How much

[Nsghunter]

How much of the white and connective tissue and tallow do you remove from your ground venison? This is my first attempt and my new grinder should be coming in around next week.

I cut a lot of smaller chunks off the deer for the burger pile but these pieces also have random white pieces of connective tissues and tallow on them. I haven't started to trim the pile yet and wanted to see if I needed to remove all of it or like 80%. I've never done a deer before and really want to start. I am just concerned that some of my meat might taste strong if I don't remove enough of the tallow and connective tissue. Sharing venison with people is one of my favorite things to do with it and if it tasted too gamey I would really feel bad. I also don't want to forsake a lot of the meat by over trimming.

 

[DaveB]

I think I have posted this before.

I used to trim all the silver skin and that results in a lot of wasted meat. Then, I started to grind my scrap coarse and fine and the plate caught the silver skin. Of course, I had to clean both plates and OH BOY THAT SUCKS. So I went and bought two extra complete sets of plates.

So, now, for my ground meat, I no longer trim off the silver skin. I cut out the fat, I cut out the glands (little brown things, bean sized) and I change plates.

Now, lets take a roast. I will remove the largest piece I can, wrap in COSTCO plastic food wrap, wrap in white butcher paper, seal with food grade tape, label, and freeze.

When I thaw i remove the silver skin and most of it comes off really easy.

Speeds up the butchering process by quite a bit.

 

[Wrangler95]

In my summer sausage I use nothing but pure clean meat.I trim away all the silver skin and tallow but I know I waste some lean meat but the sausage is great tasting!!I have to process several deer to do this but its worth it!!If I grind into burger Im not as particular and like someone said,the grinding plate catches most of the silver skin and tallow but you have to clean the plate often.If your boiling the meat to make shredded Bar B Que,its easy to remove what fat that is still on the meat after boiling!!