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I understand boar can be gamey which is what I dislike in venison. Sprouts Market had a sale on ground boar and I was curious. Hope I didn't make a mistake. I'm going to add some to a Korean stir fry which uses a hot sauce I mix up (hot red pepper bean paste, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, minced garlic and ginger).
Then found a paleo burger recipe which adds grated ginger, pimenton, unsweetened grated coconut, salt and pepper, fry it in ghee, serve with chutney.
Do you think that should be okay? Hate to waste food. I was hoping it would taste like pork.
The Venison and boar meat that I have seen at Sprouts are both farm raised and neither should taste gamey since gaminess is related to what the animals eat. Farm raised deer and boar are fed the same sort of feed as cattle and pigs.
I think if you like ground pork, you will find ground boar just fine.
"Wild meat" can be "gamey" if it isn't prepared correctly. If someone really knows how to fix it, it's delicious! I've had venison that was so awful I couldn't even stand the smell...and I've had venison that was so tender and delectable.....just depends on the PREP of the meat!
I am one of those who isn't a fan of any wild meat. I have, on rare occasions had wild that did not taste gamy but most does. I had Elk for the first time last year: it was way to tough and chewy for me, but spoiled brat enjoyed it. My dad used to do a lot of hunting so I was raised on wild meats to a degree. I do like wild meats smoked as in a salami.
Followup post to report I really like boar. High protein, low fat, not gamey. At least no gamey the way I prepared it. I will definitely buy again if it goes on sale.
Game meat that is "gamey" is meat that is not cared for properly, plain and simple. "Fishy" fish is also due to poor care, it should never taste "fishy".
Do yourself a favor and try to keep an open mind when trying new foods and always try to get it from a source that is diligent about proper care and preparation of such products.
For 40 years I lived in Alaska, hunted and fished for the great majority of my protein while there and was diligent about field care of those animals I harvested. All was exceptional table fare with one exception, a caribou that was in rut, they taste so bad that even dogs will not eat them, seriously.
Another big mistake people make is cooking game meat as if it were commercial beef or pork, completely different worlds. Game meat is exceptionally lean so other fat/oil and/or moisture must be added to compensate, also, if cooking any venison deer/elk/moose/caribou, or sheep, it should be cooked either medium rare to rare or cooked long, slow and wet, until it falls apart. To do otherwise will yield a tough unsatisfactory effort. Be patient with it.
Any pork/swine or bear should be FULLY cooked to prevent trichinosis parasite from surviving and infecting any who eat the meat.
Actually gamey-nish has to do mostly with age of game animal & sex.
A trophy male animal = maximum gamey.
Farm raised would suggest slaughter at prime age & condition.
Not true at all unless ; "A trophy male animal = maximum gamey. " is rephrased to; "A mature male animal in rut= maximum gamey. "
My opinion based on 40 years of successfully hunting Alaska big game. In fact, the best tasting moose I ever ate were more than one bull moose I killed, 1 young, 1 huge trophy bull. The same can be said of caribou I harvested with the exception I posted earlier. The same goes with dall sheep and black bear. Sex and age is irrelevant as far as taste, also, the toughest moose I ate was a cow I killed.
We were at a neighborhood dinner party last night and wild boar was one of the main dishes.
Oh my.
It was so so good.
We live in a spot of Northern California where there are wild pigs.
They do a lot of damage so the locals can harvest them with a “nuisance tag”.
The locals normally use a trap.
Last night our neighbors prepared an amazing meal for us.
My dumb butt thought they were going to do the exotic cook thing like a big barbecue or the underground cook thing.
No, they just used their oven and them little piggy’s were very tasty.
I don’t have a pig problem on my land but I do have some friends that raise pigs and I can buy or trade for a small one easily enough.
This is definitely on my must do list.
I see a cooked pig for our next 4th of July party .
2 smallish pigs with 35-40 or so people and none was left.
Good time.
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Wild boar.
