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Keith Patton

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I can answer questions regarding wildgame cookery ranging from venison, elk, buffalo, wild geese, duck, wild turtle, feral hog, javalena, wild boar, racoon, beaver, and woodchuck.

Experience in the area

I am an avid hunter and chef. I have run a successful catering business, processing my own meat, curing hams and making wild game sausage.

What do you like about this subject?

You can eat your mistakes.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

What other things that creep, crawl, slither, run and jump can be cooked and eaten.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

A cooked racoon looks like a big cat, and makes delicious barbeque. Turtle has up to 7 distinct "types" of meat on its body. It makes a delicious stew when cooked with coconut milk, sugar, salt and coriander.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

The flavor of game is affected by whether the animal is frightened when killed. The presence of adrenaline, and lactic acid in the flesh impairs the flavor. A scared animal is a bad tasting animal. Kill the animal before he knows what hit him.

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Julie	01/09/12	10	10	10
gary	12/05/11	10	10	10	verry helpfull thank you
Debby	11/28/11	10	10	10
Bob	09/27/11	9	10	10	Very helpful. I wasn't aware of the .....
robert	09/27/11	10	10	10	Thank you very very much. The response .....

Recent Answers from Keith Patton

2012-01-06 Frozen Wild Boar:

Julie: Meat in the freezer will keep up to 12 months depending on how well it is wrapped. What you need to know is that plastic is not impermiable. If you look at plastic under a microscope, it

2011-12-14 wild hog:

Gayle: There is not easy way to get rid of "boar taint" which is the result of hormones relased by the boar's testicles as it ages. That's why they castrate pigs raised for slaughter. The only way

2011-12-07 wild hog:

Ray: Fitting it into a crock pot might be a bit difficult unless you debone it. In any event, a crop pot will cook the meat by braising it. Braising is used for tough cuts of meat, as the just below

2011-12-05 coon:

Gary: You should make sure you trim all the external fat from it, as I found it had a disagreeable flavor. Braising it is probably preferable to trying to lard it with bacon fat. The pieces are not

2011-12-04 coon:

The musk glands are inside the front legs and inside the rear legs, kind of where the armpits or inside of the thighs would be. Look for an oily patch in the fur where the musk mats the hair. Your

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