How do you remove the wild taste from deer meat?

Answer 1

Tame it... Civilize it... Raise your own deer...


or deal with it?

Answer 2

Deer meat is called venison. It is a game meat and it is very strong flavoured. It needs to hang in refridgeration to make it more tender and as someone else said, marinade for a few hours. If you are eating deer from the wild it will have that flavour, which is better than a farmed deer.

Answer 3

remove wild taste deer meat

Answer 4

Well next time, hang the deer so the blood drains, for a couple of days! Other than that, the taste depends on what the deer eats. Apple and corn feed deer are awesome; bark and limb eaters are not!

Answer 5

Soak it in cold salt water overnight. I do that and then to cook it I use garlic powder, onion powder, Montreal Steak seasoning, seasoning salt, pepper and diced onions. It has a very good flavor. But if you need more flavor you can add some beef base to it and you can't tell it is deer meat. I tricked alot of people a.ready. Good luck.

Answer 6

I live in Michigan and have been processing my own deer for decades. It's mostly in the way it's processed. Try hanging the deer for 1-2 weeks (depending on temp.). Then when you process the meat you want to keep it bone free and trim off all the fat. If it's too late for all that try to trim it now, let it soak in salt water for a few hours then marinate it in Lawry's papaya marinade for a few more hours then barbecue with smoking wood chips. For roasts do the same but wrap it in bacon and slow cook it.

I forgot to mention, when you make hamburger put about 25% ground pork in with the meat.

Answer 7

I recently used a buttermilk marinade with my venison.. what a mistake! It turned my venison into beef round steak!!!! If I wanted that I would have shot a cow.

Anyway, I like to use some olive oil, lemon juice, rosemary, oregano, salt, pepper, garlic, marinade in that .... it enhances the natural taste of the meat rather than trying to make it something it isn't.

Answer 8

Why would you want to? The wild taste IS the deer meat. It's a game animal, it's going to have that taste. If you don't like it, try beef.

Answer 9

it can be done when the meat is being cut up at the butchering table, by removing the "stink glands" that are found on the inside of each 'ham' and up under the front "armpits". they are small greenish ball-looking things, and they hold the scent, and that's where the gamey taste permeates the meat. If it's not been removed, and you get the meat that way, not much you can do except for marinating, or "covering up" with garlic, & spices

Answer 10

Cook it with pork, pork mixes well with venison and the wild taste goes away

Answer 11

The trick is to let the meat soak in salt water for a few hrs. , then package and freeze.