How to Take the Gamey Taste Out of Deer Meat 

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Matt is a natural at this RU-vid stuff. Really loving his contribtions. He comes across as learned, humble and authentic.

Another reason the meat tastes gamey is if you don't get a clean first kill shot, if the animal is wounded, and you have to track it, the adrenalin travels through the body. Thanks for sharing, as a First Nations/American Indian {I am Canadian.} i love this content, have a blessed day and prayers for granny.

I love the fact Matt is doing more in the videos, I have been the family butcher for over 50 years and love it better than the hunting

Matt is such a great addition to the channel and reminds me so much of my own father and grandfather. Can’t wait to see him in full grandpa mode in a few months.

Well, you've made a believer out of me. Think I've been passing on deer all my life because of that gamey taste I encountered in Idaho years ago. Sometimes it was freezer burn taste because we inherited what was cleaned out of the freezer from last year's deer to make room for this year's deer! It's a shame more people don't know or care about how critical the cleaning and the storing of wild meat is.

My heart goes out to anyone who’s never enjoyed venison. It’s very low fat and as long as it’s cleaned properly, it just can’t be beat.

Many people who have said they don't like deer meat probably haven't had the meat correctly processed like Matt shows here. It's really not too much waste since that part can't be eaten anyway. I never found deer meat to be real gamey, I guess because my family knew how to process like this. Thanks for showing & explaining so well. Yes, perhaps a video of the initial processing will be good. 😊

Matt your family is lucky to have you.

WOW, Matt's a natural teacher. I can totally follow his step-by-step!

I had a bad experience with deer meat when I was 18 and thought I'd never try it again. My brother in law, the hunter in the family, changed my mind. He made wonderful steaks out of it, and in his processing he mixed pork and ground deer and made a very tasty breakfast sausage. Thank you and Matt for sharing this wonderful and informative video.

I have always loved Venison. I'm the oldest of 5 girls, 0 brothers so our Daddy took us camping, fishing and deer hunting. My husband got a deer in Idaho 2 years ago, he and his son gutted and quartered it to fit in our larger freezer in our motorhome for our trip back to California. At home my husband butchered it with care like Matt. My husband 93 is in amazing shape. I have a difficult time keeping up with him at age 69. We do go fishing here in northern California as well as in Idaho each summer. I adore your family and watch all of your vids. I bought the new cook book and left a 5 star review. I love you all in Christ. Warm hugs to you all.

Love hearing him say what you usually say at the end of each video. Very informative. Thank you Matt

We just had deer for dinner❤ crockpot deer roast with onion, green beans, and potatoes..with buttered homemade bread..delish! We butcher our own too. My husband doesn't want someone else touching his dear 😂👈see what i did there😂 Also if you take 4lbs of deer and 1 lb of bacon ground together its delicious. Makes great burgers Save them scraps for olive dog food😊

Great job guys, Matt is a natural at being in front of the camera 😂

Rare is the Best ❤❤

I found this realty interesting. I thought Matt came across so natural. It was like we were standing in your kitchen with you.

You have brought back memories of e as a very little girl watching my father, grandfather, and uncles dress their and tells lots of stories about their exploits. Thank you, sir

Ohhhmyygossh, #1 this made my mouth water #2 I wish I had some #3 when I was first married we would have starved without deer meat. I'm ALWAYS thankful for the life of the deer that maintained OUR life. Oh oh...#4 my mom would have me go to the cellar and grab a jar and MMmmm, BBQ venison on buns...😊

Hi Matt. I’m with you on meat being rare. Lamb is another meat to be cooked rare. So delicious. How blessed your family is to have you as the head of the home. Liver also should just be sliced thin and barely cooked, Yum. Thanks for such an instructional video.👏👏

Love when Matt takes the lead. Thanks.

Great video, Matt is a natural RU-vidr

The Bearded Butchers channel just did a whole deer break down which includes the names of the various cuts and everything laid out in a diagram. Matt might find it interesting to watch.

Matt you did amazing!

Thanks Matt, I enjoyed the video and I can clearly see that you know a lot about preparing deer meat,

Great job with the video Matt! It makes me happy to know you hunt to feed your family and not for sport.

Thank you for taking time to teach us this much needed skill.

Good job, Matt. Thank you for the detailed tutorial. My husband used to clean our deer, but since he passed in July of 22, I have been learning to do it myself. I even bought a grinder and get beef fat from a local butcher to add to the grind. It makes a great burger.

