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Good meat tenderizer

Good meat tenderizer venison marinade do you use? I get when people ask me about cooking deer or elk.

But there is most definitely a place for a venison marinade here and there. You just need to know when to break out your favorite marinade, and when it’s better just to make it a sauce you serve at the end. The acid or fruit enzymes denature the proteins, making them actually a bit mushy, but we register this as tenderness when we eat it. What’s more, you should know that marinades cannot penetrate meats the same way salt-based brines do. The bottom line is that acidic marinades don’t tenderize meat, and those with raw ginger, pineapple or papaya juices just make the meat mushy. But when I marinate venison roasts, they are absolutely more tender than when I don’t!

And you are right, but it’s not the marinade that is making your roast more tender. But it is not the marinade that makes it tender: It is time. And a venison marinade will impart flavor onto the meat’s surface. Even a few minutes’ worth of marinating time will give you some added flavor in the finished dish because the flavorful liquid soaks into any crevices and cuts in a piece of meat.