Bulette Steak (3.5e Equipment)

Bulette Steak
Summary::Bulette meat is a deep purple-red and very lean. They are usually cooked as steaks very similar in appearance to beef.  It's good for you, but said to be very tough and certainly an acquired taste.

Bulette are an uncommon food source as the beasts are difficult to hunt and efforts to domesticate them have been hampered by their violent behavior. They are said to taste "much like elephant", another uncommon and perhaps biologically similar foodstuff. Once its hard iron shell is cracked there are layers of deep purple-red lean meat which is largely taken from the legs, back, tail, jaws, and heart.

Because bulette meat is tough it is usually slow cooked and rubbed in various spices. Even then it is extremely gamey and with the consistency of leather. On the other hand, cooked bulette meat also has a long shelf life without need for salt or preservatives, and thus makes excellent jerky for surviving the most extreme environments. If forged into rations, they are effectively invulnerable to non-damaging environmental effects such as extreme temperature, disease, poison, and general decay.

If you eat nothing but bulette steak or other forms of meat for a week or more you seem to toughen as well, gaining +1 natural armor bonus. This stops once you go a day without eating bulette meat.

Proper preparation is a DC 15 Craft (Cooking) check. Failing the check by 10 or more means the food comes out too tough to eat and is effectively leather.

If you manage a Craft (Cooking) DC 40, the eater gains the effects of barkskin (CL equal to character level) for 1 hour. A full meal or a ration is Cost::5g.