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Meat Processing at Home: Process and Preserve Your Own Venison with These TipsAlthough hunters take their venison to meat processing facilities, anyone can process their own meat at home, given the right conditions. There's no better feeling than knowing you harvested, processed, and prepared a meal out of game meat yourself. Once you understand how the entire process works, it can take less than half an hour to complete the major processing steps. Let us show you how to process meat at home suc …

There are lots of reasons hunters are hesitant to process their own deer: What if I mess up and waste the meat? Will turning the kitchen into a processing center drive my spouse or partner out the door for good? Am I equipped to get the job done right?Processing deer at home isn't as scary as it seems, especially with the right preparation. And there are a lot of benefits to skipping the processor. Here's a quick rundown of what you need to know to approach the job with confidence, and get it do …

Venison pastrami, so good yet almost always prepared so wrong. There seems to be a lot of misinformation on the web when it comes to preparing venison pastrami. One of the big missteps is when the cook tries to prepare it as you would traditional beef pastrami. This entails brining, smoking the meat until "well done" and then steaming.The steaming process is where things go south real fast. Why is this? As you know venison meat is very lean and once you cook it north of 150 degrees, the meat bec …