Sept 1 Meat Care

[TommyH]

So what does everyone do with their game meat after they get out of the woods?  Everyone bring their meat to a walk in cooler? I have stacked meat in a extra fridge on low, with towels between layers of meat,

[Broken Arrow]

Several years ago we started bringing a medium size chest freezer to camp. Prior to the season we freeze numerous mild jugs, etc. and then pack the freezer. After we get an animal down we bone it out and place it in the freezer surrounded by ice. Every few day we will run the generator and give it a good chill. We have been able to store several elk and deer like this, averaging around 40 degrees for a week or more. Save a ton of money with not having to run back and forth with gas cost etc. The last few days of camp, we butcher, cut and wrap at camp and them run the generator the remainder of the time for a hard freeze. This system works awesome.

[fillthefreezer]

if you pre-pack your ice in the cooler with the frozen half gal water jugs it can double as emergency water and wrap the cooler in an old sleeping bag, will help to keep it frozen longer

[Kingpuck]

Good grief you guys get pretty elaborate. Guess ingenuity loves company. Some very cool ideas. Would like to get to the point that I have 2-3 freezers in my future house. One full of meat and the other full of vegetables and other frozen food.

[fillthefreezer]

Good grief you guys get pretty elaborate. Guess ingenuity loves company. Some very cool ideas. Would like to get to the point that I have 2-3 freezers in my future house. One full of meat and the other full of vegetables and other frozen food.

a lot of your veg should get canned to leave freezer space for fish

[Kingpuck]

fill the freezer, that is true. Not sure what the heck I was thinking. One year we canned 177 pounds of beets and some cherries and froze a bunch of strawberries. Nothing like a cold December day and you are having strawberries on your pancakes. Gotta love hard work during the harvest season. Can't wait for steaks this year. You know, if I don't get one though it is no big deal. Got some practice and will be a lot smarter next year. Hopefully even more in shape.

[DoubleJ]

Going to try something this year.  Making a solar powered swamp cooler.  I normally have a tarp pulled over the bed of my truck.  Call it my redneck tonau cover.  I am going to make this:
http://eplaya.burningman.com/viewtopic.php?t=33842
and run it to blow into the bed area of my truck.

[TommyH]

Thats pretty cool!