Just had moose burger for the first time…

[thinhorn_AK]

Eat moose for a few years and a ribeye from the store is like a real delicacy.

 

[johnnycake]

Moose down south must taste different than moose in AK.
I like moose in roasts and stew. Dont much care for the burger.
Bison is way better.

Having made moose and bison burgers, pastrami, steaks, and roasts side by side I agree with this completely. It isn't even close. Bison is way better

 

[casey36]

Moose is probably my favorite species of deer to eat. I have to say though, I'll take Dall sheep anytime over Moose. Believe it or not the best roast from a game animal ive ever had was from a Cougar. It was just incredibly good!

 

[ozyclint]

I've eaten cougar before too. It was delicious.


I'm talking about cougar the animal BTW.

 

[Tah854]

Moose is the king of game meat clean, mild, zero funk, just rich beefy goodness. Bison’s the closest store bought comp. After 30 elk deer, that first bite’s a revelation. CO tag’s a 20 year lottery, but worth every point.

 

[akcabin]

Our son was grinding moose burger yesterday n today. We add pork shoulder n some pork suit to it about 15 %. So the burger holds together. And adds a nice flavor. We tend to use only choice cuts for steak, roast. And lots of burger. We also like to add chopped jalapeño peppers to the burger. And make up some course grind burger for chili n such. Or grind it n make sausages, brats from it. Been eating it for over 45 years
Caribou meat is real good. Seems much more tender than moose steak.
A nice gift for folks when they are heading for a long drive with their dog is to give their dog a pound of moose burger to eat just before they leave. It will leave an air of remembrance. And a few open windows
Hey glad you got to try some different protein out

 

[grfox92]

Eat moose for a few years and a ribeye from the store is like a real delicacy.

Id say eat moose today and a ribeye is a delicacy tomorrow.

Ive said it for years and I might get flack for saying it, but I genuinely think guys who rant and rave about how good game meat is and even go as far as to say it's better than beef, are lying to themselves. I think they deep down feel the need to justify killing and convince them selves that the meat is just the best thing ever.

I'm not saying that everyone who loves game meat has this complex, I'm sure some people genuinely prefer game meat over beef. But I also think a lot of people are going out of their way to praise game meat to make them selves feel better about killing.

The meat is just a bonus for me. I don't hunt for meat. Period. I hunt because I love to hunt. Elk is about the only animal that im excited to wind up with. The rest of it is a constant battle of specialty cooking to make it palatable.

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[Smokinyotes]

I’m very fussy when it comes to meat. I only eat deer made into sausage. Last year I shot a yearling alfalfa fed bull moose. It was fantastic. I honestly couldn’t tell the sirloin steaks from beef steak other than they were a little darker red. I think a lot of it is how quickly the animal is skinned and cooled. .
I shot a small horned 5 pt bull elk end of November last year. Skinned it right away and left it hanging off the tractor over night. By morning it was froze solid. I thought it would have been tough but it was great as well.

 

[Maxhunter]

I’m having moose steaks tonight.

 

[Djacker]

Moose was my favorite, until I had Oryx.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Id say eat moose today and a ribeye is a delicacy tomorrow.

Ive said it for years and I might get flack for saying it, but I genuinely think guys who rant and rave about how good game meat is and even go as far as to say it's better than beef, are lying to themselves. I think they deep down feel the need to justify killing and convince them selves that the meat is just the best thing ever.

I'm not saying that everyone who loves game meat has this complex, I'm sure some people genuinely prefer game meat over beef. But I also think a lot of people are going out of their way to praise game meat to make them selves feel better about killing.

The meat is just a bonus for me. I don't hunt for meat. Period. I hunt because I love to hunt. Elk is about the only animal that im excited to wind up with. The rest of it is a constant battle of specialty cooking to make it palatable.

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Comparing a corn fed beef ribeye to venison is like comparing bacon to jerky. They’re just totally different things. I went without any elk or deer meat last year and had to buy store bought beef - lots of ribeyes, tri-tip, chuck steaks, etc. Honestly, after a couple months, it sucked. I also have had years ,like when I first got married, that we ate almost zero beef and had to live on elk- like almost every meal was elk, and we got tired of it after awhile too. You can get sick of anything if you eat enough of it.

But when you consider the nutritional value and health benefits of eating wild game vs factory farmed commodity beef and add in the feeling of pride and satisfaction that (hopefully) you feel when you serve your family protein that you have invested blood, sweat and tears into, there’s no comparison. If you raise your own beef maybe you get the same sense of satisfaction that comes with being a provider for your family but you sure as hell don’t get that feeling from going to the store and buying steaks in styrofoam packaging, gassed with carbon monoxide to keep them looking pink. So, no I’m not lying to myself or justifying my passion for hunting. Hunting and gathering your own food just hits different.

