{"id":5094,"date":"2007-12-07T19:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T02:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/12\/07\/readers-question-gamy-venison\/"},"modified":"2007-12-07T19:09:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T02:09:10","slug":"readers-question-gamy-venison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/12\/07\/readers-question-gamy-venison\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#8217;s Question: Gamy venison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I had three deer given to me a few years ago and used most of the ground meat in chili but the rest is so gamy tasting that we don&#8217;t much like it. Will canning it change the flavor. I have only canned chicken and I love it that way. So easy to use and never any loss due to power outage. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nancy Foster<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, canning meat will not remove off flavors.  I&#8217;m guessing that  your &#8220;gamy&#8221; taste in your three year old venison (probably frozen?)  is freezer burn.  I&#8217;ve been told that if you soak the meat in milk  it will remove the taste\/smell.  I haven&#8217;t tried it because I don&#8217;t  freeze meat any more, I can it all.  Let me say here that I have  hunted for a whole lot of years and have never had a deer that  provided us with &#8220;gamy&#8221; tasting meat.  If you take care of the meat  like you should, bone and de-fat it, it should be very good.<\/p>\n<p>The next time you have abundant venison, why don&#8217;t you go ahead and  can a bunch up.  Everyone that tries mine says how good it is.  Even  people who &#8220;don&#8217;t like venison&#8221;. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had three deer given to me a few years ago and used most of the ground meat in chili but the rest is so gamy tasting that we don&#8217;t much like it. Will canning it change the flavor. I have only canned chicken and I love it that way. So easy to use and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}