A few vinegared veggies thrown in on the side.
Yak meat is hot damn.
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Incredible
This plate was no slouch. zero slouch.
There’s a burger joint in a little town about halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe that makes yak burgers. Possibly the best burger I’ve ever had.
very cool. Anytime I see buffalo or gator, emu jerky, while I’m driving through the states I pull over to try it.
Only had it once but bear jerky is also good.
I don’t know if I’ve had bear jerky. Was it a roadside stand? Did you get the bear flavor and whaaat is bear flavor?
It was when I was a child and in boy scouts, one of the scout masters brought it. They had just legalized bear hunting in my area (limit of 2 per year and male adult only) so he made it him self. If I remember correctly it was tough meat with a slight gamey flavor.
cool, thanks. I’ve read that bear meat’s difficult to prep, but a lot of the jerky recipes I’m seeing use very simpler marinades.
This was probably around like 96 or 97 so like 30 years ago, sorry I can’t give more details.
All good. I actually make jerky fairly often, so the idea will rattle around in my head until I have the opportunity to try bear.
Ok, I gotta know, what’s it like? I’m imagining a cross between venison and beef, but what do I know?
pretty accurate, it has the fullness of beef and the grass-fed spiciness of venison, so a combo if they added up to more than the sum of their parts.
Yak jerky is my favorite kind of jerky and I started eating that in China, but up here instead of beef you’ll probably get yak with a lot of dishes, and it’s all grass fed because they take a lot of pride in their meats, and super super fresh because it’s cold most of the time and very dry so food doesn’t spoil as quickly.
It’s really interesting because it’s a very dense meat and it does have fat, but there’s no strings of fat or gristle running through it. So it’s super tender, delicious lean meat.
i was kind of thinking it has a little, organ-y blood taste to it a little bit, but that might be because it’s so dense while still being easy to bite through.
Hot damn indeed! That sounds incredible! How would you compare it to bison or beefalo, even?
I bowhunted in the upper E of N. Am in my teens & 20s, and love preparing venison for any reason, especially for others. It’s just 🤌🏼
It takes a couple of changes to how one might be used to cooking red meat (and maybe a bit more attention to the process, for some), but mmmm mmm, it’s my favorite red meat.
Until yak, it seems… 😵
I find yak more rich and easier to bite through than bison, but I’ve had both rarely, so maybe I got lucky with yak dishes and less so with bison dishes. As for beefalo, I’m not sure I’ve had it. Sounds good, I think I’d like the middle ground. Is it in supermarkets in the states?
Were you pretty successful during deer season with a bow? I am a big fan of venison as well, although a few years ago there was a store selling venison jerky in Colorado and I ate a crazy amount of that compared to all other freshly prepared venison I’ve enjoyed.
Definitely give yak a shot when you have the chance, you’ll dig it.
That makes sense, yep. I’ve seen beefalo (such a marketing term, ugh) in areas that either farm them or specialty shops otherwise, but it seems to be spreading? Keep an eye out, you might get lucky!
The way I was taught to hunt, I took one a season on average —unless a friendly local farmer have me a crop tag (license to harvest doe to help cull herd, safeguard fields), and that was always enough for me. Hell, I gave away cuts most times, too. That said, a key difference for many between bow and firearms (nevermind blinds, bait piles, etc.) when hunting deer is simply that the deer don’t often hear the latter, unless one’s a terrible shot.
On top of that, if one’s bowstring twangs upon release at a mere 20yds (one of the last possible sounds in that action), a whitetail deer has enough reaction time to duck below the trajectory of an arrow and then jump past it before it reaches the space they were in a fraction of a second prior. With a gun, they never hear the sound. (again, if one is properly, sufficiently trained) 😵
[PSA (not @ you) : if one can’t yet reliably, confidently make kills humanely, don’t fucking go hunting🥲]
Hahah “beefalo” is rough. I’ll keep an eye out though, I have to head back to the states next month, so I’ll have a fun scavenger hunt.
What do you think the max range is for a deer to hear the bowstring creak?
Thanks for the info, way out of my wheelhouse and very interesting to hear about. You switched from bow to firearms eventually?
Nope, I’ve never killed anything with a firearm, as a matter of fact.
Technically, though, because I did have an unfortunate experience once while pheasant hunting on a father & son weekend:
Hiked, walked, stalked, tracked for hours every day; but no viable targets for 2/3 days —until the last day, just as the sun eased into early evening (witching hour, low contrast, much better odds for stealth).
Trekked back to camp so proud, and then it was time to learn how to field-dress it. Pops starts off w/ nonchalantly asking if I know what happens when you cut a live chicken’s head off, (duh) and I recall getting just a few syllables of my reply out before his cleaver came down and my glorious pheasant instantly flipped the fuck out in a horrifying, unnatural smasm storm of feathers and spurting blood
…because I’d apparently KOed it w/ a near miss (and I was inwardly ashamed at realizing this) and he thought it’d be a fitting “teachable moment” to have me blood-track the bird corpse after it flew into the quickly darkening woods without its head or most of its neck, either.
Childhood in the 80s Midwest was… unique. 🙃
Oh, and btw, re: the deer + loosed arrow topic. I feel it’s less about how far they can hear your bowstring and more that any unexpected xor sudden noise will ruin your chances at that individual and any others they warn during their bounding flight from said noise (ie. you).
The bowstring, as the last possible oops before you take the kill shot, is used to underline the insanely tiny amount of heads-up a deer needs before bursting into fuzzy lightning form.
Ergo, you can do everything else 5x5 leading up to the hunt, and still get robbed by a few degrees off in your posture/grip and a fraction of a second.
Now, firearms? Meh. When you can clip any game from many 100s of yards off, that isn’t hunting… That’s just going to the grocery with more steps. 🤷🏼♂️🤣
oof, sorry for the wall of text.
I like walls of text, all good.
it flew into the quickly darkening woods without its head or most of its neck, either.
Whoaaa, did you end up finding the pheasant? How far did it get without a head? I’ve heard about chickens running around but not about decapitated flight.
What kind of bow did/do you use? I hadn’t shot a bow since middle school, so I bought a recurve bow and target while I was in China to practice with and learned real quick how physically demanding my new “hobby” was.
