How Moose Tastes?

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Im from Newfoundland, and grew up eating Newfoundland moose. I love it! One of my favorite meats. However, I tried some Alberta Moose recently. It doesn't taste anything like Newfoundland moose. Closer to beef if anything.

Is it that different, east to west? What does an Alaska moose taste like? I have to say i was disappointed, ill be bringing some newfie moose back with me next sept for sure.
 
Moose does taste a little different from place to place. Different growth of food and minor differences in food source. Also different water, terrain ETC. , I think it all plays a small role. For me living in Alberta I really like elk, moose a close second but elk is tasty. I have managed to get a deer the last 3 seasons for meat but a little drought on the elk for me and moose in the areas near me is draw, didn't luck out. I like to compare the slight differences in taste to say an atlantic lobster over pacific and other seafoods , just a different flavor under different conditions.
 
sigrunes said:
Moose does taste a little different from place to place. Different growth of food and minor differences in food source. Also different water, terrain ETC. , I think it all plays a small role. For me living in Alberta I really like elk, moose a close second but elk is tasty. I have managed to get a deer the last 3 seasons for meat but a little drought on the elk for me and moose in the areas near me is draw, didn't luck out. I like to compare the slight differences in taste to say an atlantic lobster over pacific and other seafoods , just a different flavor under different conditions.
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I find the difference between Newfie Moose and Alberta moose like night and day. I wouldnt even want the Alberta stuff. I have not tried ELK.
 
A moose that lives and eats in the prairies tastes different than moose that eats and lives in the forest. Beef from the maritime provinces is nothing like beef from Alberta either. Children can understand this explanation.
 
so then does an ontario moose taste different than a bc moose? ive had both, but not close enough together to tell the difference


where is the best tasting moose? what about deer? I know they taste different as little as 50km apart, corn and apple fed vs pine fed
 
So many variables. Guys taking moose from same area each year note differences. Young vs old, feed quality and quantity etc.
 
I live in farm country and deer here taste much better than the big woods deer I've shot not far from Alginquin Park.

Spotted fawns taste better than mature deer too, but you do need to tolerate a certain amount of ribbing for it...

Hey, I'll go empty out the glove box for ya... Why? So you can put your deer in the truck!

20 miles down the road...

Hey when we get home we should cook that deer ya shot... we can make a sandwich!


I'm sure the same must go for Moose ~ its just fluctuations in age and diet.
 
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danny45 said:
I don;t know why moose tasting like beef is a negative. In my family, if they taste moose and cannot tell they are eating game,then I win.
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Tricked my wife into eating alfalfa eating farm country deer for over three years. Told her those little chops were from the bottom part of the cow's leg (got real farm beef too). It was pretty rare she noticed anything was awry. Ever since she busted me everything I cook gets questioned. Not sure why, she told me many times how good my cooking was.

Moose is delicious though I don't get to eat or hunt it very often. My experience is that animals taste a little different depending on the feed. If moose is terrible, I would think it might've been an old bugger or maybe it wasn't field dressed promptly? Not getting that meat cool fast enough ruins more steaks than what it might be eating IMO.
 
stubblejumper said:
Exactly, I prefer meat that doesn't have a gamey taste.
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Well maybe its that gamey tastes that unique to Newfoundland moose, thats probably what im missing when i ate Alberta Moose. Its all in what your used too, i grew up on the newfie moose, so anything else just doesnt taste as good to me. I was surprised, as i figured most moose ate the same kinda stuff, so i didnt imagine the taste difference would be so drastic.
 
Well maybe its that gamey tastes that unique to Newfoundland moose, thats probably what im missing when i ate Alberta Moose. Its all in what your used too, i grew up on the newfie moose, so anything else just doesnt taste as good to me. I was surprised, as i figured most moose ate the same kinda stuff, so i didnt imagine the taste difference would be so drastic.
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I have eaten Alberta moose killed in our Northern swamps, that smelled and tasted like I was eating willow, and I have eaten Alberta moose taken in Camp Wainwright, that tasted almost like beef. I refuse to eat any deer killed where I live, because of the wild taste, compared to the grain fed deer down South. I also refuse to shoot ruffed grouse around Fort McMurray, because I don't like the taste, even though I very much like the taste of the ruffed grouse taken on the farms down South. When animals eat different feed, they tend to taste different.
 
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