How to cure shark meat
 

Step 1
Gut and discard the shark innards, fins, tail, head and cartilage. Wash off all grime and blood. Cut into large pieces.

Step 2
Dig a hole in coarse gravel. Do this as close to the sea as possible... and away from any houses where the smell from the curing shark meat can bother the inhabitants.

Step 3
Place the cut up shark pieces into the hole, and press together. Warm weather is best to hasten the curing process. Cover with gravel, and press down on the meat with the gravel on top of it.

Step 4
Leave the shark meat buried for 6 to 7 weeks in the summer or 2 to 3 months in the winter. As fluids drain from the shark meat and putrefication sets in, the meat eventually smells like ammonia.

Step 5
Remove from gravel pit, and place shark meat in a drying shack after washing it off. Hang for 2 to 3 months or until fairly dry and firm. Then cut off the brown crust, and cut the white pieces of meat into small pieces and serve.



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Re: How to cure shark meat
 

You forgot to leave out the disclaimer:

Do not try this without knowing what the shark meat is supposed to taste like. Though putrefied and thus spoiled already, this cured meat can go bad and be poisonous.:eek:


LEIF - you are def one of a kind! :D

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

Just posted because I thought it was funny....This is not something even I would try. I like the part about cutting off the brown part!!

Leif

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

After I heard you peeing on Blackfich skins for curing I thought anything might be possible...

Yeah thought so, interesting though - guess if we run into a blackout for 2-3 months well we know what we can eat....:D

I'm gonna give it a try with a blue shark and feed it to my neighbor who wont cut down the F@$&*ing dead tree in his yard hanging over my new fence!!

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

I am glad i saw this post. I was starting to get a little worried like thinking you were crazy ! I cant believe people actually do this. Intresting stuff

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

I have read about this "process" on a few occasions. Apparently when food was scarce nothing would go to waste. The Vikings used to bury bones and heads of animals and after they "softened up" they would dig them up and eat them if they had to.

Leif

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

If you are hungry enough you will eat anything.
Most people here just don't know what real hunger is.

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

Leif you make it i'll try it

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

Actually, if you've ever seen Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel, Andrew Zimmern ate shark in Iceland prepared in a similar fashion. They use Greenland Shark. What the Icelanders do is that they loin the shark and then expose the loins to the elements for something like 6 months. The reason for this is that the shark meat has high concentrations of uric acid when its fresh making it poisonous and the exposure/drying lets the uric acid evaporate out. Andrew Zimmern liked it, but when Anthony Bourdain was there and tried it, he thought it was the most disgusting thing he had ever eaten. Personally, I'd go with Bourdain on this one.

Re: How to cure shark meat
 

Lefty Reeler:
You are allowed to cut off any part of the tree that encroaches on your property.