Ground Deer Meat

loriemholloway

So I have a hunter friend who has passed some ground deer meat on to me. I cook it up and notice a ton of fat?? I ask my friend if he added some kind of fat to it and he tells me he doesn't know. So down about it at this point. How do you account for something if you don't know what is in it?? Anyone know what the common practice of a butcher is with ground deer meat??

LauraDotts

They often add pork to ground venison in order to give it some fat content.

bmstee03

In my area they usually add pork fat to the ground deer to give it more of a 'hamburger' consistancy.

breeanreyes

my butcher adds 10% pork fat, otherwise deer and elk meat is way too lean and won't stick together (you absolutely do NOT eat deer fat, it ruins the meat)

Jindra12

Yup you gotta add pork fat into the deer meat. Otherwise it will be very dry!

sasu27

When we grind our own deer, we add 70/30 ground beef usually about 10% beef to 90% deer. When we have it processed you can have suet, bacon fat, beef or pork added to it around here. Usually all at about 10% fat. When I cook up my deer have a ton of fat, so your's may contain more.