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Deer is super lean so it is important not to over cook it. It is rare and medium rare at lower temps than beef. 140 turned out perfect for me. If you look around a little you will find a lot of folks recommend a done range of around 140 degrees for deer so you wont have to take my word for it...
I tried to remove as much as possible. If you compair the pics with the rub vs the pics beforehand you can see that a large amount of the fat and the silver skin has been removed. I found it impossible to get everything off. When I got to the finished product I really didn't notice the fat and...
I didn't feel like it was a lot of work. The process is broken up over the period of a couple of weeks so the prep is really just twenty minutes here and twenty minutes there. I had a second cured deer ham that I didn't use so I just put it in the fridge for Christmas. I thought it really...
Foiling is a way to preserve some of the juiciness of the chicken and keep skin from darkening all the way. Some folks smoke a chicken or turkey for only 2 or 3 hours (generally thought to be the maximum amount of time that meat will absorb smoke) and then wrap it in foil and bring up the...