Wilderness Survival: How Long to Cook Fresh Game

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is John Stewart and this is how long you need to cook food in nature in case you catch something or kill something and you need to cook it. Two different types of food you are probably going to encounter are red meats and fish. Ok, with red meats you want to cook them really, really well done. That's just because you're not sure if the animal that you are cooking had a disease or anything. So you want to cook them really, really slow and long ok. Put a nice char on the outside ok it's not burned all the way through, so you want to burn it really, really good on the outside where it kills any bacteria or anything that might of been in that meat ok. Because if you kill something and let it sit too long, there's stuff that's laying eggs and stuff all over it to where you've got to cook all that stuff off. With fish, you can cook the fish two ways, you can clean the fish, fillet it out and stuff. When you do that, you want to cook it to where you can pull the bones, they slide right out and they don't pull any flesh or meat with them ok. Cook it till the skin is nice and crispy. If you cook the fish as a whole, get the skin crispy and also look for the eyes to pop out. Once the fish is to a certain temperature, those eyes are going to pop out and that normally tells you that the fish is done. But you can always look for the bones to slide right off the flesh, that tells that the fish is cooked all the way through and is well done. And that's how you could tell how long to cook food in nature."