Good read on why your deer meat might not taste good...12 reasons

[Tommy_V]

http://www.realtree.com/deer-hunting/articles/12-reasons-why-your-venison-tastes-like-hell

[rednecktbrizz7]

Good read thanks for postin

[EdO]

Maybe it just happens than you had some presupposions of how it should taste. Throw the suppositions out the window and enjoy it ffor what it is.

[thomason]

I just read the entire article and enjoyed the read thank you for posting!

[CookieMonster]

I made the marinade mistake a couple of weeks ago. Left some cutlet steaks marinating in a ziplock bag in the fridge for 3 days, and just like the article said, it tasted more like the marinade than venison. Edible...but not gonna do that again.

[Pedernal]

Good read thank you

[SB09]

Really good read there. I learned a lot on the cooking side of things for sure. I have made the marinade mistake myself.

[huntinfool]

Tagged for later

[tonyt79]

Got to come back and read this.

[s1rGr1nG0]

Interesting read. Being essentially a "new" hunter, (haven't hunted in 30 years), that is one of my biggest concerns. Living in Texas we don't get very many of the really cold stretches of weather where we could leave a deer out overnight. I've never field dressed an animal either so that is something I am going to have to work on. Maybe start with hogs before moving up to deer?

[Pistol]

This is a very good article. I love the idea of using cheap bacon instead of pork fat when adding fat to your ground meat.
I usually ice my meat longer than 2 days. With a big pig, I might ice it as long as 10 days. It works for tenderizing and purging.

[Geezy Rider]

Guess I've been doing right all these years. Never had any bad venison.

[Cantcatch5]

Good read on why your deer meat might not taste good...12 reasons

Interesting read. Being essentially a "new" hunter, (haven't hunted in 30 years), that is one of my biggest concerns. Living in Texas we don't get very many of the really cold stretches of weather where we could leave a deer out overnight. I've never field dressed an animal either so that is something I am going to have to work on. Maybe start with hogs before moving up to deer?

My opinion is as long as you give the meat some care it will turn out good. Try not to get GI contents and urine on the meat, get it cool as soon as possible and get all the meat you can. There is no trick to cleaning one, just tricks that make cleaning one easier!

[Blood Trail]

Good read on why your deer meat might not taste good...12 reasons

I just aged my deer in the cooler for a week. But I covered it with bagged ice instead of loose ice. I still kept the cooler at an incline with the drain plug open. I prefer to have cool, dry meat than meat that has been left in a cooler full of wet ice. Nothing is worse than butchering wet, slimy deer.



Anyway, after a week on "dry" bagged ice, butchering was easy. The steaks were super soft and tender when I was cutting them. I usually cook my steaks rare, but I cooked up a few medium and it required no steak knife to cut them.

[glpoe1]

Great article, thanks for posting. Your never to old to learn something.