I had a buddy who shot a bear, and had sausage made. It was very tasty! If I had gotten a bear, I would have had the meat all hamburger!! Nothing like homemade sausage!!

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I've made and eaten a lot of bear. I trim as much fat as possible off a nice roast. Season with salt & pepper and brown it in a frying pan. Then place in a crock pot with onions, carrots, potatoes, and 3 beef bullion cubes with enough water to cover the veggies with the roast on top of them. Let it slow cook for 5 or 6 hours on medium.
It falls apart. Tender and tasty.

Bear flavor definitely is affected by what it has been eating. A fish eating bear is just not the same as a blueberry eating bear. You can usually tell how the meat will be, while butchering it. If it smells like any other meat that you would normally eat, then it should be good. If it smells like garbage, carrion or fish, don't eat it unless you are starving. If it is a really fat bear, trim as much of the fat off the meat as possible.Render the fat out for lard, if you want to try some of the best pastry making lard in the world.The meatshould always be cooked as pork, since most bears do carry trichinosis. Grind and make sausage, cut in steaks and cook as any game meat, or make roasts and cook as a game meat roast. May cure the meat in brine then smoke as for ham, or make jerky, if you bring the temperature up for a while after the jerky is dry, to kill the possible trichinosis.
By now your bear has probably already been eaten, but I have butchered black bears and grizzly bears and eaten some of both, some were good, some were so-so. Hope yours was good.

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All this talk about bear meat makes me wanna head out into the woods with my smoke pole!!!!

never ate bear..wish sum1 would send me some lol

I too don't care for bear meat. Have tried it many ways and it really seems more miss then hit for the bears I have ate taken here in Saskatchewan. That said the best bear dishesI have tasted was brined and smoked.

Like mentioned should be cooked like pork - Well & fat should be trimmed off.

I had a mighty fine bear stew last night served in a bread bowl...it was some kind of tasty.

The only way I'll eat bear meat is if I cook it,and the only way I do it is in a crockpot.......myway or noway.I've had too many guys say they can cook it and its no differant then chewing filthy leather,well maybe not that bad but bad enough to were I learnd to cook it the way I like it.

I've had black bear from florida, n.c., montana, and british columbia and I wouldn't say I don't like it, its just that I really don't care for it. The montana and B.C. bears were plumb full of huckleberries. There is just better eating wild game than a dang ole black bare, as a matter of fact there more of a nusiance here and I end up chasing them out of the yard. I buy a bear tag every year just in case I have to use it on a bothersome one.

Bobby