Venison Burger...what do you do with it?

[realunlucky]

I also don’t care for did, never did as a kid, young adult or now. An entire Dr Seuss book could be written about it, but without a happy ending. My sister on the other hand loves a gamey rutting deer more than elk. Weirdo.

I stopped trying to keep things I don’t care for and give it away right off the bat and don’t have to spend a single additional minute working around it, moving it, wondering, experimenting, moving it again, wondering more, trying it again, wasting bacon trying to hide the flavor, etc.

If for some reason I was forced at gun point to make something out of it, a dehydrator and jerky gun is your friend and then give it away to someone who likes it.

I used to think it was unethical to feed game to dogs, but more and more dogs are getting human grade food prepared with as much attention as anything going into the mouths of kids. I like our dogs more than most people, so I wouldn’t feel it wasteful or unethical for it to be fully used and not wasted as a supplement to their normal food. There are probably game laws against it in some places, or at least it’s up to local interpretation.

To be clear you don't feel is unethical to kill protected game animals and feed the entire thing to your dogs.

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[TaperPin]

To be clear you don't feel is unethical to kill protected game animals and feed the entire thing to your dogs.

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I clearly said I feed any and all of my deer to my sister. Pets aren’t legally allowed to eat wild game.

 

[Shortschaf]

10% beef fat with our venison is basically interchangeable for all beef-burger recipes

I would recommend making 50/50 venison pork breakfast sausage if you do not like the venison burger

While I don't think it is a bad thing, I don't believe that you can make wild venison burger taste identical to beef. Unless maybe it's grassfed beef(?) even that seems far fetched

 

[HairyScandinavian]

Enchiladas are always a great way to dispose of ground and canned venison or wild hog.

 

[Coleredding00]

I guess ive gotten lucky, i haven't had a deer that was bad eating in quite some time now. We shot 2 muleys this year and the meat has been indistinguishable from elk.

 

[Harvey_NW]

I guess ive gotten lucky, i haven't had a deer that was bad eating in quite some time now. We shot 2 muleys this year and the meat has been indistinguishable from elk.

This is always my experience when we do gutless, don't touch scent glands, and get quarters aired out and cooled quickly. In the last 10 years I've had one bad spike bull that you could smell across the drainage before we got to him, and it dumped rain while we were field processing him, I don't think there's anything we could have done.

 

[griff383]

Lots of good suggestions here but my favorites are jerky, breakfast sausage (w/ pork added) and brat patties. For the brat patties, we mix brat seasoning in and then top with kraut 'n stuff

 

[brancher147]

Anything that calls for ground meat. Venison is all we ever use. I grind it with pork butt and it’s as good as beef IMO

 

[Harvey_NW]

Anything that calls for ground meat. Venison is all we ever use. I grind it with pork butt and it’s as good as beef IMO

Try beef fat sometime. I feel like pork fat renders at a lower temp so my BBQ burgers were always a bit dry, we just tried 1/3lb burgers with 10% beef fat out of the grind batch and they were nice and juicy.

 

[Coleredding00]

Anything that calls for ground meat. Venison is all we ever use. I grind it with pork butt and it’s as good as beef IMO

Same here… we literally just use ours as ground beef. I’ve had burger from 2 elk and 2 deer this year and genuinely have no complaints about any. We make weekly meal preps that are essentially just seasoned ground meat with whatever vegetable is about to go bad in the fridge over sweet potato and both my wife and i have no issues with it. We don’t make hamburgers very often, but i did some with elk a while back and they were spectacular.

 

[thomasnh]

Ive been making chili with equal amounts ground beef, ground pork and ground venison. Some of the best chili ive had. Might be slightly biased towards mine own cooking