cinamin45 I didn't watch the ustream thing or whatever but i listened to him when he was on recently. His stories are amazing, one of the most interesting guys around.
as a native man myself we still make that every year after hunting caribou and sometimes we use berries or sugar and store it in a canvas bag in a cool area or if your out in the wood in the grounds about 3 to 5 feet depends on the ground. bear fat can be use too.
I truly appreciate the intelligence and history that Steve brings to hunting and wild game food. for a lot of hunters like myself and Steve it's a intimate experience to transcend beyond the hunt and the kill and all of the meals it provides, and enter into a knowing of all elements that are included in being able to relate and share the experiences our ancestors did. too many people are so far removed from how their food comes about. when you learn your history and procure your own food you are doing a respectable thing in taking life for your own continuation. which to me is more honorable than buying a disconnected source of food at say a supermarket.
I guess all that stuff is true, but at the core of hunting is food. It’s a hunt for food and sustenance. I enjoy a lot of other parts of it too, like just being in the outdoors, and I have huge respect for wildlife and nature/nature conservation, but I think a lot of that spirituality and connecting with the animals and our ancestors is a bunch of horse shit.
Given that animal population with significantly larger in pre-historic times, that makes total sense the easiest way to collect meat would be to find a lion or saber-tooth kill and then just scare it away from its food with 5 dudes waving around sticks and making noise.
As a Metis Alberta who is currently going to the University of Alberta who is also a hunter is proud of this video. We learn so much about this from my history classes to nutrition classes to my Native studies classes. This is a great video
Can you imagine not giving a shit what other people choose to consume with their time and money? Imposing world views on others is such a natural thing.
I mean there are many vegetarians in India who eat far better, more nutritious and delicious meals than any average American. I love eating meat myself but I think it's weird to somehow look down upon other people who don't share the same diet.
If you're not afraid of bacteria, and know that the animal was healthy you can eat the marrow raw which is healthier than cooked marrow. Raw bone marrow has beneficial stem cells, enzymes and bacteria which get destroyed by heat. Cooking also denatures the fats and proteins making them not as healthy. Humans used to eat much of their meat raw, we only started fearing bacteria when we started eating cooked and processed foods which created more toxins in our bodies and made us get sick from bacterial detoxifications. If we eat more raw healthy foods and less cooked foods, we would never get sick.
No one: Steve Rinella: Whenever I find myself walking through the woods I think about what the first meal was... haha keep up the good work MeatEater crew
Ive put hundreds of hours into the same line of thought. But my interest is how humans learned how process foods that would otherwise be dangerous. Some roots and etc require quite the procedure to become a safe, edible product.
Video was posted 2013, was recorded in 2008, (pemmican was 5 years old at the time). So 5 years between the pemmican and the time he ate it in the video, and 5 years to post.
Exactly, I hate when people sit there and talk about cholesterol and all this dumb shit. If it was that bad, we would have gone extinct long before we “evolved” into anything.
@@IVIFII2IC Sure, if you only plan on living until you are 30, then you don't need to worry about bad shit, just like ancient humans didn't. But, if you want to live to 80-90 years old, then you do need to worry about that sort of thing.
Blue Steel lmao, you’re brain dead if you think ancient people who were completely civilized, who built monoliths as big as sky scrapers, who had 0 chemicals in their water, no chemtrails, no Monsanto spraying their crops... if you genuinely believe those extremely healthy people only lived until 30, there is no helping you. BTW, Ancient Egyptians were mostly Vegetarian, they ate lots of fish, they worshiped the Cow so they didn’t eat Beef.
@@bluesteel8376 There is evidence of older humans, it's just that in an era without regular medical care it didn't matter what you ate because you were gonna die from something one way or another. There are very few animals that live longer than 30 years and the ones that do begin suffering from natural body wear and tear. One of the main reasons that I think is overlooked about our modern longevity is that we are sessile organisms now, we do much less physically than our ancient ancestors or even ancestors within the last 150+ years. The organisms that live the longest are the ones that do the least physically. Now I'm not saying eating "healthy" is a bad thing, I'm just saying that I'mma eat some fatty foods and red meat cuz if I die at 60 or 70 that's fine cuz that's a long ass time too.
