What's your favourite deer meat?

[Sharpie]

Muntjac for me. Based on quite few, and Fallow, and one Roebuck all shot by myself and properly hung. Roe second. Fallow rather bland. AFAIK muntjac mostly browse tasty things, whereas fallow mostly eat boring grass. Fallow stag in the rut was not very nice.

Tried some of the Lidl venison that I think comes from Highland game, so could have been Red most likely, or maybe Sika, or even Roe I suppose. Whatever it was (why can't they say on the packet), and was unimpressed. I'm guessing that they don't bother to hang it, just quickly in and out.

 

[RM100]

I do like both Muntie and fallow. Been eating fallow as my main meat for months now, so I like it the most.

 

[T.eddie]

What , no Moose steaks ? I've been marginalised lol .

AB

Haha I think your still better off being able to go and get them!

 

[StephenToast]

They're all good.

Never had CWD and only had sika once but had a lot of the other four and for flavour. Muntjac is my favourite.

I do like the large cuts you can get off a red hind though for sheer volume of meat.

 

[User00025]

What , no Moose steaks ? I've been marginalised lol .

AB

Mooses are only wee things, you need a lot to make a meal.

 

[Primate]

I find it hard to choose because I love Sika, Red and Roe. If I had to choose one it would be Sika I think, but by a very narrow margin over Red and Roe.

We don't have the other species here but I'm sure they're great too.

It's all about how you cook it as well!

Here are some lovely red hind rump steaks to whet your appetite:

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Nice work

 

[Mungo]

What , no Moose steaks ? I've been marginalised lol .

AB

I used to have a Swedish student who brought me massive chunks of moose meat.

The first time we cooked it, I followed the recipe she gave me, which was apparently a traditional recipe much loved by her family. It was extremely disappointing.

After that I cooked it as you would any big steak, and it was great.

I’m told that white tail is generally quite disappointing - what’s your opinion?

 

[spannulman]

I’ve eaten roe,red, fallow and munty and the munty was the most tender, but taste wise I don’t think there was much in it. Certainly I couldn’t tell roe fillet from muntjac. maybe it’s just my uneducated pallete?

someone wrote in our Latest parish magazine About the local deer and mentioned a young red which was caught on a fence Last year and despatched by “the authorities”. They offered him the carcass ( I assume it was shot, not injected) but he refused as he “only eats Venison from fallow deer”. I would have said no thanks as it’d been hung up on fence for days and had an infected leg wound plus full of stress hormones but cannot imagine a taste so refined that one would eschew all deer bar fallow.

a baseball steak from Red backstrap or a length of roe fillet would be my first choice.

someone told me CWD meat is lighter in colour, like pheasant rather dark like hare or venison. But have only seen one and that was from the car in Beds.

 

[alberta boy]

I used to have a Swedish student who brought me massive chunks of moose meat.

The first time we cooked it, I followed the recipe she gave me, which was apparently a traditional recipe much loved by her family. It was extremely disappointing.

After that I cooked it as you would any big steak, and it was great.

I’m told that white tail is generally quite disappointing - what’s your opinion?

I've always enjoyed white-tail myself . I will say that I prefer a doe or younger buck to an older animal though . You'll get some tough cuts out of an older , rutted up buck if you don't treat it properly . Out of them all , my favourite is Cow Elk , very tender and tasty .

AB

 

[Ajax]

Munty and Chinky in that order, not overly keen on the rest.

 

[User00035]

Sika.

 

[T.eddie]

Results are in as:
Muntjac
Roe
Sika
Fallow & CWD
red

Some of this has a potential caveat with availability but still interesting!

 

[Jon P]

CWD then fallow for me, I only got the chance to shoot CWD on one weekend and shot a fair few of them so stocked the freezer up well.
Main deer local to me are fallow , find roe to sweet and muntjac to livery.

 

[pitnie]

Guess there’s lots of folk not tasted sika then!

 

[mikiork]

Fallow mix with 1/6 pork