Game

Wild boar

Vildsvin

75°CRest 15 min

Cook to this all the way through

The one game meat you do cook right through.

Safe minimum 75°CLivsmedelsverket · trichinella: cook through

Where it comes fromBlade shoulder

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On the grill

Unlike deer and moose, wild boar carries a real trichinella risk and Swedish guidance is unambiguous: cook it through, to at least 75 °C if it has not been inspected. Trichinella dies around 60–65 °C in an oven, but grilling needs above 70 °C.

Legally sold boar is tested; home-shot is your own responsibility. It is stronger and leaner than farmed pork. Juniper and a long, slow indirect cook suit it.

Seasoning

In the grill

180 °Cindirect

Oven heat with smoke in it. Beside the coals, lid down, turned once.

Smoke it with oak, cherry or beech.

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