The dried meat you make is what we call in South Africa "Biltong", Usually wild Kudu's or bucks/boars and they start drying the meat and selling it as "Biltong". Actually tastes better than the cooked meat itself. Would be awesome if you make more videos.
Tried it from a moose few years ago. Only cause I seen it on his show lol. Was actually pretty amazing. Didn’t get a noose last year but hopefully this year can do it again.
Steve Rinella is a great example of how hunting, even with modern technology, takes an incredible amount of intellectual sophistication in order for humans to survive in the wild...
Hey Steve you say "I have read about" a lot I just want to know what books you recommend. I'm interested in anything pioneer/ native/ inuit, cooking, killing, using all parts of game and any other tricks like the eating like a caveman.
The first cook was in front of a cave. The humans were gathered a enjoying bowls of berry slurry lite, and as the embers cooked the meat. You could hear the children laughing as descendants of the Dire wolf were playfully chasing them.
Can you achieve the same results with melting down the fat found around the muscles of the animal as well? Or does the bone marrow give a unique result?
Scientists believe that spear-hunting long predates the earliest H. sapiens. See the "Spear-Wielding Chimps Studied" video uploaded by utopiasbane. 500,000-year-old hafted stone hunting spearpoints and handaxes were found at the Kathu Pan site, believed to have been used by H. heidelbergensis. Before stone points, purely wooden spears were likely used that aren't preserved in the archaeological record. Meat/fish was also preserved via fermentation and still is by Eskimos, Swedes, Japanese, etc.
This is true. People don't realize that Homosapiens were descended from other human species who had already mastered hunting, fire making, even hut building. We showed up after it was all discovered.
It was likely that the first hominid in the human family tree to engage in this activity was Homo Erectus. Sometime about 800,000 years ago we see the earliest example of fire construction. These were likely our first ancestors who began hunting as well. Homo Neanderthalis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens elevated hunting to an art.
Love your stuff, but what about the critters running around back when humans were turds with legs? Surely they could eat bones. Not an argument but a thought.
There has always been natural forest fires and I'm sure animal were trapped and died and when humans came through and found them I'm sure they took a taste and found it tasted better, It also was easier to digest, I believe that's how humans figured how to start cooking their meat. that's just my theory.
Danny Boyette pretty good theory and if that's not why they learn to cook them I'm sure the ease of coming up on resources like that was definitely utilized
No. People during winter months still needed to eat and the game was frozen. Being cold already, eating freezing cold meat despite that it's hard as a rock is a great way to lose valuable body heat. They would warm the game over the fire which eventually lead to cooking.
I wish I was friends with or had a friend that was just like Steve. Someone to take me hunting and show me how to prepare and cook the meat with passion, not just sit in a tree stand and assassinate a boar and only take the good bits.
If all you could find in the wild was bones. Could you live off the marrow until you found help ? Can you eat it raw if you didn't have a choice ? Curious to know is all.
@CowboyDavis its called "how to eat like a caveman" not "cook" ...wow great point. ...you seem like a hairsplitting contrarian.... Of course tha aluminium foil is weird in a video about caveman eating...
I like how he ignores the bone chard that ricocheted across the room.
that's a snack for later
So funny dude!
He sent the Mrs to the movies!!!
or that he got a bunch of bone marrow on his shirt
It actually lodged in the camera man's neck. No stitches but great story.
This guy fucking amazing. I could listen to him talk all goddamn day about this stuff.
Have you seen him on "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast?
cinamin45 I didn't watch the ustream thing or whatever but i listened to him when he was on recently. His stories are amazing, one of the most interesting guys around.
***** Word, I have. Love when hes on the podcast.
Finq08 I think he's been on 5
as a native man myself we still make that every year after hunting caribou and sometimes we use berries or sugar and store it in a canvas bag in a cool area or if your out in the wood in the grounds about 3 to 5 feet depends on the ground. bear fat can be use too.
Yesss bear fat is great
Interesting, I always though that sugar would cause stuff to 'grow' more.
