I haven't ever gotten a sour stomach from eating deer meat.

 

I've never felt that way from venison.

 

Ditto!!!!!!

Bisch

 

What else did you have with it? Maybe something you prepared it with was going bad?

 

The first time, cubed with a little flour, the second time was just salt and pepper (sirloin tip) in a pan with some olive oil. I'm wondering if it is just a reaction from the smell of dried blood. When I field dressed her, I got some blood on my right sleeve and the smell the next day wasn't pleasant. Of course, with that in mind, anything similar in smell was a little off putting especially since I butchered the whole deer that morning. Like I was saying, it's been a little less noticeable each time so far. By the way, the level of nausea was very light, I might not have noticed if I wasn't looking for it, make sense?

 

Sometimes high content protein will make you have a sour belly. Venison is very protein rich

 

^^ This.
Your body is not used to organic grass fed proteins..

 

It could be a mental thing as well. Back when I was just a kid, my mom made spaghetti using ground venison. My sister always refused to eat venison, but really liked the spaghetti......until she found out it was made with venison. She immediately threw up after finding out.

It wasn't the venison that did it either. Because venison had find its way into meals since then, my sister just never found out.

 

Never for me. Does the meat smell fresh and good? From your description I can't imagine its not.

 

Does the meat smell fresh and good?.

Yes, I smelled each cut and it smells fine. I did mention this before but the "deer smell" in the meat isn't bothersome *but* the smell of the dried blood got into my nose and it's an exaggerated smell of the meat.

 

I always get a "sour stomach" when I don't have any venison...lol

Deer are leaner and wilder animals than cattle. Venison—even taken from a slob, cornfed buck in the Midwest—has less fat than beef does. Three ounces of lean beef contain, 247 calories and 15 grams of total fat. Three ounces of venison contain 134 calories and only 3 grams of total fat. Most importantly, venison contains about one sixth the amount of saturated fat that beef does. Venison has more protein: 26 grams to 23 grams in beef. The only category in which venison loses is cholesterol: 95 mg to 76 mg in beef...

 

This. Maybe you are just going through withdrawal from all the chemicals and fat you are not getting from venison! Probably the oil you cooked it in. But it's not the meat itself if you processed it like you said.

 

Problem is you should have used butter! Butter is always better than olive oil...:wink:

 

Can you be sure that you didn't cross contaminate any of the meat? My question would be at any point did the meat make contact with un-sanitized surfaces (cooler, table, back of the truck, etc...). The meat may have been tainted and messed with your stomachs.

I have never been nauseous from eating venison and if both of you felt the same way I would be careful. It is definitely not the meat itself but maybe you somehow got bacteria in it.

Venison has very similar protein level to beef (almost identical) so it's not the protein. There is less fat and less saturated fat in the venison as well.

Was it possibly gas pain? The only reason I ask is because when I eat venison (usually once per week) my family better watch out because I will get "deer farts" for the next several hours. Let the talk ensue but it is true......

 

Can you be sure that you didn't cross contaminate any of the meat? My question would be at any point did the meat make contact with un-sanitized surfaces (cooler, table, back of the truck, etc...).

I can't be certain that I didn't cross contaminate anything. We did take great care in making sure everything was as sanitary as possible. I more or less cut her up in my kitchen the same way I'd work with any large cut of beef, turkey, chicken, pork etc.

 

Definitely the olive oil. Try frying it in canola or peanut oil. I know when I use to much olive oil it makes my stomach hurt. I have really got into grilling it only and love it!

 

yea dont use olive oil man..use butter and no it shouldn't make you sick its prob all just in your head...sounds like you did all the preparing the right way and congrats on your first deer

 

And don't forget, your deer are probably feeding on GMO filled crops (soybean, corn, etc..). They'll be healthier than the typical farm raised beef but are they really organic??

 

Nothing is really organic. The air we breath is polluted and the water we drink is polluted. Even rain water will have chemicals in it so unless farmers are watering their animals and crops with filtered, distilled water, nothing they grow/raise is actually "organic" like people would want to believe.

 

Did you eat it in a similar portion size to what you'd have if you ate beef? Venison is a very rich meat and if you eat too much of it you can get a bit of a sour stomach. A family I'm friends with would prepare an entire platter full of beef steaks for dinner and clean them up pretty easy. When one of the kids got their first deer, they prepared a similar sized platter full of deer steaks and cleaned them up and everyone in the house had a sour stomach that night.

 

You are just not used to it. If I take some time off eating elk or deer I tend to get gassy and a little upset. It is normal. Just the purity of it.

 

Cross contamination is not a problem if you cook your meat. Its just not.
It is a new meat for you and it will taste like venison, not beef. You'll be fine, just getting your mind and gut used to it.

 

Agreed. It's just your body adapting to it.

If there was something wrong with it, you would have much more than a "sour stomach". But seriously, lose the olive oil...butter is so much better with venison for pan frying...or better yet take it to the grill with no oil at all.

 

Are you drinking alcohol with your meal? Perhaps a bottle of wine? Alcohol plays funny tricks on your digestive system when you drink with a meal.

But I think its all in your heads. You are overthinking this. Try making some taco's or goulash with your ground meat and see if you get the same reaction.

 

Mmmmmm!....Tacos.

 

Nope. Just gas.

 

Yes.......my god me too! It never directely make me feel sick but if you get a whiff of the gas I make after eating it you may get sickukey:

 

Well, I can't figure out how to do on my phone that I can on my laptop. I would have just highlighted your 1st sentence. It is your 1st deer. You just took the life of a living creature comparable in size to humans. It's very primal and satisfying, but it was still life. My 1st deer messed with me when I ate it the first few times. Of course the taste of venison made any ill feelings I had disappear. The others may be right about your bodies adjusting to the natural proteins. It's most likely in your heads...you did state that you may not have noticed it without thinking about it.

 

I'm thinking its in your head. I too recommend grilling it.

Try taking some thin sliced steaks and tenderize them. Then sprinkle some Montreal streak seasoning, and let it sit for 8-12 hours. Then get your grill hot, and grill those, and just so you know they will cook VERY fast. Like 2-3 min per side.

 

That sounds tasty!!! I love grilling deer steaks.

 

nope

 

Venison gives me a woody!

 

Venison can give some wicked farts......

 

What the hell kinda deer you people eating??

 

I have known of people to get a sour stomach after eating fresh deer meat. Fresh camp venison has sent more than one person running toward the bushes. The Deer processor I use lets the deer hang in a cooler for at least a couple of days before he butchers and freezes them and I have never had a problem.

 

I try not to eat fresh deer meat, I have but then again I have eaten deer meet for 50 years. But If you are willing to try a little experiment try letting your deer age in ice and keep it well drained for 7 days. first learn how to de-bone your deer, saving very good cuts of meat. Then pack it in ice in a ice chest for 7 days then cut up and package also remove all connecting tissue and silver skin. You will have nothing but pure red meat that to me is a cut above beef...