Just for you NCB and RH
MUNTY burgers
i found i had a little venison to play with so with 2 munties in the fridge burgers were on the menu
first i stripped the whole carcass just keeping a couple of haunches as joints
then i cut the meat i stripped off into chunks or cubes around an inch in size
after that i took an onion and whole clove of garlic
finely chopped the onion and after peeling the garlic finely chopped that aswell
along with thes ingredients i added around 3lbs of pork fat/belly draft and cut that into inch chunks/cubes aswell
then mix all of these together in with the venison
now every thing is ready to mince
normally i would use the mincer in the larder , except that mincer works best if the meat is semi frozen
i did not hav time to wait for that , so i used the mincer at home, a little slower
but i can can hav a drink while i'm doing it
i put the mixture through the mincer twice
first on a coarse hole plate
while this is gonig on i take a bit of the mince and fry it up just to see what the flavour is like
to see if i need to add anything else
once happy i then mince it again on a fine hole plate setting
both coarse and fine together
mincer working on fine setting
next i lay out several wax discs , i use quarter pounder's (approx 4") from lakeland
after that i roll hand full of mince into a ball and place on the disc's, once you hav done a few you will get an idea of how big a handfulll you will need (approx 100grams is a gude line)
then place another wax disc on top of these , then use a hand held burger press , mine at home is a cheap amnd nasty plastic one but it works well
once done i use a metal fish slice to lift the burgers of the work surface and place them in fours into a bag, plastic ones are a little thicker and often the front edge is damaged
once all done and bagged up
pop them onto a tray and into the freezer this keeps them from becoming mis-shaped , you can then re-pack them in freezer once the burger are frozen,
76 burgers
now all done and time to tidy up
one last thing to do
cook one and try it
enjoy
stone