How do you cook a boot?

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Only works with old leather boots. Not synthetic. Or a modern leather boot with weird toxic preservatives.

You cut the leather into bite sized pieces because good luck chewing it. Boil them for as long as possible. If you have identified any non toxic plant species in the immediate area throw them in too. Some tree bark is non toxic. If you find some trees with non toxic bark then harvest some of that. Not the brown outer bark. The supple white inner bark. Cut that into bite sized pieces and boil the fuck out of them too.

Unless you're injured and can't walk or rescue is coming and you're waiting in place your boots are really important. If starvation is a possibility in your future then learn what plants in your area aren't toxic...
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Only works with old leather boots. Not synthetic. Or a modern leather boot with weird toxic preservatives.

You cut the leather into bite sized pieces because good luck chewing it. Boil them for as long as possible. If you have identified any non toxic plant species in the immediate area throw them in too. Some tree bark is non toxic. If you find some trees with non toxic bark then harvest some of that. Not the brown outer bark. The supple white inner bark. Cut that into bite sized pieces and boil the fuck out of them too.

Unless you're injured and can't walk or rescue is coming and you're waiting in place your boots are really important. If starvation is a possibility in your future then learn what plants in your area aren't toxic and learn how to make basic animal traps. It might also pay to learn how to make portable soup. You pretty much make soup, strain out the solids, load it with heaps of collagen, then reduce it down until it becomes a dry leathery solid. Make some of that as emergency rations before going out. It's light weight and doesn't take up much space. It's preferable to eating your boots. You just boil it in water to reconstitute it. It's usually just used as a soup base and you're meant to throw in other stuff you've foraged but if you're considering eating your boots then just having it on its own is probably just as nutritious as leather. Or you could throw it in to your boot, tree bark, leaf stew so it at least tastes okay.
 
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SNU said:
Only works with old leather boots. Not synthetic. Or a modern leather boot with weird toxic preservatives.

You cut the leather into bite sized pieces because good luck chewing it. Boil them for as long as possible. If you have identified any non toxic plant species in the immediate area throw them in too. Some tree bark is non toxic. If you find some trees with non toxic bark then harvest some of that. Not the brown outer bark. The supple white inner bark. Cut that into bite sized pieces and boil the fuck out of them too.

Unless you're injured and can't walk or rescue is coming and you're waiting in place your boots are really important. If starvation is a possibility in your future then learn what plants in your area aren't toxic and learn how to make basic animal traps. It might also pay to learn how to make portable soup. You pretty much make soup, strain out the solids, load it with heaps of collagen, then reduce it down until it becomes a dry leathery solid. Make some of that as emergency rations before going out. It's light weight and doesn't take up much space. It's preferable to eating your boots. You just boil it in water to reconstitute it. It's usually just used as a soup base and you're meant to throw in other stuff you've foraged but if you're considering eating your boots then just having it on its own is probably just as nutritious as leather. Or you could throw it in to your boot, tree bark, leaf stew so it at least tastes okay.
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Very interesting. How does it compare to a bonfire-roasted Canadian?
 
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