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Snake is one exotic food i've always wanted to try and have never had the opportunity. Just wondering if anyone knows/has prepared it before. Also, what kind of places would typically sell it?
Upscale deli will have it, here you can get it whole, skinned, frozen.
It taste great, the meat is very lean, tender and delicate. It has a distinctive taste, but I would not say that it taste like chicken. Maybe more like a veal. Some people serve it fried, but I like it stir fried.
I haven't cooked it yet but I'm sure I can find a recipe for it. After all, yesterday I cooked alligator and I'm sure that alligators eat snakes so I guess I've eating it by proxy, in Louisiana if it moves we eat it.
I've only gotten so far as to skin the snake, rattlesnake. The smell was just too much for me. I'd like to try and slow cook/smoke some. I would just guess that a slow cooking process would work well due to the amount of work the muscle does.
I have only eaten rattle snake ,sence they were a danger and had to be killed any way .
smaller ones do not taste very good and do not have enough meat on them to be worth the effort .
One's that were at least 2" in diameter and about 6' long are very good and they do have their own flavor .
Don't have any thing to compare it to and it has been a lot of years now . but I think it was very strong meat , it needs to be maranated, or boiled twice. Being reptile they do not sweat so there are a lot of toxins under the skin taints the meat I think .
Funny thing about rattlers , some you pop in the head and there done , some continue to move for hours even with out a head .Just nerves .
The strangest one ,head removed , skinned ,gutted ,and still very much active untill I put it in cold water to wash it , then it went very stiff for just a second and finallly went limp .
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