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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Wild Meat: field care, prep, and grilling ultimately tasty venison

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

SHOW NOTES

Wild game meat should be incredibly good—not dry, gamey, and tough to eat.

  • Field care for clean-tasting meat
  • "Ice Aging" meat for tenderness and mild flavor
  • Pre-cooking prep for roasts and steaks
  • Grilling techniques for the perfect steak or roast

Professional meat processors: A good way to get your wild game meat ruined

Even old, rut-worn bulls are tender and great-tasting if aged properly, prepped correctly, and grilled skillfully.

Searing in Olive oil: a magic recipe for juicy, tender meat

Steak seasoning

Steps to aging perfectly

Proper pre-grilling prep

Grilling and resting

Cardinal Sin: Overcooking wild game meat

A challenge for listeners

Transcript

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0:00.0

Imagine the wild game meat that you shoot is so good that kids squabble over it.

0:07.0

Welcome to the show today folks. Thanks for tuning in. Today I want to talk about wild game meat, its reputation, the reputation it could and

0:16.9

should have, and how you can make your wild meat better than it's ever been before. Maybe you're a really good chef, you know,

0:28.0

connoisseur of preparing and cooking wild meat but maybe not maybe you're one of those guys that

0:36.6

struggled with it for a long time and either way hopefully you'll enjoy this I

0:41.6

want to tell you some stuff that entirely changed the way that my family and I

0:47.0

Look at Wild Meat and how we use it

0:51.3

Hopefully what I'm going to tell you is going to help you make your wild game meat

0:56.0

whether it's you know whatever type of venison whether it's from white-tailed deer

0:59.7

or elk or moose or a dough versus a stinky old post rut buck whatever I hope I believe what I'm going to tell you and

1:10.2

hopefully teach you in this episode will make your wild meat so good no matter what species,

1:18.3

what gender, or how old that your kids squabble over it at the dinner table. I'm not kidding, okay?

1:25.0

So, first a little bit of background. By the way, bear with me on the sound quality here. I'm in a little log room, funny enough, on the

1:37.7

Mid Rhine River in Germany. I've just finished up a media event here with Zeiss optics,

1:46.2

Zeis Sporting Optics in Germany, had two days of really cool hunting,

1:50.7

traditional driven wild boar, and it's been a fantastic experience.

1:55.9

I'm sitting here in a little log cabin now recording on my portable recording device and

2:01.9

as usual the sound quality isn't ideal but

2:06.2

bear with me on it I appreciate you guys listening in even when the sound isn't studio quality.

2:15.0

All right, back to Wild Game Meat.

2:17.0

A lot of hunters, if they're entirely honest with themselves,

2:21.0

eat the wild meat they bring home out of something of a sense of obligation.

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