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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Quote Originally Posted by lowball View Post
    Read post 61. He said the burger was not edible. Sausage would suffer the same fate I would think. How about you?
    The smoking will take alot of the "rank" taste out of it.

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Once we shot a couple of mature mule deer in full rut,they were the rankest deer I ever smelled.anyway,we hung them for a couple of weeks and trimmed every bit of fat off,they were about the finest eating venison I ever had,not a trace of bad taste or smell

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Quote Originally Posted by ratherbefishin View Post
    Deer fat is generally not good,cut it all off .I do my own butchering and it’s not hard.Picked up a 3/4 hp Kitchener meat grinder from princess auto on sale for about $160 and it works just fine.When doing ground meat ,I add beef or pork fat from the market.I figure butchering is part of the experience ,I cut ,my wife wraps.She even did it when we were first married and she was pregnant,over 47 years ago, a good woman
    back when I had a butcher, he suggested I use the WT Doe fat for my peperoni.... used all that trimmed fat in the double smoked peperoni he made and it was awesome...no foul taste at all and it saved me a few bucks for not buying pork fat...point being, i'm not so sure I would blame fat for an uneatable cut of meat

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Quote Originally Posted by 338win mag View Post
    The smoking will take alot of the "rank" taste out of it.
    The smoking would be in the garbage dump.

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Rapid field dressing, skinning, removal of blood shot meat, and cooling along with meticulous cleaning (hair, dirt, etc.) and careful handling after harvesting is a must. I will clean the carcass with water and a bit of bleach - recommendation from an experienced game butcher. Bleach in water won't harm meat. I will clean the carcass thoroughly once at time of hanging and then again the next day to make sure I got everything. If it is warm out, I'll get it processed quickly. There are butchers that bring their operation to your garage, etc.,. I prefer to use those butchers as then you can see what they are doing and make your wishes known at that time. I've shot rutty bucks before and they smell on the ground but once field dressed, the carcass should smell normal. If any contamination happened from the glands, bladder or gut, the meat will be tainted badly for sure. Also, if it was hung prior to butchering, the outer dried silver needs to be trimmed off or it will leave a bad/gamey taste. That's my checklist of things of what can go wrong.
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    Ltbullken
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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Quote Originally Posted by Ltbullken View Post
    Rapid field dressing, skinning, removal of blood shot meat, and cooling along with meticulous cleaning (hair, dirt, etc.) and careful handling after harvesting is a must. I will clean the carcass with water and a bit of bleach - recommendation from an experienced game butcher. Bleach in water won't harm meat. I will clean the carcass thoroughly once at time of hanging and then again the next day to make sure I got everything. If it is warm out, I'll get it processed quickly. There are butchers that bring their operation to your garage, etc.,. I prefer to use those butchers as then you can see what they are doing and make your wishes known at that time. I've shot rutty bucks before and they smell on the ground but once field dressed, the carcass should smell normal. If any contamination happened from the glands, bladder or gut, the meat will be tainted badly for sure. Also, if it was hung prior to butchering, the outer dried silver needs to be trimmed off or it will leave a bad/gamey taste. That's my checklist of things of what can go wrong.
    your post also reminded me of the piss bag ...it can get missed during field dressing and can contaminate later when butchering

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Thank you so much for your kind words albravo!

    Just another update: I tried another pack of ground last night and I could still smell it but not nearly as strong as the previous pack. I cooked it up and had some spaghetti and we weren't able to detect any taste of it! Super happy about that. It looks like I'm just going to have to assess each piece as I go but I'm really pleased that some of it has turned out ok.

    In regards to some of your questions, I trimmed all fat and silver skin off the steaks prior to cooking but I can't say for sure what/how much ended up in the ground. I've tasted both before and although it's agreeably unpleasant, this awful taste was very different. It was a good boiler room kill and I was careful not to puncture the bladder etc. Although, I'm not sure about organs like the gallbladder.

    Thank you again to those who've already offered their insight and another thank you to those who've just recently chimed in. You've offered some additional, helpful information that I hadn't thought of before.

    I'm going to head out on a solo hunt tomorrow to try for a last minute wt buck so hopefully my next update will be that I'm butchering my own

    Have a great weekend everyone!

    Tracy

    Quote Originally Posted by albravo2 View Post
    Tracy, don’t beat yourself up over it— it happens. I’ve had a few fish ducks that were not edible.

    It may or may not have been something you did or it may be something totally outside your control.

    Next year’s deer will make up for it, I’m sure.

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    Re: Terrible tasting deer steak

    Quote Originally Posted by Ltbullken View Post
    Rapid field dressing, skinning, removal of blood shot meat, and cooling along with meticulous cleaning (hair, dirt, etc.) and careful handling after harvesting is a must. I will clean the carcass with water and a bit of bleach - recommendation from an experienced game butcher. Bleach in water won't harm meat. I will clean the carcass thoroughly once at time of hanging and then again the next day to make sure I got everything. If it is warm out, I'll get it processed quickly. There are butchers that bring their operation to your garage, etc.,. I prefer to use those butchers as then you can see what they are doing and make your wishes known at that time. I've shot rutty bucks before and they smell on the ground but once field dressed, the carcass should smell normal. If any contamination happened from the glands, bladder or gut, the meat will be tainted badly for sure. Also, if it was hung prior to butchering, the outer dried silver needs to be trimmed off or it will leave a bad/gamey taste. That's my checklist of things of what can go wrong.
    Yikes, why the hell would one ever use bleach, on food a person intends to eat?

    When 10% cleaning vinegar is readily available?

    I always bring a 2.5 l jug of Allens along with me.

    Soak a clean rag with it to wipe down what's needed.


    Usually water is enough, as long as one has enough of it!
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