Deer Liver preparation/recipe

[hawk-i]

Traditional recipe for liver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk19nKBJqBE

[TheObserver]

I didn't know there was such a thing as Liver Flukes, I tried a peice last night raw for the first time hopefully I don't get the Liver Flukes hahaha. The Buck was super healthy though and Liver looked fine. I have always eaten the Liver Medium, cooked through but some colour/pink in the middle and i've been fine so far

[Dannybuoy]

I didn't know there was such a thing as Liver Flukes, I tried a peice last night raw for the first time hopefully I don't get the Liver Flukes hahaha. The Buck was super healthy though and Liver looked fine. I have always eaten the Liver Medium, cooked through but some colour/pink in the middle and i've been fine so far

If I remember correctly they are big leech like critters . Back when BC had meat inspectors pre 1978 , I think any infected livers would be tossed in the dog food bin . Not sure how common they are , I've not seen one in several hundred farm slaughtered beef and game

[ACE]

Shot a big Blacktail and when I opened him up, the smell was overpowering. His liver was really large and black. Don't know if his other organs were affected. Didn't eat any of this buck.

[wideopenthrottle]

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/en...iver_fluke.pdf

info on liver flukes

[MichelD]

My wife complained that the last liver I brought home was bloodier thn any other I've taken home in the last 47 years. "Didn't you cut its throat?' she asked.

I said no, it was dead when I got to it, shot through the neck, but not thorugh the jugular. I guess that was the issue, usually I hit them in the bolier room and they bleed out. My dad used to cut all deer across the whole throat and I used to do tht too, but ealized some time ago how unnecessary that is. I just poke them right in the jugular to finish them off if necessary.

As far as flukes go, I don't know if it was flukes or what, but i got a LEH elk cow a few years ago and the liver was full of gray spots and creepy looking so I dumped it. I was told that because the elk there in Sayward share grazing areas with domestic sheep that they pick up some kind of liver disease.

[Stone C. Killer]

Steven Rinella's liver mousse is a good one

[TheObserver]

I looked into them after I made that reply, definitely never seen them before. Something i'd notice unless it was larvae, especially if you slice it

[J_T]

Some nice looking dishes from Gate there. I don't mean to rain on anyone's liver recipe.... I always loved a freshly killed cooked liver in camp. Skin the thin layer off the outside, marinate etc.
That was, until I started working with geologists who made me aware that in the area I hunt, there was a significant levels of arsenic in the rocks and therefore in the water of the old mines near my hunting area. The liver is a filter which logically can retain high levels of 'things' that we would ingest. I have not eaten liver since I was made aware of the potential for harmful elements being retained in the meat.

[Gateholio]

Some nice looking dishes from Gate there. I don't mean to rain on anyone's liver recipe.... I always loved a freshly killed cooked liver in camp. Skin the thin layer off the outside, marinate etc.
That was, until I started working with geologists who made me aware that in the area I hunt, there was a significant levels of arsenic in the rocks and therefore in the water of the old mines near my hunting area. The liver is a filter which logically can retain high levels of 'things' that we would ingest. I have not eaten liver since I was made aware of the potential for harmful elements being retained in the meat.

That's interesting. I wonder how often you would have to eat liver to see any negative effects? It's something I have never thought of.