I reckon more and more people will be eating this kind of stuff, just as in the old days. What with the supply chains breaking down and cost for ordinary folk. This is why your channel is so good. It shows the alternatives to the usual beef, pork, lamb. Keep them coming mate.
If people just kept things local we'd have been better off. Corporations are screwing everything up. I can't find a beef tongue in the states and just imagine how many cows are killed here
Honestly, the most underused but easily available wild meat in the UK is Perch. The fish. It tastes superb & every river, lake & canal is full of them. No idea why it isn't more popular.
You would be surprised how many people especially those from working backgrounds who would turn there nose up or mainly have absolutely no idea were ,how n what ! I'd rather the few who actually understand the wild be it the poacher or the keeper enjoy it . Tho both are a dying breed.
@@papalegba6796 Perch is a fantastic fish to eat, sadly most waterways in the UK have so much heavy metals in them from our industrial past as well as more modern pollutants that I'd be very anxious to eat any fish from most UK rivers and canals, perhaps I'd risk it with some lakes as they won't have had sewage dumping in them etc but regardless you should really be careful, the canals though are an absolute no go.
My Italian grandfather (Nonno) grew up poor in the south and always swore to us city folks "Pidgeon is good bird!". Would love to see them cooked as well! Thanks again for the useful content!
Myself in late 1970's worked in the Rockaways [Rockaway Beach NY]. Guy was cooking in the work shop kitchen who said: "cooking snow birds", I indulged... Told later I was eating Sea Gulls.
I have started foraging doves, scouting for Muscovy ducks and sniffing for deer, two and four legged for the same reason: can I survive a food chain breakdown. The only thing I have a suggestion for the Master Rea is to use less seed oils and more lard, Tallow/beef fat, butter, EVOO, Coconut oil, MCT oil, Sesame oil and stop the highly process poisonous soy, canola, sunflower S**T oils. Thanks for hard work and skills. Bon Appetite.
Your videos are amazing Scott your organic food recipes are old school and strong from the heart thank you for all your footage please keep them coming because we cook just how you do after watching your videos
Love your videos Scott, quality has just got better and better over the years. You don't put out as much content recently, hopefully everything is OK? Sending positive vibes from Cornwall 😂
would love to see a few cooking recipes for them. Ive been shooting dove here in West Tex USA, and we make a lot of jalapano Poppers with them. Slice a jalopano in half, fill with cream cheese and a slice of dove breast meat, wrapped in bacon and grilled. VERY GOOD....but Id like to also learn some new ways to cook quail, pigeon, and dove meat this season.
I live in MN and am not sure what I might take as game bird like this. Do you have any suggestions? And a recipe? To be clear, I am just thinking of getting into small game hunting again. I am from the Catskills in upstate NY and now in my mid 60s, I need to get back to the nature I enjoyed as a kid.
Excellent demonstration, Scott. Back in the day I'd clean them up whole and make stock with the rest but it's a lot of work for stock when you can breast the carcass like this and get straight into the meat! Would you recommend pan-roasting the breasts to medium rare or perhaps low and slow in a pie? I have been contemplating grinding them for pigeon-burgers!
Hi Scott, thanks for all your great videos. I have frozen some pork shoulder to make my own sausage. Is it ok to make the sausage then refreeze the sausages after they are completed ?
Great video, Scott! Thank you for posting. I have accidentally overcooked Pigeon and it was not too bad, not so bad that I would chuck it out. I love Pigeon/Dove but dont get the chance to get out and hunt them too often anymore.
I find it most relaxing to watch a man skilled with his hands and his brain working in his element. I would choose living next door to him instead of a political activists every day of the week. It is skill and craft that keeps society from going off of the rails.
Is there anything good you can do with the legs/wings like with a chicken? Seems a waste to only take the breast meat. I'm guessing if they're wild then they'll be pretty small, but still something that's flavourful.
With most game meats it seems the advice is to excise the bruised meat that results from the bullet, slug or shot tearing into the meat. Is that necessary with pigeon ( I think I saw evidence of bird shot on these breasts) and does pigeon benefit from hanging to age the meat, the same as other fowl? I smoke duck breasts over cherry wood and eat it as cold cut slices on crackers and I keep it pretty rare. Would pigeon be good this way?
