A few vinegared veggies thrown in on the side.
Yak meat is hot damn.
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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.
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 awful. I will keep an eye out though, I have to head back to the states next month, so I’ll have a fun scavenger hunt.
You mean the deer hear the bow when you pull and become alerted? Holy crap, that’s crazy did a whitetail ever dodge you like that? What do you think the max range is for a deer to hear the bowstring creak?
As for the PSA, I completely understand. I eat more than my share of meat and think it would be experientially responsible of me to hunt, but I’ve also read memoirs by hunters and game wardens that have been very clear that I need to know exactly what I’m doing first. And I don’t yet.
Thanks for the info, way out of my wheelhouse and very interesting to hear about. You switched from bow to firearms eventually?
