Thread: Refrigeration for your hard earned venison

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Do I or don't I??? Bugger it why not. What we use is four X 15 litre plastic buckets.two of them have multiple holes drilled in its bum. The holy bucket goes inside a normal bucket and meat goes inside holy bucket. Any blood can drain through holes into the cavity/gap and every second day stir meat around and tip blood out by removing inner bucket and tipping out base bucket. We age for a week like this.

Venison sitting in blood makes it rank and defeats the purpose of ageing. We do 2 weeks.