Trying Cured Meats with Steven Rinella and Michael Ruhlman

A conversation with Michael Ruhlman, co-author of accidentally the best wild game cookbook Steve's ever encountered, Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing: amzn.to/QiqGs8
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[@IkeOzurumba]

this video, I am not exaggerating, changed my life. i idolize rinella and this video introduced me to ruhlman, who wrote the book Charcuterie. that book changed my life. I have since built my own dry cured chamber and tried the most amazing recipes. it became the greatest hobby I have ever had. I spend most of my weekends thinking about and trying out new meat recipes. seriously thank you for creating this video way back then.

[@TheOssumPawesome]

Hell yeahv

[@BmHabib017]

I love hearing stories like this. I hope you are sticking to it, man.

[@toneleudy]

100% agreed.

[@franzb69]

ruhlman taught me charcuterie from his book. i was a culinary student when i first read his books.

[@Avenus112]

Steve Rinella offhandedly describes killing an enormous predator and mixing its flesh with things that predator would prey on lol

[@Bleda412]

That's what that predator is. A bear is a combination of blueberries, fish, etc. If I was to have bear served with a blueberry sauce, it would be the same thing as what Steve Rinella is doing.

[@nordicfalcon]

@@Bleda412 Thanks. Now I’m drooling. Mind handing me a mop? Blueberry black bear in and elk marrowmellows, fried in blueberry bear fat. A dash of salt and pepper and... well 🤤🤤🤤 Something about eating something that can eat me.. I can’t quite explain the sensation and rush that it gives.

[@chuckinvt]

Every time Steve Rinella speaks, I enjoy a strange familiarity with the words. I raw-pickle rainbow smelt, I make smoked summer sausage of my trapped beaver. My life goal is to get to the point that everything I consume is wild! Good stuff!

[@dirtrida274]

@Zino Bonnie I laughed, 2 thumbs up

[@TheOssumPawesome]

There’s a sincere mutual respects. Too clearly competent, intelligent humble dudes on the same wavelength.

[@efng21]

Two*

[@TheWoodedBeardsman]

Well said, and eyes are great...lots of great fat hidden right behind them, so dig in.

[@TheLukieBoi1]

Rinella should come hunt Kangaroo in Australia. They make for a beautiful steak.

[@mickmay10]

I could watch a whole episode like this, Steve cooking for chefs he really admires.

[@jjohnson9750]

I understand how your kid feels about casings. I never enjoyed casing as a kid and I still don’t.

[@robertheflin2400]

Chef Michael was a friend and colleague of the great Anthony Bourdain, good people there

[@anonymoushippopotamus8731]

WHATTTT MY TWO HEROES IN ONE VIDEO??!!!

[@abefrohman1759]

You need to get Tony and Ruhlman to go hunting with you and see what the chef up in the field.

[@RtCarolina]

+abe frohman Great idea

[@Halflucid]

Was that helen cho?!

[@ronaldpetersen255]

I own a first printing of his book and have worn it out. I don’t think I’ve ever fully followed a recipe, but use it as a guide. Truly an amazing book! I adore cured meat, whole muscle segments and some of the best have come from berry bears here in Alaska...... Blows the lid off of expectations from non-hunters!! Thank you for this video, keep spreading the word!!

[@MikeMcN85]

bear-guez?

[@mikeaanerud4437]

Just bought the book. Keep the videos coming Steven!! Absolutely love them

[@tlahuicole1383]

U can tell the guy doesnt like the BEAR one LOL

[@DiegoMartinez-kv1sy]

TLAHUICOLE 13 think thats the one he liked the most actually

[@roamingthereal4060]

For those of you who don't know, this book is amazing.

[@TuBBygch]

I wish Anthony Bourdain is still around so Steve Rinella can do a show with him, it would be SICK!

[@vitaly6312]

I actually thought about that the other day as well. Would be an awesome show. Too bad he’s gone.

[@christopheritsdaperrperry2857]

Steve you are my hero! Cool stuff buddy!

[@brandonbrand7735]

I used to watch your show on Netflix it was a good show are you putting any more on there

[@brentfrank7012]

Steven, love these conversation. Would love to see more, maybe you guys cooking too.

