Head boiling pot

[VSS]

Has the wine actually improved, or is it that your standards have lowered?

Definitely improved!

 

[Sol]

I didn't, but I've heard other day you should. I just put an old animal feed bag over the top (bin bag would work) which kept the smell down and stopped flies.

It's definitely the easiest way if you have the space. It's even faster if you want to put it in a bucket with a tropical fish tank heater and keep it at 30⁰

As you're not cooking the skull at all the bones don't become brittle, fat isn't forced into the bone so no need to then use borax or anything to stop it leaching back out and there is pretty much zero smell once it's dried out.

99p for a bucket and zero time spent monitoring it Vs buying a metal pot and burner or a Burco and a better skull at the end of it. Personally the smell of a cooking head I find worse than leaving it in a bucket at the bottom of the garden.

Meat tenderiser power along with tipping it out every few days speeds the process up and also reduces the smell, I know it wont work with stags but you can also do air tight maceration and "burp" the bucket every 2-3 weeks for smaller animals.

Like a really large I dunno... 20-30 gl bucket? you should be able to fit a smaller sika stag in that I imagine.

 

[homer]

Meat tenderiser power along with tipping it out every few days speeds the process up and also reduces the smell, I know it wont work with stags but you can also do air tight maceration and "burp" the bucket every 2-3 weeks for smaller animals.

Like a really large I dunno... 20-30 gl bucket? you should be able to fit a smaller sika stag in that I imagine.

Can you use hypochlorite acid to clean the skull, or is peroxide better?

 

[Sol]

Can you use hypochlorite acid to clean the skull, or is peroxide better?

I'm not terribly sure on that one since I dont know the acid.... dropped out of chem! I've heard a story of someone trying to clean a bear full of flesh.... when they arrived back the next morning there was no bear or no meat the acid had ate the entire thing solid bone and all.

 

[Len the dog]

Hypochlorite, properly known as Sodium hypochlorite is otherwise known as bleach and is alkaline will dissolve bone, Hydrogen peroxide is a weak acid and won’t dissolve bones.

 

[Sol]

yes regular bleach is big no no you might not realise the effects of it at first but the damage long term is horrid not to mention It turns bone more of a weird brown-ey yellow versus white?

 

[nun_hunter]

Can you use hypochlorite acid to clean the skull, or is peroxide better?

I painted mine with 12%peroxide and it's come up very nicely.