What is the best tasting critter?
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To me coons taste like pork. There is a gland that looks like a kidney bean in both front arm pits you cut out and trim the fat. Then I boil them till the meat is failing off the bone. Scrap the meat off into a bowl and mix in our favorite barbecue sauce then in the oven at 350 for about 15 minutes to thicken it up then on hamburger buns with a dill pickle. It is like the most tender melt in your mouth pulled pork sandwich you ever ate.
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Boar = dry rub , massaged into the meat and put in the refrigerator for 24 hours , then on the smoker over Alder wood or peach wood .
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I guess it depends upon which animal(s) you’re asking. I don’t think humans eat some of those. For me, none of the above. Moose meat was the best to me. Hands down. A cut of moose steak, grilled over a wood embers. And where’s venison? How did deer not make the list?
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How many chipmunks does it take to make a meal? I mean is each one a single bite? That's a lot of skinning and cleaning............
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Cooked/roasted rabbit, ducks and geese, and boar for osso buco, bacon and sausages. ah yes the goat...
I don't eat deer way to dry, but moose is fine.
I don't eat deer way to dry, but moose is fine.
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Charbroiled chipper snacksYou roast the fur off over an open fire, then you simply eat them whole…
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I like rabbit; squirrel is good too. I've never sampled wild boar, but it should be like pork usually is if prepared right. Those other critters I am a bit too squeamish to try unless I get to starvation level. I know that people have survived on a lot worse. I hope I never get there.
Deer, dove and quail are good. We don't have other gamebirds or big game here in Alabama that I can recall.
Deer, dove and quail are good. We don't have other gamebirds or big game here in Alabama that I can recall.
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Quail.
Best tasting wild game, by a long shot, specifically bobwhite quail. No gamey taste whatsoever. Usually more tender than chicken.
Close second is whitetail deer back strap.
Worst wild game meat = duck and turkey are bout a tie, both are tough, chewy and GAMEY.
Gray and fox squirrel are pretty good. Elk and venison are decent. Dove has a unique taste, hard to describe. Mourning dove and Euros both have real dark breast meat.
Wild pig tastes no different than domestic pig to me, although all the times I've had wild pig it was pulled pork style, so cooked slow enough to tenderize.
Had some stew with javelina meat in it once, also wouldn't have known it wasn't domestic pig, although they're not even in the same family of critter. Was told the javelina has some glands that have to be carefully removed, like the coon mentioned above by somebody else.
And supposedly the gamey "is all in the prep" but I tried various different methods of cleaning and cooking, never could stomach more than a bite or two of duck or turkey.
Best tasting wild game, by a long shot, specifically bobwhite quail. No gamey taste whatsoever. Usually more tender than chicken.
Close second is whitetail deer back strap.
Worst wild game meat = duck and turkey are bout a tie, both are tough, chewy and GAMEY.
Gray and fox squirrel are pretty good. Elk and venison are decent. Dove has a unique taste, hard to describe. Mourning dove and Euros both have real dark breast meat.
Wild pig tastes no different than domestic pig to me, although all the times I've had wild pig it was pulled pork style, so cooked slow enough to tenderize.
Had some stew with javelina meat in it once, also wouldn't have known it wasn't domestic pig, although they're not even in the same family of critter. Was told the javelina has some glands that have to be carefully removed, like the coon mentioned above by somebody else.
And supposedly the gamey "is all in the prep" but I tried various different methods of cleaning and cooking, never could stomach more than a bite or two of duck or turkey.
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I know most people refer to deer meat as venison, I can't. I was raised with the original meaning of venison, it is simply wild game meat from hunting. Doesn't matter what game. As with many words, the meaning somehow changes over time, but I'm stuck with the original meaning I grew up with.
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