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Went to a buck sale this Thursday.
They served a lunch at the sale....10 bucks a plate.
It was, as near as I could tell......a smoked, pulled mutton/lamb.
I realize that smoked mutton is a popular form of BBQ on the east coast somewhere.
Anyone do a low and slow BBQ on these types of critters?
I have some shoulders that would seem perfect.
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Mutton is very popular here. As a matter of fact, the area an hour or so north of me, Owensboro KY, is known as the mutton BBQ capital of the world. At least that's what they claim. It's cooked here just like the pork, low and slow. Good mutton is good, although I don't like it as well as I do pork or beef. As a matter of fact, mutton BBQ is the only way I'll eat a sheep. Tried lamb chops once, and lasted about 3 bites. https://youtu.be/dX1eyEBOm5s
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My mom used to serve lamb chops. I have never had mutton that I am aware of. Never was overly fond of lamb chops.
We have been making a lot of fig and blueberry preserves this summer. My wife was experimenting with ruby red grapefruit in the blueberry and it came out amazing. She played a little more with grapefruit and other citrus in the figs.
I have been pondered using it as a baste for a venison roast... and possibly rock fish or shark also. Not exactly sure why but they seems to go together in my mind.
I'd be glad to mail somebody a half pint if they want to try it themselves.
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i never heard of it. must be a regional thing down in Ky. does smoking take out the gamey taste?
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If someone told me I had to buy mutton in the next hour or die, I would have to buy and butcher a sheep.
Never seen it for sale anywhere.
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I just braised two small lamb shoulders.
Fantastic pull apart meat with great flavor.
Will have to smoke them low and slow, that sounds like another perfect application.
I'll take lamb over any other domestic meat every time.
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Enjoy it all folks, I grew up eating some lamb. I've never heard a good thing about mutton.
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i never heard of it. must be a regional thing down in Ky. does smoking take out the gamey taste? I've eaten mutton that was very good, and had little, if any, of the "gamey" taste. But, I've also had it that was so bad, I couldn't eat it. IMO, it takes a very good cook to make it where it will compare with pork BBQ. By the way, I'm referring to meat that's cooked low and slow, over a wood fired pit, not that stuff they cook in an oven, and call pulled pork.
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I just braised two small lamb shoulders.
Fantastic pull apart meat with great flavor.
Will have to smoke them low and slow, that sounds like another perfect application.
I'll take lamb over any other domestic meat every time.
Have to agree. Ex girlfriend was a vet. She got all the lambs the breeders didn’t want. Too much lamb is frozen Down Under and stays frozen a long time. Too long. Lamb chops over a hot fire. Maybe a minute and a half to 2 minutes. Fat carmalizes.......oh I can eat a pile of them. Phillips’s......LA.....inventor of the French dip. You can a bunch of different meats. Lamb and Blue cheese on a crusty roll........
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Well, this thread inspired me. Have a bone in shoulder roast over mesquite right now. I'm sure I'll have a pic or two later on.
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Ate a lot of mutton in my younger days...if the mutton is on pasture, it is darn good. If it's right off sagebrush country rangeland, it's hard to be in the same house where it's cooking, but my Mom used to soak it in lemon juice and crushed dry rosemary, which knocks the wild rank flavor down a bunch.
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Well, this thread inspired me. Have a bone in shoulder roast over mesquite right now. I'm sure I'll have a pic or two later on. Alright! I wish there was a better way to describe what we like to eat. Its not really mutton......sort of. Its not really lamb either. Its more of a combo. Usually eating a yearling ewe that did not breed. She is then finished on grass.....and maybe a little grain.
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As we speak about meat from a sheep are we differentiating properly between LAMB and mutton. There can be a significant difference on the plate/palate.
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Someone from England told me that the US has the best lamb. He claimed that in the UK, it was all mutton even if called lamb. Same with many other countries.
I don't know if that's true or not, but I do like lamb. Don't recall eating mutton or hogget, but I don't know how strict the labelling requirements are. May have eaten mutton when I thought it was lamb.
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I grew up eating sheep of all ages. Leg of Lamb is my favorite but I like it all. Good fatty mutton makes the best Tikka Masala ever, great kababs too. Indian and middle eastern recipes work well w/ mutton.
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Someone from England told me that the US has the best lamb. He claimed that in the UK, it was all mutton even if called lamb. Same with many other countries.
I don't know if that's true or not, but I do like lamb. Don't recall eating mutton or hogget, but I don't know how strict the labelling requirements are. May have eaten mutton when I thought it was lamb. We prefer hogget.
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I love quality Rack of Lamb or Grilled Lamb Chops. I had mutton and hated it as a kid. When I was about 20 I had Barbecued Mutton in Henderson, Ky. It was great! I would love try good BBQ Mutton again.......
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I love quality Rack of Lamb or Grilled Lamb Chops. I had mutton and hated it as a kid. When I was about 20 I had Barbecued Mutton in Henderson, Ky. It was great! I would love try good BBQ Mutton again.......
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my bro peddled a bike across the gobi desert ate nuttin but mutton the whole way
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Agree that mutton vs lamb is a variable. We buy a half or whole lamb every spring. I don't know that I have access to moutton or hogget. Regardless, I've smoked countless pork shoulders. Why have I never applied the same technique to lamb shoulder? No, that's a real question. This was out of this world.
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