I've looked into biltong, and it involves vinegar and other stuff I wouldn't touch...

I wouldn't consider meat soaked in vinegar "raw", since the strong acid denatures the proteins (and thus the enzymes). I've even seen a recipe that involved salt peter ( nitrites I believe?), Sugar and worcestershire sauce. Probably that I'm not looking at the real stuff, just like looking for pickling recipes can be hard since most of them are about vinegar and not fermentation...

It seems to me that the real problem in all this is not meat itself, but contaminated meats from improper handling in supermarkets or from hunted animals when a digestive part has been hit by the projectile. I seriously need to hunt my own meat!

One thing I've been thinking is that the "other" natural thing that kills microorganisms other than salt and other preservatives are essential oils. Maybe a tea made of boiled water on ginger and allowed to cool, rich in gingerols, would make a great marinade and impregnate a good taste. Technically this isn't 100% raw but I do not believe that it really matters.

Nitrogen-Rich environment: sounds a bit complicated, especially since air circulation is needed to dry the food.

I guess the ideal way to dry is with smoke. I've ate cold-smoked salmon before and it tasted so good.


I've actually made a lot of jerky yesterday from a big piece of moose that has been in the freezer for about 9 months, and ended up eating all of it, it tasted so good.
This night I had a weird dream about some digestive mess... and this morning, I had diarrhea. Strange, strange dream. The diarrhea could be related to other things, such as the supermarket roasted whole chicken I ate in the evening that had probably been made in the morning or the day before and that was staying at a warm temperature... (oops, we're in a raw omnivore forum). Or from the fact that I ate all that jerky with represented a big amount of meat in a short amount of time.

Anyway I do not feel any fatigue, in fact I feel better as if something left me.
Maybe it was some kind of die-off.
Now I want to make pemmican. That stuff seems so good.

I heard something about pemmican causing diarrhea, because of all the bacterias in the intestines dying off. In fact, I haven't ate any carbs in quite a while (except the very little amounts in eggs and some liver).