Snails for food

Been curious about slugs also. I guess they are definitely edible. I sure would feel better about considering them if I knew some way to prep slugs, as done with snails, before cooking them.
 
Joel Stave said:
You know, that's a good point. I've seen slugs on toadstools and moose poop any number of times, but I've never seen snails except on vegetation.
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That is interesting. I thought they were the same creature, just one version was homeless, either permanently or temporarily. I'll have to do my research now!
 
another way to eat them is this:

squeze some lemon, add some salt, pepper, and a bit of garlic... and some celery... blend this together... add some hot sauce if you want... and then put the snail in there... and let the lemon acid cook the snails for a bit... then eat them... YUMMMM
 
carspidey said:
another way to eat them is this:

squeze some lemon, add some salt, pepper, and a bit of garlic... and some celery... blend this together... add some hot sauce if you want... and then put the snail in there... and let the lemon acid cook the snails for a bit... then eat them... YUMMMM
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Raw/live without prep, I don't think so. If it was that easy why does everyone go to all the pre-cooking trouble. Tell us more about this and where you have seen or done it?
 
sasha said:
Well im sure that most of you noticed that if you got a garden you got lots of snails in it... Here comes the scary part of me thinking.. Would they taste good??? Lately with the veg getting bigger i see more snails. looking at building something to keep them and then cook in some oil with lots of garlic. Found alot of very good recipes.. Did anyone of tried them in a dish yet???

sasha
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They're excellent in garlic butter sauce. :thumbup:

Too much work to clean them (for me anyway) though. I just have them on occasion at a fancy restaurant.
 
I've eaten snail at restaurants...pretty much tastes like what it's prepared in. Guess it couldn't hurt to down a few of the garden variety. Let me know how it tastes going down...and coming back up if that's the case.
 
The man must be stupid to eat raw slugs or snails.. Well i guess bear does it too.
 
I have a friend who hunts with a guy that brings mushroom caps, garlic, butter and harvests snails when he is hunting in a sack and cooks them at night.
Says they are pretty good and these are the multicoloured land snails we have on the west coast.

I have had good and bad escargot, just depends on the cook I guess.
 
Hang them up in a sack like the sort they use for onions.
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but don't pile them too much otherwise they will die
vineyard snails(Helix pomatia L) :thumbup: are what we collect and eat,apart from ones from sea.
 
Ramm9 said:
Raw/live without prep, I don't think so. If it was that easy why does everyone go to all the pre-cooking trouble. Tell us more about this and where you have seen or done it?
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he said he used citrus juice on them, brother.

it's not "without prep" - the lemon juice nails them and chemically cooks them.

it's Poor Man's Ceviche.

vec
 
vector001 said:
he said he used citrus juice on them, brother.

it's not "without prep" - the lemon juice nails them and chemically cooks them.

it's Poor Man's Ceviche.

vec
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Cooking is the lemon cerviche...

The "prep" before cooking is all the methods used to clean their systems such as; starving them for two weeks in hanging baskets; or holding them in corn flour several days; or soaking them in refreshed buckets of saltwater, vinegar, and bread for two or more days.

Do all that "system cleaning" and cerviche may be fine. I don't know of anything that is alive while being cooked with lemon, (maybe small squid or octopus) a tapas expert could fill us in.

Since so much effort goes into cleaning snails out either they taste awful unless it's done and/or without it or they make you sick.
 
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