Random Thought Thread

Killing a (mature) cow isn't very hard. Butchering a cow, especially without benefit of a hoist, bandsaw, and well set-up shop is a really big job (at least, if experience butchering elk at 1/4 to 1/3 the mass is any indication). Accomplishing that, plus getting the meat preserved (especially without benefit of electric freezers, preferably walk-in) is even harder. Big protein payoff if you can manage it, but not a trivial task.

Place up the road from me has yaks... they're smaller. Hmmmn...
 
Pretty big chunks of meat.

I butchered a lot of deer in my time, but nothing bigger. Deer meat is small enough that when you quarter it, you can put it on ice and it will chill pretty fast. But something big like what you're talking about, I think you need a walk-in freezer.

Or or, live somewhere like Matt Gregory chooses to live. Outside is basically the same thing as a walk-in freezer.

I guess it would be a walkout freezer?

I don't know. I do know there are areas in the country where people will wrap their meat to keep flies off of it and let it age in a barn.

Not going to do that around here though
 
fnordmorph said:
Place up the road from me has yaks... they're smaller. Hmmmn...
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True story- the zoo here had a couple of yaks they wanted to move as they had more than wanted. A guy I worked with convinced them he would take them in with a plan to use them for packing during moose hunts. The yaks didn’t behave as he planned, so he put them in his freezer. The zoo and folks who found out about zoo animals getting butchered were not happy.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
seriously dude it was like someone shoved like 4 of those cats that no one knows if they're dead or alive until you look at em in each one of her pants sides in the back.

I really wanted to find out the fate of those cats
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this was meant to be a text to someone sorry.


I'll leave it here though because its true
 
Made venison jerky for the first time ever last weekend. Why did I wait so long to do this?? Delicious. And great snack with power down rn. Another short/medium term food storage option.


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mb> said:
Made venison jerky for the first time ever last weekend. Why did I wait so long to do this?? Delicious. And great snack with power down rn. Another short/medium term food storage option.


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People who haven't tried good venison don't know what they're missing out on

It's not a common food. Not because there's something wrong with it, but it's just not efficient to commercialize. But because it is food and because it is different, people are wired to be suspicious of it.

Venison is a red meat like beef. But even more red.

Like any wild game, it can be funky if it has been eating funky things like red acorns. This is called being gamey. But that doesn't make it bad, that funk is just something you can learn to appreciate like anything else.

Like the meat at your grocery store, it varies in character and quality. But all of it is finer-grained than the best beef you ever had. Which makes for better jerky.

If you like beef jerky. You're going to love venison jerky, because it is just objectively better in every way.

It tastes different. Because it is different. But it is better. I will die on this hill.
 
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