Home butchering

[woodsman416]

I always double wrapped also. Last year my wife bought me a commercial vacuum packer for christmas. I gotta tell you, this thing is the sh!t. Not only for meat but fish and blanched veggies too. A friend of mine is a big tuna fisherman. He goes ot every weekend when they are biting. He brings me tuna and I give him venison. Monday he gave me about 25 lbs!!!! of yellow fin tuna. I cooked about 5 lbs on the grill and vac packed and froze the rest. I think he's going again this weekend. Yipppeee!

[Admin]

Finally have all the meat put up and ready to start over again. I had 28 turkeys in the field with me this evening and I didn't release any arrows. On another occasion I won't be so considerate cause I want to can up several jars of turkey breast.

Here's a few pics of the last few days around here.



Had to buy a new roll of wrap. 1100' ought to last us a while



A good friend owns a meat packing company so we get pork fat for free ;D



Burger time





I package all the burger and sausage in elcheepo sandiwch bags first and then wrap them all in freezer paper. This makes it very conveneient for wrapping cause you can wrap with clean hands and not get meat all over everything.



MammaD got a good start on the canning ;D You can't beat canned venison

[fishleclair]

CANNES VENISON kiks My uncle brought up some from BC..It was Mule deer but I ate all 3 jars in a few days....JC thats a fine lookin deer hanging...Did ya give any to the Pooch..It was lookin Hungry!!

[lookout]

vacuum packing really works well. I make smoked polish sausage out of moose or deer for Christmas and whatever doesn't get used, gets vacuum packed for ice fishing trips. Those bags aren't cheap but it sure looks after your product.

Love your canning job JC! I see you add liquid.

[hillbillyken]

Oct 2, 2009 19:53:05 GMT -5 Admin said:

A good friend owns a meat packing company so we get pork fat for free ;D

NO FAIR! when I need tallow or pork fat to add to my deer they make us pay for it and they want dang near as much for the fat as they do for the lean....ridiculous

[Admin]

Oct 3, 2009 17:08:23 GMT -5 downhome said:

you guys can do the pork thing lots do but I will keep it to strictly
venny,

When we grind burger it's strictly venison (no fat). The pork fat is for the sausage and I like fatty sausage. Lean sausage taste like a** Make a link sausage without fat and ya might as well eat a dried up old yote turd

Hey Hillbillyken, I know what you're saying about the pork fat thing. When I lived in NH I couldn't find it in any store. The meat shops would charge 1.69 a pound for it when I could buy a pork butt for .99 a pound .
Yeah that's what I think about that

I trapped some beaver for this guy and he was so happy that he said I could have free pork fat for the rest of my life.

I felt like I won the lotto

Do the happy dance

[amanda]

Oct 3, 2009 18:41:29 GMT -5 Admin said:

lean sausage taste like a** Make a link sausage without fat and ya might as well eat a dried up old yote turd

This whole post makes me LMFAO but that takes the cake! Too funny, yet so SO very true!!!

I'll pass on the 'yote turds, thank you very much.