5:16 Did you say “pheasant” or “peasant”? So long as they’re not diseased, this would be a great way to remove a major problem in cities such as Sydney, London, and so on where the rats-with-wings are almost in plague proportion. Cheap source of protein to feed the homeless and disadvantaged.
No worries. Thing is, if you roast them whole, the legs are still raw by the time the breasts are done unless, you pot roast them. Horses for courses brother.
The Only Way To Eat Pigeon is Plucked And Roasted you miss Out On All The Essential Oils And Nutrients from The Skin Bones A Wings and Neck Completely Different Dish Eating , Or Roast Dinner.
There is a world of difference between woodland pigeons and urban pigeons. You wouldn't eat beef from a cow fed nothing but rancid fast-food leftovers either... :p
I reckon more and more people will be eating this kind of stuff, just as in the old days. What with the supply chains breaking down and cost for ordinary folk. This is why your channel is so good. It shows the alternatives to the usual beef, pork, lamb. Keep them coming mate.
If people just kept things local we'd have been better off. Corporations are screwing everything up. I can't find a beef tongue in the states and just imagine how many cows are killed here
Honestly, the most underused but easily available wild meat in the UK is Perch. The fish. It tastes superb & every river, lake & canal is full of them. No idea why it isn't more popular.
You would be surprised how many people especially those from working backgrounds who would turn there nose up or mainly have absolutely no idea were ,how n what ! I'd rather the few who actually understand the wild be it the poacher or the keeper enjoy it . Tho both are a dying breed.
@@papalegba6796 Perch is a fantastic fish to eat, sadly most waterways in the UK have so much heavy metals in them from our industrial past as well as more modern pollutants that I'd be very anxious to eat any fish from most UK rivers and canals, perhaps I'd risk it with some lakes as they won't have had sewage dumping in them etc but regardless you should really be careful, the canals though are an absolute no go.
My Italian grandfather (Nonno) grew up poor in the south and always swore to us city folks "Pidgeon is good bird!". Would love to see them cooked as well! Thanks again for the useful content!
Myself in late 1970's worked in the Rockaways [Rockaway Beach NY]. Guy was cooking in the work shop kitchen who said: "cooking snow birds", I indulged... Told later I was eating Sea Gulls.
I have started foraging doves, scouting for Muscovy ducks and sniffing for deer, two and four legged for the same reason: can I survive a food chain breakdown. The only thing I have a suggestion for the Master Rea is to use less seed oils and more lard, Tallow/beef fat, butter, EVOO, Coconut oil, MCT oil, Sesame oil and stop the highly process poisonous soy, canola, sunflower S**T oils. Thanks for hard work and skills. Bon Appetite.
Nice video hope you enjoy your weekend.Tast the meat for me.God bless.
Great work mate. I’d love to see more pigeon content, as it’s a very common and easy thing for people to hunt.
Thanks brother, you are a hard worker and incredibly focused. I'll be trying many of your pigeon recipes, for sure!
Your videos are amazing Scott your organic food recipes are old school and strong from the heart thank you for all your footage please keep them coming because we cook just how you do after watching your videos
Lovely demonstration once again Scott hello from the Fenlands
In the 70s i hunted around Rocky Ford Colorado and there was a regular season for them. Great job brother!
*Excellent video, well done Scott, Cheers, in yelping best wishes to all from Brooklyn NY.*
Love your videos Scott, quality has just got better and better over the years. You don't put out as much content recently, hopefully everything is OK?
Sending positive vibes from Cornwall 😂
Love all your videos
Amazing I didn’t know how easy it is? Thanks
Amazing video, Scott; I thought it would require much more work and time, and there’s no dealing with innards
Delicious!
would love to see a few cooking recipes for them. Ive been shooting dove here in West Tex USA, and we make a lot of jalapano Poppers with them. Slice a jalopano in half, fill with cream cheese and a slice of dove breast meat, wrapped in bacon and grilled. VERY GOOD....but Id like to also learn some new ways to cook quail, pigeon, and dove meat this season.
I live in MN and am not sure what I might take as game bird like this. Do you have any suggestions? And a recipe? To be clear, I am just thinking of getting into small game hunting again. I am from the Catskills in upstate NY and now in my mid 60s, I need to get back to the nature I enjoyed as a kid.
