Boiling bear-heads: A recipe for success

This is a great way to spend an evening with some friends.

The other day my friends found a dead bear by the entrance to a cave-hole we know about. It only looked to be about two days old or so. Brilliantly they used a machete to cut off its head and paws, you know, for a little bear keep-sake. Nothing so special you might find it on a shelf at Hallmark, but good enough to adorn a mantle or create a great conversation-piece key-chain. What follows is a sure-fire recipe for to cure a, perhaps rotten and maggot infested, bears-head.

NOTE: We had no idea what to do with the paws so we boiled some and left some raw, with varying degrees of success. Only time will tell, so look for future updates in this department.

Ingredients and Supplies:
24 Pack of Buch Beer (or regional equivalent)
Large to Giant Cauldron
Water
A good amount of fire wood.
Bears Head

Obviously the most important supply is the beer. You're going to be standing around a fire with a big stinking pot of boiling bear head, for a long time. Don't skimp on the beer.

1. Get your fire going, big is good, you wanna produce a thick bed of coals.

2. Once you have coals put your giant cauldron on, do it, and fill the cauldron with water.

3. While your water is getting hot, go ahead and take as much excess bear parts off the skull as possible. The more successful you are here, the less rancid smelling your project will be.

4. Put the skull in the boiling water.

5. Wait, drink beer, do other stuff, it don't matter. Try not to inhale the resulting steam. Make sure that there is enough water to cover the skull at all times.

6. After about five hours, the skull should be looking pretty clean. Sadly the teeth will have fallen out, but these are recoverable, maybe.

At this point you're pretty much done, probably dump the shit out in the grass somewhere you're not going to have to look at it for a few days, but where it will get enough sun to help finish off the process. Check the skull every few days until desired result is reached.

I'll update this with some pictures soon, hopefully.