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Cave Cooking

All Episodes 2010

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  • 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
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The way to teaching about primitive cooking and food preparation tricks and techniques. Karen explains many of the cool little tricks that make cooking in the woods fun, productive and satisfying. Get a napkin ready, you'll be drooling after you see some of these tricks!

5 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

1x01 In The Bush

Series Premiere

1x01 In The Bush

  • 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z1m

In this landmark video Karen shows you how to clean and cook* fish, squirrel, marmot, maggot and some select wild edible plants. She teaches you how to make wilderness bread, the amazing stone oven, the hobo stove and hobo oven. You’ll see the dough rising tent and how to get yeast from your environment. This is the perfect complement to the Woodsmaster Volume 5 where we catch the food that Karen is cooking in this video!

1x02 Going Dutch

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In this second volume of the Cave Cooking series, Karen Hood teaches you important cooking methods for home and camp. You’ll learn about the “Dutch” oven, the types, the uses, how to how to "season" it for use and how to care for it . You’ll also learn some great recipes! You’ll drool over the Pot Roast steaming with browned potatoes and thick gravy, you’ll groan when you see how easy it is to cook a great breakfast with a Dutch, your arteries will thicken when you see her make DONUTS and then you’ll moan when she serves up her famous rat stew… uhhh errr? Well, why not? Ever heard about SOLAR cooking? You’ll see the three basic types of solar cookers and how to make and use them. Solar Cookers are great non polluting cookers that are efficient and entertaining to use. Not only that but they are a real eye-opener. These things are used to cook the daily meals all around the globe. You might not think this sounds like "survival cooking" but… think again. If you have no power… how do you bake, roast or cook with the greatest versatility? Or—If your name is on the line as the Chief-Cook-and-Bottle-Washer in your home… This is the sort of information that will make you a legend. How? Ever hear folks say “My mom used to cook with a Dutch oven”… Well, they say that because “Dutch” cooking is becoming lost in the land of microwaves and processed foods. Find that skill and bring “Dutch” into your home…. from then on you will always want to go Dutch!

1x03 Frocks, Fat & Food

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In this volume of Cave Cooking, Karen Hood flies you into Idaho’s outback to show you some of the coolest chow, cooking tricks and gear you’ve seen yet. Before she takes off for the outback, you settle down to learn how to cut and assemble a buckskin rifleman’s frock, you make tallow from waste fat, real pemmican with dried beef, tallow candles and other cool things. Back in Idaho’s “River of no return wilderness” Karen will teach you how to put your wilderness cooking skills together. You’ll learn how to combine pemmican, bannock (Instructions included) and wild thistle to make a delicious and nutritious meal. You’ll also learn how to make wilderness pizza, stick bread and some special tricks about creating cooking gear from trash and more! For the Fungi aware, Karen also shows you how to prepare Morels for a delicious wilderness treat (don’t use this video to identify these mushrooms… You need competent field instructions to properly identify ANY mushrooms!) If you are a backpacker or wilderness wanderer the information and tricks in this video will make your trek lighter and more enjoyable than ever. We know you’ll get a kick out of this interesting, entertaining and informative video!

Join Karen Hood in another volume of Cave Cooking as she shows you how to mess with your meat!! She’ll show you the basics of smoking, curing, sausage-making, meat preservation and much more! Learn to make home-made Italian sausage, how to make oven jerky from flank steak and how to make jerky from ground meat that doesn’t need refrigeration after you prepare it! Follow Karen as she shows the complete process of making home made Corned Beef and Pastrami! Ever heard of “Plank Cooking” – Karen shows and explains this whole process in easy to follow steps. Learn all about wood chips and how to use your propane BBQ as a smoker. Ever made your own Smoked Salmon? Well after watching this video you’ll be able to make it any time you want and same money doing it!! It’s so easy! Learn all these things and more in this jam-packed video! After watching this video you’ll be itching to get into that meat drawer to try out these recipes for yourself and your family! Get your bib ready as you’ll be drooling and wishing you had smell-a-vision while watching this video!

Karen Hood takes you to Salmon, Idaho to meet with professional Abo cooker Denyce Bigley of Salmon Outdoor School.

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