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Processing Meat For Big Game Hunters

Hunting season is just around the corner and already has begun in the high country of the Rocky Mountains. Bagging and processing big game can provide a variety of your own tastes to supplement your meal menus until next year’s season opener. When you process the meat yourself, you gain the added benefit of being able to select your preferred cuts and grinds and add your favorite spices to the mix.

The process, of course, begins with dressing, cooling, skinning and quartering your game in the field. After you’ve returned home, you have a choice of turning it over to a butcher or a meat processor or processing it yourself. If you do it yourself, that can become something of a hobby in its own right. You get to call the shots on which cuts, grinds, spices and seasoning you would like to use and perhaps experiment a bit.

When you process fresh meat, whether domestic (e.g. from a nearby rancher or farmer) or wild, you need to pay close attention to the quality and capabilities of the equipment you will use. Inadequate processing appliances not only can transform a hobby into a chore, but can inject distasteful and sometimes harmful impurities into the process, especially if not properly cleaned after each use. 

Money spent on top quality machinery is a long term investment since it ensures reliable and easy meat processing for years to come and facilitates an enjoyable rather than a frustrating experience for the hunter after the hunt is over. And done properly, it provides many months of savory, unique alternatives to everyday supermarket fare.

There is a selection of manufacturers who produce high quality home as well as commercial meat processing equipment. One of the best is LEM Products, a small, family owned and run manufacturer in Wisconsin which concentrates solely on producing several families of top quality meat processing equipment whose capabilities are custom built to suit ranges from the occasional, once a year home processor to full time, every day commercial butchers and meat processors.

Visit www.PGBKitchenSupplies.com to see an example of a mid-range assortment of typical equipment such as slicers, grinders, mixers and stuffers at affordable prices for the serious meat processor. A range of different capacity, power (manual or motorized) and price to suit every need and budget is available and all units include free shipping, which quickly can become a significant addition to the invoice for larger and/or heavier items if charged separately.