Getting rid of GAMEY taste in killed animals & Fish.

[cyclops2]

GamEy taste is from a injured animal struggling from the injury and later dying.  

 

Only 2 ways to stop gaminess. Crush the brain with a club or Manchette  on fish.  Or crush / explode the heart or brain of a animal being killed.   I never have gamey wild animals. I am too brutal to let them suffer and run off to die. Not to be found.

 

A head shot at 50' to 150' in the center of the head causes the animal to STOP INSTANTLY. No tracking & losing the blood trail. Causing the gamiest tasting meat possible.

Heart shots  for people who can not HIT CLOSE to the heart ?  Is a head shot. Worst case is a screaming & kicking animal right there. 1 more bullet does it.

""  OOH   I just love shooting at live targets. ""  "Will I get to shoot 1 every day ? "      yes

 

Just realized I posted in the wrong section.   Please move to the hunting section.  Thank you.

[GaryH]

Gammy taste in meat comes from the animals diet or improper processing. This is fact not made up scenarios.

[gim]

Is this meant to read "Gamey" instead of "Gammy"?

[cyclops2]

Bingo Gary.

 

 Helped farmers dump GARLIC FLAVORED milk several times.

Suckers & catfish are not great except in early spring. By then the odd summer  bottom flavors have been replaced by their winter fat reserves.  I do not eat any bottom feeders.

Gamey is a taste.  Gammy is a leg injury condition. 

[gim]

Most of the gamey tasting animals I have consumed were old, rutted up bucks.  Our firearms season is during the rut and they are pumped full of hormones.  Sometimes they reek of urine because they pee on themselves too.

 

The does and fawns are much better eating.  And preferably ones that are corn or bean fed from an agricultural area.  Harvesting the animal with a well placed shot to the vitals, field dressing it, and cooling the meat down is always important.

 

Wild turkey has always been a tough nut to crack for me.  They aren't terrible, but they aren't very good either.

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, gimruis said:

Most of the gamey tasting animals I have consumed were old, rutted up bucks.  Our firearms season is during the rut and they are pumped full of hormones.  Sometimes they reek of urine because they pee on themselves too.

 

The does and fawns are much better eating.  And preferably ones that are corn or bean fed from an agricultural area.  Harvesting the animal with a well placed shot to the vitals, field dressing it, and cooling the meat down is always important.

 

Wild turkey has always been a tough nut to crack for me.  They aren't terrible, but they aren't very good either.

We ate a wild turkey during the super bowl, the guy from the show meateater has the recipe online. If you like chick fil a nuggets you will love it 

[cyclops2]

I had to look up the process of how the heart pumps  in mammals. The brain controls the heart muscles contractions.  SOO  A blown apart brain does STOP the blood circulating with the gamey tasting fear flavor.  I have  had maybe 2  big old 24 pound turkeys with a gamey cooked flavor.  In my life time.  Deer never. We shoot from the porch windows sills. They are all relaxed when shot in the head. Snipers in combat like a head shot. No wounded survivors. Just hitting the liquid mass by a bullet SHOCKS the brain sufficiently

Good looking food Tn    .Dijon or Brown Mustard ?

[gim]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

during the super bowl, the guy from the show meateater has the recipe online. If you like chick fil a nuggets you will love it 

 

I have shot 9 turkeys in 17 years of spring turkey hunting.  I have tried baking, pan frying, crock pot, grilling, and smoking.  I don't have a smoker, or a deep fryer big enough for a bird like a turkey.  One year I did bring it into the venison processor that we normally use for deer and he said he would smoke the turkey for me...with a caveat: I had to leave the skin on.  Which means I had to pluck the wild turkey, feather by feather.  Smoking was probably the best way to eat one that I've had so far, but I will NEVER pluck one again.  It took me over 2 hours to pull all those feathers off.

 

Right now I have a couple friends who are willing to take one when I fill a tag so its a win-win.  I can hunt and tag one, but I don't have to eat it lol.

 

For some reason, people that don't turkey hunt think a wild turkey tastes like one they buy in the store.  It's not even close.

[cyclops2]

gimruis   A old bird friend has a D cell powered feather plucker tool . It looks like a rubber tube spinning. Super fast . 

[cyclops2]

Web searched chicken pluckers. Tractor supply sells a good one called Yardbird chicken plucker.  Videos of it working were a DREAM in 15 seconds !!.   Some brands have a built in water heater

 

Tractor supply is a excellent company if a product is not good in any way.

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, gimruis said:

 

I have shot 9 turkeys in 17 years of spring turkey hunting.  I have tried baking, pan frying, crock pot, grilling, and smoking.  I don't have a smoker, or a deep fryer big enough for a bird like a turkey.  One year I did bring it into the venison processor that we normally use for deer and he said he would smoke the turkey for me...with a caveat: I had to leave the skin on.  Which means I had to pluck the wild turkey, feather by feather.  Smoking was probably the best way to eat one that I've had so far, but I will NEVER pluck one again.  It took me over 2 hours to pull all those feathers off.

