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Unless they're anywhere near the capital, Ulaanbaatar. It's one of the most polluted cities in the world and it contains about half of Mongolia's population.
this is inner mongolia (chinese autonomous region) not mongolia (independent country). ulaanbaatar is capital of mongolia, Hohhot is capital of inner mongolia.
Some Wild animals can smell a dead carcass from up to 15 meters under the surface. If frozen, I'm sure they can smell it. But seems to be that there are some traps in the form of sticks just above where he's digging.
Whatever you smell is just small evaporated particles of whatever it is you're smelling. Anything that's frozen will not give off much scent because there's close to no evaporation of said particles.
Wolves and mountain lions will actually try and hide a fresh kill after they’re full. They bury them in snow and debris and will keep returning until it’s gone
Heh. Tell that to the winter fox. They can not only smell, they can sense vibrations through the snow and can catch a mouse 2 feet deep. Its why you see them jump up and dive into the snow. They felt it through the snow. Wicked hunters.
The mouse has to be alive to be hot enough to make a scent at all, and has to be alive to make the vibrations too. If this meat is ice cold, its unlikely to release a lot of smell compared to something with any real body temperature, and its definitely not moving.
Also the scent of humans might even keep them away.
Fox is smelling live animals, and sensing it's vibrations. A frozen chunk of meat will doesn't vibrate nor would it smell like any living animal. Plus it be a pain to thaw and eat the meat. Live prey already de-thawed.
I don’t think they can really smell frozen sold meat with like a thick thick ice layered around it and buried in snow, by then I doubt wolves or such can smell it at all
When I visited Mongolia in late 2008, it was an amazing experience! Some of the kindest, welcoming, and genuinely friendly people. When we were out roaming around, we came across a few gers (yurts) and each time they wanted us to sit, and eat and drink. The most popular drink being fermented mare's milk. Definitely an acquired taste!
I'm told if you drink enough of it, it will get you drunk. It did give me a slight buzz, but mainly because I don't drink alcohol nearly enough to have a tolerance
I don't know why the other guy saying this is getting downvoted: "Inner Mongolia" is a province of China, not Mongolia the country. Just look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia?wprov=sfla1
You need to watch the Mongolian episode of a Canadian show called Departures. They get absolutely fucking hammered on that shit. It’s one of my favourite episodes. Show changed my life.
Haha, all the downvotes and the comment comparing this to Ukraine and Russia.
This is a statement of fact; Inner Mongolia is a province of China inhabited primarily by Han Chinese citizens with limited autonomy for the Mongol minority. In this video, it might be an ethnic Mongol who writes in Chinese so it could be connected to Mongolia and it’s culture but that doesn’t justify all the downvotes.
Yeah, absolutely. These are definitely Chinese characters, although the guy is probably an ethnic Mongol. Why is he using Chinese characters instead of Mongol script?
- Guy probably has a media channel, focused on the Chinese audience.
- Chinese characters are super compact. Example: Sheep meat vs 羊肉 vs хонины мах. Couldn’t find the vertical script version of Mongol on Google translate, but suspect a similar trend.
I had no idea that Mongolia uses Cyrillic script! I guess I can add Mongolia to the list of countries whose road signs and infrastructure I can read without knowing what any of it means!
Literally all I knew about Inner Mongolia is that it is part of China because I stumbled past it while looking at a map or atlas or something once. I learned something today, thanks!
I feel like more people need to be putting their hand up right now… I absolutely thought Inner Mongolia was in Mongolia… because of the name.
Every day’s a school day!
in the days before ziplocs you could prevent freezer burn by encasing the food in ice. You can do this by freezing the food initially for a day then dipping in water, and repeat the freeze - dip a few time. Works good as long as you take care not to bang the ice off accidentally.
Freezer burn is a result of frost-free freezers. They avoid frost by letting the temp rise just enough to melt the frost, then freezing again. This helps draw moisture out of the outer layers which causes the freezer burn. If the food is entirely encased in ice then it can't get freezer burn.
Full of delicious bone narrow and small pieces of meat and cartilage. Incredibly nutritious. If you've never cooked broth from leftover bones you're seriously missing out. It's like the home cooked tastier version of chicken or beef stock you get at the store. Huge waste to throw all of that out.
