influencing meat taste

[davidroberts30]

I know certain feeds will taint meat like onion/leek
but would fodder/sugar beet sweeten meat?

 

[johnspeehs]

Dont know about sugar beet but i saw an article in the Irish Farmers Journal talking about wine feed beef, don't know how much you would need to feed to give it any taste.

 

[Chae1]

Are they paying on taste yet?

 

[som farmer]

we had a feral limo, on the loose for 6 weeks, you'd see her once, but you couldn't find her, beaters next door, would see her run into cover, but although they were going through that wood, never saw her come out ! Shot her with a high power rifle, 400 meters, and lucky to get the shot ! Anyway, cut her up, for our own consumption. The problem, she'd been eating oil seed rape, we had to curry the whole lot, actually I think some got thrown away, it was rank.

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Don't Wagyu beef producers swear by beer ?

 

[mwj]

Don't Wagyu beef producers swear by beer ?

They will swear by anything to get the consumer to pay tthe high price!

 

[davidroberts30]

Don't Wagyu beef producers swear by beer ?

That's the alcohol giving the beasts the munchies...

 

[davidroberts30]

Are they paying on taste yet?

The last beast I put in the freezer(aa steer,400kg r4l dead) is 1 of the nicest I've ever tasted.
of course im biased
Just curious...

 

[shearerlad]

I was speaking to a guy that was involved with taste test on lamb. He, and others, had to supply lambs from different finishing systems. Grass, brassicas, pellets.
The worst was lambs from rape but the best was a blackie tup hogg finished inside on pellets in March.

Kinda knackers the ideology of grass fed is best

 

[Chae1]

The last beast I put in the freezer(aa steer,400kg r4l dead) is 1 of the nicest I've ever tasted.
of course im biased
Just curious...

Probably because there was plenty fat cover.

The 5 guys burger chain want animals for its burgers to be fed a grain based diet for a set amount of weeks before slaughter. Unsure of exact details.

 

[Danllan]

I was speaking to a guy that was involved with taste test on lamb. He, and others, had to supply lambs from different finishing systems. Grass, brassicas, pellets.
The worst was lambs from rape but the best was a blackie tup hogg finished inside on pellets in March.

Kinda knackers the ideology of grass fed is best

We have a few places with a hell of a lot of ramsons. We had a yearling wether who had access to them for a month or so and there was a definite flavour to him, very good when properly roasted - and I'm not a great fan of it generally. We also had one that ate a lot of feral mint, but there wasn't much to be tasted in him.

I've had a roasted lamb in Greece that was from a hillside covered in wild thyme and some other herbs too I guess, it was delicious. It really came through in the meat, but it was at a local wedding and I had been drinking...

 

[Agrivator]

we had a feral limo, on the loose for 6 weeks, you'd see her once, but you couldn't find her, beaters next door, would see her run into cover, but although they were going through that wood, never saw her come out ! Shot her with a high power rifle, 400 meters, and lucky to get the shot ! Anyway, cut her up, for our own consumption. The problem, she'd been eating oil seed rape, we had to curry the whole lot, actually I think some got thrown away, it was rank.

But it wouldn't have been bled properly, and just like a braxy lamb, or a grouse, or jugged hare, it would taste a bit Gamey.

 

[Dry Rot]

Lamb and rabbit fattened off heather tastes sweeter than grass fed. I used to shoot a lot o rabbits but gave them away because of memories of myxy. My 'customers' would tell me where I'd shot them and they said the same thing about lamb. The best is apparently lamb unweaned and straight off the heather.

 

[JD-Kid]

had lambs here that ate horehound and even the dogs would not touch it.
there is a lot to be said about some of the herbs and if used in cooking. would be worth trying to get in to the meat
rapes etc do leave a taint to meats
sweet things do help a lot gorse broom etc are good with taste
a lot of the buyer in the use were saying grass feed can make meat a bit waxy tasting compared to grains

 

[ShooTa]

anything fed with cake - to me - usually tastes bland and grey in comparisson to grass/pasture only

 

[scrubbuster]

I was speaking to a guy that was involved with taste test on lamb. He, and others, had to supply lambs from different finishing systems. Grass, brassicas, pellets.
The worst was lambs from rape but the best was a blackie tup hogg finished inside on pellets in March.

Kinda knackers the ideology of grass fed is best

It's funny you say that. The village butcher buys lambs direct from me which were always finished of grass. In 2018 I decided to creep feed. (Glad I did with the drought we had) I was nervous about it affecting the taste. The butcher and several of his customers told me it was the nicest lamb they had ever eaten.