Right on, Matt! I did my deer the very same way with the same level of attention to detail. I agree with what you have said in this process! All the very best, Gordon

I would feel very comfortable Matt eating deer meat that you cleaned because you remove the membrane the bone and the fat. Great job.❤😊

A fine episode of Matt’s Corner. He makes a number of important points, but none more important than the overall idea of harvesting a deer, whether by arrow or bullet, is not the hard part. The work only begins at that point, and that work is oriented toward not only feeding our family, but of honoring the life and spirit of the deer, as well. The meticulous care of the meat Matt exhibits here reaffirms both purposes. It will help those who don’t understand hunting or have never experienced it, that there is a spiritual component to it that has nothing to do with the number of points on a rack. There is a connection back to a creator who put these creatures here in abundance, and a reminder of who we are supposed to be when we harvest while mindful of our blessings.

Thank you Matt. I must admit I have never cleaned anything larger than a gulf Amber Jack. At least now, after watching and listening to what you have graciously shared, I at least now know to keep it clean, clean, clean. Thanks again, to you and the family for gifting us a new wisdom for those interested in learning. Many Blessings. Cora

I love Matt videos. I'm so happy for you all that he could retire. Hope to see him front and center in more videos soon.

Way back in my early twenties I helped process a deer, much the same as Matt has done. A few of the smaller muscles we thinly sliced on an angle to make small steaks! A light flour coating w/lemon pepper & a few minutes in a hot pan = heaven on a plate! Thank you for a great job. It does make a huge difference.

In Wisconsin the deer are corn-fed and they taste incredible... What do the deer eat where you hunt... PS... Love your channel and lifestyle... You have a great family !!!

Living in northern Canada..we have no deer but our aboriginal background has been sustained with the moose..a bit larger than deer but the same we all agree tasty and today still rely on the moose hunt every fall season..Mahsi (thank you) for showing this..all the best and someday maybe a moose hunt in your future😊

Yep Matt is an awesome dude!

Thank you, Matt. You have trimmed and revealed some beautiful pieces of meat. 😋

I'm 60 and have always ate and enjoyed deer meat. I have some in the freezer now that I plan to make into jerky and gift it at Christmas. Lol, almost everyone in my family would rather have it than store bought gifts.

Must be nice to have a husband, who knows how to cook!😊

Great job Matt! All deer hunters should see this. Thank you Matt I enjoyed this! Many can benefit from this video Tipper and Matt.

Thank you so much for this video. I sincerely hope i never have to process a deer but if i do, i will have the correct knowledge to do so. I love learning

Wow! I was searching how to get the gamey taste out this afternoon and came across Matt's video for dressing the deer so I watched that. I saw this pop up tonight and I thought "my phone is serving up content I searched for" only to see its a new video. You read my mind!

God bless you Matt, you got a good family, 🙏♥️, you are good people!!

Great job Matt! I could never do that with deer meat it would never come out that clean. You’re a good husband and father and soon go be grandfather! God bless!

Tipper, I make deer or moose meatballs with a cherry tomato inside with a red wine sauce. A surprise when you bite into a meatball and find the tomato or tommy toes as you say. Great job done by Matt with the deer meat, wild meats are so good for you.

Love this video from Matt, he knows his stuff

Thanks for teaching us how to process 🦌 deer meat .you did a excellent job.

Thank you for sharing your butchering skills Matt. Good video

Great video, thank you Matt. Good to see you so comfortable and natural in front of the camera and passing on those skills is more important these days than ever with so many not having access to the tried and trusted ways of doing things.

Matt your knife is razor sharp. You really know how to use it. 😊

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and keep your videos coming please.

Thank you for the lesson. Very interesting. My husband has the job of "harvester" at our house. Turkeys, chickens and meat birds. We are looking into doing our own Pigs and Steers soon. My job is preserving it all. Both equally hard and rewarding. Happy Fall. 🍂

Matt and Tipper, What a Great Educational Video Thank you for doing this for all of us. I haven't eaten a deer in years because of the taste i wish I knew someone who would take the care you do. some would even say you are honoring the deer by taking the time to use and clean the meat taking the time to do it right. I wish more would be this way about it. I wish You Tube wouldn't be that way about things like this in my opinion they are some other things people post they should be concerned with but they make the rules. Hope you all have a wonderful night sending you Blessings and Peace 🕊️ PRAYERS FOR GRANNY 🙏🥀🏵️

