Where can I listen to the bear grease podcast?
Bear Grease on Apple Podcasts. The Bear Grease Podcast with host Clay Newcomb delivers compelling storytelling through documentary-style episodes exploring the culture, traditions, and history of rural America.
How do you use bear grease?
Cooking- Bear Grease can be used for any type of cooking that involves oil, including pan frying meat and oil in breads and pastries. Hair- encourages hair growth and will grow out hair healthier and shiny. It restores hair regrowth to bald spots, and prevents baldness. Also used for removing lice.
How do you get bear grease?
After caping the hide off the bruin, use a sharp knife to fillet off chunks of fat, making sure to not get any meat mixed in with it. You'll find most of the largest reserves of fat will be around the rump of the bear. You'll want to get the fat cooled down as quickly as possible, just like the meat you're taking home.
Does bear grease cure baldness?
Yes, unfortunately, bear oil growing hair back is a myth. While it has been used as a hair care product, it cannot in fact regrow your hair. As of now, there are no tonics or medications that can regrow hair.
How long do you leave bear grease in hair?
Gently massage into scalp for a few minutes then onto hair itself. You can leave on for 3 hours or overnight if you wish. I use the product about once every 2-3 weeks and my hair has grown longer in my 50s than it ever did in 20 years prior. It has worked amazing.
Is bear grease good for arthritis?
Bear Grease Pain offers a proactive approach targeting prevention and maintenance of arthritis and joint pain, rheumatism, bruising, and fractures with it's warm and soothing qualities. Ingredients: Bear Fat, Beeswax, and the Essential Oils of Peppermint, Spearmint and Eucalyptus.
Does bear grease smell?
Depending on the way it was rendered, fresh Bear fat may already have a slightly smoky, fried smell to almost no scent at all.
Do you refrigerate bear grease?
Keep it somewhere cold. Semi-frozen bear fat is much easier to cut. Cut bear fat into 1-inch cubes. Trim away any off-looking parts (bits with hair, dirt, blood or that look excessively, well, smooshy.
What does bear grease do for hair?
In the 19th century, people used bear's grease to make pomades, a waxy substance similar to hair gel used to style hair. Magazines, newspapers and ladies guides also promised that bear's grease would help grow hair as well as serve as a cure for both baldness and sores.
Did Native Americans use bear grease on their hair?
Native American use In the Northeast tribes of the Sauk, Huron, and Delaware, the daily use of bear grease on their hair was popular among both men and women. Men in the Dakota Sioux and Crow tribes also regularly used bear's grease.
What do you do with bear lard?
Here are just some of the uses of bear grease documented in historical accounts: leather conditioner, gun lubricant, waterproof boot grease, wood conditioner, lamp oil, skin moisturizer, hair pomade, lard for pastry and pie dough, frying oil, and lard for tortillas and tamales.
What does bear grease taste like?
In Camp Cookery, Horace Kephart says, "All of the caul fat [of a bear] should be saved for rendering into bear's oil, which is much better and wholesomer than lard." Made right, it has almost no flavor. It's favored for pastries. It's a superb oil for frying.
Who is the host of Bear Grease?
He’ll dive in deep with hunters, biologists, anthropologists, and hillbillies to learn about human nature and our ancient connection to the land. Bear Grease explores unique people, topics, and stories that reveal the incredible value of life lived close to the land. Part of the MeatEater Podcast Network.
Who was the bear hunter killed by his quarry?
On this episode of The Bear Grease Podcast, we’re exploring the gruesome death of Erskine, an Ozark Mountain bear hunter killed by his quarry in the 1840s. You’ll hear the firsthand account of the incident from his comrade, Frederick Gerstacker.
Who is Clay Newcomb's wife?
On this episode of the Bear Grease [Render], Clay Newcomb is joined by the regular crew, minus Gary Newcomb -- however, the empty chair is filled by his wife Misty and her banjo.
