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    Treat Bison like Beef? Your thoughts and suggestions, please!

    My wife recently bought Bison tenderloin and I was wondering if the same cooking techniques such as reverse sear and others apply for this meat as for similar cuts of beef. Any thoughts you can offer will be great appreciated!

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    I would treat it just like beef. It is a bit leaner than beef so be aware of that. I would just add salt, pepper, gran garlic and onion. Then let it roll. Post some pictures of the finished product so we can check it out. Bison is good stuff!!

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    • Ray
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      Thanks, Spinaker! This comment about leaner makes me thinkI should apply butter before serving...what do you think?

    • DeusDingo
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      i would think if you are going to "apply" butter it would have to injected. spreading butter on top won't penetrate the meat

    • Spinaker
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      True it wont penetrate the meat. But I have never said no to anything being covered in butter. If you RS correctly, It won't be dried out. Ray

    #3
    If you've ever cooked with 100% grass fed beef, it's about the same as that. For SV processing, I find a bit of oil/butter/beef love in the bag is helpful. For traditional cooking, I find lower internal temps are good. If this is farmed buffalo, taking it two degrees lower on reverse sear shouldn't be a problem.

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    • Spinaker
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      Beef love is amazing.

    #4
    Tenderloin is pretty lean on beef also, so not that much difference. Other cuts as ^^^ are much like "grass fed" beef. A dollop of melting garlic butter on top of a medium rare steak is always a good thing!

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      #5
      Bison is amazing, I cook it the same as I do a steak.

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        #6
        Is bison gamey at all? Seems like I've read it can be, but can't say for sure.

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          #7
          IMO no more than purely grass-fed beef.

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            #8
            TheCountofQ
            I've never found it to be gamey, but taste is very subjective...
            I eat lots of it, very easy to come by, here!!!
            Do ya like venison?
            Some folks think venison is very gamey... I am not in that camp.
            It jus' tastes yummy, to me!!!

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              #9
              Well, the Bison steaks turned out great! In fact, so great that they were consumed quickly and I missed a photo opportunity...sorry....haha. But I treated them like beef steaks and the same technique worked well for these. By the way, the applied butter is just for flavor, not to make juicy. Actually, I was surprised that even as lean as these cuts were, they were quite juicy when cooked to 130-135F. Many thanks for your advice!

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