Elk Parts

[Beendare]

Anyone eat the Rocky mtn oysters?

Or cooking the head? [I have guys working for me that do a pig head a couple times a year and they say its excellent] Probably not a good idea with elk due to CWD.

I look forward to eating the heart...sliced thin and saute with a little olive oil, garlic salt and pepper....delicious

Liver- yuck

Kidneys and all that....never tried it

We usually try to cook as much meat as we can eat in the first 1/2 day or so as it is so nice and tender [before the proteins change]

[Swede]

I do not eat any guts or head parts. The parts I want are made into steaks, hamburger and stew meat. Sometimes a little will be made into jerky.

[saddlesore]

I like heart and liver,but they are bad if your cholesterol is high to begin with, so I don't eat them anymore. Tried oysters at a branding years ago.I can do without them.

[WapitiTalk1]

Just the muscle meat for me. No oysters, feet, inards, outards, etc appeal to me. That's stuff is for the predators and other elkwoods scavengers. They need to eat also .

[Da White Shoe]

My youngest boy is 11... he loves the RM oysters. I have to save the nuts off of everything.
I've never liked heart or liver, but, back in 1978...
the first year we hunted elk, my Dad cooked up a huge pan of liver off of my first bull.
I ate a lot of it and I remember it being just lovely...
We were all really starved down... and, it was MY bull, so... that probably had something to do with it.
I've never had it since...

[Roosiebull]

Heart goes into grind, liver either goes to someone who wants it, or my dogs get it...i can tolerate it, but not a fan.

Never tried oysters, but plan to, never eaten tongue but will this year.

I'm mainly a meat guy, but like trying all edible and safe parts at least once to give it a chance.

[BrentLaBere]

I've tried most of those listed but it was only for cattle. I haven't made the effort to take them from an elk. I worked with a crew of guys that boiled a cow skull and the meat tasted just fine. Not sure I would go through the work they did but I wouldn't turn it down.
If I had enough time and it was closer to the road, I would make the effort and try the the other parts. Liver and Heart