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How to remove hair from meat
WhistlingBadger:
Full disclosure: This is not my idea. I liberated it from another hunting forum, over where they use bullets and stuff. But I feel pretty safe assuming that most people hard-core enough to take to the hills with a primitive bow are probably processing there own meat
I might be really inept at field dressing, but my meat always ends up with random hairs on it. Sometimes quite a bit. This year's was cleaner than usual, since I actually killed it in a level spot for once in my life (I have a gift for running into deer on the sides of horrendous, high desert canyons miles from the nearest road). But there was still some, and it is a pain to remove. At least, it used to be.
Here's what you do: Before you start the clean-up-and-wrap-up phase of processing your critter, take a half cup or so of wheat flour. Add water a few drops at a time and knead until you have a blob of nice, sticky dough: Not wet and slimy, but sticky enough that it adheres to your fingers just a little bit. Keep it in a cup next to your working area. When you find a hair, squish that blob of dough onto it, and more than likely it will pick it right up off the meat. If it doesn't, use a gentle wiping motion and it almost certainly will. Squish the dough a few times so the hair gets enveloped and doesn't go right back onto the meat.
If the dough dries out, add a couple drops of water and knead it until it's sticky again. If it gets hairy, knead it a little. After a while (about half a deer's worth, for me) it starts getting pretty slimy and quite working. So I just mixed up a new blob.
Easy! I sure wish someone had told me about this 30 years ago...I could have taken a second career with all the time it would have saved. Or practiced shooting more. Or something. Anyway, there you go. Give it a shot and see if it works as well for you.
Thomas
Hawkdancer:
Them hairs are sticky little buggers! >:D. If we can hang the carcass, we blast it With a flame thrower, I.e. A propane brush torch, a few passes, and you get 99.5% of the stray hairs, the rest are for flavoring! Of course, this only works if you remember to load the torch and a 20# propane tank! Got that from a buddy, then noticed my far distant cousin doing it in his meat processing operation! Of course, I forgot to. Load it last year! Those nifty pet hair rollers might work, too - not as hard to pack!
Hawkdancer
JW_Halverson:
To quote Homer Simpson as I smack myself on the forehead for not thinking of something so simple, "DOUGH!"
WhistlingBadger:
--- Quote from: JW_Halverson on October 07, 2019, 12:42:54 am ---To quote Homer Simpson as I smack myself on the forehead for not thinking of something so simple, "DOUGH!"
--- End quote ---
Go to your room. ha ha ha
Stickhead:
Sounds like a great solution. Unfortunately, I can’t have even a trace of flour coming in contact with my meat, because my daughter has celiac.
I find that grabbing the hairs with a paper towel works well.
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