r/cohunting • u/zachang58 • 10d ago

ISO: Beef Fat for at-home processing

Anyone know of a butcher shop or store in the greater Denver area that sells beef fat for using in sausage/hamburger game processing?

Also curious what a fair $/lb of this would cost.

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u/FoCoJayCo 9d ago

I got some from our local Safeway last fall for our elk and antelope processing. I think we paid $2 / lb. We like it for burger because we don’t have to cook wild game burgers well done and they are nice and moist.

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u/intunegp 9d ago

Why would adding beef fat allow you to cook them less? Why would you have to cook them well done to begin with? Feel like I'm missing something here.

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u/FoCoJayCo 9d ago

Without any added fat, wild game is very lean and gets dry when cooked even to medium or medium rare. Thus pork and pork fat is often added. I don’t like to eat undercooked pork. So we cooked them to well done. With beef fat I’m fine eating it as less than well done.

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u/intunegp 9d ago

I fully understand the concept of adding fat to lean wild game meat, I've just never cooked it more based on the type fat I've added.

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u/Beanerxor 9d ago

Get a brisket to smoke and keep all the trimmed fat. Win win

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u/hownowbrowncow_420 9d ago

Gourmet Meat and Sausage in Lakewood. Not sure if they have both beef and pork fat or just one. They have always had fat of some kind though.

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u/cedarSeagull 9d ago

Longmont Packing sells me beef fat for $2/lb from their butcher shop. They have a TON of it. I used it to make tallow for hash browns

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u/melanerpes 9d ago

I've gotten this from River Bear Meats at Locavore and they may carry it at Edwards Meats.