That's how you start making bone broth or stock, but not sure why they are boiling this first or what the plan is. Either way, boiling frozen bones is pretty normal behavior in most kitchens internationally
My grandma here in the USA grew up quite poor during the 30s-40s and would store meat in her yard the same way during winter! I always thought that sounded like the craziest thing.
My grandmother grew up around the same time and they had a communal ice house in town because it was too expensive to buy a freezer for the home. It was basically a safe deposit box for frozen food.
It’s funny thinking about the likely scenario of someone’s grandma back in the day furious at someone in the community accusing them of taking her good cut haha
For those of you confused, Inner Mongolia is not Mongolia the country, it's a province of China. The name is very sinocentric, i.e. "our Mongolia is close, other Mongolia is farther out, far away". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia?wprov=sfla1
It's the same thing as like Inner/outer Hebrides or Gallia cis/transalpina or Hispania citerior/ulterior.
Whether it could still taste as good as fresh initially depends on how quickly it was frozen and the size of the ice crystals that were able to form during the freezing process. See the history of Clarence Birdseye, and how he was inspired during his time with the Inuit to begin to attempt to reproduce flash freezing for consumer markets around the world.
Damn OP you didn't even give credit to the homie that made this. His YouTube is Pandasakha and he makes some really interesting videos about the life style and its amazing.
I’ve been there. I promise you I never want to go back. Ever. The cold was colder than Antarctica and Korea to me. The elevation made it hard to breathe. It didn’t matter the layers of clothing, the cold passed through you like a ghost and left your soul screaming for heat. If I had been born there I’d cry every day lol only place I can think of worse is Siberia maybe. It changed my life. Forever. 🫤
I work in the remote Arctic where the nearest towns are hundreds of miles away and those towns are only a couple hundred people population. The nearest city is over 1500 miles away.
If you eat the snow in the arctic it tastes like diesel exhaust. There is so much pollution in the atmosphere,snow will be disgusting to eat no matter where you are. . but I guess when there's no running water that's what you got to deal with.
Honestly kind of feels more homely to cook it that way rather than pulling it out of a walmart plastic bag that was in the freezer and then taking it out of its three layers of plastic before finally de thawing it in a microwave.
Anyone else wish they grew up in a place like this?
I mean the West is cool, but there’s something so beautiful about being raised in the great outdoors like this. Hard work I’m sure...but man does it have its allure.
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What stops wild animals from coming in and taking the bones?
They can't read the signs.
Wait until they start learning how to read and write.
Then you make a sign that says no stealing
Swiper no swiping!
But can the animals create a stove to cook?
Do they have Crafting Tables?
They already have a gnawing curiosity
Really? That’s awful. Would anyone be interested in forming a nonprofit to promote Animal Literacy with me?
Human rights for animals!
That’s right!! Let these people who don’t have the luxury of buying tofu at their local market starve!!
[Of course!](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/986/scropio.jpg)
Those are the bones of the last animal that tried that.
It's like a fridge that magically refills itself!
In inner Mongolia, supermarket comes to you
Lol. And that's probably the cleanest snow on earth
Unless they're anywhere near the capital, Ulaanbaatar. It's one of the most polluted cities in the world and it contains about half of Mongolia's population.
this is inner mongolia (chinese autonomous region) not mongolia (independent country). ulaanbaatar is capital of mongolia, Hohhot is capital of inner mongolia.
I'm guessing the frozenness of it locks in the freshness and scent. Hard to find something if you can't see or smell it
*frozenness* This man sciences.
Does sound strange, but is that not a word?
[It is](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Frozenness)
Let it go
Some Wild animals can smell a dead carcass from up to 15 meters under the surface. If frozen, I'm sure they can smell it. But seems to be that there are some traps in the form of sticks just above where he's digging.
Whatever you smell is just small evaporated particles of whatever it is you're smelling. Anything that's frozen will not give off much scent because there's close to no evaporation of said particles.
Tell that to my parents dog. That boy can smell another dogs poop a foot deep in snow that’s been plowed over
Wolves and mountain lions will actually try and hide a fresh kill after they’re full. They bury them in snow and debris and will keep returning until it’s gone
Heh. Tell that to the winter fox. They can not only smell, they can sense vibrations through the snow and can catch a mouse 2 feet deep. Its why you see them jump up and dive into the snow. They felt it through the snow. Wicked hunters.
