Moose Meat

I've never had moose meat. However, my nephew, his wife & kids live in Fairbanks, Alaska and she posted on FB that at the son's school, the meat sauce on Pasta Mondays contains moose meat. Just thought I'd share this.

Moose meat is illegal to sell in many places so its hard to find. I'd love to try it someday.

It is sold in grocery stores in Norway. From my experience if you are going to fully cook it as a roast you should do it "low and slow". Medium rare backstrap is really quite good.

There's plenty of it up in Maine. There, you are allowed to pick up all the road kill you want, and if you come upon a carcass you can be assured it is fresh; otherwise it would have already been picked up.

I've never had moose meat. However, my nephew, his wife & kids live in Fairbanks, Alaska and she posted on FB that at the son's school, the meat sauce on Pasta Mondays contains moose meat. Just thought I'd share this.

Howie, back in the 60's I was stationed at Eielson AFB Fairbanks, and found moose to be very comparable to range fed beef. It is very flavorful, but not as tender grain fed (finished) beef. Now, caribou is whole nother story.

[David M. Bueker]

On our various trips to Alaska we have had moose stew, moose sausage, moose roast and moose burgers.

Eh.

There's plenty of it up in Maine.

Carl,

I have a son at Bates College and he plays lacrosse and hockey so I'm there watching games a lot and I've seen moose close to I-95/Maine Tpk. a few times. I pray that one never tries to cross the highway when I'm driving by.

I fear that the only moose with which I developed more than a passing relationship was the one that always made its way onto the main street in the opening shot of the t.v. series "Northern Exposure".

I lost an acquaintance in the 90's north of Duluth Minnesota. She was on a motorcycle when they "met" a moose. I can remember in the 70's riding up to a nature center outside of Ely Minnesota in a little Civic. It was a very foggy warm winter night. We had a moose walk across the road immediately in front of us. Couldn't see the top of the back the fog was so thick. The bottom of the stomach was about eye level with us in the Civic. It was a bull moose!

[Jenise]

When we moved to Alaska, Howie, a neighbor gave us a pound of moose meat. Many people there annually bag a moose for their next year's supply of low fat red meat. I made a chili out of it. And I kid you not, the day I made it I sat down to my first bowl, a moose came up to my kitchen window and stared in at me. Never ate moose again.

There's plenty of it up in Maine. There, you are allowed to pick up all the road kill you want, and if you come upon a carcass you can be assured it is fresh; otherwise it would have already been picked up.

Of course, any collision violent enough to kill the moose is likely to have done in the car passengers, too. Most moose/car encounters are far worse for the car than the moose.

Mark Lipton

Of course, any collision violent enough to kill the moose is likely to have done in the car passengers, too. Most moose/car encounters are far worse for the car than the moose. Mark Lipton

Of course you are correct there Mark. The ones I had in mind were the very young ones, about the size of a deer. They taste a lot like lamb or kid (both the young of their respective species). You are not allowed to shoot them, but they very frequently get hit by cars or trucks, most of time with minimal damage to vehicle or beast (other than killing it).

Of course, any collision violent enough to kill the moose is likely to have done in the car passengers, too. Most moose/car encounters are far worse for the car than the moose. Mark Lipton

Of course you are correct there Mark. The ones I had in mind were the very young ones, about the size of a deer. They taste a lot like lamb or kid (both the young of their respective species). You are not allowed to shoot them, but they very frequently get hit by cars or trucks, most of time with minimal damage to vehicle or beast (other than killing it).

This could become Red-Neck meat shopping especially with the delicious meat. Big 4x4 with extra grill bumper and off they go juvenile moose shopping. In MN you are required to get DNR or law enforcement permission before you take road kill. Many times this is ignored. I think one reason for the law is to stop some people from meat shopping with large vehicles.

In Mn there are only 2 kinds of drivers. Those that have hit a deer and those that are going to hit one! The two deer I hit weren't ones I would care to take home. As I pulled one off the road after it had flown over my car, the noise it made resembled that of a broken thermos full of coffee! I always do carry a knife in my pickup in case I do hit one that is edible.