[@colinheim]

My mouth is watering, wish I could taste those! Cool video.

[@chawquee]

salutes from the Merguez country Tunisia....you are the man....you inspire me a lot

[@helenamvu]

Been a fan for a while now, but first time coming across this specific video. Awesome stuff! I'm a line cook with an interest in getting into hunting so this stuff is right up my alley. 👌💙

[@timegner6102]

I make something similar with the animals that I harvest. I give a portion to my family for birthdays and holidays. Sometimes it's summer sausage and others it's cured and smoked fish. I try to only use organic ingredients and found that it's the same as when I was little and gave a gift that I made; sure there's better product out there; but this is mine and I feel that's why it's so cherished by my family. Nice job again by educating people Steve!

[@toneleudy]

steve should hunt moose in the Cape Breton Highlands.

[@mxr20000000000]

I bought it and have bought it as a gift for people I know.

[@Foss2506]

I'm in the UK and have had Michael's book for a while now and use it to process game I hunt. Great video, thanks.

[@TJ-bg4fw]

What game do you get out there? I only know of people hunting birds out there, but are there larger game animals?

[@DILLONEKR]

T J I have seen online and heard that if you go up into the Scottish highlands you can hunt deer.

[@martynilsson4731]

Why the hell would someone eat a bear? It's supposed to be the other way around. An old nasty bear and predator would be the last thing on earth I'd want to eat.

[@gwibishop2232]

Steve should've been Peter parker in the original spiderman!

[@juliaryan4266]

I love blood pudding. Shits delicious.

[@bushpilot223]

Just a heads up to anyone out there--its not all about keeping air out of the packaged, frozen meat. If you don't have a deep freezer, or you have a freezer that has an automatic defroster, one of the most important things you can do is wrap your meet with paper! You don't necessarily have to buy freezer paper, you can use any leftover paper bags from shopping and they will work just fine. Steve is absolutely right in his method of double wrapping meat in plastic, but he has a deep freezer. So he doesn't use paper. Without a deep freezer, you absolutely must wrap your meat in paper. In a conventional modern freezer, every time the freezer automatically defrosts itself, it will defrost the outer layer of your meat, which translates to it becoming freezer burnt very quickly. Just keep this in mind, store your meat in paper if you have a defrosting (frost-free) freezer, you can keep it for nearly a year if you do it that way. Even in a conventional "frost-free" freezer. paper is a very good insulator, and it will prevent the freezer from warming up the outside of your meat during the defrost process, and prevent freezer burn. 👍Cheers from Southern Idaho Steve, love all your videos dude.

[@gdecisisable]

What a great friggin guy.I enjoy listening to all Rinella's advice.Great talker,super knowledgeable.

[@liverturcxdanpavs]

This guy looks like a mix between Tyson Fury and James Gandolfini

[@markh385]

Love the show I’ve seen all ur shows I have a question who makes the best beef jerky I get mine from a mom and pop place who makes in house 🏡 fantastic jerky but wen I’m on the road witch would u recommend

[@Eric-dr5bj]

No Man's Land is my favorite

[@collinblack9605]

@@Eric-dr5bj dude I thought I was the only one

[@mikegottschau4224]

Ruhlman is the fucking man. He's such an icon to professional cooks and chefs like myself, and having someone like him talk about and enjoying wild game charcuterie makes me even more excited to go on my first hunt this year!

[@khitai8227]

I want to try them all

[@olenazhukova1054]

That fing guy didn’t eat much

[@marke219]

Rub the sausage with vinegar

[@freezemypath4]

Steve shows that non-hunters that hunters, and by extent country people, are not the stereotype that Hollywood shows us

[@texgrouper7825]

The book by these 2 fine authors and fabulous illustrators is unbelievable. As a hunter and fisherman that rarely eats meat, charcuterie is a guilty pleasure. They nailed it with this publication and presentation.

[@genslug]

love that book

[@Mrwaterfern]

Are these considered cured? Isn't this just sausage making?

[@scottwiseman7845]

Wow. Alpena. Ttyl

[@brittanydonovan9579]

This is an important conversation that everyone should listen to.

