Whats the best supplement to add to ground venison for hamburgers? I heard pork fat....80/20? But where do you buy pork Fat?
Pork fat
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I get it free from Kroger’s. Just let em’ know ahead of time. I also get em for free from jungle jim’s.
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Buckmaster
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I’ve been getting quality smoked bacon and mixing a 90/10 ratio after removal of all deer fat. I think I found the recipe.
I don't like to add anything to my regular ground venison. But when I make a batch of "italian sausage" for making with spaghetti, I do add pork trimmings, which I get from a local butcher shop. Pork trimmings and pork fat are in fact different, so if you get straight pork fat you may not need to add quite as much.
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I add 72% ground beef at 8/1 mixture of vennison to beef. Just to give it enough beef fat to make some grease.
loose_is_fast
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Archertl
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I never add anything to my ground venison. whenever I make burgers I'll add a drizzle of olive oil or bacon grease. sometimes chopped cooked bacon or green onions or shallots caramelized in bacon grease. sometimes I add nothing. I like having pure ground venison to do whatever I feel like.
dante322
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I only add when making summer sausage, straight fat makes it too greasy. I prefer to use a fatty pork roast or shoulder. 10% seems to be the trick. But as far as straight fat, local butcher sells it for .75 a pound
I typically add nothing. Last week I ground up a few roasts along with some Wrights brown sugar bacon. About an 80/20 mix. Ended up with 28 patty's that were just over 1/4 lb each
Wife is majorly allergic to domestic pork, which totally sucks in the worst way cause I absolutely love pork, so I've been doing mine with beef for many, many years, much like what Joe mentioned above. At times during friends & family cookout gatherings, some have asked the wife where she buys her beef burger, which always brings a chuckle out of me when she shares those kinds of stories with me.
Funny thing is, the wife has no problem eating wild boar. I've been wanting to do another boar hunt over the last couple of years, but it hasn't happened yet. If we get through this crazy election year unscathed and the country isn't completely unrecognizable by next Spring, then I will try to put together an out of town boar hunt. I'll put out an invite for those that might be interested. Trust me, if you have not done one before, they are an absolute blast and I totally miss that delicious pork that come from those exciting hunts!
Funny thing is, the wife has no problem eating wild boar. I've been wanting to do another boar hunt over the last couple of years, but it hasn't happened yet. If we get through this crazy election year unscathed and the country isn't completely unrecognizable by next Spring, then I will try to put together an out of town boar hunt. I'll put out an invite for those that might be interested. Trust me, if you have not done one before, they are an absolute blast and I totally miss that delicious pork that come from those exciting hunts!
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Buckmaster
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Archertl
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Chinese markets are good for pork, in all its various forms. I usually chunk up pork bellies, and grind them in, at a rate of 1:4 (four pounds venison to one of pork belly).
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