A buddy brought me a slab of young Beluga whale.

Does calf Beluga taste like bacon, OR chicken !!!

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I was wondering if you could make bacon out of it. Does it taste fishy? Yes I know they are not a fish.

Nope lol



Nope again. It does have a bit of a fishy taste and being seafood would not be safe to attempt it. The oil drips right out of it at room temp

I will rot down a jar of the blubber on the kitchen counter for a week or so. It starts smelling a little but that's how you know its working.

Huh....and I was hoping for cute baby whale pics

Jeff I'd say you're living high on the hog because of some great friends ! I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's an acquired taste ?

Thanks for sharing with us !
Allan

Manatee bacon is what I want...

Beluga.... the other WHITE meat!!!

Pete

Disappointed in you Wolfie !!!

Whales don't have babies, Humans have babies.

Whales, instead, have Calves !!!!

w

Once it's rotted down on the counter you just eat it and hope to survive?

Would that make good trapping bait?.

Use it like lard, or lamp oil?

first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.

Baby beluga

Meh tiny young version of the parent critter , tomato tomatta

Young adult I’d guess, with the white skin. Calves are more grayish

Its fine, as long as you dont seal the jar while its rendering


For dipping dry fish and adding to soup or meat.



Yes, looked like a last years calf just a bit of gray left.. Nice and tender still.

Is rotting down the correct wording? Are you trying to get oil?
No meat? I remember my Emmonak g/f brining beluga meat and drying it.

Rendering would be the correct wording I guess, but its being rendered at room temperature, so technically it is rotted down. And yes, for the oil.

He didn't bring me any meat. I like the dried meat, it turns black, looks like liquorish. They are hunting for the skin, they leave most of the meat usually.

Do they not like the meat? Seems odd to leave it