Insane $ to have daughters deer cut and wrapped/ pepperoni

[longknife]

When we got her 87# doe this year(antlerless youth permit), i decided to take it to a locker, so i could hunt the rest of the time in Winthrop. Well when there, i just decided to go ahead and have them prosses it, and do 30# of pepperoni, and the rest, into steaks, and 2 roasts. It ended up costing me $260!
I understand the $3 a pound for the pepperoni, and pork fat price, and no complaints of its quality, but $150 to cut and wrap the remainder #20 is insaine!!!

Am i out of line on this? I know its been a while, but it used to be a by pound bassis.

Lesson learned, and am going to do it myself from now on. Or take it to Jhon Tuss on Camano Island, EXELLENT pepperoni, and sausages!

[Bigshooter]

That's crazy.  I have some friends that had there deer cut up this year.  And it was .50 cents per pound cut and wrapped and $3.00 per pound for summer sausage.

[JKEEN33]

Most places I have been are a flat 90-100 to cut the deer then the per pound to make pepperoni  or whatever. I've gone to cutting my own and taking whatever I want made into pepperoni or sausage in later.

[lokidog]

Pepperoni is pretty easy to make yourself, just need a grinder and jerky/pepperoni gun.  Oh, a smoker is handy too.  Summer sausage is a little tougher as you need a much larger stuffer.  I will be sending mine out for SS.

[longknife]

Yes, i will definatly take the scrapps in to the butcher, no more $ being thrown out like that!

By the way it was Thompsons meats in Twisp, i would use them for a locker but thats it. (should have went with my instinct, had to drive over there also).

[coachcw]

I took a buck to owens and told them to perperonni and jerky the whole thing. they never called me . three months later i called them . the guy told me he was afraid to call me cause it was so much money . it  was $ 360.00 wont do that again !

[JKEEN33]

Pepperoni is pretty easy to make yourself, just need a grinder and jerky/pepperoni gun.  Oh, a smoker is handy too.  Summer sausage is a little tougher as you need a much larger stuffer.  I will be sending mine out for SS.

Do you have a good pepperoni recipe? I have been tempted to make my own, but hate to ruin any meat experimenting.

[longknife]

I have made summer sausage, adding jimmy dean Sage to the meat, and smoked, came out awsome! Just trial and error for additives for me, and small batches.

[lokidog]

Pepperoni is pretty easy to make yourself, just need a grinder and jerky/pepperoni gun.  Oh, a smoker is handy too.  Summer sausage is a little tougher as you need a much larger stuffer.  I will be sending mine out for SS.

Do you have a good pepperoni recipe? I have been tempted to make my own, but hate to ruin any meat experimenting.

Weathergirl just went online to find a recipe that sounded good to her.  I think a lot of the packaged spice things have directions and recipes.  There are probably some on the forum in the recipe part as well.  WG's was quite mild.  We added lean pork choulder instead of strait pork fat like some recipes call for.

[Huntbear]

We never let anyone touch our meat, except to do pepperoni and sausage.  We take the hour or so out of an evening to butcher a deer.  Elk it usually takes a bit longer, but we have more guys doing it as well. 

We are working on getting our own stuffer and doing our own from now on as well... although many think it is easier and more sanitary to just pay someone to do it for you....   

[WonkyWapiti]

For my deer on the eastside, I've got a friend that has a meat locker and gives me a deal on butchering.  My buddies dad
and I then make up the teriyaki stick and german sausage using his smoker.  It's not that hard to make up your own teriyaki
stick just tedious and time consuming.  But I gotta admit that little teriyaki sticks are a much bigger pain in the butt
than the german sausages.  My last elk I had on the westside, I took it to Dave Andersen in Cle Elum and he did a great job
and was very reasonable.  I've had several buddies take their elk to him for cut and wrap.

[JColony]

Hate to say it, but I spent $280 on my bull elk and I got 30lbs of breakfast sausage, 30lbs of Italian sausage, 12lbs of summer suasage, steaks and roasts cut and wrapped, and 90lbs of ground.  I think you may have gotten taken   Did they at least do a good job??

[Stickerbush]

Helping my buddy butcher his deer was some great fun! dont know about all that sausage and pepps though. little more complexed. I spend enough money on tags and gas I dont foresee paying anyone to do anything I can do myself

[steen]

I'm just glad we do our own and some friends animals.  Did 3 elk, and 17 deer so far.  It's better to make a few bucks than spend it.

[bobcat]

Definitely an insane amount of money to spend for processing a deer. It always gets  expensive when you start adding pepperoni or sausage into the mix. You can really save money by cutting it up yourself and it only takes about an hour or so. Take a portion of the meat in later to have pepperoni/sausage made if you wish. Much cheaper that way.