How to clean a bulls head for commercial use.

This head was surprisingly hard to get hold of.

Not many Abattoirs let them go, for health and safety reasons mainly, as well as they make more money getting em grinded up for pet food also.

Ingredients.

1 freshly slaughtered bull head. Cheeks and tongue in.

Method.

Firstly, set yourself up somewhere that you don’t mind getting blood, fur and offal all over the place. It’ll get messy.

Now, start by running your sharp blade vertically down behind the back of the neck, starting from the horn. Left or right, it doesn’t matter. Either side first is fine.

Now, peal each side, starting at the base, upwards to expose the skull and minimal amount of meat and sinue underneath.

Use your knife to help the skin come away.

You’ll keep going over the cheeks, and work your way over the eye sockets, past the jaw line.

Use your knife to help work the skin from the skull. I had too. Don’t be shy, your not on a date or want to impress any ladies.

In other words, your not here to fuck fairies, so rip into it. This kinda thing ain’t for the weak hearted.

So I got mine all the way till about in inch from its nose. From there, I had to realy hack away at the nose to get the skin to come away.

As a proud chef, I wasn’t really proud about that part, but it had to be done.

From there, I went back to the neck and worked off the back part of the skin from the neck.

When I got to the horns, I had to cut the skin away from the base of the horns, in a similar way to what I had to do at the nose.

Once I worked past the horns, I worked the skin away from the front of the bulls face until the skin came away from the front of the head entirely.

I finished cleaning around the nose, and the skin was off.

Now, I sliced the membrane, and a small amount of sinuw that was holding the cheeks in place. Both sides.

The tongue was already loose on mines, so I simply pulled it out.

I was left with something that resembled the cover of a cannibal corpse album.

It was morbid, but anyway.

Next, I grabbed my circular hole cutting piece from my tool kit, and cut a hole in the back of the skull, right were it had been attached to the vertebrae.

When I pulled the cutter out, brains oozed out. It was perfect,  like something strait outta an episode of the walking dead.

I grabbed the hose, placed the noozle in the skull hole, and let it flow for a good 5 minutes. Washing out all the brain matter.

I then filled up the 80 litre stock pot I got from work, placed the skull in there as best I could, then fired up the fire pit.

I let this thing simmer away all day. While I rotated the head numerous times to ensure all matter attached to the skull would be loosened.

The following day, I removed the skull from the pot, scrapped away as much matter as possible, and chucked the skull under a bush, we’ll hidden from any noosy neighbours.

I’m do consider myself a bit of weirdo, I have always been treated as such, and I give no fucks either. But no need to put fuel to that fire when it comes to cleaning up skulls.

I’m sure I give people plenty of shit to talk about in their spare time. I don’t need skull cleaner added to the list.

I left the skull under the bush for a good 3 months or so. Letting all of natures cleaners go to work.

I moved house after around the 3 month mark, and when I did, I soaked the skull in hydrogen peroxide at my new palace.

Apparently people use this chemical to dye their hair. I connected a lot of dots here in relation to some ex-girlfriends and their behaviours on occassion.

If you use bleach, which you can do, the bones will go brittle. So probably just get some peroxide, it’ll be worth it.

I soaked the skull 3 times, while resting the skull intermittently behind my house for a week or so between each soak.

After numerous scrubs, the smell had pretty well disappeared, then I painted it.

I pondered this step for a while. It was coming up 12 months since I got the skull, and I certainly did not want to fuck up this final stage.

I picked a white base, with black horns, and red eye sockets.

I then drilled a couple of hinges to hang with.

I hope you liked my method on cleaning a bulls head for ornamental purposes.

Check out my beef cheek, and my ox tongue recipes here-

Ox tongue

Beef cheek

Pickle pro tip- Make sure you have a sharp knife when cleaning skin from any type of beast. As a teenager, my father used to get me and my friends that would accompany us to clean most animals we hunted. And all we had to use was shitty kmart style knives. Invest in a good blade, it is worth it.