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Elk liver is YUMMY!!!

Why not just eat dirt? Isn't it the same?

Yeah, I try to throw it away as far as I can...

Technically no, but in reality yes. I have eaten several livers from my red deer in Europe. Look up the red deer under its latin name and it is the same as elk. It was very good.

Goooood stuff, After the salt brine soak liver in milk for a few hours before prep. It takes the bitterness out.

That almost ended my hunting career! Was able to put it all in proper context.
I am glad to read no one suggested wrapping it in bacon. But I was hoping Mule Deer would chime in as he and the Mrs. might have experimented with it.

Had elk liver from my elk this past weekend. Great with onions and cooked over the camp fire.

Just had elk liver from a spike elk I killed. Soaked over night in salt water.

Always check condition of elk deer liver and this liver was in good shape.

Thin sliced, Dredged in in flour, salt pepper paprika, garlic powder.

Cooked in olive oil, onions


Very good

First, I've never eaten deer liver, but have red deer, which again has to be reel close. I've found this to be true of white tail and espically true of red deer and sika, a cousin of reds and W/Ts. It is excellent unless the animal is in rut. In that case, toss it! When I was in Africa, they soaked it in something oily, something similar to Italian dressing, and grilled on a BBQ grill w/onions. It was real good, but I haven't been able to duplicate it here. capt david

Yup I have but I prefer Peanut Butter and Jelly,my choice growing up in Elk camp over liver....Some of my family likes it so I usually bring it back butttttt if weight is an issue,the wolves can have it!!!

My Grandma fixin Elk Liver and I was gone....



Jayco

I have never tried elk liver but I do like liver from a young deer. Pork liver is my favorite. miles

Mrs Dash is the answer. That and cooking in bacon grease.

Well I see to some its great and to others its just dirt. Exemplifies a lot of extremes on topics we have here. I think for those who had experiences with the Depression or other similar hard times are more resourceful in utilizing more of what we kill. Not that it is wanton waste to discard the liver or heart, but a lot depends on your upbringing.

That is also true with what is used as food from farm animals.
Some of the old ways are disappearing.

It's always been a tradition in our Elk camp to eat the liver and hearts from the kills cooked over the camp fire with fried potatoes. I think it's good. One of our group grabbed a cold left over liver slice out of the pan the next morning and slapped it between two slices of bread and ate it for breakfast. He said it was good but I'm not sure I believe him. :>)

I ate a piece of my first elk's liver raw when we gutted her. It was horid.

For many years it was my practice to drive far out of my way to Burns, OR to give Francis Egan any liver I might have collected. With his passing I don't know what to do with the worthless things.

But Elk heart is mana from heaven.

Some like it some don't, I never been much of a liver eater of any kind. However liver & onions was always the traditional meal the night of a dear or elk kill. Soaking it in milk seemed to "sweeten" it up. Some was better than other, none of it was as good as the rest of the animal.

As a youngster some 50+ years ago one of my favorite sandwiches was buttered bread with cold liver and onions inside. Definitely must have been an aquired taste. As my dad used to say when I complained about meat or liver being tough he said- It's tougher when there ain't none.

Liver is guts and should be left with the guts. Now heart....

L...liberal
I...internal parts,
V...vaginally discharged,
E...excreted by
R...repulsive prostitutes

you eat it, not me !

You hit the nail on the head I think. My dad suffered the depression on the farm in Missouri, and strangly, I dont love liver, but I eat liver thanks to him. I will say that my youngest boy cussed liver, and while I was cooking it about 10 -12 years ago, the night before his uncle, granddad, and I left for Idaho deer hunting, I told him to try some of my first batch, and while I was BS ing with my brother in law and cooking the next batch, I looked around and Jake had eaten the entire first batch. He's liked liver ever since.