I went to an event in 1984 near Raleigh, NC where deer meat was cooked and served. They dug a hole in the ground, put hot coals in the hole, wrapped the meat in aluminum foil, then filled the hole back with dirt. Several hours later it was dug up. Absolutely the best meat I have ever eaten! Don't know how they prepared it for cooking but, since the host of the event was in the restaurant business, I'm sure something on the order of what Matt does in the video was done then. Somehow, I got the impression this cooking method was used in Texas. And probably nobody knew back then that use of aluminum foil was considered a health risk. Once in the 1950s, my father's older brother gave him some deer meet which Mama cooked. It was good but nothing like what came from the hot-coals-in-the-ground way. Deer were so scarce in eastern North Carolina back in the 1950s, you weren't allowed to kill them on the eastern side of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Times have sure changed! I have seen deer within a couple of hundred feet of the apartment building where I live. Excellent video, Matt!

My dad used to go hunting for Deer every year in Maine and Vermont I always made sure he cleaned the meat like you do I never liked it gamey flavor but once you clean it right it is delicious!

My son got a deer this year he processes his own too. Glad yall got deer this year

Thank you for your family sharing 🙏

MATT YOU DID BRILLIANT YOUR A MASTER GETTING AT THIS YOU TUBE STUFF I REALLY ENJOY WHEN YOU BOTH ARE ON, LOOK FORWARD TO KATIE HAVING HER BABY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.XX FROM IRELAND

You are spot on. First time I ever heard someone other than myself say this about deer meat. Good job. Totally enjoy your commentary.

I never was keen on deer meat until a work friend brought some cooked deer to work. That was some of the best meat I've ever eaten!! He also made deer jerky....which was also delicious!! It became like a fall 'thing'. So for ~ 7 years in the fall he would bring deer cooked in different ways for our work group. I really looked forward to that!!

Enjoyed this a lot! Great job explaining the process. My husband and his dad processed their deer the same way! Grandpa hunted until well into his 80’s. He had three fingers cut off in a saw mill accident, but he could still butcher with his bad hand better than most. He died at 92. The meat was always clean and good. I’ve fixed it to eat every way imaginable. But fried tenderloin with gravy and fried taters is my husbands favorite. WV deer are still plentiful, especially in the road! 😔 I enjoy all your videos and they remind me so much of us! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. God Bless!

My youtube habits have kept me from seeing your work on the home page for awhile. What a great bit of information from Matt. I'll call it "The Matt Show!" From a mans perspective, I like his calm manner in explaining his work. Sometimes we all get in a step 1 2 3 mode as guys. I can't connect with anyone that says meat is to "gamey" for them, but I like this method of minimizing the worst of any taste complaints. (garlic clove or onion tends to richen the taste in my experience. As in cut and push several cloves into the meat itself, on a roast. Learned that from one of my cousins.) Thanks and blessings.

Great way to explain on cleaning the meat.👍🏻👍🏻

Tipper your family is Blessed I was looking at Venison in the supermarket it was from New Zealand it was 9.99 for a pound Another one was tenderloin it was $2.75 an ounce it was 32.99, the ground was 8.99 for a lb I am up here in the mid-atlantic and I know people in the further northeast like Maine New Hampshire they hunt and people in my state in rural areas they hunt also but if you live in the suburbs you go to get Venison Or any of what they call Wild game meat up here it's expensive so you guys are blessed that you have an excellent Deer Hunter/butcher because when I watch the game warden show most of the people go to get it processed and some people do it themselves and it's a looks like a lot of work kudos to Matt

I like the way he described what lil animals do w the deer innerards....lol

❤❤❤Thank you both and God bless

Matt you do a good job. We have cut up our own meat my entire life too and it sure makes a difference.

Good Job with video Matt. So glad you included the part about having a good sharp knife. Cleaning the meat is much better with the right tools.

Great video, Matt. Brought back memories of butchering meat with my brother and mom. My brother takes care of his venison like you. It is so delicious. We cooked the trimmings for the dogs and cats and froze it to add to their regular food. God bless. Prayers for Granny.

