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Having never had the pleasure of trying kangaroo you make it sound like venison or bison here. VERY lean, so you must eat it rare to medium rare or you wind up

by X86BSD 9y ago

Having never had the pleasure of trying kangaroo you make it sound like venison or bison here. VERY lean, so you must eat it rare to medium rare or you wind up over cooking the crap out of it and it winds up like tough shoe leather. Ugh. I hope one day to make it down there and try some kangaroo steak, or some braized slow cooked kangaroo. I bet it's very healthy red meat, unless its farm raised. What is the natural diet of kangaroo? Grasses? Leaves? I doubt it is grain.

honestlyreally 9y ago
Id agree on the taste part. Never had bison, but still that same gamey taste, certainly stronger than venison. As for cooking, no, terribly dangerous advice. Cook kangaroo well regardless of what butchers and cooking shows tell you. Kangaroo has somewhere near 20x the bacterial levels of raw chicken. It's wild hunted meat that's been commercialised. Perfectly fine if you eat it soon after being killed, but no sold roo in Australia falls into that category. https://www.foodsafety.com.au/news/food-safety-issues-affecting-kangaroo-meat-industry https://www.foodsafety.com.au/news/food-safety-issues-affect... There's plenty of ways to keep meat tender while cooking it well, pressure cooking does an amazing job.
- X86BSD 9y ago
  That is very interesting. I know of no red meat in N. America that carries bacteria that must be killed by cooking it well done. Poultry is dangerous undercooked, and to a lesser extent pork, even though pork here is irradiated so much you would be ok if it's a little pink. But red meat? You can eat any red meat tartar afaik. Off to read that link! What an interesting animal, culinary wise.
  - peatmoss 9y ago
    I wonder if it's like beef where cooking the outside of a solid (not ground) hunk of meat is enough to kill bacteria that mostly only hang out on the surface. This, incidentally, is why I'll happily eat rare seared steak, but I only eat burgers that are cooked through.
cassowary 9y ago
As for the diet of kangaroo, yeah they're grazers. You can go out and see them grazing on grasslands in the national parks around the city. Apparently it's pretty high in the good Omega 3 oil too. Sometimes I've eaten kangaroo and enjoyed it, then tried to prepare exactly the same food again and it tasted like a horrible bloody mess. I am not an expert on cooking roo. I recommend feeding it to your children so that they think it's normal however it tastes, and leave it as a gift for the next generation. If there really is an oversupply of roo, why do I have to hunt for it on the shelf? And why is it always in weird packages with gimmicky branding?

by X86BSD 9y ago

honestlyreally 9y ago

Id agree on the taste part. Never had bison, but still that same gamey taste, certainly stronger than venison. As for cooking, no, terribly dangerous advice. Cook kangaroo well regardless of what butchers and cooking shows tell you. Kangaroo has somewhere near 20x the bacterial levels of raw chicken. It's wild hunted meat that's been commercialised. Perfectly fine if you eat it soon after being killed, but no sold roo in Australia falls into that category. https://www.foodsafety.com.au/news/food-safety-issues-affecting-kangaroo-meat-industry https://www.foodsafety.com.au/news/food-safety-issues-affect... There's plenty of ways to keep meat tender while cooking it well, pressure cooking does an amazing job.

X86BSD 9y ago
That is very interesting. I know of no red meat in N. America that carries bacteria that must be killed by cooking it well done. Poultry is dangerous undercooked, and to a lesser extent pork, even though pork here is irradiated so much you would be ok if it's a little pink. But red meat? You can eat any red meat tartar afaik. Off to read that link! What an interesting animal, culinary wise.
- peatmoss 9y ago
  I wonder if it's like beef where cooking the outside of a solid (not ground) hunk of meat is enough to kill bacteria that mostly only hang out on the surface. This, incidentally, is why I'll happily eat rare seared steak, but I only eat burgers that are cooked through.

cassowary 9y ago

As for the diet of kangaroo, yeah they're grazers. You can go out and see them grazing on grasslands in the national parks around the city. Apparently it's pretty high in the good Omega 3 oil too. Sometimes I've eaten kangaroo and enjoyed it, then tried to prepare exactly the same food again and it tasted like a horrible bloody mess. I am not an expert on cooking roo. I recommend feeding it to your children so that they think it's normal however it tastes, and leave it as a gift for the next generation. If there really is an oversupply of roo, why do I have to hunt for it on the shelf? And why is it always in weird packages with gimmicky branding?