so who eats deer tongue or other organs?

I eat heart almost always, liver from females and immature animals, but never any more from rutting bucks or bulls. I have no worries about contamination from "chemicals" it's just that rutting males have a lot of ketones from fat metabolism and hormones from ### activities that make the liver taste "flavourful". Tongue is good, I just don't normally save it - for no good reason. Saved my first moose tongue in ages a couple weeks ago, but it went to a family that wanted to try it.
 
Royzo said:
Robert Nicholson;This seems to be a prevalent idea about livers not being good. I can understand that from my own personal bias against liver, but what is making
others feel this way and more so recently?


It may vary in different areas but in some agricultural areas chemicals are said to be at fault. Just what I have been told.
Some of the livers I left behind were either off colored or had abnormal markings on them. Not being sure myself, I prefer not risking it.
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Thanks, that makes sense. The liver is the filter and if the enviroment is contaminated, it is going to show up in the liver.
 
We eat the tongue, heart, and kidneys from almost every animal we get. The livers are not much good during the rut, but otherwise are better than beef or pork liver.

The heart can be sliced and fried, but stuffed like you would a turkey, and roasted low and slow is delicious!

The kidneys sliced, cubed, and fried is very good breakfast meat.

The tongue gets boiled with wild cranberries, chilled, and then sliced for sandwiches.


Moose, caribou, woods bison, it's all good!

Bear tongue is never used, even though boiling it would make it safe, as it is one of the places that trichinae can be concentrated.
Ted
 
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Heart, tongue, and liver if in perfect condition. My fave is the heart, I slice it, bread it, then fry it with a few spices, nothing better in any animal!!!


Never the kidney though, I hate boiling the piss out of it, literally lol.
 
I love heart and tongue ...save a few livers but only eat fresh never frozen.years ago when I first started deer hunting. The family group would cook the heart and livers on the tail gate for lunch on a old Coleman stove with fresh bread ..yummy...Dutch
 
We gave up on organs... one of my xo-workers is a big fan, so I save all of the hearts and livers for him.
 
I used to leave it all to the coyote and racoons, but I now harvest the heart, liver and tongue from my deer and give them to a friend who's a bit of a "gourmet" chef. He does some remarkable things with them. The tongue weighs perhaps 10 ounces, but the heart and liver are substantial.

I still leave the kidneys and testicles in the field along with the other guts, and the brain in the skull..................
 
Ask anyone who has gone without food for extended periods and they will have a recipe or use for the entire animal. Other animals and bugs need to eat too so not a waste to leave it behind IMHO.

Tongue and cheek is the best part of most animals (no pun intended). Of course I am chinese by heritage.
 
I eat beef tongue once a month, but have not taken the deer tongue, it's usually bitten by the donar and it's rather small. The heart goes to my best pals, in fact it was in the slow cooker all day yesterday. They had some for supper last night and will be having some more for breakfast. As for the liver, we used to take it for my dogs, but it's too strong for them. When I have liver, I get some beef liver, I'm happy with that. So, nowadays the liver staying in the forest for the needy.
 
I try and eat anything that I have a decent recipe for.

I grew up eating heart/liver/kidney, so those are automatic for me.

Trying things like tongue and moose nose as I come across others who know how to prepare it right...
 
Stuffed Heart at christmas is great hot or cold. Tongue goes in the pot the night of the kill. Liver is fried with onions and the best of all is steak and kidney with onion and mushroom gravy. With a fresh caribou kill last weekend my menu for the next few weeks is taken care of. Now just have to wait for my dad to get his moose to add to the list.
 
Used to eat liver but have stopped due to possible risks. Heart is always tasty, but I usually end up giving it or other organs away to the school my wife teaches at, the science class gets to dissect them and most of the kids hunt or fish so it's a fun way for them to learn.
 
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Stuffed Heart at christmas is great hot or cold. Tongue goes in the pot the night of the kill. Liver is fried with onions and the best of all is steak and kidney with onion and mushroom gravy. With a fresh caribou kill last weekend my menu for the next few weeks is taken care of. Now just have to wait for my dad to get his moose to add to the list.
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Oh yes! And, if the kidney doesn't get fried for breakfast in the field, it goes into steak and kidney pie baked in an au gratin crust! One of the best meals a guy, or gal, can eat.

Ted
 
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