NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Full Boar: Whole Hog Cooking Special
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2014
On a spring hunt in Florida Steven Rinella got his hands on a wild barred hog. In the field Steve demonstrates the best way to break a hog down and bring him home. Later, Steve and his good friend, chef Matt Weingarten, cook four preparations from the hog’s head, skin, trotters, muscle, and guts.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Cold Water: Alaskan Seafood Cooking Special
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 8/7/2014
After a spring bear hunt near his cabin on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska, Steven Rinella sets out with traps and rod in hand to reap in the wealth of seafood in the waters nearby. There, he catches Dungeness crabs, spot prawn, and rockfish and takes some time to dig clams on the shore near his cabin. Before returning home, Steve demonstrates how to clean and prep the seafood to freeze and store. Back in the kitchen, Steve creates a handful of dishes—both traditional and not-so-traditional—that take full advantage of that irreplaceable flavor of wild-caught seafood.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Big Buck Dreams: Mule Deer Special
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 8/14/2014
Set against his annual muley hunt, this year in southwest Colorado, Steven Rinella takes to the lectern and fills us in about his favorite critter, the mule deer. As Steve hunts he will share his vast knowledge about the species, how to hunt it, how to butcher it, and most importantly, how to cook and eat it.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Surf n Turk: Wisconsin Turkey and Carp
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 8/21/2014
Steven Rinella scratches his spring turkey itch this year as he visits Southeast Wisconsin to call in some big eastern Toms with his buddy Jerod Fink. The guys plan to do some serious cooking, and have plans to serve and enjoy a real Midwest turkey and fish fry.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - The Best Start: Wild Game Breakfast Cooking Special
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 8/28/2014
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but is often overlooked by wild game cooks at home. Following a series of successful hunts across North America this past fall, Steven Rinella demonstrates how to cook a variety of breakfast classics using wild game ingredients—including black bear bacon, which Steve has never tried before.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Gila Monster: New Mexico Bull Elk
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 9/4/2014
After four years of waiting, Steven Rinella draws a coveted, limited-entry public land elk tag and heads into New Mexico’s Gila National Forest on a solo backpack hunt. His biggest challenge here is the vast expanse of hills covered in enough timber to hide an army – demanding lots of glassing and even more hiking. Here, even just one missed opportunity could result in an empty freezer at home.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#7 - Alaska Bear Hunt with Rorke Denver (2)
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 9/25/2014
The Alaskan backcountry hunt continues as Steven Rinella and Rorke Denver manage to maneuver their way through the thicket and find themselves hot on some bears. Their luck holds out and the hunt is successful, but Rorke soon learns that the hunt is only half the battle. After a lesson in field butchering, Rorke and Steve head back to camp to do a little fishing and foraging to round out their bear feast.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#8 - Cooking Special: Butchering a Whole Deer
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/2016
Steve walks viewers through the complex process of breaking down a whole whitetail deer, transforming it into steaks, roasts, shanks and more.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#9 - Duren Deer Camp: Wisconsin Whitetail with Helen and Brittnay (1)
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/2016
After tuning up their shooting skills by taking aim at squirrels, Helen and Brittany hunt whitetail deer in Wisconsin with Steve and guide Doug Duren.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#10 - Duren Deer Camp: Wisconsin Whitetail with Helen and Brittnay (2)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 3/3/2016
Helen and Brittany both get shots at Duren farm whitetail bucks, followed by a campfire hobo dinner that brings a close to their Wisconsin adventure.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#11 - A Trip of Firsts: Mexico Coues Deer
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 8/18/2016
Steve and Janis head to the Sonoran Mountains of Mexico to hunt the elusive Coues deer & javelina.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#12 - Lone Star Pork: Texas Hog
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 8/25/2016
Steve joins ranch manager and wildlife biologist Ben Binnion for a couple of days during his annual pig roundup to learn about the other side of the Texas hog story.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#13 - Trapped in History: Wyoming Beaver
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 9/1/2016
Steve explains what goes into beaver trapping while retelling stories of the mountain men who depended on this animal, for both its surprisingly delicious meat and incredible hide.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#14 - Cooking Special: Smoked Meats with Eduardo Garcia
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 9/8/2016
Steven's appetite and recipe book are ready to collaborate with chef Eduardo Garcia, who helps him cook whitefish empanadas, muskox tongue and more.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#15 - Mountain Memories: Montana Bear
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 9/22/2016
Steve returns to his black bear roots in southwest Montana for a spring black bear hunt. He's hunted these mountains before, it's a special place and he's glad to be back.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#16 - Living Off the Water: Kentucky Fish
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 9/29/2016
Set lines, limb lines, trot lines, turtle traps, bows and arrows, they all make it out onto the Kentucky water with MeatEaters Steven Rinella & Kevin Murphy.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#17 - Conservation History: New Mexico Turkey
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 10/16/2016
Hot on a 100-year-old hunting tip from Aldo Leopold, Steven joins Karl Malcolm in New Mexico to chase the Merriam's wild turkey.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#18 - Idaho Mountain Lion
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 10/2/2018
Steve heads to the panhandle of Idaho to join wildlife biologist and dedicated houndsman Bart George for a mountain lion hunt. Bruce Dunkin, Bart’s mentor and hunting buddy, joins the crew as they attempt to cut a cat’s track and let the dogs loose for a hunt in the deep timber of the Idaho mountains.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#19 - South Texas Nilgai
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/2020
Now on dry land, Steve and Jesse hunt nilgai, a large Indian antelope. The successful duo butcher a beast and dig into unique nose-to-tail dishes.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#20 - Wyoming Mule Deer (1)
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/2020
On horseback, Steve heads into the Wyoming backcountry to stalk mule deer with Janis Putelis and Adam Weatherby. Snowfall complicates the hunt.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#21 - Wyoming Mule Deer (2)
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/2020
Still looking for game in Wyoming, Janis resorts to a mule deer drive. The trio use a discarded oven rack to help them prepare venison ribs.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#22 - Colorado Elk
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/2020
Steve draws a coveted muzzleloader elk tag in Colorado's San Juan Mountains. But the expedition is sabotaged by the gear, wind and rival hunters.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#23 - South Dakota Ducks
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 2/16/2021
In the flooded cornfields of northeastern South Dakota, Steven finds the ideal conditions for duck hunting with Cal and waterfowl expert Sean Weaver.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#24 - Colorado Mule Deer: Baseball and Bucks
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 2/16/2021
Record-breaking New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso fulfills a dream by hunting mule deer with Steven at a private ranch in Southern Colorado.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#25 - Montana Black Bear and Turkey: Spring Opportunities
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 2/16/2021
Traveling by pack mule, Steven heads into the wilds of Western Montana with his friend Clay Newcomb in search of wild turkey and black bear.
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The Worst Episodes of MeatEater
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Hunter, author, cook and conservationist Steven Rinella treks into the world's most remote, beautiful regions, bringing game meat from field to table.
Genre:Documentary
Worst Episodes Summary
"Full Boar: Whole Hog Cooking Special" is the worst rated episode of "MeatEater". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/16/2014. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Cold Water: Alaskan Seafood Cooking Special".