Thread: Are we eating the right bits ?

I have been playing around with cooking down sinew and boiling bones. Why, you may wonder would someone not obsessed with Macbeth do that, well let me explain.
Collagen as we all know is very important for skin and joints, it is in cosmetics and sold for joint support.
But it goes further than that, Collagen is the most important protein matrix in our bodies. Most peoples diets are deficient which is easy to demonstrate when nails and skin improve rapidly with Collagen supplementation.
So here we have the most complete and important protein from the game we take being discarded or left on the hill.
Bones are made of one type of Collagen and sinews another. Cooking them down in water breaks the Collagen into a semi Hydrolyzed form which is easier to absorb. Not as good as the commercial product where enzymes are used to finish the process but still very good for us. Bones are also the bodies storehouse for minerals, so every stew and soup should have bone stock or 'Broth' added.
Keep those deer bones, saw them up and boil them to make a gelatinous stock and keep the sinew and gristle trimmings including silver-skin and cook them with your stews. The leg sinews like hamstrings are gold and are made of a different type of Collagen. Keep these and cook them till they have melted.
12 grams per day is the dose that is needed to make a difference. 1 kg sinew + 1kg water when boiled down = 2kg @ 50% = 24 grams / day dose
If you cant carry it all, leave the backsteaks behind for the birds and take all the sinews and leg bones home

Fine by me - anything we shoot this weekend, I’ll take the back steaks and you can have the gristly bits 😜

Originally Posted by mopheadrob

Fine by me - anything we shoot this weekend, I’ll take the back steaks and you can have the gristly bits ��

Well how did that work out, the deer is hanging up at my place complete with sinews, bones and backsteaks.

Last night I had a boil up of deer sinew and bones, having cracked the bones open first. Let it cook for ages in the pressure cooker. Put it in the fridge this morning and just checked it now. What a great brew - solid spoon bending gelatine / collagen. First impressions are that after a couple of doses one woman wont be enough !!

Originally Posted by mopheadrob

Fine by me - anything we shoot this weekend, I’ll take the back steaks and you can have the gristly bits ��

Goes for me too, can’t go past a nice backsteak

Yeah, good stuff.

It's nothing novel; people have been doing it for thousands of years. In addition to making use of bones, hunters have eaten eyeballs, the brain - and other organs - in addition to muscle meat.

Part of the reason a meat heavy diet is linked to poor health (in Western society) is that we often give the cold shoulder to any part of an animal that doesn't look like a steak.

Originally Posted by Frodo

Yeah, good stuff.

It's nothing novel; people have been doing it for thousands of years. In addition to making use of bones, hunters have eaten eyeballs, the brain - and other organs - in addition to muscle meat.

Part of the reason a meat heavy diet is linked to poor health (in Western society) is that we often give the cold shoulder to any part of an animal that doesn't look like a steak.

I had the liver from the Fallow I shot last Friday for breakfast on Saturday. Does that count?

Originally Posted by Rushy

I had the liver from the Fellow I shot last Friday for breakfast on Saturday. Does that count?

Have you been watching 'Silence of the lambs' again Hannibal ?

Well yes, joint support is going to be in demand after the next election.

But all the same, I'll stick to back steaks I reckon.

aha,,by the two replies its obvious that people find change hard,,my cats will do well when i get back into hunting

No wonder my dog is so healthy...she eats all that crap.

Originally Posted by DavidGunn

No wonder my dog is so healthy...she eats all that crap.

Exactly the point. Puts a spring in your step and a shine on your turds !

I do this with small game. Thickens the liquid, nice and gelatinous. Any left over liquid is made into vege soup, full of hippy food like lentils. Soup like my mother would make that you could pretty much spread on toast.

We have a student at work who is getting collagen off animal skins with acetic acid, which I'm drying in the freeze dryer. They are planning on feeding it to some animals to see if it improves their ligaments etc...

If you're old enough to need joint support, you are too old to be fit and proper. I'm paraphrasing GCNZ...