Name: Why Chef Jesse Griffiths Takes People Hunting
Uploaded: 2021-07-01T17:17:15.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Chef Jesse Griffiths Takes People Hunting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-01. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Chef Jesse Griffiths Takes People Hunting' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-07-01. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience now you've been you use a lot of local ingredients but
you've also been doing this thing where you take people hunting and show them
how to butcher an animal and show them how to cook an animal right when did you
start doing that that was in 2008 so shortly after we started doing classes
on butchery of domestic pork which was kind of my wheelhouse I'd learned that
in restaurant work I've been a prep cook and a butcher in restaurant and being
new to hunting at that point I had just started hunting a couple years prior
and
was really excited about it and saw the opportunity to really kind of tie the
two
together you know I I knew how to butcher before I knew how to hunt and so that
I
had a little bit of an advantage on the back end of it but still have and still
do have to this day a lot to learn about the front end of it and I wanted to be
able to share that
with people because I I think that hunting is a very key way to show people the
importance of food
because if you can feel sad about taking the life of a deer or a pig or a
squirrel then you can also
understand what a case of carrots that is you know rotting at a grocery store
because they haven't been
sold or they're not they don't look good enough to sell anymore that's also sad
to me and
and you know a lot of work went into that and and so much it's immeasurable and
so being able to tie
food uh with the with the source like that with hunting or fishing or whatever
I think was really
important so we started doing classes where we're taking people out and we
would it's guided hunts and
then you learn how to butcher cook and then you eat game throughout the weekend
too and we still do that
to this day and when you do this how many times a year do you do this uh you
know well um you know
in season it's it's texas so it's hot our season typically runs if we if we
have a couple dove hunts
or something in there from mid-september till uh maybe april um so just
basically the cooler and cool
and cold months of of the year so about six seven months and when you do it
would you do it on weekends
like when when do you uh yeah they're they're they're typically weekend classes
um we used to do a lot of
private events and now i've just gone to we work with we work with one ranch um
we do a friday through
sunday class and um in all honesty though our our whole season this year has
fairly much been booked
up by uh people that came to previous classes they they come back we have a
pretty high return rate on
those we're about to release our schedule of those but there's going to be very
very little seats
available to those they fill up we do eight classes a year for four people yeah
you kind of would if
you're hunting too you're you're going to need small groups right you really
yeah yeah it's and it's got
to be very intimate you know we want everybody to see everything and put their
hands on it so it's
it's really necessary we have a team of guides so everybody if you've never
been hunting before you
have a guide we walk you through the whole um the whole series of events like
from sighting in the gun
to um you know it's it's this constant barrage of like learning and it's like
this is how you put your
heel down you know this is the way the wind is blowing this is the way we're
going to walk to do this you
know this is uh what time of day we expect deer to move when we expect hogs to
move why we're sitting
right here all kinds of you know we're constantly feeding information and then
once that animal is
taken we're feeding you know more information about this is how you skin this
is how you gut this is how
you use the liver this is call fat um this is a shank this is best for grind
this is best for slow
cooking things like that and then we teach them how to how to butcher it break
it down um and then we
really want them to be able to do it on their own and the whole time we feed
them game to kind of
really keep it in context because a lot of times people have been told oh you
know you can't eat
that you know you can't you know deer liver is no good or or venison tastes
gamey to me or i'm not
going to touch the hog topic yet but um you know people are very uh opinionated
about hogs and uh we
try to just kind of dispel those myths and empower and educate people and to be
able to do it on their
own and whether or not they go and do it in the future i don't really know but
i do think that
it gives them some very good connectivity i mean i know people that it came on
a trip 12 years ago that
still talk about it to me you know i think it was important and i mean that's
very that's really
important to me and very meaningful that it's it's a it's a formative
experience even if they never do it
again you know but it it teaches them to really value a resource that time they
killed a deer
because it's really hard like for me uh once you've killed that deer if you
open up a bag of of beef
or something i can't but help but think like all those animals in a field you
know they all had lives
they all had deaths everything you know it's like and i think it it teaches you
just appreciate resources
and once you start to appreciate that resource uh maybe you'll start to
appreciate all resources
you know right you appreciate the vegetables everything else hell you might
appreciate where
your clothes are made or right right or or uh do we need a a leaf blower you
know things like that
catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch
back catalog jre videos on
spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio
experience on spotify you can
listen to the jre in the background while using other apps and can download
episodes to save on data
cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium
account to watch new jre episodes
you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to
get this full episode of the joe
rogan experience