What does lamb taste like?
My DIL is having an Easter dinner and my son said he wants lamb. I’m like, “WHAT?? The kid who is afraid of fish stix wants lamb??”
I’ve only had it once, and it was not a good experience. When I was 14 I had a boyfriend. We came from two wildly different socio-economic classes, not that it made any difference to me.
His mom invited me for dinner once. She served lamb. With mint jelly. I think she served it thinking that’s what upper class people eat, and she was trying to impress me.
It was horrible! The whole thing was all bad, but I minded (mound? manned?) my manners.
I don’t know if lamb is horrible, or I didn’t like it because it was something I’d never had before (and I’ve always been bad about new food) or perhaps she was a bad cook.
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It is just a meat. I’m a picky eater and while I would never cook it I don’t mind eating it. God made ketchup for a reason.
Fuck everything about “mint jelly”. Perhaps that is where your problem comes from.
I love lamb. It is a picky meat – it likes to be treated with respect, and if overcooked can be horrible.
I prefer my meat savory, rather than sweet (it’s my major beef with extant medieval recipes – sweetned meat. What a waste.) So I’m with you on the mint jelly.
Guess I better find some recipes for her.
Lamb burrito is the only recipe you need.
Lamb kicks ass but like mentioned it’s persnikety about how it is cooked. Low and slow is the way it should go. I never cared for the mint jelly crap though.
My husband loves lamb, so I have learned to cook and eat it too. Lamb chops taste like pork chops with an unexpected kick. Cook it the same way.
I don’t suggest you start with lamb roast, since it requires more care.
It depends how it’s prepared.
If done right, it’s amazing!
Two weeks ago, I had an Athena hamburger (made with lamb), at E.J. Phair in Concord. Absolutely delicious!
I’ve lost my taste for almost all mammalian dead flesh over the years, and I haven’t had lamb in decades. The last time I tried it, I didn’t like it.
I love lamb. I feel it has a richer taste than beef or pork, I find the flavor to be closer to venison or elk.
It tastes horrible, if you ask me. It’s like some meaty carton with a lot of salt on it. There is also that lard thing that can collect on the meat. It’s not like pig lard, it’s much denser, almost like some soap. Not to mention the horrible smell. I avoid it as much as I can.
Pork and goat meat are much tastier.
It may depend on how you prepare it, though. The only lamb I ever ate was from the skewer.
Even back during my omnivorous days, I found lamb to be disgusting. It has a salty, gamey taste, and it smells foul.
Oh, what loving words I find to describe meat! For many years until I became a vegetarian, I was on my way to making that change.
A bit like toddler, just not as good.
Lamb and Mutton (adult Sheep) do not have the same taste. Same animal but years different in age, older means tougher and stringy with a gamey taste. Spring leg of lamb (boneless leg) is what we are having for Easter on the BBQ.
@Sneki95 the salt was added by the cook, the meat is not salty, the fat is usually found in Mutton!
@Love_my_doggie that’s kind of what I Remember from all those years ago. The mint shit didn’t help at all. If you need another stromg taste of something to cover up the taste there is something wrong.
@Sneki95 You probably wouldn’t like lobster or pork ribs. ~ ~ ~
Please try one more time, the taste is awesome.
If you know any Indian/Pakistani Hotel then visit there and order “Roast Lamb” or “Lamb curry” I bet you, you’ll like it.
I think it tastes horrible. My daughter and husband love it. She makes shepherd’s pie with minced lamb. Boke. I eat it though, as she has lovingly prepared it. I smother it in brown sauce or sweet chilli sauce to cover up the taste.
@Sneki95 You’ve GOT to try lobster! What could be more appetizing than a massive, ocean-dwelling bug with claws? -o
@Brian1946 A massive, stall-dwelling mammal with a twisted tail.
Lamb is quite popular here in England, it’s everywhere. I’ve been eating it since I was a kid and I’ve always loved it. You need to be careful when cooking it though, don’t over do it. Also choose the right flavours to go with it… mint jelly sounds horrible :/
It tastes different to beef and mutton, I think it has a stronger taste, much more “meaty” if that makes sense. The trick is to cook it right and marry the right spices/flavours.