I truly appreciate the intelligence and history that Steve brings to hunting and wild game food. for a lot of hunters like myself and Steve it's a intimate experience to transcend beyond the hunt and the kill and all of the meals it provides, and enter into a knowing of all elements that are included in being able to relate and share the experiences our ancestors did. too many people are so far removed from how their food comes about. when you learn your history and procure your own food you are doing a respectable thing in taking life for your own continuation. which to me is more honorable than buying a disconnected source of food at say a supermarket.
I guess all that stuff is true, but at the core of hunting is food. It’s a hunt for food and sustenance. I enjoy a lot of other parts of it too, like just being in the outdoors, and I have huge respect for wildlife and nature/nature conservation, but I think a lot of that spirituality and connecting with the animals and our ancestors is a bunch of horse shit.
“Some calcium in there too”....Steven, pretty sure you’re my 7th favorite human on the planet.
Who are the other 6?
Barney Blue the wife and kids lol
@@clavy5420 Fair
Very knowledgeable. Well done.
Love how every time I watch MeatEater videos I learn something new! Exceptionalism!
thats a great statement.
"If they weren't smart we wouldn't be here talking about it right now."
Kind or wordy for a tshirt. lol
Given that animal population with significantly larger in pre-historic times, that makes total sense the easiest way to collect meat would be to find a lion or saber-tooth kill and then just scare it away from its food with 5 dudes waving around sticks and making noise.
very interesting and looks quite good. been binge watching all his videos.
+last9emperor same here lol
Me too
As a Metis Alberta who is currently going to the University of Alberta who is also a hunter is proud of this video. We learn so much about this from my history classes to nutrition classes to my Native studies classes. This is a great video
I love how simply he explains things and the historical perspective. So easy to listen to and so insightful for someone like me whose new to hunting.
Can you imagine being a vegan ?
Eating meat is such a natural thing.
@George Washington Not very nutritious
Can you imagine not giving a shit what other people choose to consume with their time and money? Imposing world views on others is such a natural thing.
@@josephpelletier9494 Go write about it on your blog, Nancy.
@Dylan L Evolved brains :))) Cooked meat .. What a total bs people are completely delusional
I mean there are many vegetarians in India who eat far better, more nutritious and delicious meals than any average American. I love eating meat myself but I think it's weird to somehow look down upon other people who don't share the same diet.
Steve is so broad in his interests and knowledge! It's really incredible.
I GOT A VEGAN AD FOR THIS LOL
Sharpened wood weapons surely predated stone points. That wood is long since gone.
Thanks for your time sir.
New tool in the toolbar, knowledge is power. Keep passing the good word
You are the man Steve! Your books are awesome, filled with knowledge! I like how there is no fluff in your books. Great stories, and very humbling!
If you're not afraid of bacteria, and know that the animal was healthy you can eat the marrow raw which is healthier than cooked marrow. Raw bone marrow has beneficial stem cells, enzymes and bacteria which get destroyed by heat. Cooking also denatures the fats and proteins making them not as healthy. Humans used to eat much of their meat raw, we only started fearing bacteria when we started eating cooked and processed foods which created more toxins in our bodies and made us get sick from bacterial detoxifications. If we eat more raw healthy foods and less cooked foods, we would never get sick.
My new favorite TH-camr
Learned this in Anthropology class :) Awesome Steve.
No one:
Steve Rinella: Whenever I find myself walking through the woods I think about what the first meal was...
haha keep up the good work MeatEater crew
Ive put hundreds of hours into the same line of thought.
But my interest is how humans learned how process foods that would otherwise be dangerous.
Some roots and etc require quite the procedure to become a safe, edible product.
Check out Steve's list of 8 books he recommends here: themeateater(dot)com/2012/8-books-every-hunter-should-read/
Steve is awesome
Video was posted 2013, was recorded in 2008, (pemmican was 5 years old at the time). So 5 years between the pemmican and the time he ate it in the video, and 5 years to post.
"If they weren't smart then we wouldn't be talking about this right now."
Exactly, I hate when people sit there and talk about cholesterol and all this dumb shit. If it was that bad, we would have gone extinct long before we “evolved” into anything.
