What type of deer do you enjoy eating the most?

[VSS]

My wife simply wont eat CWD , I eat them all . Doesnt even like the smell of them cooking

I don't blame her!
I thought she seemed a very sensible person when I was chatting with her at the show yesterday.
The above post confirms my good opinion of her!

 

[Devon Stalker]

Everybody has different ideas and tastes.
After decades of stalking, cooking and eating venison I have noticed the same breed of deer can taste slightly differently across the country.
I believe depending on what food they eat changes the taste.

These are my findings.
The female of any species is more tender and tastier than a male of the same age, due to testosterone levels.
Park deer taste differently to wild animals due to their diet.

1. Fallow.
Never had a poor tasting beast no matter what age.
In my personal opinion I would take an (Elwy Valley) Fallow yearling doe over any other panimal.
There are incredible crops of acorns in the valley and a great mix of flora too. Limestone rock makes them rich in nutients.

2. CWD.
Brilliant taste, a joy to extract and easier to skin than Muntjac.
(Although the fur shatters).
My wife thinks it's lamb when slowly roasted with mint so very versatile.
3. Muntjac, fattier the better. Harder to skin than CWD.
Not tried slow roasting with mint sauce yet. Still incredibly tasty.
4. Sika.
Could make second if a young doe. Prickets are great. Never shot a female.

Big drop off.

5. Red.
Firstly the extraction and then the unmistable aroma of red deer is my killer to the taste.
After dragging them generally in wet weather, struggling to get them into the chiller, butchering them, it really makes shooting anything else seem more pleasurable and tastier.

6 . Roe.
I've enerally eaten and shot upland Roe. Not lowland animals.
They've always tasted of liver or a slightly metalic taste (not from the bullet). A joy to extract compared to a red.
The majority of Roe I shoot are on the same ground as the Reds. They eat the same flora but taste totally different.

Although Welsh mountain Goat is not venison they eat the same food as a Welsh mountain sheep.
They taste very similar. Again younger the better.

Great to hear what other SD members views are on the subject.

A lowland red, ideally a yearling hind or pricket, from the South West is just as delicious as roe imho. Either slow cooked or straps on the bbq nice and pink.

CWD has for me a finer grained, almost pate like, texture. Delicious.

I just love them all (cooked right)!!

 

[CookM]

Sika hinds
Flash fried tender bits
Or roasted joints.
Mmmmmm.
I do eat whatever else l get though.

 

[Roebuck9]

I eat all venison but my wife will not now eat Roe, doubtful on Muntjac as it is so long since I shot one.
She will only eat Fallow so I have to keep reminding her that the fallow season is starting soon so we have to clear out the freezer for another animal.
The others I shoot on my permissions I have to give away to family and friends. I hope to try her on a Sika when my friend brings me one from Scotland. and hope this will work to have more venison.

 

[dan giliballs]

Roe for me

 

[The Optimist]

1. CWD
2. Fallow
3. Roe

CWD loin in particular can be sensational.

 

[gelert]

Well,my wife and I had the loin off a roe buck I'd shot a few weeks back.
Hanging two weeks paired with the Lidl 50p peppercorn sauce, sauteed mushrooms and potatoes.
She hasn't stopped saying how tender it was.