No We Will Not Butcher Your Deer

[tjm]

Any piece too small to cut with a knife is trash, I think. I make a lot of finger size steaks.  But, the taste of all the samples of ground deer or elk that I've tried was terrible unless mixed 50/50 with pork, and I'd rather just eat the pork and fed the scrap deer to the possums. A friend wanted me to try his venison "summer sausage" and even through the spice and pig meat I could taste the flavor of tendons/silver skin. Every single muscle must be skinned individually if the meat is to taste good.  I taste bone chips in any sawed meat too, but beef bone is more palatable than deer sinew.

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, tjm said:

Any piece too small to cut with a knife is trash, I think. I make a lot of finger size steaks.  But, the taste of all the samples of ground deer or elk that I've tried was terrible unless mixed 50/50 with pork, and I'd rather just eat the pork and fed the scrap deer to the possums. A friend wanted me to try his venison "summer sausage" and even through the spice and pig meat I could taste the flavor of tendons/silver skin. Every single muscle must be skinned individually if the meat is to taste good.  I taste bone chips in any sawed meat too, but beef bone is more palatable than deer sinew.

            Thanks for responding. I trim my meat really well before grinding. Never get a bad taste period. I don't use trash for my grinding. Do you process your own deer? 

[tjm]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

Do you process your own deer? 

Always did, I haven't hunted in 4-5 years though. I was started on butchering chickens when I was in first grade and have butchered or helped butcher rabbits, coons, groundhogs, squirrels, ducks, geese, deer , goats, hogs, cows and perhaps a few other critters that we ate, ever since. all the meat on a deer or goat is either "steak" or stew meat. Although these days I'm leery of boiling out the back and neck like we used to.

I think processing three deer in one night on the kitchen table is why some of my kids don't hunt. And why the son took his buck to the hog butcher.

I imagine the stuff you grind is stuff I flour and fry, or sear and put into stew.

[BilletHead]

25 minutes ago, tjm said:

 

I imagine the stuff you grind is stuff I flour and fry, or sear and put into stew.

                I think you are spot on with that assessment.