EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

If I could go back in time and had it to do all over again this is what I'd buy first. First would be a meat tenderizer. I have the cast iron coated with white enamal hand crank from cabella's. Cost around $175.00. Best investment you can do as far as meat is involved. You can cut your meat up and run it through your tenderizer 3 or 4 times and you can cut it with a fork. You can take the little pcs and run each one through one time then lay them together and run them again & the steak will get bigger . Deer or hog does'nt matter.
Big boar hog steaks that you can cut with a fork. I use this tenderized meat for: chicken fried steaks,,,cut in strips and make steak fingers,,,,cut in chunks and make stew,,, cut in strips and make beef tips over rice,,, lay cream cheese onion and a pepper and roll up in bacon and tooth pick and cook on grill,,,cook like fahitta on the pit,,, stir fry with veggies,,, ond so on .

You & YOUR FAMILY will really enjoy your wild game meat if you have this tool.  LAVON ,,, PS-- Next would be a good meat grinder. ;) then you'll have ,,hamberger meat,, meatloaf,, meat sause for speggeti,, taco meat. hb patties,,HB STEAKS,,and so on,.....and your eating meat with no chemicals ands your eating healthy.

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i've had a little 1hp meat grinder from Northern Industrial for about 3 years, and i can't imagine being without one now. it has the sausage tube attachments, so i've made around 20 to 30lbs. of sausage at a time. it's great for deer hamburger during season. and i love havin a freezer full of different cuts of deer and hog around this time of year. i do need to get me a meat tenderizer though. i still just use a mallet for what i'm cooking at the time.
and like Lavon says, it's all healthier than store bought meat. much healthier.

AMEN to all the above!! I need to get me a meat tenderizer though. I got a mallet that I like to let my wife use. I just tell her I spent some money........... and she gets the mallet out and goes to pounding steaks! ;D Works real good! (glad she ain't pounding on me ;))

I use a aluminum meat beater for years & a wooden mallet too but you have to beat the meat till its real thin before its tender. With the tenderizer you put a 1 in thick steak and it comes out tender and is still a nice thick steak,, also you can take any piece of meat from the shoulder or the neck cut with or against the grain & it comes out tender. you'll throw your hand meat beater away.

Lavon, is there anywhere local you can find those? Uh, ........dummy me. Nevermind. I just remembered I got a Bass Pro up on 288. Do ya think they would have them?

cabellas is where i bought mine. its cast iron and is enamal coated. i did'nt see one like mine at bass pro shop but they had a tenderizer of some kind though.

Do we got a Cabella's close by where I could look at them up close? Or, did you have to order and receive it through the mail? I hate buying high dollar stuff like that without being able to touch it and see it.

I do all my own processing and this sure sounds like something I'd be interested in.

aliied kennco in houston has them.i'll put a pic of mine this evening.

Lavon, do you get the tenderizer out for every meal.  Or do you tenderize in bulk and freeze it.

Also, I have been experimenting with some sausage seasonings and have not been completely happy with my results.  Anyone got sausage recipes they'd be willing to share?

Mark Duncan

I tenderize in bulk.the best sausage seasoning i've found is polish sausage mix for reg. link sausage and old fashion # 3 for pan sausage.cost about $3.50 a bag that will season 50 lbs of meat.i also buy my summer sausage seasoning ,and all the caseing from the same place.REO SPICE CO. OUT OF HUNTSVILLE TX. 936-294-0222

If you tenderize in bulk the same way you make sausage in bulk then its got to be pretty durable. Im suprised to see any teeth left on it

I appreciate the info.

Mark

Thanks for the info Lavon!