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Livestock with gamey meat feed on wild grass andwild food. Domesticated livestock is fed hay and other dried foodand the meat has a milder and even taste. Gameytaste is due to abnormal diet patterns.Gamey-meat livestock eats whatever they want and alsoeat a non-regulated diet.
Accordingly, how do you get the gamey taste out of meat?
Soak the meat in buttermilkovernight. Place the meat in a glass or ceramic bowl andpour in buttermilk until it covers the meat. Cover the bowlwith a lid or plastic wrap, and refrigerate overnight. The lacticacid in the buttermilk will tenderize the meat and drawout some of its gamey flavor.
Similarly, what is gamey taste?
Gamey is an interesting word to describe flavors.When you're eating something gamey the smell tends to bemore earthy than "normal" meats. Almost like a campfire, mushroomsand nuts mixed together. The taste often has an ironytaste kind of like liver (but not quite).
Meat flavor is a function of the sensorysensations of odor and taste. Odor has many differentchemical components due to release of volatiles, while tasteis sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and the savory characteristic ofmeat umami.