I just spent $40 on a beef roast at the grocery store. The work you are doing is definitely worth it. I have never tried deer, but I would try yours. My brother used to hunt, but he just hacked it up. I would never try it. Cleanliness was not a priority for him. 😂

Very informative video Matt thank you for exsplaining the reason why deer meat can have that game taste now I understand why there was a funny taste why I refused to eat it so now I understand it has to be cleaned and trimmed in order for it to taste good

Good Job Matt 🦌🦌🦌

Amen. This guy knows what he’s talking about. I do my own wild game butchering and roughly follow this method. I trim off and toss everything that’s not solid lean meat. My meat is never gamey. Wild hog is more forgiving. The fat tastes good and I trim it like a butcher would a farm raised hog. Got to toss the glands just like deer though.

Oh my goodness, that was amazing! I never liked deer meat I know why now. Great video Matt!

Thanks Matt, appreciate the tuition. I had often wondered about the gamey taste.

Matt you found a new job. Great advice thanks for sharing take care and God bless you and your family 🙏

Thank you Matt !👍

That is the nicest job of trimming up that meat I have ever seen !

Im interested in seeing your cleaning out video Matt. Great information! Thanks so much, Penny from Iowa

Very interesting! I've been hoping for a video like this. I grew up butchering chickens so I've not been able to imagine a whole deer! A lot of work indeed! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Enjoyed your teaching Matt. 😊 Patti

I felt like I was watching my husband. 😂 He says the same thing that Matt does. The most important part is cleaning it quickly and cutting it up ourselves. Don’t trust others to do that for you. We bottle most of the meat also. Ted loves to open up a jar of meat heat it up and make a gravy and have it over mashed potatoes. Thanks Matt love your insights.

I had venison for the first time over Thanksgiving. It was a roast my grandson had got a deer last Sunday. We very marinated it like you did and we cooked it. It was absolutely delicious and thank you for showing this video.

Mighty fine job Matt. I do the whole deer myself. My wife tells me to take it to the processor so I don’t wear my back out cutting, grinding, and cubing it all day but I feel I have to do it myself. God bless your family.

Thank you very much Mr. M.! Not that I think I will have the opportunity to prepare a deer for table use...pushing 70 but you never know. You are a logical artist. I have eaten...deer...bear and moose in my life...just a taste but enough combined with the unfortunate gastronomic encounter with poorly prepared "wild" meat to convince me that your prep makes total sense. Get rid of the silverskin and bone. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that a long time ago anything even resembling a modern day hybridized cow would have been "gamey" too if not cleaned the way you did in this video. Thank you very much...Jo From southwest Ontario.

Yum thank for showing your hunting expertise.

Great job Matt, we have been sending ours to a processor, and I bet he loaded everything in the meat, like sausage and burger. Now I know why it taste like it does. When I take some out, I'm going to do some trimming. Thanks

Very interesting! I’m going to pass this on to my deer hunting friends!

Matt I really enjoyed this video I never knew why I didn't like venison now I know ignorant cooking and ignorant cleaning. Thank you 😊

Hey Matt, great video. I like the way you prepare the venison, although very labor intensive. Thanks for educatin us all. God bless

Matt is a natural and in his element. I truly enjoyed this video. 😊

I enjoyed watching Matt clean up the deer for canning. I am getting ready to can some deer meat myself. Canning is the way to go in my opinion. Its fast and easy to warm up. I always make a good brown gravy with it from the liquid in the jar. Thanks for sharing Matt. Your ending was spot on.

This was very helpful to me! Thanks so much for posting this! This is nice of y’all to do this video! Thank you again!

If deer is gamey, then it was not cleaned right for sure. That is the only meat my cousin's family will eat. They do their own also. I had one processor I used that I trusted and they made the best chorizo spiced ground that I loved! He also made some dried sausage that was good too. I usually get an axis which I like more than whitetail. I take the bigger hogs we get and soak them in a cooler filled with water and enough salt added to float an egg... takes about 3 Morton salt cartons to do that. But I only do that in Jan or Feb when the temp outside won't go over 42, so I can leave the cooler outside. Good job Matt! Yall have a great week!

Those cuts of meat did look nice. Deer meat is wonderful!

Great video Matt! I'm sure, like a lot of commenters, I have had the poorly cleaned meat because it was gamey. If I knew you killed it, cleaned it, and cooked it I'd eat it. Otherwise, I guess I'm going to have to pass. I'm glad you take pride in providing for your family and you should because it is an honorable thing for you to do! God bless and prayers for Granny!

Thank you! This was so clear and very helpful.

Thanks Matt, that meat that clean looks darn good to me.

I appreciate your response! My next visit going to pick up a package Hoping it will be as good as I remember!!? I'll keep you informed!