 

[Elkhuntinfool78]

I am also of the opinion moose is the best game meat. I wish I could hunt moose every year. I've taken one in montana and one in alaska and both were fantastic.

Elk is my next favorite and im thankful to have it yearly.

Deer, especially mule deer can be awful imo and consequently it's often many many years in between taking a deer. Then it's usually a process of trying to hide the taste with seasonings and variations of sticks, Jerky, sausage

 

[Chris in TN]

Id say eat moose today and a ribeye is a delicacy tomorrow.

Ive said it for years and I might get flack for saying it, but I genuinely think guys who rant and rave about how good game meat is and even go as far as to say it's better than beef, are lying to themselves. I think they deep down feel the need to justify killing and convince them selves that the meat is just the best thing ever.

I'm not saying that everyone who loves game meat has this complex, I'm sure some people genuinely prefer game meat over beef. But I also think a lot of people are going out of their way to praise game meat to make them selves feel better about killing.

The meat is just a bonus for me. I don't hunt for meat. Period. I hunt because I love to hunt. Elk is about the only animal that im excited to wind up with. The rest of it is a constant battle of specialty cooking to make it palatable.

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I love wild game. When I was a kid dad and I sometimes ate 10+ whitetails in a year. I still eat a couple every year now. I particularly like elk, when I have it, and elk mixed with beef fat made the best wild game burgers I’ve ever had.

But having access to beef is more important to me than venison now, by a large margin. I have three cows in the front yard. One for this winter, one for next fall, and so on. Pigs too. And when we see ground beef on sale (I mean local grown high quality ground beef) we will often buy 50-100 pounds at a time now.

Domestic meat is simply superior as table fare. It hurts me to say it, but it’s true. Largely because of marbling.

ETA: I say that with the caveat of referring to meat grown and slaughtered locally and butchered to order, ideally. I’m not referring to Walmart pink slime ground beef.

 

[TaperPin]

I’ve always said beef taste like Wyoming moose, not the other way around.

 

[Runningwater]

I like all of it but it can really depend on the age, condition and what the meat went through to get out of the field. Moose is very good and much closer to grass fed beef or bison mainly due to a more similar texture and mouth feel due the more graininess of the meat. Like others, I have yet to have a bad pronghorn, and would put a properly prepared pronghorn backstrap up against most anything. It will not taste like beef/bison, however as it has a very fine grain so a much different texture. But none of it issupposed to taste like beef, its not beef.

 

[Chris in TN]

You guys comparing moose to bison aren't helping me. I've never had bison that impressed me. I mean some has been better than others, but at no point have I ever had bison and thought it was better than a similar cut/grind of beef.

There's a bison hunt I used to collect points to do one day and I stopped buying points because I realized that I simply didn't want a freezer full of it. I'd prefer to shoot an antelope or whitetail and spend the balance of the money on a cow.

 

[KurtR]

I will take a fat mallard over any other game meat but most of the issue is people are poor cooks and blame it on the meat

 

[Grassymike]

I think the variables are more of a factor than the species. Age, how it died, how the meat ws cared for, was the animal relaxed /calm or in fight/flight mode. Younger or female animals are all more tender and tasty whatever the species. Another huge factor is what was the animals main feed source ? I live in Southern Alberta and my family grew up on primarily Mule deer shot in bow season. Excellent eating, very hard to tell the difference between them and Whitetails. I have also consumed at least 7 pronghorns also excellent. The main factor here is these animals all fed on agicultural land heavily. I grew up in the Yukon and Moose was our source of protien, unfortunately my parents had no imagination with meat. I consumed way more than my share of burger. The way my mother cooked roasts was overcooked and dry, like most of my friends we had moose roast sandwiches for lunch most days at School. So I would add who and how it is used/cooked as a factor as well.

 

[Ucsdryder]

I will take a fat mallard over any other game meat but most of the issue is people are poor cooks and blame it on the meat

Da fack? Ain’t nobody picking a dirty bird over an elk, antelope steak.

 

[Eagle]

I've said for years that I'd rather eat deer or elk over grass fed beef, to me they are virtually the same due to the complete lack of marbling I've experienced with any grass fed beef I've procured.

That said, a grass fed, grain finished (60 days) local steer is about the finest meat you can put in your mouth. We raised beef when I was a kid, and I still feel like a grain sorghum/milo finished steer, finished properly for 60 days, is the pinnacle of beef.