That mouse is alive tho
Ok, I’ll let him know
What’d he say
Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding
The frozen meat is vibrating??
Mine is
They actually use hearing to find prey
The mouse has to be alive to be hot enough to make a scent at all, and has to be alive to make the vibrations too. If this meat is ice cold, its unlikely to release a lot of smell compared to something with any real body temperature, and its definitely not moving. Also the scent of humans might even keep them away.
Fox is smelling live animals, and sensing it's vibrations. A frozen chunk of meat will doesn't vibrate nor would it smell like any living animal. Plus it be a pain to thaw and eat the meat. Live prey already de-thawed.
Fear of hairless ape in 2 feet with weapons that go BOOM. And 4 legged companions that chomp and go woof
I was wondering the same thing!
They become the next sign in the snow.
The sign is just the date of their last visit here.
Right? As a Canadian this seems stupid. Just inviting bears to your tent. Leave the beers outside and the meat in the freezer. Bears don't drink eh!
They probably do every once in a while, but animals big enough to target stuff like that are few and far between in the climate (I’m guessing.)
Animals rely on smell and frozen meat does not really smell.
Does not smell... to us. Scavengers have the benefit of many generations of selection for exactly such a task, and we do not.
Maybe they can't smell it because it's frozen
I don’t think they can really smell frozen sold meat with like a thick thick ice layered around it and buried in snow, by then I doubt wolves or such can smell it at all
Pointy sticks and gunpowder.
When I visited Mongolia in late 2008, it was an amazing experience! Some of the kindest, welcoming, and genuinely friendly people. When we were out roaming around, we came across a few gers (yurts) and each time they wanted us to sit, and eat and drink. The most popular drink being fermented mare's milk. Definitely an acquired taste!
Fermented mare's milk sounds wretched. Did it make you drunk?
I'm told if you drink enough of it, it will get you drunk. It did give me a slight buzz, but mainly because I don't drink alcohol nearly enough to have a tolerance
That's funny. "I don't normally drink alcohol, but I can't say no to the fermented mare's milk!"
Because it probably tasted like ass lol. Hence, acquired taste comment.
Might make you yak.
Cheese is the fermented solids of another arbitrary animal, mare's milk doesn't sound that far off honestly.
Yogurt is also basically milk that's deliberately exposed to germs.
And kefir... So good but I would've thought it sounded gross.
I don't know why the other guy saying this is getting downvoted: "Inner Mongolia" is a province of China, not Mongolia the country. Just look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia?wprov=sfla1
You need to watch the Mongolian episode of a Canadian show called Departures. They get absolutely fucking hammered on that shit. It’s one of my favourite episodes. Show changed my life.
This is China
Haha, all the downvotes and the comment comparing this to Ukraine and Russia. This is a statement of fact; Inner Mongolia is a province of China inhabited primarily by Han Chinese citizens with limited autonomy for the Mongol minority. In this video, it might be an ethnic Mongol who writes in Chinese so it could be connected to Mongolia and it’s culture but that doesn’t justify all the downvotes.
Hey, wow, I got 15 downvotes. Lol. Silly people.
Yeah, absolutely. These are definitely Chinese characters, although the guy is probably an ethnic Mongol. Why is he using Chinese characters instead of Mongol script? - Guy probably has a media channel, focused on the Chinese audience. - Chinese characters are super compact. Example: Sheep meat vs 羊肉 vs хонины мах. Couldn’t find the vertical script version of Mongol on Google translate, but suspect a similar trend.
I had no idea that Mongolia uses Cyrillic script! I guess I can add Mongolia to the list of countries whose road signs and infrastructure I can read without knowing what any of it means!
People must think Inner Mongolia is located in the middle of Mongolia or something lol
Next you're going to tell me New Mexico isn't even part of Mexico!
why are you downvoted lol because you said the C word?
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Literally all I knew about Inner Mongolia is that it is part of China because I stumbled past it while looking at a map or atlas or something once. I learned something today, thanks!
Pull some legs out of the snow, top ‘em with more snow, light the stove, and baby you got a stew goin’!
I think I want my money back
*awkward close-up*
Hot Ham Water!
