Deer Processing BR

Processing fees are ludicrous this year. I just had a whole deer ground into 90/10 and it was $261 at one of those shops listed below.

Needless to say...I will be doing it myself from now on.

Tee Wayne's in Gonzales is pretty good.

Benoit’s in Addia

This year, I got one done at Bergerons in Covington and one done at Cutrers in Kentwood.

Bergerons:
$275
Split between brown sugar/pineapple sausage and burritos.

Packaging of the sausage was good, packed in a chamber vac. Casing is bullshite. It's the softest, most delicate casing I've ever seen. Tears apart and comes off of sausage when in the skillet. Sausage itself tastes pretty decent, litte bit on the dry side.

Packaging of the burritos is not what I would have hoped for they are sealed in vac bags, but no vacuum was used, so they are just loose in the bag. I think it's because they have so much moisture in them it would have made a mess when vacuuming. Burritos taste good, but they are too damn wet. They kind of fall apart when eating because the tortilla gets wet.

Cutrers:
$125
25lb of jap/cheddar smoked sausage
15 lb of ground meat mixed with beef.

Sausage Packaging sucks. Sausage comes in 3lb bags, not frozen or vacuum sealed. Individual links aren't twisted, they are just bent. I repackaged them all in a chamber sealer and had to cut off the bends. Not the end of the world, but I have several bags of ends that add up to a lot of sausage. Sausage is pretty decent.

Haven't had the ground meat yet, but I think it's double wrapped in cellophane and then with butcher paper. Good enough. Haven't tried it yet to speak to the quality.

I've sent meat to Days in Watson before and I think I preferred them over both of the places I used this year. Their burritos are really good.

Also had mylsuhat make 12lbs of jap/cheddar summer sausage and it's the best of the bunch. I should do a whole deer in summer sausage next year.

I've used the following over the years.

Days in Watson- good burritos, sausage was too dry

Iverstines- pineapple/jalepeno smoked sausage is awesome. Got cajun and green onion along with breakfast sausage here too...all were good.

Tramonte's - smoked sausage and ground 80/20 were good. They just took a long time.

Full Rutt (Walker area)- quick turnaround time. Burritos good, better once doctored up. Jerky real good. Haven't thrown a link of sausage on grill yet.

I've heard good things about Romero's in Central.

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Also had mylsuhat make 12lbs of jap/cheddar summer sausage and it's the best of the bunch. I should do a whole deer in summer sausage next year.

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They are also a little on the pricey side.

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They're all on the pricey side baw.

Vines in Centreville . Make a day trip and have lunch while you are there.

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Vines in Centreville . Make a day trip and have lunch while you are there.

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Why the 2 downvotes for Vines?

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hy the 2 downvotes for Vines?

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I didn’t downvote but I had some last year and the year before that from two different podnuhs that had it made there and it tasted like shite. One buddy ended up giving all his away to some of his workers cus it tasted so bad.
And I used to get mine made there years ago and thought they were top 2% of all deer sausage made. Not sure what changed but something did.