Venison vs Beef

[Tenpoint5]

Sounds reasonable to me!! Good Luck to all the Hunters this year as we once agin forage to fill our freezers!! Hoping I have to make a name change to Tenpoint 6 this year.

Venison vs. Beef: The controversy ends

From the U.S. Venison Council


Controversy has long raged about the relative quality and taste of venison and beef as gourmet foods. Some people say venison is tough, with a strong "wild" taste. Others insist venison's flavor is delicate. An independent food research group was retained by the Venison Council to conduct a taste test to determine the truth of these conflicting assertions once and for all.

First, a Grade A Choice Holstein steer was chased into a swamp a mile and a half from a road and shot several times. After some of the entrails were removed, the carcass was dragged back over rocks and logs, and through mud and dust to the road. It was then thrown into the back of a pickup truck and driven through rain and snow for 100 miles before being hung out in the sun for a day.

It was then lugged into a garage where it was skinned and rolled around on the floor for a while. Strict sanitary precautions were observed throughout the test, within the limitations of the butchering environment. For instance, dogs and cats were allowed to sniff and lick the steer carcass, but most of the time were chased away when they attempted to bite chunks out of it.

Next, a sheet of plywood left from last year's butchering was set up in the basement on two saw horses. The pieces of dried blood, hair and fat left from last year were scraped off with a wire brush last used to clean out the grass stuck under the lawn mower.

The skinned carcass was then dragged down the steps into the basement where a half dozen inexperienced but enthusiastic and intoxicated men worked on it with meat saws, cleavers, hammers and dull knives. The result was 375 pounds of soup bones, four bushel baskets of meat scraps, and a couple of steaks that were an eighth of an inch thick on one edge and an inch and a half thick on the other edge.

The steaks were seared on a glowing red hot cast iron skillet to lock in the flavor. When the smoke cleared, rancid bacon grease was added, along with three pounds of onions, and the whole conglomeration was fried for two hours.

The meat was gently teased from the frying pan and served to three intoxicated and blindfolded taste panel volunteers. Every member of the panel thought it was venison. One volunteer even said it tasted exactly like the venison he has eaten in hunting camps for the past 27 years.

The results of this scientific test conclusively show that there is no difference between the taste of beef and venison...

[justpete]

Good luck to you also 10.5......6

Bow season opens for me on Sept 15.

Peter

[FLBentRider]

 ;D :D ;D

[justpete]

Now that I read.
LMAO  Very funny and oh so true..... Well I don't really drink that much. ;D

Peter

[Caribou]

10.5!
thanks for post this.
I posted on one of OU812's threads the story of how I had a grain-finished prime angus steer come out very gamey because the conditions in which he was hauled back to the processor.
Unfortunately, I have done this experiment myself and it is true!  :D
Carolyn

[OU812]

10.5 good one

You forgot the part were they go eat breakfast be for they gut it

[mikecorn.1]

 :D :D :D

[Caneyscud]

My Mom just the opposite with one of my cousins who said he hated venison.  She pan fried up some backstrap and served it one night he was staying with us when his parents were out of town.  After devouring a plateful or two, he announced that that was the best fried beef he has ever had.  When Mom, told him it was venison, I think he turned green.  I don't think he ate any venison ever again up until his death last year.  But at least he loved it that one time.  His Dad (my Uncle) did not like it either, but liked to hunt - he always gave us the deer he harvested - score for us!

[NePaSmoKer]

nepas.10

[smokeitall]

Did ya ever hear the old 30 pt buck song from the UP?

SIA.30, but with my luck it would be SIA 0.3  ;D

[Mr Walleye]

Did ya ever hear the old 30 pt buck song from the UP?

SIA.30, but with my luck it would be SIA 0.3  ;D

Ahh yes... Da Turdy Point Buck by Da Yoopers.... Here's a link...
http://www.imeem.com/people/3DinfI/music/w7HzglZf/da-yoopers-30-point-buck/

And just for good measure... here's The Second Week of Deer Camp by Da Yoopers...
http://www.imeem.com/people/h8E3M7_/music/kDIrMZkw/da-yoopers-da-second-week-of-deer-camp-i/

Mike

[smokeitall]

Theres a couple guys at camp every year that play those both at least a few time.  :)

[squirtthecat]

Da Yoopers!   Haven't heard that name since we were in the UP on vacation a few years ago...  Saw their CD at this place. (some kind of roadside attraction/'museum')