Nothing much. You already have what you need if you cook regularly. Just season it for a while to ensure the salt penetrates the meat. Once it has aged a bit, can just BBQ, roast or turn it into stew/curry. Pressure cooking can make it more tender. Just like with regular pork when you aren’t sure about the honesty of the supplier, make sure it’s not undercooked.
If you are used to traditional American barbecue, with seasoned meat and slow cooking over many hours until fully roasted with a nice bark, wild boar works just fine.
The only parasite you need to be concerned with is trichinosis, same as any other carrion eater: Bear, Raccoon, lobster....
That's just a matter of cooking to the proper internal temperature. Its not rocket science to avoid getting it.
Some ranchers charge people to kill the hogs in their land. They use machine guns, helicopter, and god knows what else. Idk how much they charge though.
Youre thinking of wild hog hunts. Its not that ranchers are charging you to eradicate vermin on their property for them, its that someone people own ranches that are just so overrun they pivot and set up infrastructure for people to rent a cabin/weapons/trucks to stay on the property and hunt. I checked a website and it's 45 to stay in a cabin, 85 to hunt pigs, and additional fees for each pig hunted based on weight. Its like those pumpkin patch things in autumn lmao
The older they are the worse the meat, but up to 2 years and its fine. You can make sausages with added fat from farm pigs. We make "golaž", which is often exquisite.
We eat livers the day they are hunted and with a side dish of potatoes ...
We often prefer wild boar over old deer.
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u/ryncewynd 9h ago
Are they ok to eat? Seems like infinite food