what would you need to smoke/dry meat like deer or moose in a climate like alaska if you were lost?!
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The native Americans smoke meat and fish by skewering it on very long sticks or laying it on large leaning planks of wood and throwing well-soaked wood chips on coals and exposing the meat to the smoke. You could also fashion a smokehouse by making an enclosure of tree branches and leaves, rather like a pup tent or tee pee and smoking the meat with the chips on the coals inside of it.
You would have to make sure that the wood chips are safe to smoke food with though, oak, cedar, apple, cherry, hickory, sugar maple and mesquite are some of the better ones. Never, ever use pine.
Lay thinly cut strips of the meat across wood or rocks to dry in the sun or better keep a fire with the smoke underneath the strips going constantly for a long while, best to make a housing w/o leakage around the meat and smoke pit, but you don't want the flames heat to be too much of a constant on the meat or it will possibly over heat and burn dry it making it tough to eat, different types of wood will give you different smoke flavors. I would think if your lost you'll pretty much eat it just plain ole cooked over a fire, much easier than the whole smoke drying thing, but of course, for a minute there I wasn't thinking about the reason, if you dry it, you can keep/preserve it longer. Well Hope this helped, I DID learn something in school I guess.
Opinion/School book smarts.
Fire, smoke, sharp knives to butcher the game, guns to kill the animals, hand hack saw to cup up bones to get the marrow out of them and something to hang the meat on, something to beat the bears and wolves and other wild carnivores away from your drying meat. If it is really cold and dry where you are then you can
freeze dry it in the super cold daylight if you slice it really thinly. If you are lost then the fire may be a way of getting the searchers to notice you. If you have a computer, then you have electricity and thusly a way to preserve the dried meat or the fresh meat through freezing or canning or other forms of preservation. Have you seen the movie about the true story of the young man who leaves college and ends up in Alaska, deciding to make it on his own....sad ending... the story was written by Jan Krakauer ( a writer and Mt. Everest summit specialist.
Chef, wild child.