the butcher didn’t mark on the packaging what cuts the steaks were from they just said Elk Steak on them but from experience of cutting up animals I would guess the dark one is top round and the light one is part of the bottom round.
southeast Idaho it was a healthy young bull I didn’t notice anything while quartering him up.
(I should read the whole post before I respond) the burger definitely has a off taste to it we have been eating it but the only way my wife can tolerate it is if it’s heavily seasoned like tacos and so on. Color wise it looks normal just smells a little funny like a gut shot kinda tone to it which I know I didn’t hit him there shot one was slightly quartered away and I hit one lung and exited out in front of the offside shoulder blade and then second shot was top of both lungs about 5 inches down from the spine no where near the gut.
Sounds like bone sour
Then I know it’s not the meat I brought him, shot was at 8 am bull was quartered by 11 at camp by 1 and hung in camp for 2 hours then at the butcher by 5 and the temp was like 60 degrees and cloudy with a 10 mph wind. And we open the quarters up to the bone to vent the heat out when we pull them off the elk there were 4 of us on this bull so it didn’t take us long.
We already went through the rest I should’ve taken pictures but what we found was 4 more packages were the lighter color and have the funny smell to it while still frozen. The weirdest thing is the meat texture of the thawed meat in the picture the light colored one almost feels gritty and inconsistent under the knife the dark one feels smooth and even and slightly tougher to cut. We threw out the off colored ones I kept a few in a ziplock in the freezer to show my buddy in a few days. First and only animal I will have processed for me.
I would agree with your statement. I got someone else's meat once, and that's why I went back to butchering myself.
That’s such a bummer. I have only taken one elk to a processor and was underwhelmed to say the least compared to when I do it myself
That or they let his sit too long and partially spoil.
Or that.
Well to start off with he told me I lost the tenderloins (considering I saw the smoker behind the butcher shop he probably ment they were delicious) I do have the back straps but not enough packages for how big the straps were, that’s the only thing that’s labeled what cut it’s from other than that it’s all labeled elk steak, elk roast and elk burger.