Nice work Scott👍
I’d love to see your take on Branston/Ploughman’s pickles. Not always easy to find in Canada and would like to try making my own! Thanks
Would love to see them cooked as well!
scott has already a 10year old video on hes channel, on how to cook it
Excellent demonstration, Scott. Back in the day I'd clean them up whole and make stock with the rest but it's a lot of work for stock when you can breast the carcass like this and get straight into the meat! Would you recommend pan-roasting the breasts to medium rare or perhaps low and slow in a pie? I have been contemplating grinding them for pigeon-burgers!
Hi Scott, thanks for all your great videos. I have frozen some pork shoulder to make my own sausage. Is it ok to make the sausage then refreeze the sausages after they are completed ?
Try rook if you get the chance, it's good. Used to have it as a kid when the farmers cleared the rookeries in late spring, very tasty.
Another top, top vid, you keep making um, I'll keep subscribing 😊
Growing up in the Sixties this was a staple food for us
Mcpigeon sandwich might be a great idea for the franchise!
I love pigeon. I hope we have a pigeon cooking video soon 😊😊
scott has already a 10year old video on hes channel, on how to cook it
Great video, Scott! Thank you for posting. I have accidentally overcooked Pigeon and it was not too bad, not so bad that I would chuck it out. I love Pigeon/Dove but dont get the chance to get out and hunt them too often anymore.
I find it most relaxing to watch a man skilled with his hands and his brain working in his element. I would choose living next door to him instead of a political activists every day of the week. It is skill and craft that keeps society from going off of the rails.
Is it true that only wood pidgins are edible in the UK?
sure, mate. You've got to avoid eating urban flying pigeon-rats
Is there anything good you can do with the legs/wings like with a chicken? Seems a waste to only take the breast meat. I'm guessing if they're wild then they'll be pretty small, but still something that's flavourful.
Hi Scott! Were the holes in the meat from the shotty pellets?
They were indeed Ant.
Hi Scott great video, is there a way to tell the urban rat from the country pigeon
If they are eating out of a dumpster, they're a rat... grain pile =good eating ;)
Doesn't matter they eat garbage and their own shit regardless of where they live
With most game meats it seems the advice is to excise the bruised meat that results from the bullet, slug or shot tearing into the meat. Is that necessary with pigeon ( I think I saw evidence of bird shot on these breasts) and does pigeon benefit from hanging to age the meat, the same as other fowl? I smoke duck breasts over cherry wood and eat it as cold cut slices on crackers and I keep it pretty rare. Would pigeon be good this way?
Where are you my man? I miss your content.
My nan used to roast the whole bird . It used to be such a novelty having a whole roast bird to our self when we were kids 😂
Nice birds there mate
At the end of your video you said didn't you mean pigeons
While I like my steak medium rare, with game birds, isn't there a significant risk of salmonella?
No.
Can you also eat the legs and liver etc, or isn't that worth it?
heart and liver, yes. The rest I dont bother.
Is it only safe to eat like the country pigeons and not the city ones that scavenge food a little like rats.
5:16 Did you say “pheasant” or “peasant”?
So long as they’re not diseased, this would be a great way to remove a major problem in cities such as Sydney, London, and so on where the rats-with-wings are almost in plague proportion. Cheap source of protein to feed the homeless and disadvantaged.
sorry to say Scott, but i don't gonna waste any part of a pigeon i cook all, they are so delicious😁
No worries. Thing is, if you roast them whole, the legs are still raw by the time the breasts are done unless, you pot roast them. Horses for courses brother.
@@TheScottReaproject 🤗🤗🤗
I refer to them as bridge chickens. They're a very unappreciated source of good protein
BOOM FIRST
Probably the most tasty meat going.
Same old’ Same Old But Good ,
Any Goat Butchery, by any Chance,
THESE DAYS. PEST? OR? MANNA FROM HEAVEN? FUTURES LOOKING BLEAK!
And don't waste ...only harvest breast?? Cook whole ..only discard intestine leg and beak
pigeon isnt game its vermin.
The Only Way To Eat Pigeon is Plucked And Roasted you miss Out On All The Essential Oils And Nutrients from The Skin Bones A Wings and Neck Completely Different Dish Eating , Or Roast Dinner.
Winged Rats 🐀🐁🐀🐁 people actually eat this ? Not me 🤮🤮 this is right up there with catching rats and eating them lol
There is a world of difference between woodland pigeons and urban pigeons. You wouldn't eat beef from a cow fed nothing but rancid fast-food leftovers either... :p