Venison Burger

[GRH]

What do like to mix with your venison, when making venison burger.

[B. Amish]

I don't add anything.

[89Bronco]

I don't add anything either. Coarse ground once through the grinder, make into patties, and maybe some seasoning as I'm frying 'em up.

[hotrod1]

I add some ground bacon to some of my venison then make into patties. Makes for easy bacon cheeseburgers.

[fishorgolf]

The way I like it is straight ground venison with some beef fat ground into it. No beef just some beef fat. This way you get the venison flavor and the fat adds some moisture as lean (I remove ALL fat) venison van be a bit dry.

[Hammer Handle]

When we grind venison, we make some plain...some with bacon (the best for frying and grilling), and some with bacon, hot peppers, potatoes, cheese, etc (all ground together).

There is a lot of great combos!!

[Ebiz]

I grind two different batches, one just plain venison for chili, pasta sauce, etc. The other I add beef suet or just beef fat, as mentioned above it gives a little moisture without adding beef taste and works better for grilling burgers.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I dont like to buy burger at all throughout the year. So I try to make my venison go as far as possible. So I do mix a about 50% veni- 40% Lean Beef- 10 % ground pork.. This is fantastic for just about anything. My whole family loves it.

[MNmikew]

When we grind venison, we make some plain...some with bacon (the best for frying and grilling), and some with bacon, hot peppers, potatoes, cheese, etc (all ground together).

There is a lot of great combos!!

Bacon works great for venison burgers on the grill.

2 lbs ground venison

1 lb bacon (i use peppered)

1 pack of Lipton onion soup mix

run everything through the grinder. I use a patty press and make a bunch for freezing.

[KEN W]

My wife and kids won't touch it unles it is 50-50 with beef.

[DonBo]

I sometimes add bacon (my favorite, about 20%) other times beef fat (10%). Like Dietz said, if I need to stretch it I will add some chuck to the mix.

Used to use pork but it doesn't seem to freeze as well.

[Scott K]

My wife and kids won't touch it unles it is 50-50 with beef.

Mine were the same way, I just stopped telling them it was venison, they never knew!

[harvey lee]

Same as 4wanderingeyes.

[MN Shutterbug]

I mix mine with egg and cracker crumbs and whatever spices are handy.

[spivak]

Straight venison. I've never shot a big rutty buck and that might be the reason why wife, daughter and I have always found it delicious as burgers, meatloaf, spaghetti, whatever. 2 does have gone that route this year already.

[Neighbor_guy]

I trim mine as lean as possibe. Then buy some fatty pork scrap,or fatback, trim it up a bit so it is mostly fatty meat and not a lot of the "other stuff". Then grind it about 80/20. My father likes his at 70/30.

Meaning if I have 2 deer and get about 40 lbs of scrap out of of each. I will have almost 100lbs of total grind after adding my pork. The 80/20 will make burger that is better than 90% lean.

I do soak my srap for a couple of days in the fridge or an ice bath, changing water a time or two, to pull as much blood as possible from the meat. Then grind twice. First with the coarse chop, then mix and grind again with the medium blades. And have NEVER had a complaint about my ground.

[Royce Aardahl]

Originally Posted By: KEN W

My wife and kids won't touch it unles it is 50-50 with beef.

Mine were the same way, I just stopped telling them it was venison, they never knew!

taste buds must be off if they can't tell the diff between deer and cow