[@stevew6374]

Charcuterie is a great book. And Steve is exactly right, it makes me a better hunter.

[@gregherr4782]

40 some people didn't like this. Tofu it is

[@bobcostas6272]

Its actually vodka in those cups

[@troypeck4128]

I use to have to do that for my daughter when she was very young

[@J1944-y8e]

I just ordered the book. Nice video

[@lestudio76]

Festival of meat

[@papanoobz2180]

+lestudio76 Or is it a sausage festival.....

[@RaffyJoaquin]

Informative and very entertaining video.

[@MrFra1ler]

how long can you keep ground sausage in the deep freezer? online it doesnt say nearly as long as I thought it would. I have some left from last years deer. brakfast sausage

[@AMpufnstuf]

Several years if properly vacuum sealed and you won't even notice it's old. Most people try to eat their ziplock or paper wrapped frozen game meat in about a year.

[@ShitWrangler]

my instinct tells me this is what i should be doing and eating but the way i've been brought up makes me repulsed at watching the stuff he's producing. not the killing animals, just...hard to explain. don't doubt it's better for a person also, all the cancer going around, i need to look into developing a taste for this type of food.

[@desertsane]

Well, something you kill, you know it's fresh, and thats theres no chemical preservaties or other substances. There's a difference between frozen and fresh meat, and what he eats is fresh meat.

[@zachbohm1957]

wild game eat fresh grass and plant life just look at it like your eating a salad

[@bipedalhominid6815]

Тиберий Цезарь Август he has a parasite he will have for the rest of his life because of a wild bear he killed and ate

[@AMpufnstuf]

@@bipedalhominid6815 Don't eat raw bear meat and you never have to worry about that as a hunter. It's very much a black bear problem, I've never heard of it happening with properly cooked bear or especially any deer meat.

[@corriedebeer799]

In South Africa, we have the traditional offal dish called Skop, which is a portmanteau of the two Afrikaans words Skaap Kop. In this dish a whole sheep's head is cooked in a large oven until the meat is falling of the bone. With this dish it is tradition that the person who cooked it gets to eat the sheeps eyes with a spoon.

[@wkcave]

Corrie De Beer, fuck yes! I wanna be the cook!!!

[@abebeckify]

What is he saying meargaz?

[@mikemory5185]

Love your show, one question when you make bone in shoulder roast or shank roast is that right off the deer or is it out of freezer. Wondering if you can freeze venison bone in.

[@bluesteel8376]

Absolutely. You just need to be careful if there are any sharp edges on the bone so that they do not puncture your vac seal bag or whatever method you happen to use to package your meat.

[@jamesbennett3253]

Saw the vide,o bought the boo,k couldn't agree more if we're going to kill an animal we ought to learn how to use all of it

[@jamesbennett3253]

Just spotted my misplaced commas 😅

[@simplemanduke7128]

My mouth watered

[@screenpuller]

Never eaten bear... I do like venison, though, a lot! I'm pretty much open to trying any type of food, so long as it once had a pulse! Rabbit is goood... so is bison & elk & squirrel & dove & alligator & turtle & ostrich & even freakin' kangaroo. I've tasted all these critters & they all taste GOOD!

[@tlahuicole1383]

screenpuller Have u had long pig?

[@galaxies101]

@@tlahuicole1383 Not unless you're a cannibal

[@ryanricard8774]

How dare u! Lol

[@shnazit]

stevens hot mang

[@davidketchell5900]

Now that Steve has trichinosis for life, no bear meat for me - EVER.

[@sethhutch6291]

its in pork too

[@str3tchr]

Sure you could do that, or you cook it

[@chawquee]

how you did that salami ....

[@bluesteel8376]

That is summer sausage, not salami. The look similar, but summer sausage is smoked, whereas salami is cured.

[@carlosdevaldes7456]

What is the name of the book?

[@bluesteel8376]

Charcuterie, there is a link in the description of the video

[@Broxty]

This was awesome. Thanks guys.

[@catch.22]

my god I'm dying. I NEEED.

[@danthilman2394]

what's the logic behind never offering anything above 480p?

[@fishingwithfisher1338]

Steves my idol