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[BIG AL 202]

I will say that one of the guys I race with gave me some homemade sausage from a pig his daughter raised and had butchered. It seriously made the stuff from the store taste like crap. That was the best sausage I've ever had.

I agree with that! We raised our own pigs one year and there is nothing like it, difference of night and day to store bought. Elk is real good also, what I had had a fine grain and butter smooth!

[Rooster]

Angus don't taste any different than Herford if fed the same diet.  The reason you hear Angus all the time is that most Angus beef is corn fed and the purebred Angus association (not sure what it is really called) does a great job of promoting their brand.  

I would agree completely, there are other beef breeds just as tasty!

What many don't realize is the requirements for being "stamped" CAB (Certified Angus Beef) is black hided and grade choice.

Seriously? I had been told CAB beef came from registered herds only?

We raise mostly Holstein and you will be hard pressed to find better beef

Around here...in Cattle country( i just had to throw that in...)...we don't even consider Holsteins as beef? That's a milk cow man! LOL
Would like to try a good milk burger or stake some day....I enjoy the "regional taste" of foods.
Still can't eat local Peanuts...and haven't found anyone from Alabama to send me any!

Anything you can do with ground beef you can do with ground venison,

Except make a good tasting anything!

If anyone wants my recipe for taking out the "wild" taste that some complain about, let me know.

Would love it, I get a few pounds of venison every year and cut it about 75% with beef or pork to mild down the flavor.
If I could make it tasty, I wouldn't buy store bought crap either!

American Angus Association

When you are full of bull, you just kinda know these things... LOL

If anybody knows Bull when they see it.....

[amr5080]

Reason we raise holsteins are because they're plentiful here and fairly cheap. Also, angus are nuts and we keep everything in barns. Holsteins are much more mild and easier to deal with. Angus are native to being on pasture and they get crazy when they are confined. If anyone wants to try some good old PA holstein, we have 800 or so to choose from.

[fort_maceo]

Your method of diluting with beef or pork is one way of doing it. Mixing about 2/3 deer to 1/3 pork sausage makes some awesome burgers.

The following is what I do to 100% ground deer. This only works on ground deer, not chops or other solid cuts. On solid cuts, you can boil it for a while and remove a lot of the gamey taste. Doesn't matter what form you're eating the ground deer (chili, burgers, meatloaf, spaghetti, whatever) this will flavor it up and make you forget that it's not beef.

First, thaw it well and drain/press as much blood out of it as you can. Mix in these seasonings (quantities per lb of ground deer):

Worcestershire sauce (2 tbsp/lb)
Seasoned salt (1/2 tbsp/lb)
Garlic salt (1/2 tbsp/lb)
Pepper (1/2 tbsp/lb)
Oregano (1/4 tbsp/lb)

If you don't like garlic, leave that out or substitute just plain salt. Mix it up, then cook it medium to well. The cooking itself takes a lot of the gamey flavor out.

I've converted many of the "ewwww, that's deer?" crowd with this recipe.

[Rooster]

Reason we raise holsteins are because they're plentiful here and fairly cheap. Also, angus are nuts and we keep everything in barns. Holsteins are much more mild and easier to deal with. Angus are native to being on pasture and they get crazy when they are confined. If anyone wants to try some good old PA holstein, we have 800 or so to choose from.

Lol..I just want one, or two....STEAKS!
I have already been told once to get rid of my livestock in town.....but the kids keep coming home!

[amr5080]

My in laws have a party every fall and we cook up 3 or 4 deer. The recipe they use is to cut it into small chunks about 2" around x 3/8 or so inches thick. Dip it in egg and then cracker meal and bread crumbs with salt and pepper. Throw it in the deep fryer and that's some good eatin.

[BIG AL 202]

My in laws have a party every fall and we cook up 3 or 4 deer. The recipe they use is to cut it into small chunks about 2" around x 3/8 or so inches thick. Dip it in egg and then cracker crumbs and bread meal with salt and pepper. Throw it in the deep fryer and that's some good eatin.

YUMMMMM!

[MowJoe]

I always here about ways to make venison not taste like venison if you have to go to the trouble to disguise the taste than why not just eat BEEF?
My uncle raises buffalo and that my friends is the best and it's heart healthy but very costly.

[The Tank]

How does the buffalo wings taste?

[Exkarter8]

A young 125-150lb. black bear makes gooood barbecue. Caution can cause "gas"!

[saltyAMF]

the gamey taste associated with deer is mainly due to the way its butchered.  if butchered correctly it wont taste that way.  some of the best tasting steaks ive ever eaten were venison

[Rooster]

I always here about ways to make venison not taste like venison if you have to go to the trouble to disguise the taste than why not just eat BEEF?
My uncle raises buffalo and that my friends is the best and it's heart healthy but very costly.

"LIKE"

Had Elk at Cabelas in KC once...not bad, but I still prefer Beef.

[berthyd]

I feed cattle to my corn. Then we use the corn to make cheese...which is the only thing we eat in Wisconsin.

Bert

[saltyAMF]

i feed cattle to cattle,   

[fort_maceo]

the gamey taste associated with deer is mainly due to the way its butchered.  if butchered correctly it wont taste that way.  some of the best tasting steaks ive ever eaten were venison

That's an excellent point that I left out of my previous post. We field dress one within about 30 minutes of it hitting the ground, get it in a freezer within an hour, and take great pains to keep it clean. Some of my friends who take their sweet time getting it processed report much more gamey taste than we experience.