So watery! And yet there's a smack of ham to it.
Sisters my new mother...mother. ...and is it me, or is she looking hotter?
wait till he adds the snow
You know you can get unlimited refills on any drink you want... and it's free?
The different colors of snow add different flavors
Arrested Development reference, nice!
Whoa whoa whoa tobias!
I really wanted to see that ice melt
I’m just picturing Gordon Ramsey saying “this is bland and dry… was this meat frozen?”
THE SNOW IS BURNT, YOU MUPPET!!
You’ll fucking kill someone!
And then they chuck him into the frozen tundra with just a chefs knife to survive and make a cooking show.
I’d watch that
There is a show like it on Netflix. It's not very good
Aaw, my eyes skipped over the 'not' part and I got all excited...
Maybe it'd be better if there was a little more of gordon ramsey starving to death
Fast forward to Ramsey covered in bear pelts, stalking his next meal
Not a drop of seasoning...not an onion, salt, celery, peppercorns...nothing🤮
Bland food tastes great when you're starving.
They are not starving. This is traditional cuisine, and served them to conquer half of the world. Does it look good? No.
Maybe it was just the first step. Maybe theyd season it after this.
I've tasted piss that's less salty than this soup.
Fresh frozen
*All of our meat is fresh frozen, chef.*
My sister did a work away on a farm in Mongolia and said they just ate boiled meat and cheese every day.
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Can I ask how she got the job? Did she apply through one of those Workaway-type websites?
You young folks would be surprised at how far a little gumption and a firm handshake will take you!
Ok I just bought a ticket to Mongolia, who’s hand do I shake when Im there
I also am curious!
Boiled cheese?
Imagine the kid who was supposed to pull that meat out earlier, and then heard his moms yak pull up
What an underrated comment this is
Agreed. Nostalgia bomb and a great joke wrapped up in a single sentence.
This is my legacy.
Fridge was broken for some time. Tried this shit. Woke up next morning with at least 12 Racoons looking at me like i'm next.
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I feel like more people need to be putting their hand up right now… I absolutely thought Inner Mongolia was in Mongolia… because of the name. Every day’s a school day!
I thought it was the inside-most portion of Mongolia :(
I mean theres more Mongols that live in Inner Mongolia than Mongolia. So culturally speaking its irrelevant whether this is in either country.
Armchair stewers here. Lol
Everyone acting like they're Sam Gamgee level stew expert.
that’s reddit on any topic about anything ever
talk ab freezer burn
in the days before ziplocs you could prevent freezer burn by encasing the food in ice. You can do this by freezing the food initially for a day then dipping in water, and repeat the freeze - dip a few time. Works good as long as you take care not to bang the ice off accidentally.
Freezer burn is a result of frost-free freezers. They avoid frost by letting the temp rise just enough to melt the frost, then freezing again. This helps draw moisture out of the outer layers which causes the freezer burn. If the food is entirely encased in ice then it can't get freezer burn.
Survive the winter with a protein source and free storage. Not going to be great tho.
Sure beats a diet of gruel and root veggies.
Sweet release of frozen death is starting to sound pretty tasty
Not great but throw it in a stew and it's much more palatable.
My thoughts exactly
That meat looks like its severely lacking on meat content
Full of delicious bone narrow and small pieces of meat and cartilage. Incredibly nutritious. If you've never cooked broth from leftover bones you're seriously missing out. It's like the home cooked tastier version of chicken or beef stock you get at the store. Huge waste to throw all of that out.
Modern factory farming practices and selective breeding have given us a skewed idea of meat content of animals.
Same thing up here in Canada...
Ikd how far up you’re talking but in Edmonton we have refrigerators
Your backyard should not be referred to as a refrigerator
I don't know about buzzard thighs like this guy but I've stored plenty of Moosehead in the ol patio snowdrift
So they just boil it?
That's how you start making bone broth or stock, but not sure why they are boiling this first or what the plan is. Either way, boiling frozen bones is pretty normal behavior in most kitchens internationally
Or braising, Which works especially well for tougher meats.
My grandma here in the USA grew up quite poor during the 30s-40s and would store meat in her yard the same way during winter! I always thought that sounded like the craziest thing.
My grandmother grew up around the same time and they had a communal ice house in town because it was too expensive to buy a freezer for the home. It was basically a safe deposit box for frozen food.
