huntin24/7
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Over grilling/smoking backstraps/tenderloins/steaks. Rare is perfect. Med/rare is ok. Any more than that is too much IMO.
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Will give it a try Gerald...
Crush some Rosemary and fresh pressed garlic in your butter and baste liberally while cooking. Take it to a 130 internal temp and let it rest for ten minutes before slicing. Pour the leftover garlic butter over the meat, sprinkle liberally with kosher salt.Will give it a try Gerald...
100% correct.The key is to keep muscles whole while grilling and slicing just before serving.
It’s been years since I cut steaks and grilled them.
A good sirloin roast grilled to medium rare, brushed with garlic butter and sprinkled with kosher salt right after slicing makes my taste buds tingle. I like it better than backstraps.
And a sous vide should come with your hunters education card.
Thought the same thing until I started taking the whole inside round, wearing it on the pit, slicing cross grain, n served rare….awesomeAside from burger or tenderloin medallions I cringe when I see venison cuts on a grill...and I prefer elk burger pan fried & not overdone.
Rigor mortis is the stiffening of joints and muscles after death. In deer, this period can last between 12-24 hours and sets in when a carcass begins to cool. If venison is cooked during this time frame, prepare to sit down to tough pieces of meat.
For more tender venison, butcher and cook deer after rigor mortis has reversed – when the muscles have had time to relax. This is achieved by hanging deer after field dressing. To be safe, I usually allow two days for rigor mortis to completely fade.
you hear about this fairly often it feels like.Sin on my part, somewhat, one of our freezers went out when me n the wife were on a trip, about cried when we got home
2 years... its just getting good at that point, I pulled out some bou steaks from 2018 in July and they were amazing.
The more people I talk to it seems to be very common.People who let the meat sit in the freezer for 2 years, eat very little of it, and then chuck it in the garbage. Sad.
Got a deboned elk in the cooler right now that a hunter brought into our shop to have us butcher that is so dirty it would make you barf. Looks like he laid it in the dirtPoor field care!!
I just don’t get putting the time and expense that we often do into hunting and then not following that up with clean and proper treatment of the animal when your lucky enough to get one down. Hair, dirt, etc. in the meat, improper cooling, etc…and don’t get me started about antelope hunters that have one riding around in the back of a pickup in the sun and dust while they “look for another” for their buddy!!! Ever hear of frozen milk jugs bubba? Jesus….
If you make stock, which I think everyone definitely should, just throw the silverskin in there. Its just collagen, which is exactly what you want for that rich broth.I'm as 100% guilty of tossing silver skin in the trash and it kills me... I've been trying to be better about either composting or if not available chucking it in the woods.