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What Did You Do Today?
Russ:
Very nice Haul eric! Looks delicious!
Eric Krewson:
Dehydrated;
JW_Halverson:
I found a soccer ball sized puffball here once. We sliced it in inch thick steaks, drizzled with worcestershire and soy sauce and then fried in butter. I think they were some of the best steaks I have ever had!
Eric Krewson:
I killed a doe on Monday (rifle), the deer population has gotten to be few and far between and I needed to ensure I had meat for next year. I like to soak a deer in ice and water for a few days.
I opened the butcher shop to start to process the doe I shot the other day, it takes me a while because I trim every speck of membrane, fat, shot up meat and sinew. 4 hours of cleaning, cutting, grinding, making cube steaks, packaging and vacuum sealing only gets half a deer done and is all of the time I want to stand in the kitchen at one time. I will finish off the rest tomorrow.
As for my equipment, I traded 400 processed wild turkey feathers for the Cabela's commercial vacuum sealer, a friend owed me some money and was broke (she said), she offered me the cube steak maker that her late husband had bought for the owed money. I knew I would never get the cash out of her, she was the shifty type with a tendency to lie like a dog so I took the cuber. I bought the grinder used off eBay for $19, 30 years ago. It is one powerful son of a gun, I do a double grind with a 1/4" plate. I washed it the dishwasher on the bottom shelf last year and the chrome came off the outside of the grinding head but not the inside, lesson learned. I had washed it on the top shelf countless times with no problems
I finished up yesterday and washed everything for round two today.
Eric Krewson:
My brother was a butcher in a large processing facility for over 25 years, he said to never put your grinder blade or plate in a dishwasher because the abrasives in the dishwaher soap would dull them ever time.
I had always washed my cutter blade and plate in the dishwasher and sometimes had to stop the grinder to unwrap all of the sinew that had wrapped around drive shaft and was clogging the grinder.
I took my cutter blade and plate out to the shop yesterday to sharpen them. All I used was a sheet of crocus cloth to polish the edges, I put the cloth on the level metal feed ramp on my jointer and rotated the part in circles on the cloth. I would make 3 or 4 circles on the cloth then turn the part 45 degrees and repeat to make sure every surface was honed equally. I could tell that all of my edges were very sharp when I finished.
When I started grinding meat, I could tell that my grinder was working much better and not bogging down at all. When I disassembled the grinder for cleaning there was almost no sinew wrapped around the drive shaft at the plate.
My brother was right.
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