@@IVIFII2IC Sure, if you only plan on living until you are 30, then you don't need to worry about bad shit, just like ancient humans didn't. But, if you want to live to 80-90 years old, then you do need to worry about that sort of thing.
Blue Steel lmao, you’re brain dead if you think ancient people who were completely civilized, who built monoliths as big as sky scrapers, who had 0 chemicals in their water, no chemtrails, no Monsanto spraying their crops... if you genuinely believe those extremely healthy people only lived until 30, there is no helping you.
BTW, Ancient Egyptians were mostly Vegetarian, they ate lots of fish, they worshiped the Cow so they didn’t eat Beef.
low7782 not at all, I eat about a pound of meat per day.
@@bluesteel8376 There is evidence of older humans, it's just that in an era without regular medical care it didn't matter what you ate because you were gonna die from something one way or another. There are very few animals that live longer than 30 years and the ones that do begin suffering from natural body wear and tear. One of the main reasons that I think is overlooked about our modern longevity is that we are sessile organisms now, we do much less physically than our ancient ancestors or even ancestors within the last 150+ years. The organisms that live the longest are the ones that do the least physically. Now I'm not saying eating "healthy" is a bad thing, I'm just saying that I'mma eat some fatty foods and red meat cuz if I die at 60 or 70 that's fine cuz that's a long ass time too.
eating 5 year old meat?
you learn something new from this guy every time.
damn this could save my life if the shit hits the fan.
Joe Colombo if shit hits the fan, call me. I'm pro at repairing fans smothered with shit
@@FaThMonG would i just dial 1-800-ohshit? or is it 1-800-slinginshit ?
@@FaThMonG shit you got women to lmao
love you steve
The dried meat you make is what we call in South Africa "Biltong", Usually wild Kudu's or bucks/boars and they start drying the meat and selling it as "Biltong". Actually tastes better than the cooked meat itself. Would be awesome if you make more videos.
Spectacular video
Tried it from a moose few years ago. Only cause I seen it on his show lol. Was actually pretty amazing. Didn’t get a noose last year but hopefully this year can do it again.
Very cool, initially thought I knew your subject but marrow with jerky - that's something new - thanks!
This is the best meateater video
Wow this Rimworld patch seems so realistic... That's some serious graphics
1:57 Steve's cameraman is now a cyclops. Great story to tell bartenders how he got his eye patch.
I like this guy. Watched him in the Rogan podcast and he’s made me wanna hunt. Gonna go start that biz real soon. Thank you, sir.
I love his resepies, especially the first one. Good for the bachelor college kid trying to remember how to cook.
This is incredible.
And voila, my cameraman has one eyeball
I can’t believe we use to think 360p was new high tech and fancy.
I do not hunt but I wish i did. Steve is a scholar on this subject
Steve Rinella is a great example of how hunting, even with modern technology, takes an incredible amount of intellectual sophistication in order for humans to survive in the wild...
Hey Steve you say "I have read about" a lot I just want to know what books you recommend. I'm interested in anything pioneer/ native/ inuit, cooking, killing, using all parts of game and any other tricks like the eating like a caveman.
Rinella GOAT
The first cook was in front of a cave. The humans were gathered a enjoying bowls of berry slurry lite, and as the embers cooked the meat. You could hear the children laughing as descendants of the Dire wolf were playfully chasing them.
awww i’m so jealous!! bone marrow is so delicious!! 😋 save me some hahaha
Very interesting!
I really want to try this
Best video!
Yum, looks good!
Learn something new everyday
Im amazed, great video,
Thank you Steve, I cant wait to make it. I think ill add salt tho
Gonna try this.
as someone who's about to be living like a caveman this is really helpful
Oil goes rancid if its exposed to air. Pemican does not last a long time unless its air tight
Can you achieve the same results with melting down the fat found around the muscles of the animal as well? Or does the bone marrow give a unique result?
very cool stuff. new to the channel. nice!
Steve.... you need your own cooking show.
Meat Eater IS a cooking show!
Lol, can you put the ingredients list up!
I wonder if they used the bone shards as knives to hunt. Cool video
yes
Was thinking the same thing
Amazing!
