Do this indoors just before selling your house. 10/10 sea captains will buy.

I usually turn fish guts into garum. I make it in gallon jars. It's mince of fish guts 3 parts, and sea salt 1 part. The fermentation lasts 1 year in a jar with a loose lid. The oil floating on top actually seals it off from air, and the jar lid being loose lets out the gasses. Garum is the liquid you get after straining the ferment through a fine cloth and skimming off the oil. It should be an amber brown like the color of a beer bottle, and clear (the exact shade will vary with the species of fish). You boil the solids to get a second quality garum. You use the second quality garum for cooking, and it is very pale in color and light in flavor. The first quality is for dressing a dish or can be put on the table. It is similar to soy sauce, but has a pleasant fishy funk to it. It has a strong earthy taste, and a satisfying feeling when added to an otherwise light meal. Garum was the favorite seasoning of the Roman Empire. It is still part of the Cuisines of Sicily, Greece, Corsica, and Turkey. Similar sauces exist in Asia as well, but can be made in a variety of ways with a variety of sea foods. In all cases though, 25% salt by weight is needed to make it safely as this high concentration kills harmful bacteria and parasites that might be in the fish. No water is added. The fish market people always look at me weird when I ask them to save and refrigerate the guts for me. I buy them by weight. 7 lbs of guts and 1 3/4 lbs of salt will fill a 1 US gallon jar. You can toss in peppercorns, citrus peel, chilies, coriander seeds, fennel, garlic, or other spices in moderation. Just be sure they are dried beforehand so their water content isn't a factor.

Probably smells fresher than Gwyneth Paltrow's candle!

Back in the day you had a series on short "how to's" in your garden shed. In these times it could be a good reason to do a couple more of those episodes. Henrik

I would like to thank you, Mike, for making these videos. I came here from watching your dads channel, totally awesome fishing. My wife now watches with me and we really are liking the bushcraft stuff. All good education and entertaining at the same time. I think it would be inspirational to youngsters. Great stuff.

Now I know how to make candles out of fish guts. LOL But all kidding aside could come in handy someday

I,m impressed with the amount of oil you harvested there. I've been making various oil lamps and stoves for years, using waste oil from local takeaways, so this is taking it to the next level for me.

THAT is a skill everyone ought to learn. EXCELLENT video!!

Priroda je sve sto coveka ispunjava i cini srecnim !

Your pops is a very wise man. My appreciation for sharing this!

I 😍 learning how to do these things. Nobody ever taught me this.

Hi Mike. Now we know where the main ingredient for raptor oil comes from. Stay safe all.

Now THAT'S what I call a scented candle!

As one of the few commercial Eulachon fishermen in Alaska I can confirm that we’ve definitely had fun with drying some out, putting them on a stick and lighting them on fire to make a torch. Very cool video thanks for sharing

I'd kind of love to see Primitive Technology do this with old-school oil lamps.

Great video Mike. Thanks to you and your dad, I learned something today. Keep up the great work. Stay safe my friend.

I was on the search to find how to make cooking oil from the wild and now I’ve also found out how to make a candle from the wild.... Thanks!!

The latest long dark update is looking pretty good!

Thanks for sharing this knowledge!

Do you need to add any water or do you just heat up the guts? Great video.

Yeah I take fish oil twice a day because my heart doctor tells me to but it's funny me and my dad when I was a kid we used to take the Nets and go down to the beach and net up what he called smell they're like little sardines or something and he would pinch the head off and eat them raw right out of the ocean but I can tell you he's was a very hardcore old man he was 60 years old when I was born with a 30 year old wife and he lived until 98 years old very good father firm but fair always and he would teach you whatever he knew and he would tell you to never stop learning. I love how you and your father hang out together that's what it's all about my brother I have been away from the KZfaq channels for a little bit so I'm binge-watching catching up on your stuff but it's always good and I enjoy it you and your family please stay safe StayWell and as always God bless

That first clip was so hypnotic. I couldn't not watch.

This is interesting. Definitely a bit of good information and will certainly be useful in the future. Thank you for posting this video. Best wishes to you and your family.

Betcha that smelled just lovely! :-D

Very nice, and the flame is very steady for a homemade candle

I'll be sure to tun-a in for the next video too...!! :-)

Thank you very much! God bless you

Very Good.

Now this is awesome information. I'm from the US and work in the trout and salmon hatcheries during the spawn. The fish guts here usually end up going to somewhere to be made in fertilizer, but now I'm gonna have to try this. Great information for if something major happened and we lost power long term

We actually drink fish oil in the north to get easier through the long and dark winter months. It contains large amounts of vitamin D, making you more energetic and boosts your mood.

Super informative Vid Mike ✊🏼🤨, thank you for this upload!!! Stay safe you and your ladies/Jaxx please through these times! Sincerest regards from Central California.. -Mike. 🍻’s

more tutorials like this will be fantastic

Absolutely fantastic. I seriously enjoyed this video. Thank you for making it.

Very interesting video guys well done 👌

You are like to have a dad like that l mean very experience with fishing building and learning survival . This is the best way to learners from experience your dad should have a tv show l will watch l had learned from my dad a lot off things from fishing ,driving about at night with out light just the stars find fishing locations with no gps and learn when to fish by air directions and by the ocean with Movement and thank you for all these shows you have

TA Outdoors, I like all the videos. Very good all videos. You are the best oh yes. Thanks. I like you. Me french from Quebec, Canada.

I do a lot of camping so I am going to try this. Thank You so much!

Really liked this video actually. Been watching your channel for about 6 months maybe, and recently which everything going on been thinking a lot about how to survive a TEOTWAWKI scenario. I'd love to see some more videos like this where you show us skills if we had to survive in the woods with limited or makeshift tools for an extended period! Hope you see this, all the best.

Is there anything you can’t do?!

Me: huh, something to keep in mind next time I go fishing TA: we used Rainbow trout guts Me: That's all I catch, guess I NEED to do this now

Please tell your dad thank you for the video!! First good instruction video on rendering and using fish oil I’ve seen. 😊

Thanks for your beautiful vlog love this channel

very interesting i will use this if i have to thank you

i can smell the stench from across the screen

Hello From Viet Nam ❤

Just spent ten thousand btu's of heat to make fuel that can make ten btu's of heat! Brilliant! In a survival situation this is a stupid investment of energy, and will attract predators from miles around. It is, however, a moral use of all parts of an animal harvested so good on you for doing it!

Great idea

Thank You Sir....now I learned a very valuable skill that will keep My lanterns lit in the Woods

Excellent

Excellent video. Very interesting, going to try it with Spanish mackerel in Costa Rica.

So satisfying

very cool.....thanks for sharing.

Happy Easter Mike and family.

Thank you for teaching me this wow

There's something very atmospheric about the dad looking at the flame and then turning off the flashlight.

😮😊Thanks for showing us 😊

Thank you ta outdoors it is very cool skill

I live in Idaho wich is one of, if not thee biggest Trout producer in the world and i had no ideah about this. Cool video

Love all the cool projects and the great imparting of knowledge. This is great stuff!

Great video boys.

Awesome video thank you so much for making it ❤️👍

Great content Mike! Just got delving into your channel, though immediately subscribed! Very entertaining, practical and inspiring. Youre a lucky son of a gun I tell ya💯 Stay safe out there!

Great video! I think it has a terrible smell 😂 but for survival it's ok

Awesome 👍🏻

Thank man ill write it in my note book..

Great content

I just recently came across your channel over here in the US. I really like y'all's content, keep up the good work! My wife actually works at a fish hatchery, so I'm going to try this with some of the dead that crop up on occasion!

Nicely done. 😉

Absolutely brilliant idea plus the oil will be great for using on pike bait 👍🏻I'll be trying it next time I'm trout fishing thanks

Does the fish oil smell when burned in the candle?

Wow . That's different. Amazing video .your so knowledgeable. It's channels like this that inspired me to set up mine , thanks for sharing

Thank you for this video

Why I love this channel! There's always something new to learn 💪💪👍👍

Thank you for that tip ...you just never know if one day we will need it for light

Very cool

You pronounce the name like: "Ooh-lee-guns." Rhymes with Hooligans. Great video, thanks!

What the hell has your dad been doing with those saucepans to look like that?!?! 😂 Great video

Interesting!

I wish we had smellyvision...

That is really cool nice job keep it up bro 👊👊👊

Your pops taught me this

Quite intresting

well thats the raptor oil mystery finally solved.....off to get me sum fish guts

Fact the eulachon smelt also goes by the names oolagan and candle fish.

Good video

cool retro tech. Even if the fish aren't fed "super food", this should still work. Just a bit more boiling and a bit less oil. I raise chickens... now I'm wondering about trying this with chicken skin.

Smelt, great pike bait.

I love learning things like this. fuel is a resource that you can't normally get unless you buy it. something like this is a big step in being self sufficient eve if it's only on a small scale like for an emergency. if it will burn through a wicked it would probably burn in a kerosene heater.

Great video (y)

Awesome and informative. Thanks

Good to know and so easy. Thanks!

Thanku.

Just amazing i will try it this quarenteen go's for long i try do things never did before thnk you for sharing.

To improve the economy of this process, I would boil over a wood fire, dried lawn waste, peat, or cow chips, rather than spend money on propane BTUs to make candle oil. Good video!

Brilliant! I've seen this done with moose oil, but never fish fats. What an excellent resource to turn to. Can you feed the scrap to your cat or dog after draining off the oil? Best to you and yours good sir.

Helo man 💕

Dagon and C'thulu probably started getting excited.

Very cool! Thanks for another informative video!

Hey mike

Mmmmmm,just like mom used to make. Very good to to know, i always wondered how to get fish oil.