How can I rid of wild taste from a fresh slaughtered pig?

STUMBLE 1...my husband likes the gamey taste of venison that feeds on pinecones and sage, but I don't. I prefer prairie game where it's been eating on grain fields all summer!

Poster #2 has a good suggestion and if that doesn't work, then you could give it back to the person who gave it to you. Sometimes, wild meat just is not as savory because of it's diet and/or age or whether or not is was under stress when it was killed ( running causes the adrenaline to flow and can affect the taste.)

It happens. better luck next time. Make sure you thank the person who gave to you and just tell them it's a bit too gamey for your taste, but that you really appreciate the gift. Add some homemade cookies or something so that he won't pass you up the next time he gets something by thinking you are ungrateful.

EDIT- Oh man, that really really bites!

$5 a pound? Oof-dee.

I thought he shot a wild hog and gave you half.

Call him and ask him if he is happy with his portion. He may very well not be, If he is, ask him if he would be willing to buy your half from you. If not, ask him if he knows someone who might be interested because you just don't like it.

If he is unhappy with it as well, perhaps you can go back to the producer and complain. I know I as a producer would want return business, so maybe they will work with you to get you a satisfactory product, ESPECIALLY at $5 a pound!!!

Hopefully, you can get it resolved. I feel for you.

Adding vinegar to the liquid you cook in. Season the meat with salt and pepper. Brown it in a pan in a little bit of oil. Add beef or chicken broth, or even water and boullion. Add a couple tablespoons of vinegar, balsamic works nicely. Add a sliced onion, 2-3 cloves of garlic, add other seasoning you like-the juniper would be good. Cook it on top of the stove for a couple of hours until the meat is falling apart. Drain the liquid, reserving some, and add some barbecue sauce if you like. The vinegar won't overpower anything but I find it tenderizes tough meat and removes gamey flavors from meat. It's a little gross to point it out, but the butcher obviously didn't hang the hog long enough to thoroughly bleed it out.

that gamey taste is why people hunt for deer, elk, antelope, moose etc, etc,. And a javelina feeding on juniper berries? That sounds like heaven to me.

It really affects the tste of the meat what you feed it before it is slaughtered. A friend of mine fed a cow a 25 lb bag of onions every night for two weeks ( as a dirty prank) and that beef reeked of onions when cooked. She also chased the cow , on horseback, for an hour or two every night that same two weeks. The meat was super tough. The guy that owned the cow was stone deaf so he never heard any of it.

generally, confident (in my view), regardless of the undeniable fact that it possibly relies upon on what style of get right of entry to to nutrition they have. in the event that they get into farm fields, enormously corn, they are going to have a better style of path with wild pig you have become greater energizing meat, so which you bypass each and every of the junk that occurs to advertisement hogs, like loading them up with antibiotics, then preservatives, and the long refrigeration and/or freezing that occurs between the time they're killed and the time you certainly cook dinner them. advertisement meat is possibly safer and in good shape, overall, yet you do pay a value in style. comparable ingredient with certainly clean eggs from a chicken. because of the fact the eggs you purchase in a keep are weeks or maybe months previous, you pay a severe cost in style for the convenience. a genuine egg, that became interior a chicken the day previously on the instant, has a thoroughly diverse, plenty brighter yolk colour and sits up contained in the pan larger (greater around than flat while it extremely is fried). And the flavour is like multiplying the popular style of egg by employing approximately 4 cases. persons are constantly bowled over while they style a clean egg, enormously fried. I hadn't had a clean egg in approximately 40 yrs while all of us started elevating chickens, and curiously had no recollection of what an egg became meant to style like. in basic terms undergo in recommendations that wild pig, like different wild creatures, hasn't been inspected by employing the USDA or every person else, so careful dealing with and finished cooking is extremely important.

I have no good solution for this. Would you think the taste is the meat gone bad? Was the meat cured correctly? If it wasn't, It may be bad for your health.