Jerking,Smoking,Salting,Brine,Curing ???

[Jagger]

Whats your favoriate method of perserving meat,fish,fowl? Without the use of electricity. I'm interested in perserving fish what r the best methods as to flavor? Like native species bass, catfish, blue gills etc..
Canning? Any recipies would be great. Ups and downs. Thanks for any info.

Jagger

[Oregonsparkie]

One thing you might look at is a solar smoker.

[shadowwalker]

Jagger go to the library and check it out for these. Also ther is several books on this, try amazon.com then see if the books are on ebay. shadowwalker

[BeeFree]

I haven't tried cooking any, but I have eaten some of the best suckers, buffalo, bass and carp, I have ever tasted smoked using a smoker. They used hickory wood to cook it. These smokers can be bought at Wal Mart for very little dollars. They are on sale quite often. I have also tasted the best chicken ever ,that was cooked in one.

I have one of the smokers and tried smoking some beef steaks. I don't know what I did wrong. They had a great taste but was tough as leather. I have thought about getting some chickens and trying to smoke them like my friend did. Just haven't. Afraid I will mess them up like the beef steaks. :haha: