Never thought about cold storage in the permafrost. Yet another advantage to arctic survival.
In Texas, i have a freezer and, today it's supposed to hit 90 degrees. It's generally cold after a front and then it heats up. When i was a kid, I can remember playing basketball all day in shirt sleeves and sweating profusely to help pass the time until presents were opened. LOL
Yeah, you don't hang meat in 90 degree heat without the smoke going.
Down here, building a smokehouse is the deal. My stupid ex-SIL tryed to hang venison on the porch. After a few days, it attracted flies and stunk up the whole house.
Such methods work in cool weather. Guess he didn't get the memo. LOL!
One bummer to moving up here, I don't have mesquite around in this biome. It's all post oak with a few pines here and there I theorize are here because of the sandy soil type. I usually bring back some mesquite for smoking when I go up to my buddy's farm for opening day of dove season every year. But, I don't use much anymore, have an electric smoker, only need a few chunks every hour for it. There's advantages to being ON the grid.
We're on an electric co-op up here and until the gubment's war on coal really kicks in, electricity isn't that big a deal, even in August when the AC stops running only for short periods. I'd love to have a fireplace for the romantic properties on the few cold days I could use it, but for practical heating purposes, it's not really necessary to cut the electric bill, not down here. I've often thought it'd be neat to not need AC. Now, mind you, I was raised without AC. I'm old. We had an attic fan and that's it. However, now days, I don't seem to do well without AC.
This August was the first time in something like 14 years that the temps in Houston did not reach 100 degrees. They' have the heat island affect from all that concrete and run a little hotter than us. Still, it got to 99 a few times and we even had a couple of cool fronts. Last winter was the coldest winter in a few years, got down to 17 degrees one night. I've been looking to the north a lot, waiting for the advancing ice sheets from the north. LOL! Some day, if it keeps it up, we'll be able to hang meat out like that without smoke and dry it, but for now, in the southern 48, best to use a smoker and dry it and keep it from spoilage.