The Mrs. a few minutes later, "hey babe, what was that all that loud banging?"
Scientists believe that spear-hunting long predates the earliest H. sapiens. See the "Spear-Wielding Chimps Studied" video uploaded by utopiasbane. 500,000-year-old hafted stone hunting spearpoints and handaxes were found at the Kathu Pan site, believed to have been used by H. heidelbergensis. Before stone points, purely wooden spears were likely used that aren't preserved in the archaeological record. Meat/fish was also preserved via fermentation and still is by Eskimos, Swedes, Japanese, etc.
yes but hes not talking about homo sapiens when he says humans. humans were still scavengers before they were hunters
Delicious
Some people believe ancient man was a persistence hunter. They would chase a game animal to death. No tools needed.
Caveman: If they weren't smart, we wouldn't be here talkin about this right now.
Put THAT in your Funk and Wagnalls!
This is true. People don't realize that Homosapiens were descended from other human species who had already mastered hunting, fire making, even hut building. We showed up after it was all discovered.
Yeah, cause a magical garden with an enchanted tree & a talking snake doesn't sound fictional, right? LOL, i'm with you bro!
It was likely that the first hominid in the human family tree to engage in this activity was Homo Erectus. Sometime about 800,000 years ago we see the earliest example of fire construction. These were likely our first ancestors who began hunting as well. Homo Neanderthalis and Anatomically Modern Homo Sapiens elevated hunting to an art.
real shit we wouldnt be here talking about it right now.
I've got so much to learn about meat
It took you 3 years to upload this
Thats amazing
awesome
eye opening
Does it have to be marrow? Or can I use tallow to try and make my own pemmican?
Love your stuff, but what about the critters running around back when humans were turds with legs? Surely they could eat bones. Not an argument but a thought.
He’s a baby!!!!!
Intriguing. I now know how im gonna bring meat with me when i go out.
Is there a more in depth video of this????
Very cool, but what keeps bacteria from multiplying on the fat coating the pemmican?
Dude! wow! man! That is really cool!!!!!
There has always been natural forest fires and I'm sure animal were trapped and died and when humans came through and found them I'm sure they took a taste and found it tasted better, It also was easier to digest, I believe that's how humans figured how to start cooking their meat. that's just my theory.
Danny Boyette pretty good theory and if that's not why they learn to cook them I'm sure the ease of coming up on resources like that was definitely utilized
Oh yes scavenging I agree was probably the first order, its easier and a lot safer.
No. People during winter months still needed to eat and the game was frozen. Being cold already, eating freezing cold meat despite that it's hard as a rock is a great way to lose valuable body heat. They would warm the game over the fire which eventually lead to cooking.
well that's another way humans could have started cooking meat but there are many.
No winter in Africa. Humans had fire and weapons before they left that continent.
OG liver king
That bone marrow looked so damn tasty🤤
I wish I was friends with or had a friend that was just like Steve. Someone to take me hunting and show me how to prepare and cook the meat with passion, not just sit in a tree stand and assassinate a boar and only take the good bits.
If all you could find in the wild was bones. Could you live off the marrow until you found help ? Can you eat it raw if you didn't have a choice ? Curious to know is all.
Fresh marrow is fairly safe raw. And if you have enough bones, you could live on the marrow. It's very good for you.
Thanks for the info Percy
Percy Miller anytime you eat something raw you run a major risk. In a "survival" situation. I wouldn't think it's worth the risk.
Try it with pork it works great.
Meanwhile ....somewhere in L.A....Rogans choking a mountain lion. Hashtag vegan cat!
cool
"How to eat like a caveman"
Opening clip features aluminum foil
😅🤣
@CowboyDavis its called "how to eat like a caveman" not "cook"
...wow great point.
...you seem like a hairsplitting contrarian....
Of course tha aluminium foil is weird in a video about caveman eating...
that sharp bone with the marrow inside becomes a weapon also i wonder if they thought of that
Your trying to make machaca
Mmmm marrow, gimme gimme!
We fight over the bone marrow in a ham steak in my family!
How to watch youtube in caveman quality -2021
0:37 spider to the left of his head
Pretty fucking cool