 

Right now I have a couple friends who are willing to take one when I fill a tag so its a win-win.  I can hunt and tag one, but I don't have to eat it lol.

 

For some reason, people that don't turkey hunt think a wild turkey tastes like one they buy in the store.  It's not even close.

Cut it up nice and small, then fry it. I’ve also had it grilled on kabobs after being soaked in Italian salad dressing for 24 hours. That might have been even better 

 

i don’t turkey hunt but it’s way better than store bought 

[Last_Cast]

Gamey or not. I'll eat it. ?

[Jig Man]

I have given up on wild game.  Other than quail, I don’t like it any more and believe me I have tried.  Just give me a corn fed Kansas City strip or a fillet and I am good.

[VolFan]

Game gets its flavor from its age, diet, and how you treat it after it’s down. Within reason, shot placement has little effect on it (gut shots being a significant exception). How you cook it also plays a huge role. You can take a significant amount of grey matter out and the heart will still beat for a startling amount of time.

[Deephaven]

Stop shooting old animals and treating your meat like crap and it won't be gamey.  Rancid fat always tastes gamey....

[gim]

10 hours ago, VolFan said:

How you cook it also plays a huge role.

I agree.  Venison cannot be over cooked.  If you over cook it, it turns into a dry piece of shoe leather.

 

Pheasant, quail, and grouse have always been the best wild game/bird for me.  It has the taste and texture of chicken and really can't be prepared a bad way.

 

I think in general a lot of the general population is just so used to processed store bought meat that has no gaminess flavor to it whatsoever, so when they try some wild game, its not very appealing.  My wife never really ate much for fish or wild game/birds until we got married.  She likes some of it, but other cuts she won't even eat anymore after she tried it.

[TnRiver46]

Get rid of gamey taste? Don’t eat game 

[MN Fisher]

9 minutes ago, gimruis said:

I think in general a lot of the general population is just so used to processed store bought meat that has no gaminess flavor to it whatsoever,

I personally think that store-bought meats have become more bland over the years.  People aren't use to things having their own flavor anymore, which is why the uptick in sauces, spices and such so people can customize the taste to their own palate. Wild game is too 'flavorful' for their homogenized, over processed, bland standards.

[Tennessee Boy]

Yeah,  I think store bought meat is very bland.  I occasionally buy pork from farmers.  It has a much stronger porky (my word) flavor.   I prefer it but it takes some getting used to for some folks.

[flatcreek]

I prefer wild game over store bought meat any day 

[gim]

16 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

I personally think that store-bought meats have become more bland over the years.  People aren't use to things having their own flavor anymore, which is why the uptick in sauces, spices and such so people can customize the taste to their own palate.

Oh absolutely.  I think a lot of freshwater fish filets in their basic form lack taste too, which is why so many people feel the need to lather it up in batter, deep fry it, and then dip it in tartar sauce.  At this point, you aren't getting any of the natural fish flavor anymore, you're tasting all that batter, breading, and sauce instead.

[MN Fisher]

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

so many people feel the need to lather it up in batter, deep fry it, and then dip it in tartar sauce.

A light brush of melted butter, a dash of salt and pepper - the broil it...that's the only way I eat fish of any species.

 

Breaded fish - whether baked or deep-fried - makes me gag and I'll starve before eating it.

[cyclops2]

I can only add this about my fresh caught & HEAD CHOPPED OFF while still on the hook& ust into the boat. I had a Ice Cube water water pail

Cut the head off . Small amount of bleed out. Wrappd it in plastic wrap Into the ice water.

 

2nd perch kept alive on a stringer for 1.5 hours along side the boat when stopped. Carried alive to friend who put them into refrigerator still alive. He cleaned, Filleted, And battered them with no seasonings. Ate as soon as they cooled. No difference in taste. But we are 84 & 87. So taste could be not sensitive enough.  Both fish DID have struggling times before killing them.

 

Maybe perch are a very less gamey animal ?  I do not know I do know when I have a GROUP of them they are very relaxed by the time I get them to the dock.  And no struggling in the bag from dock to the refrigerator at the house.    

 

Note Fresh killed perch in the boat smell SWEET. Same sweetness  when cut open & filleted at the house.

[Deephaven]

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I personally think that store-bought meats have become more bland over the years.  People aren't use to things having their own flavor anymore, which is why the uptick in sauces, spices and such so people can customize the taste to their own palate. Wild game is too 'flavorful' for their homogenized, over processed, bland standards.

The whole grass fed push is idiotic.  Takes all the flavor out of the meat to make them scrawny spindly and fatless .  Give me corn fed/finished whether it is wild or farmed.

[newriverfisherman1953]

I’ve killed deer that dropped dead on the shot and I’ve killed some who ran a ways and died. Can’t tell the difference in taste. Now, a rutted up buck is a different matter.