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I've never tried to salvage bloodshot meat, so I cannot comment on that.In my opinion, venison fat is pretty awful and I always trim as much as possible away. I add about 15% beef fat (which you can get from most butchers, I just paid $1.20lb) and grind with the venison. Even friends that "don't like venison" like this burger. Good luck!
Quote from: TomT on October 31, 2015, 11:35:03 AMI've never tried to salvage bloodshot meat, so I cannot comment on that.In my opinion, venison fat is pretty awful and I always trim as much as possible away. I add about 15% beef fat (which you can get from most butchers, I just paid $1.20lb) and grind with the venison. Even friends that "don't like venison" like this burger. Good luck!What he said.Unfortunately blood shot meat is just a waste. I wouldn't save any of it. I use pork butt/shoulder and just grind it up and use it as the fat. usually a pound or two of pork to about 10/11 pounds of venison. For making actual hamburgers, I use 3 lbs of bacon ends and pieces to 10 lbs venison and a half bottle of Worcestershire sauce.
I used to skirt the edges of bloodshot and save some, not any of the real damaged just the bloody but solid meat. IMO it tastes fine but since the information about lead traveling beyond the initial wound in the blood stream came out I have stopped doing this.As to burger I never add any fat and I do trim all fat off when cutting. Tastes fine that way to me and better for you. When making burgers I find they will hang together just fine if you work the meat a bit while making it into pattys. I usually add some onion powder, garlic, basil, oregano and Worcestershire sauce so when I finish working it in the pattys seem to stick together fine.
Sounds to me like you're familiar with the time and dedication it takes to cut and process your own meat.... I would say this: Is a few lbs of questionable meat worth risking your whole batch? Or inadvertantly turning someone away from wild game forever??? I'm not super particular but I alawys stop and ask myself, 'would I feel good feeding this cut to a non-hunter?' in the end you're responseable for your table fare. No one should judge your for throwing out bloodshot, dirty or spoiled meat. I've reluctantly thrown out most of entire front shoulders before.... Yeah it sucks but I put plenty of time in to every other oz of meat to make up for it. Don't sweat it! Keep the good trash the bad! Good on you for caring enough to ask about it.
blood shot meat and all the other trimmings can get ground up and turned into dog food. Depends on how accustom your dogs are to game meat. But our dogs take the lower legs while we cut the deer up so they dont mind the scraps.