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[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Here I see a lot of people who have been served badly prepared game. For any meat that tastes too gamey, if you're not sure how to prepare it, there are some tricks that work pretty much everytime:

  1. Make an infusion of ginger by boiling it for half an hour. Lot of ginger, the water must taste spicy. Then soak the meat in it overnight. It won't really live a gingery taste in the meat, so it's good for most preparations.
  2. Don't roast, but braise. Red wine, juniper berries, rosemary, cloves, bayleaves, and laurel are good with most wild animals and musky meats: deer, wild boar, mutton, rock goat, etc etc. Sheepmeat and goatmeat can also go with a lot of cumin, turmeric, chili, cinnamon and cardamom, if you want a more central Asian vibe.
[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Oyster. Anything with the consistency of snot that you're supposed to swallow without chewing isn't food. I can make my own salt water that tastes much less disgusting.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I quite enjoy a half dozen sea-snots (just fresh with a wedge of lemon please), but I can see the lack of appeal.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tucking into fresh oysters with lemon juice and tobasco is one of the only times I enjoy being alive

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

tucking in to anything salty with lemon and tabasco is also pretty good though

[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

As an oyster fan, I can confirm that different species make a pretty enormous* difference to both flavour and texture.

*within the confines of slimy salty shellfish meat

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to chew them?! I love oysters but I chew them up.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure you're supposed to chew them. I don't know how you're supposed to get any of the oyster flavour otherwise.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Hear me out. Have you tried them grilled in garlic butter with a little sprinkle of parmesan?

If it's not for you then you won't get any hate from me. I just wanted to throw that out there.

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[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Carp. Had it in poland. The toughest fish meat I've ever had, riddled with tiny annoying bones. Tastes a bit like discount supermarket proscuitto... not exactly horrible, but it was so much effort to eat the damn thing to boot

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Any "big game". Moose taste like swamp.

Venison can be good if it's properly butchered and stored. It so often isn't though. People will shoot a deer then leave it to hang for a day in 50-60 degree weather. Just gross.

Bears are too greasy. And they're too smart, eating them is just bad karma.

A lot of game meat can be good, people just have no clue what to do with the processing side of it. They'll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

[–] Jayb151@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

As someone who just bought land and is learning to hunt, this is a very interesting comment.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They’ll spend thousands of dollars buying the most ridiculous gear to kill the damn thing, and then just fail at butchering and preserving. Hunting is the easy part.

Sounds like advice that should be remembered.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.

[–] DisOne@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Crocodile can be a bit hit and miss. Supposedly β€˜tastes just like chicken’ but there was an extra flavour I can’t describe.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I can't speak to crocodile, but I have eaten a lot of gator. If it's not prepared properly it goes from tasting like water chicken to tasting like swamp thang.

[–] titter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

From my experience, between gator and frog you have

Gator: chicken with a hint of fish

Frog: fish with a hint of chicken

[–] Thebigguy@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Most freshwater fish sucks. And all offal is awful.

Edit: Mutton is also garbage tier meat lamb is pretty good though.

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago

An undercooked venison burger. I can't remember what it tasted like when I ate it, but coming back up it was very unpleasant

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cockroach (if that counts) and rat.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's the story with the rat

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We're just glossing over the cockroach, huh?

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a salt and pepper fried cockroach once. It was like a papery gusher with questionable insides

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Those words in that order are a pretty wild ride.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I ate a chicken ball dipped in spicy peanut sauce one time because my dad told me it was a chicken ball. It was the testicle of a chicken. It actually tasted fine before I found out what it was.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Woof. I haven’t had nearly the same adventures in meat as you have, but I can say that duck tongue is gross.

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Another one of those things that taste pretty ok if you don't know what it is. I think that's why hotdogs are popular.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly the less you know and the less you think about any meat you’re eating in general, the more enjoyable it is.

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[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Street food vendor was selling kabobs. Later found them catching and cleaning rats in a nearby alley.

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Any wild ungulate. I've had some rodents like squirrels and nutria and so long as you let the meat chill for a couple days, tastes surprisingly good! But I've had wild boar, deer, moose, bear, and horse and they was some pretty rough experiences.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Uni (sea urchin) at a Japanese restaurant. It was like cold fishy jelly. Although I'm told that fresh uni is different. Not gonna try it again unless someone else at the table orders it.

yeah, not a fan; I thought it tasted remarkably of how piss smells.

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[–] Tracaine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Human tastes pretty weird. Like pork but much more salty.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Dude, camel fat smells and tastes so bad

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

I wasn't a big fan of goat

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You said not lamb but lamb. Nothing will ever taste worse than the lamb steak I had from a high end Brazilian churrascaria once. It straight up had the taste and texture of poop. Thinking about it makes me gag.

That's also where I learned how much I hate filet mignon

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Perch and Catfish are pretty awful. Catfish more for the texture. Perch just tastes bad.

yeah, catfish can be pretty unpleasant.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and... Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I've had bad duck, too.

[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tasted like fishy dirt meat

I'm not a fish-eater in general, but I am an avid fisherman (I just catch them, the wife eats them,) so I've heard a lot of stories from my fellow anglers (which should, of course, be taken with a grain of salt, there's a reason they're called "fish stories")

There is a persistent rumor I've heard that some people will take catfish and other bottom-feeders like carp home alive to let them swim around in a bathtub of clean water for a day or two to sort of flush all of the mud and everything out of their system before cleaning and cooking them

Allegedly it's more of a southern thing.

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

That’s a really good idea, honestly. If your goal is to eat catfish, that is.

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Gotta be possum. That shit is musky

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