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Offline blackhorn

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Elk meat?
« on: August 07, 2013, 09:23:22 AM »
How do you divide up your elk meat? Say you had 200 lbs of elk what percentage do you turn to steak, roasts, stew meat, burger, sausage, ect, ect.  Just curious I am still trying to establish a good ratio, always seem to have too much burger (not that this is a bad thing).

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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2013, 09:29:45 AM »
For any animal, I wrap hunks of the loins, T-loins and all large hunks of meat off the hind quarters for steaks and roasts.  I do not cut individual steaks, I freeze all the above chunks in 1-1.5 lb packages, enough for my wife and I.  All other meat on the critter gets frozen in 4-5 lb packages to deal with later as I see fit, primarily burger and sausage.  Some of the roast portions off the rear portions of the hind quarters will eventually end up as jerky also.  This seems to be the perfect mix for me of all cuts of meat.
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2013, 09:44:48 AM »
On an elk, I save about 5 good roasts for the holidays. Cut the best steaks, backstrap, tender loin. Bone the rest out to be ground into burger. I will also save some good looking chunks for stew meat.
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2013, 10:03:14 AM »
I will get 75lbs of haburger and sausage.... the rest i will have made into roasts and steaks
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2013, 10:22:17 AM »
I have a habit of drying out my roasts when I cook them, so I steak those, and mostly do hamburger

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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2013, 10:41:18 AM »
I cut the straps and tenderloins into steaks and grind the rest. 90% of the time i use ground meat for dinner or breakfast, just more versatile for me.

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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2013, 10:43:58 AM »
I have a habit of drying out my roasts when I cook them, so I steak those, and mostly do hamburger

crock pot the roast with Liptons Onion soup mix over the top and some liquid(beer,water,apple juice) in the bottom.  shouldnt dry out them
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2013, 10:53:36 AM »
I have a habit of drying out my roasts when I cook them, so I steak those, and mostly do hamburger

crock pot the roast with Liptons Onion soup mix over the top and some liquid(beer,water,apple juice) in the bottom.  shouldnt dry out them

 :yeah: Exactly! We use a can of beef broth as our juice.  :drool: Hard to dry on out this way. Give it a try!
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #8 on: August 07, 2013, 11:19:45 AM »
We cut everything we can into steak. The rest goes into a bin designated for grinder meat. ( I then sneak a bunch of the primo grinder meat and pressure can it for fajitas or stew meat etc...)  Remaining grinder meat is later ground with 50% pork shoulder as we make sausage.

If I want burger, we buy beef burger.
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #9 on: August 07, 2013, 02:30:49 PM »
Usually cut three or four nice roasts out then tenderloin and backstrap into butterfly steaks and most of the rest into hamburger. It is amazing how many people we have over that love the hamburger/taco/whatever until they realize it is elk. :chuckle:

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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #10 on: August 07, 2013, 02:34:10 PM »
I use to stay away from mostly burger but over the last 7 or so years the price of burger has become so high that I do not hesitate to burger great amounts of the elk now.
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #11 on: August 07, 2013, 03:25:27 PM »
have always done everything in steaks or roasts, they can always be done in jerk or ground if needed. scraps are burger or sticks but man I love me some elk steaks.

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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #12 on: August 07, 2013, 03:57:54 PM »
Don't forget that you can always turn a roast or steak into burger, but you CANNOT turn hamburger into a roast or steak no matter how good you are!!
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Re: Elk meat?
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2013, 04:06:54 PM »
I get every steak I can out of my elk.  The rest goes into burger.  No sausage.  Elk's too good for that, and fits the bill perfect for deer scraps. :twocents:

 


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