Venison Burger

[Kimber1911]

Burger we usually use straight venison, for sausage I use 75/25 venison and pork shoulder. I have found the pork with fat is a good option, I have used pork fat only, but the mix of meat and fat seems to be better. I grind the two meats together, then add spices, then grind again.

[Lloyd Smale]

yup that's about like sticking to your diet by going out Friday night and drinking 20 lite beers.

[dale2242]

I went with 10% beef fat and it definitely gives it a beefy flavor.
I`m OK with the flavor but it won`t make a patty that will hold together.
It cooks up crumbly, which is fine.
We use it in tacos, spaghetti, chili etc.
When we had breakfast sausage made we had 20% pork shoulder added.
This is enough to make a patty hold together.

[rl69]

I don't add anything to my ground meat. It works well in chilly spaghetti tocos and such. If I want burgers I just add a little ground sausage to the mix

[toallmy]

I have started mixing around 2 -3 lb ground venison with one lb hot spicy tube sausage to make some delicious chopped steak with brown gravy .

[DLCTEX]

My butcher gives me pork fat trimmings free, it would go in the garbage otherwise.. I mix it it with my venison at 1 1/2# to 10# and grind. I brine the venison overnight before grinding.

[Kimber1911]

What do you use to brine the meat? Just salt water? Salt and sugar?

[Camper64]

For ground venison we use 1# fatty beef to 5# ground deer.
For breakfast sausages we use 1# bacon ends to 5# ground deer and sausage seasoning from Hy-Vee/Fairway.

[Tripplebeards]

I just grind mine up pure and don’t add anything. My corn fed deer taste great!

So much for everyone keeping their meat healthy.lol

Adding beef,pork fat, and bacon is like going to Mc Donald’s and ordering a salad...with fried chicken strips in it.

[JWFilips]

Don't know much about burgers....but when I had 100% ground venison I used to make a mean meatloaf out of it with my favorite seasonings and a nice chunk of "Fat Back" cut up in to small cubes! Would think that would work for burgers also!

[Tripplebeards]

Pure ground burger has trouble sticking together when making actual burger patties. You have to baby them when flipping.

I normally soak it in milk for an hour and drain before frying it up with virgin olive oil. Kills all the wild game taste. If I’m using it for bbq,chili,etc. I toss some brown sugar and seasonings in when frying it up and make sure to keep draining all the water and grease out every so often untill it fries up a little crispy. All the rancid wild game taste is completely gone by then and there no way you know it was deer meat.