Last night we had some steak on the grill. First off i cold smoked these sat night wile i was getting S#*t faced for my birthday party then wrapped in plastic for a couple days to soak up the smoke. Then i wrapped up in some of the bacon i made and some lemon pepper with a little seasoned salt.
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Check these babys out, no more burnt tooth picks to hold the bacon on
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The wife wont eat deer (well that she knows of) so I made her a new york that I also cold smoked. All seasoned up and resting wile the grill comes up to temp
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After the grill and resting under a glass bowl (had to remove the bowl to see)
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My Invitation must have gotten lost in the mail....
Quote from: FLBentRider on September 08, 2009, 05:25:33 PM
My Invitation must have gotten lost in the mail....
Mine Too!!!
Quote from: Tenpoint5 on September 08, 2009, 05:30:02 PM
Quote from: FLBentRider on September 08, 2009, 05:25:33 PM
My Invitation must have gotten lost in the mail....
Mine Too!!!
I think he missed sending out all of our invites! :D
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
Quote from: smokeitall on September 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
:D :D :D
I am laughing because my hubby wants to shoot the deer but doesn't like to eat it!
I'm always trying to sneak in the venison like when I make hamburgers mix in 25% ground venison with the beef.
He's learning to appreciate seared tenderloins and backstraps.
OU812,
Those look fantastic!
Where did you purchase those nifty little pins?
Carolyn
Quote from: Caribou on September 09, 2009, 04:58:03 AM
Quote from: smokeitall on September 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
:D :D :D
I am laughing because my hubby wants to shoot the deer but doesn't like to eat it!
I'm always trying to sneak in the venison like when I make hamburgers mix in 25% ground venison with the beef.
He's learning to appreciate seared tenderloins and backstraps.
OU812,
Those look fantastic!
Where did you purchase those nifty little pins?
Carolyn
Everything I cook with ground meat in it is with deer, I save the fat when I do brisket and grind it in with the deer 80/20 she cant tell the diff unless shes home when i am cooking it. 8) Dont buy much ground beef. Unless shes cooking
Carolyn
I have a buddy that works at a meat locker, ben using them SS pins for years now, just have to remind everyone not to through them away
Quote from: Caribou on September 09, 2009, 04:58:03 AM
Where did you purchase those nifty little pins?
Carolyn
Carolyn
Here is a link to them (or at least something similar), They seem cheap too... 100 of them for $20 including shipping.
http://www.cbreinert.com/
Mike
Quote from: Mr Walleye on September 09, 2009, 02:11:19 PM
Quote from: Caribou on September 09, 2009, 04:58:03 AM
Where did you purchase those nifty little pins?
Carolyn
Carolyn
Here is a link to them (or at least something similar), They seem cheap too... 100 of them for $20 including shipping.
http://www.cbreinert.com/
Mike
Thanks Mike!
I shall check them out.
Carolyn
You think those would work with abts instead of using those dam wooden toof pickers.
I don't see why not Mike. I think they could be used anytime you "pin" bacon onto something.
Mike
Actually... You could sit down with a roll of stainless steel wire and a pair pliers (don't forget the refreshments ;D ) and make a few! Looks like a simple process to me.
Mike
Quote from: Mr Walleye on September 09, 2009, 03:08:37 PM
Actually... You could sit down with a roll of stainless steel wire and a pair pliers (don't forget the refreshments ;D ) and make a few! Looks like a simple process to me.
Mike
How bout some paperclips! "Food-grade" ones of course :D :D :D :D
Carolyn
Quote from: smokeitall on September 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
I must have got lucky with wife's deer last year. No gamely taste at all. She cooked some for Coco and I grabbed one and it was good. Now if I can remember what I did ???
John
Quote from: BigJohnT on September 10, 2009, 10:44:58 AM
Quote from: smokeitall on September 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
I must have got lucky with wife's deer last year. No gamely taste at all. She cooked some for Coco and I grabbed one and it was good. Now if I can remember what I did ???
John
A good clean kill and quick cool down of the body cavity always works for me.
Cant remember the last one that tasted gamey.
Drop them in there tracks, one shot one kill
Quote from: OU812 on September 10, 2009, 12:27:46 PM
Quote from: BigJohnT on September 10, 2009, 10:44:58 AM
Quote from: smokeitall on September 08, 2009, 07:32:44 PM
That looks great Curt.
My wife won't eat venison either. Doesn't bother me a bit, just more for me and kids.
SIA
I must have got lucky with wife's deer last year. No gamely taste at all. She cooked some for Coco and I grabbed one and it was good. Now if I can remember what I did ???
John
A good clean kill and quick cool down of the body cavity always works for me.
Cant remember the last one that tasted gamey.
Drop them in there tracks, one shot one kill
I believe you're right on with the quick cool down OU812 preventing gamey taste.
I had a mobile slaughter/meat processor guy slaughter a grain-finished Angus steer one evening at the end of his work day.
Into a cube van loaded with warm carcasses my steer went. That steer was the most gamey meat I've ever tasted :P
Probably partially rotted but we were new to this and figured we must have done something wrong somehow in the finishing process.
Needless to say I switched to a processor that comes here with an empty truck and goes directly back to his shop.
And I have animals slaughtered the first week of January also. Cool weather. Awesome beef!
Carolyn
OU812,
They were both clean kills she dropped hers like a sack of taters at about 100 yards from a tree stand and shot over the back of a hamburger on the hoof. I shot mine through the neck and spine with a 50 cal so it dropped where it stood. I did keep them in coolers with ice on them after cutting the meat from the carcass for a few days and drained and flushed the coolers twice a day.
John
Big John
Sounds like you both are one heck of a good shot
I have a Knight extream 50 cal and dropped a nice buck at 187 yd last year
It must have ben warm when you got your deer, having to bone the deer and put in coolers with ice in it. Its pretty dam cold here when its deer season. Well for high power and black powder anyway. I try to keep the hide on and hang it in my shed for a couple days to let it bleed out.
The deer around here are corn and soy bean fed. My uncle lives on the far west end of the state and the deer feed on sage brush and prairie grass and taste a little gamey to me.
It's usually cool enough to let them hang overnight but it only takes my other brother John a few minutes to unzip and pull off the hide and have it quartered up post haste ;D
John
Quote from: BigJohnT on September 12, 2009, 02:03:00 PM
It's usually cool enough to let them hang overnight but it only takes my other brother John a few minutes to unzip and pull off the hide and have it quartered up post haste ;D
John
Seen him do it, he is quick. Man I hope we get that managed hunt this year, we should know here in a few days.
SIA
You don't leave the cooler it is just like a hand off every few seconds and they don't stop coming until nothing is left.
Mingo would be cool to get picked for for sure. BTW, the fan works nice now.
John