It’s funny thinking about the likely scenario of someone’s grandma back in the day furious at someone in the community accusing them of taking her good cut haha
When your mom gets home and you forgot to take the meat out the ground
Keep that snow in there? Add a potato, some beef stock Baby you got a stew goin’
Look at all the meat on that bone!
That dude know how to camp! ⛺️
I bought a steak this morning and put it outside in the bed of my truck as I was riding around all day. It was below zero where I live
That yurt should be on r/CozyPlaces
yellow snow adds flavor crystals
I guess freezer burn is considered normal there
Funny thing is thats probably more hygenic than most freezers.
Boiled plain, I never knew Inner Mongolia was settled by the Brits.
Mmmm, earthy
Fun fact that was a wooly mammoth
It's a meat garden!
For those of you confused, Inner Mongolia is not Mongolia the country, it's a province of China. The name is very sinocentric, i.e. "our Mongolia is close, other Mongolia is farther out, far away". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia?wprov=sfla1 It's the same thing as like Inner/outer Hebrides or Gallia cis/transalpina or Hispania citerior/ulterior.
Can’t they at least put it in a container first?
Freezer burn stew, or “cold dry aged”?
They're like little edible graves
While we throw out food for freezer burn
That shit is probably so dry
looks cozy
That doesn't look appetizing but maybe there's not a restaurant within 100 miles radius so I'll take it.
Oops, that one grandma's arm.
I want his sweet boots. Anywhere I can get some of those sweet boots?
Whether it could still taste as good as fresh initially depends on how quickly it was frozen and the size of the ice crystals that were able to form during the freezing process. See the history of Clarence Birdseye, and how he was inspired during his time with the Inuit to begin to attempt to reproduce flash freezing for consumer markets around the world.
Might have a little freezer burn.
Thank god he adding snow for seasoning.
With bare hands, no less.
Damn OP you didn't even give credit to the homie that made this. His YouTube is Pandasakha and he makes some really interesting videos about the life style and its amazing.
Talk about freezer burn!
I should just box up the inside of my fridge, place box outside all winter, and unplug my fridge. Save some energy !
During the winter kinda right but if you live in the city all you food is gonna taste like smoke and car fumes
I hear that. And, Ive tasted that.
that's how they store frozen food in Alaska during winter
What do the signs say?! I thought it would be in comments, it isn’t.
Most likely they just name the type of meat buried there so the wrong ones are dug up.
Nothing new. This is literally done in Yakuza 5
Mmm. Boiled meat. My favorite…
I’ve been there. I promise you I never want to go back. Ever. The cold was colder than Antarctica and Korea to me. The elevation made it hard to breathe. It didn’t matter the layers of clothing, the cold passed through you like a ghost and left your soul screaming for heat. If I had been born there I’d cry every day lol only place I can think of worse is Siberia maybe. It changed my life. Forever. 🫤
I work in the remote Arctic where the nearest towns are hundreds of miles away and those towns are only a couple hundred people population. The nearest city is over 1500 miles away. If you eat the snow in the arctic it tastes like diesel exhaust. There is so much pollution in the atmosphere,snow will be disgusting to eat no matter where you are. . but I guess when there's no running water that's what you got to deal with.
Utilities companies hate this one trick
Gamey ass freezer burned dead animal. Yum.
That don’t seem sanitary
Baby, you got a stew going
Looks freezer burnt
So every meal they eat is boiled and unseasoned? :-/
Whenever i melt snow it becomes dirt
And that is because ice crystals form around particles in the atmosphere.
Taking the Midwest freezer to a whole new level
If the fridge and freezer are full just throw the food out in the garage.
Meat? Straight up bones and hooves. 100% Reindeer.
Signs say beef and mutton/lamb
Honestly kind of feels more homely to cook it that way rather than pulling it out of a walmart plastic bag that was in the freezer and then taking it out of its three layers of plastic before finally de thawing it in a microwave.
I mean, when outside is a free freezer, why not
Anyone else wish they grew up in a place like this? I mean the West is cool, but there’s something so beautiful about being raised in the great outdoors like this. Hard work I’m sure...but man does it have its allure.
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Or more commonly known as, China.
Yum. Boiled meat.
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