My backstraps usually are cooked on the grill. Fried steak is usually hind quarter steak ran through the cuber. that said I do like it chicken fried in bacon grease but butter works just fine too. the cedar thing is odd though. Our camp is right in a huge cedar swamp probably 200 square miles and I never noticed a difference in tasted between the deer I shoot there and the deer I shoot at the potato farm that eat potatos oats and alfalfa. Only difference ive seen is the deer at the farm seem a bit more tender because they don't have to work to get there food near as much.