours pull it out and plate it, it just fell off the bone, and it was infused with the sauce, loved it. Keep em coming you guys , I love the entertainment you provide us with, all the best to ya both. Oh yeah, the first time he did the rabbit in sauce it fell apart and he had to fish 100 little bones out, it took him an hour.
It's good it turned out for you guys. My uncle did not have the same experience, he said it was inedible it tasted just like pine apparently the whole house smelled. Not even his dogs (which are used to eating deer and moose guts) would touch it!
We never pass up a porcupine, and our favorite way to prepare them is brine them then roast them in a cast iron pot
Love your videos! I look forward to watching them in these crazy times! God bless you two
What a way to spend an evening after working in the back country, sitting down watching my favorite RUclips friends.
What a magnificent catch! You did such a good job preparing it from hunt to table, and made the entire process look so dang easy (I know, editing it down sure does speed the process up). I've encountered a few porcupines but never eaten em, those buggers sure can waddle fast!
Why? No fishing available?
It's good to have options.
Intricate work of that animal. Wow!
Love that you are game to try anything!
I had no idea Alaska had Porcupines! Super interesting catch!
Also it’s indigenous medicine too. My great aunt ate it all the time for her breast cancer. She’s living a nice old age thanks to it. If you believe in that stuff that it.
ONE THING WE DONT HAVE IS RACOONS, DEADLY SPIDERS OR SNAKES! - I LIVE IN ALASKA ALSO AND WAS HAPPY ABOUT THE SNAKES.
@@uhhokaywhatthehell8354 I have heard the broth made a very good sick remedy.
Great video, I thought I had eaten just about everything, I was wrong. I have never eaten porcupine. Y’all made skinning it looked very easy, somehow I thought that would be harder. My buddy says it tastes like beaver, I’ve eaten beaver, but have no idea if it taste like porcupine. I just love you guys, your channel is filled with interesting things, and what a beautiful backdrop. Thanks for sharing the video, Jimmy
Arielle confidently skinned the porcu was amazing.
You two are so much more gutsy than I- I wouldn't eat that unless I was completely out of options and starving. I truly enjoy your channel