@Dutchess_III “If you need another stromg taste of something to cover up the taste there is something wrong.”
Very true indeed.
Lamb has a very distinct taste. Most people either love it (me) or hate it. I do not eat it with (ugh) mint jelly. Rack of Lamb is one of my favorite restaurant meals. For a can’t miss dinner, you could try Ina Garten’s Four-Hour Provencal lamb. It is very well-done and the meat is so tender. It makes its own herbed gravy and the distinctness of the lamb taste is minimized by all of the herbs.
Purely delicious. LOL
I am meat lover so can be biased but it’s satisfying when you eat a well seasoned well cooked meat.
It has this texture of being tender and falling apart in your mouth, when you chew it gives out this juicy yet solid food.
But any food is good only when it is made well.
If you could find any Indian/
Arab restaurant try the meat there, very well made (in most restaurants) you will have a nice experience with eating meat.
Well, it’s going to be my son and DIL cooking it…..I think I’ll settle for a PB&J….
I love lamb. It’s like beef, but with a more delicate flavour. I ate a lot of lamb and mutton in New Zealand. The Norwegian lamb is shit and the beef and reindeer is priced like gold so that is never on the menu unless someone else pays for it. When I can get New Zealand lamb here, I buy it. It is the best in the world.
Don’t they have cows in Norway?
No, they have all been killed to make horned helmets.
@Dutchess_III that is one of the dumbest things I’ve read here on Fluther and that’s saying something.
Do we have cows? Of course we have fucking cows.
and Viking helmets never had horns….. that’s bullshit.
Why is beef priced like gold if cows are so plentiful?
So have you decided to try the lamb on Easter? I just found out that there will be a lovely leg of lamb where we’re having Easter dinner, and we’ve all decided to work a middle eastern food theme around it. Anybody have a good harissa recipe? I want to learn how to make that.
Well, if that’s what they serve I will certainly try it!
I have just found a number of middle eastern groceries in my area, thanks for the brand recommendation, @Tropical_Willie! :-)
The thought of a good lamb meal makes me swoon. How do I love lamb? in curries, on kebabs, grilled chops, bbq’d on the spit – whole – for Orthodox Easter. One of my favourites is lamb burgers with feta mixed in before the burgers go on the grill – served with dollops of freshly made tzatziki on good hearty buns. I do love lamb. Mmmm mmmm mmmm.
<edit> cubed or minced in a proper Shepherd’s Pie is delicious. Not ground, chunky cubes. Under a heavy layer of roasted garlic mashed potato, with peas in a rich gravy. Emeril has a good recipe for it.
@Sneki95 “There is also that lard thing that can collect on the meat. It’s not like pig lard, it’s much denser, almost like some soap. Not to mention the horrible smell.”
This sounds like you’ve been getting mutton without the silverskin removed. That’s where the nasty smell comes from. Lamb also shouldn’t have a layer of fat/lard. That’s found on mutton and should be removed before cooking, let alone serving.
There is a traditional Norwegian dish that most people like. It’s probably the ‘least worst’ one. It’s called Fårekål and it’s just lamb with cabbage and peppercorns. They take perfectly nice lamb and stew it for hours with loads of cabbage. I swear, Norwegians must have spent a great deal of their time developing as a nation just trying to work out how to take perfectly good food and make it damn near inedible.
@cazzie – well, they are descended from the people who traveled to the most bleary, frozen tundras of the world and said to themselves, “This place sucks! Let’s live here!”
I have a feeling that the lard thing is what hit me the first and only time I had lamb. The details are fuzzy, but I remember a bad smell and…slimy. It was SO hard to hide my revulsion. So hard. I did try, though.
@Dutchess_III What lard? Lamb is baby animal and not fatty at all. Also, fresh lamb is not slimy. (Ughh!) Are you sure the meat that you had was good? There is something called the fell that is removed before cooking, but it has no smell.
Maybe she had mutton. That’s and old sheep and it is much stronger. I knew some English people who threw lard in with their mutton leg because they are drier when roasted.
It doesn’t taste good to me
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