Bear Oil

[spudnut]

Finaly got some rendered bear grease and am siphoning off the oil,already have about six ounces and still coming yeeeehaaa.
Will it gradualy stop coming to the surface and leave a harder grease?The milky stuff below is pretty soupy but I am getting a nice clear oil off the top.

 

[paulvallandigham]

When the oil stops separating, you can try heating the residue again in a double boiler, and/or squeeze a bit more oil out of the residue by using cheese cloth to filter the solids. But you will need to use many layers of cheesecloth. You might also try using coffee filters( paper) to separate the solids from the remaining oil. You will have to use several layers, and find a way to press the residue to force the oil out of the residue, but you might get a bit more.

Finally, I just thought of this: When you get down to the white residue, how about soaking that in alcohol, which will separate oil from solids, and then evaporate. Alcohol is an oil solvent. Denatured alcohol is probably the best to use. Buy it at paint, and hardware stores.

 

[BillinOregon]

Just a heads up. A friend gave me a jar of bear oil a few years ago and it got horribly rancid real fast. I don't know how he processed it, but the lesson taught me to keep another gift, a jar of beaver oil, in the freezer.

 

[rabjr]

The key to good bear oil is to trim the fat real good before rendering it. Make sure there is No meat or blood in the fat, oil just comes from the fat so thats all you want to render. Trimmed clean fat = good bear oil that does not have a foul smell. I still have oil I put up 3 years ago stored at room temp that has no offensive oder to it. :thumbsup:
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[Roy]

The key to good bear oil is to trim the fat real good before rendering it. Make sure there is No meat or blood in the fat, oil just comes from the fat so thats all you want to render. Trimmed clean fat = good bear oil that does not have a foul smell. I still have oil I put up 3 years ago stored at room temp that has no offensive oder to it. :thumbsup:

:thumbsup: I have various animal oils that are holding up fine too. Dad had some deer tallow that lasted for 20 some odd years untill we finally used it up.

 

[Wehrmacht]

I keep my bear oil in a refrigerator out of necessity. Down here where I am the temperature can exceed 90 degrees for weeks at a time, and it's humid almost all of the time. Bear oil, regardless of how pure it is will go rancid pretty quick. On the other hand I have deer tallow that is not refrigerated and it is fine after several years.

 

[spudnut]

This stuff has a slight peanut smell to it????