As a young kid, I didn't know what mutton was either. It was never on the table at home and that Seinfeld episode was probably the first time I'd heard it referenced. For a fair chunk of my life I would have guessed mutton to be a wobbly, flightless bird that tasted of grey.
The meat of a mature-aged sheep. One that's cast aside the follies of lamb to spend Sundays listening to The Eagles between trips to Bunnings. Before that, when no longer a lamb, not yet a mutton, when the sheep is experimenting with gateway grass and downloading Ed Shearin', you've got a hogget on your hands.
By submitting your email you are agreeing to Fairfax Media's terms and conditions and privacy policy. Hogget - a lamb that's lost its milk teeth. This usually happens at the month mark. It's possible for a sheep to leave the farm as lamb and arrive at the abattoir a hogget if the tooth fairy pays a visit on the way.
Mutton - the meat of a sheep with at least two incisor teeth, usually over two-years-old. There's variations to those definitions too detailed for an article quoting Seinfeld. For the sake of this discussion, mutton is the meat of an older sheep. Also note that some Indian and Pakistani restaurants will use the term "mutton" for both sheep and goat meat. Because that's not confusing at all. I catered for a group of 20 last year and sourced protein from the ethical meat legends at Feather and Bone in Marrickville, Sydney.
A day was spent slow-cooking lamb and mutton to the same rosemary, anchovy and garlic-heavy recipe and, in a blind side-by-side comparison, mutton was declared the more delicious, rounded, soft and sticky meat by a landslide.
Mutton can also have gamey venison flavours and notes of heather and grass. What sounds more appealing - a six-month-year-old lamb that's spent most of its days staggering around a feedlot, or a sheep that's lived a fat and happy life munching on fields of bracken, herbs and flowers? Write your answer Related questions. What does mutton taste like? Why do sheep taste nice? Is mutton better than chicken? Why does taste taste good?
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Will vitamin d leave a bad taste in your mouth? This is something that humans can detect at really low levels. Gaminess is ambiguous because it is largely detected by the receptors of our harder to describe fifth taste, umami.
Animals that are grass rather than grain fed, or that eat a wild diet will come across as more gamey. The same effect of diet is even more obvious in the milk of nursing females … which is why I pick it up in the goat cheese. But blue cheese is strong.
And huckleberries taste wild. My husband says I analyze my food too much, and I probably do. Listen Listening I recount, fondly, stories of Santa riding the local fire truck up and down the streets, siren and lights blaring, a few weeks before Christmas.
I remember the bag of mixed nuts and boxes of cherry cordials and orange sticks that would magically appear under the tree every Christmas Eve.
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