Aging already processed venison (???)

[MajorD]

I just got remarried last winter. :thumbup: :thumbup: My wife and are in a small condo for the next few years. Unfortunately I don't have any way to hang a deer. I also don't have a spare refrigerator to age vension quarters in.

Has anybody aged already processed vension in the refrigerator? Is it even possible?

Thanks!
Dave

 

[caseynz]

I would try getting the cuts you want to age vacuum packed and then you can keep them in your fridge for a very long time and they will age without degrading. I have friends who leave their vacuum packed venison refrigerated for 3 months from fresh.

 

[MajorD]

Thank you that is great information. Do you find that it is an effective way of tenderizing?

 

[mikeinct]

Dave, if you have a beer fridge...It is easy to skin & quarter a deer in the field..Place the quarters in clean plastic bags with ice around the bags to transport.I trim the good cuts from the spine bone neck etc..Fits nicely in a smaller bag with the heart..Front shoulders will need the fore bones trimmed with a clean hacksaw..Same on the knee joints..Five bags it all goes out..An avg. deer takes two shelfs in the bottom of a fridge...We let it sit on news paper in the open ended plastic bags for 4 to 6 days..The shoulders go whole into the freezer..usually we cook one roast the night we process/wrap meat for freezing...Taking apart the rump portions is easy..Wrap then freeze..Works for us..trimmings get turned into bambi burgers half pork half venison ground up...mike