Hi Trad Gangers,

I was lucky to bring home some venison the other evening. I ground up some of the venison into chop meat. The question I have is should I mix the venison with chopped beef or pork? What should the venison to pork or beef ratio be? I need to get this done pretty fast so I can get the  meat packaged and into the freezer.
Thank you,
Larry

Easy answer, cook up some of what you already have and see if it needs anything. Some guys add bacon ends, pork fat etc. For burger I usually just grind the meat and throw it in the vacuum sealer.

I like to use pork---the fat level seems to be just right to compliment the venison, I generally do about a 20/60 mix---depending on how fatty the pork is you can use more if needed. Tastes great, too. Also works good if ground with some sausage.

I bring my hamburger meat to a butcher and ask him to add beef suet and he does for about 50 cents a pound  and it tastes great

beef suet is the fat from the inside of the cow and is very healthy for you

for salami and hot sticks i use pork fat beacuse it tastes better smoked!!!

I used bacon this year. @ 1# bacon to 10# venison. The smoked bacon gives the burger a nice flavor, too.

pork steak works also, usally on sale some where. Get some seasonings from a butcher supply and make your own breakfast sausage.

I grind mine without any thing added. I add whatever I want when it is time to use it. For chily, spaghetti and things like that I like without anything else. For meat loaf and burgers I like a little beef or pork added.
 Venison is cholesterol free so why add cholesterol to it unless necessary.    Pat

10 lbs deer meat , 2 lbs beef fat , 1 lb bacon  ............. grind together  ....... mix well  ........... package  ......... freeze   ............... grill ............ enjoy ............... better'n the best ground chuck !!!!!

The quickest and easiest way that I have found is to use the cheapest ground beef (usually the highest in fat) and mix it with my venison. 1 to 3 beef to venison.  All the variations above sound delicious.  I'll have to give them a try.

use it plain. Why take good healthy deer meat and add junk to it.You can add a little water if you cook burgers in a fry pan with a lid..I use it plain for my summer sausage also.. JMO

I 2nd the 1/10 bacon/venison.  Try it with taco seasoning in a burrito.  Venison was made for this!

I add 1-2 fresh pork breakfast sausages to a pound of ground venison.  Very light seasoning and just enough fat...Doc

Tastes great as is in chili.   Mmmmmm chili.

I agree with the 1lb beef suet or 1lb bacon to 10lbs venison. Yeild 90% lean ground venison if you don't add something you will have to add oil or something else to cook it and to make burgers stick together.

I'm with Pat and Geno.  I don't add anything to it.

i package my own meat...and what i do that works very well is just add a sliver of cheap hamburger with a pound package of venison burger... the sliver adds a little extra moisture to the meat when cooking and flavor...not enough extra fat to bother worrying about..

I add the cheap ground beef, then it doesn't matter what I use it for, patties or just brown, never have to drain the skillet either.  I a going to try adding pork to my bologna this year, as I understand it keeps it moist better than the beef fat.

MMMMMMMMMM venison burgers......plenty of good answers here Bud!

All these mixtures sound great! You can get bacon ends and pieces for a good price at your local grocery store.

I don't add a thing to mine.