I am so upset about this that I have barely been able to talk for the last 3 hours. It is a cold dark and rainy night here in Eastern Pa, and I got home from work today surprisingly early. My wife had been ill most of the day, and was sitting on the couch. There was fresh fish in the "fridge" for dinner, but it struck me that this was a good opportunity to eat some venison. Now, you have to understand that this is not very frequent around this household, as the kids and the wife are not fans and I have only historically been able to get venison chili past them. So, I go down to the freezer, and I discover the package of tenderloin from last season that I had specifically had the butcher leave whole. I was planning to bring it out on a special occasion but it had just never come. I defrosted it in warm water, sliced it into beautiful medallions, and put it all into a bowl with some spices to sit while I pulled the rest of things together. Our spice cabinet is directly over the stone counter top where the bowl of meat was sitting. As I turned to move a pot, a glass olive oil sprayer fell out of the cabinet, shattered and sprayed pieces of glass and oil across the counter, onto the floor and INTO THE BOWL OF TENDERLOIN.

A once in a lifetime experience, and a year in the making all down the drain in a moment.

I don't know what else to say.

Bummer big time- sorry for your loss

Seen that happen with Spiedies before, what a slicked up mess that makes.

I would still eat it...just don`t let the kids or the wife.

Man, what a shame. It wouldn't have been so bad if it had been something as mediocre as filet mignon, but venison tenderloin, bummer. Sorry to hear it.

Yup, that sucks.

Definitely a tragedy. I'm sad just reading about it. My condolences.

Prayers for your loss

should have saved the heart, its better anyways....

A good reason to go hunting again.

So sorry but you did the right thing, can't take chances with broken glass in food.>>>----> Ken

I once made a huge meatloaf, and when I took it out of the oven the Pyrex dish shattered all over the oven door. Must have used a kitchen towel that was wet. Another time, my wife and I were going javelina hunting in South Texas. We got groceries, then stopped for ice. When I opened the back door of our suv, a new bottle of jalapeno stuffed olive rolled out and busted. I was inconsolable both times.

Murray

That sucks.

About a year ago, my wife had something in the oven, in a Pyrex baking pan, slid the rack out, and decided to add water... BANG. It sounded like a shotgun, and there was a million shards of glass all over the kitchen. I don't remember what the food was, but I know it wasn't tenderloins... I wouldn't have forgotten that.

You'd still eat it Franklin, with glass shards possibly still in it? Good luck with that.

I would be soooo tempted to thoroughly rinse it and eat it, but boy a minute piece of glass in your digestive tract could take you out fast. Pitch it. Just remember, thousands get wasted on the roads every day. I know its not the same, but it might help you cope with it.

Almost as bad as my daughter had given us a couple of large tuna steaks from the tuna my son in law caught. I was going to serve it to my BIL, sister and wife last summer. My wife took it out of the freezer the evening before to defrost and forgot to put it back in when she went to bed. Had to throw it away the next morning.

I would make one suggestion, thaw your meat in cold water rather. Using warm water allows bacteria to start on the warm outside well before the inside thaws.

That is a real Bummer

Could of rinsed it off, guarantee I would of ate it! I seen Aviation Ordnanceman eat beer glasses in the Navy, pretty sure you would be ok!

You ain't living too long if that's a TRAGEDY that prevents you from talking for 3 hours. Better learn that Murphy has a law and you just ran into it. You'll run into it again. Par for the course.

Bowmania

Plan ahead and thaw in the refrigerator so that meat stays cold, hunt often so that there is always a good supply of meat and the loss of one cut is not a tragedy. Things happen...

Sorry for the loss but that is better than the whole freezer going out which is what I thought this story was going to be about.

Makes me glad I hunt where we kill lots of deer. Can't imagine it being that important. I trade some every year to my Hispanic friends for tamalis.

Oh no that sux. I've already lost things myself. Once I had beautiful mako steaks I cut up and laying on a board not even thinking they were just laying there in the wind and a gust blew the board off the table and you guess it all the filet fell on the sandy ground. Everyone was so ticked off at me they all went in crab pot.Never lived that down to this day how I ruined everyone's portion of the catch.

I will never do anything like that again. Recently I broke a jar that had a hard seal that was a special jamb someone gave me peach strawberry and I was upset. These things do happen to us at times.

Sorry that happened. I would not eat it. Jawge

If my wife and kids didn't eat venison they would starve! Honestly, when the girls 43 and 41 come home to visit with their families they ask for venison steak, it's what they grew up on. I even gift them a deer from time to time.

When I started reading your story, I thought it was going to turn out much worse. I knew a guy whose wife unwittingly unplugged their deep freeze and destroyed a whole elk!

The outpouring of love and support is inspiring and humbling. Thank you all for the sympathy. I feel better already, and starting to heal. Unfortunately, I am bound for a tropical vacation for the next two weeks and won't be able to sit in the miserable cold November and December weather to procure a replacement. Let's hope that the new year brings bountiful rewards, and some fresh venison.

PS: I have banned that D..n glass oil thing from ever being reintroduced into my house. I do hold a grudge

Seahorse, that IS a real tragedy!

A friend got a divorce and in the divorce he got the freezer among other things. When he showed up to gather his judge assigned household items he went to the freezer and found it empty. He asked his EX where the bear, moose and venison was and she replied, "the judge said you got the freezer, not what was in it" YUP she tossed the mans game in the trash.

Somehow, somewhere, sometime I'd get even....in spades. She'd live to regret her spiteful prank.

Reminds of when the ex found some glass in something she ate, don't remember what.

"Muh tun! I tut muh tuttin tun!"

They used to say butter and bacon was bad for you, but now i hear differently. I do believe even a small glass shard in the guts is and always will be unhealthy. Of course if you sharded it would probably cut through you britches. Seriously, sorry for the loss of prized meat.

Jon, that friend should have turned her in. Wasting game meat is a FELONY.

Are you kidding me? Can't talk, prayers, eat it anyway. C'mon Yeah it's upsetting and frustrating but not a tragedy. Friend of mine has cancer from Agent Orange, don't know if they got it all, pain is going into his lower leg and groin. He'd laugh at some spoiled meat. Im 53 and my back and legs are so jacked I had to pay some kids to stack wood, and mow my grass. I dont know of I can ever hunt again. Kinda pisses me off. I'm sorry, I had to vent on this one.

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