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Post by biglakebass on Nov 15, 2018 22:22:39 GMT -6
Garbage bags..... bad. Smell them. Clearly not good.
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Post by mnfish on Nov 15, 2018 22:57:33 GMT -6
Batman you need to try this with a front shoulder. honest-food.net/barbacoa-recipe-venison/After you see how good that is you can then look up his shank recipes. No chance I’m trimming the front shoulders up for burger. Too much work for me. I think leaving a hide on a clean deer in proper temps is fine. The hide isn’t the problem, it’s improper cooling and lack of cleanliness. If it’s a little warm, I’ll skin it. If I can get the meat chilled down into the 30s and keep it shaded during the day, I’m not opposed to letting it hang in slightly warm temps. I’ve done it in elk camp but it always gets cold at night. Saturday’s buck hung that night with the skin. Temp were 40s down to 30s. I skun it the next day. Quartered it up and let it sit in a fridge until Monday afternoon. Processed Monday night. I have a back strap that I won’t freeze but will let sit in my fridge until Sunday or Monday. I’ll sometimes thaw a a piece for 2-3 weeks before I cook it. Aging can take place before or after freezing. I like and use this approach...A lot! Safety and processing convenience when large quantities of protein are being harvested with limited refrigeration space. My free range grown pork chops won't see a cooking surface before 10 days of aging. We harvested 4 deer this year and ground them all into burger. Every pound mixed with pork of course
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Post by biglakebass on Nov 15, 2018 23:15:40 GMT -6
.. or marinate to death or make sausage. Much easier. Gimme beef any day of the week.
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Post by Sandbur on Nov 16, 2018 5:49:56 GMT -6
Garbage bags..... bad. Smell them. Clearly not good. Have you tried new garbage bags instead of recycled ones?
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Post by wintomatic on Nov 16, 2018 8:33:33 GMT -6
One other reason we started skinning our deer right away is that it is so much easier to remove the hide. The subcutaneous fat between the hide and muscle peels away with the hide. Once it solidifies the fat adheres to the muscle. If you get temps like we had in MN the last Nov 3-10 and it freezes with the hide on, well you khow fun that is.
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Post by batman on Nov 16, 2018 8:45:49 GMT -6
Our group 'slices' the hide from neck to back knees. Split the hide into 4 or more strips and grab it with the hide puller and it comes right off. If its so cold everything freezes or too warm we skin right away as well.
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Post by kabic on Dec 3, 2018 17:24:57 GMT -6
These guys have whole series on processing a deer. I just watched the aging video.
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Post by biglakebass on Dec 3, 2018 19:21:33 GMT -6
My friend is a butcher and I asked him about the venison aging thing a couple weeks back. He said for venison, NOOOOO for the vast majority of hunters.
His reasoning was very simple. People dont have a place to keep the temp proper. People dont clean deer properly. People shoot deer that ends up leaking stuff you dont want in the carcass.
He said aging deer for most people is just going to ruin flavor and in some cases even cases create an unsafe meat to eat as it sits hanging with gut juice fermenting inside because they were not cleaned out properly.
I like his advice...... Dont age a deer.
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Post by nhmountains on Dec 4, 2018 0:23:58 GMT -6
My friend is a butcher and I asked him about the venison aging thing a couple weeks back. He said for venison, NOOOOO for the vast majority of hunters. His reasoning was very simple. People dont have a place to keep the temp proper. People dont clean deer properly. People shoot deer that ends up leaking stuff you dont want in the carcass. He said aging deer for most people is just going to ruin flavor and in some cases even cases create an unsafe meat to eat as it sits hanging with gut juice fermenting inside because they were not cleaned out properly. I like his advice...... Dont age a deer. When you see him again ask him how to best clean up a gut shot deer? Do you hose it out or wipe it up the best that you can with paper towels or some other way? I was told hosing them spreads the bacteria. Seems like that would be better than leaving shit in there though.
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