Smoked Snake for supper

[gary s]

Cool , that will keep those mice away

Gary

 

[bdskelly]

I’ve got a rather large snake that lives in my shop. I’ve never seen it. Just long length if shedded skins from time to time. I let it be and hope it has an appetite for mice.

 

[tallbm]

I cooked and ate a bit of rattle snake once. Buddy at the deer lease ran across a den with some giant ones and asked to use my 22 lever action rifle. He came back with a dead 7ft long diamond back that was thicker in diameter than a can of corn!

I dressed, skinned, cut in sections, and threw it in the cooler. Asked the deer processors how to cook it an the guy said "deep fry it just like a catfish, its the only way".... that guy was full of crap!
I didn't know but rattelsnake meat is TUFF. I ate about as much as i could and had to throw the rest out because it was just too tough. The taste was good and when it was hot it was less tough but just toughened up more than a $2 steak as it cooled down some.

I then went and up looked up how to cook rattlesnake and almost every recipe had you marinating the meat for 24hrs or more in lemon juice and other tenderizing agents and tons of recipes had nothing to do with frying!!!! I was so annoyed that I wasted about 6 pounds of what people paid $9+/lb at the time for and wasted all that food because I foolishly took the word of some yahoo and didn't verify that what he said was actually accurate or that there was more to it all.

If I get to try it again I'm letting it get good and tender in a marinade for like 4 days then I may try to fry it or boil it and turn into chili, stew, beans, or other soupy type dish lol.

Anyhow that's my snake eating story haha :)

 

[MileHighSmokerGirl]

I cooked and ate a bit of rattle snake once. Buddy at the deer lease ran across a den with some giant ones and asked to use my 22 lever action rifle. He came back with a dead 7ft long diamond back that was thicker in diameter than a can of corn!

I dressed, skinned, cut in sections, and threw it in the cooler. Asked the deer processors how to cook it an the guy said "deep fry it just like a catfish, its the only way".... that guy was full of crap!
I didn't know but rattelsnake meat is TUFF. I ate about as much as i could and had to throw the rest out because it was just too tough. The taste was good and when it was hot it was less tough but just toughened up more than a $2 steak as it cooled down some.

I then went and up looked up how to cook rattlesnake and almost every recipe had you marinating the meat for 24hrs or more in lemon juice and other tenderizing agents and tons of recipes had nothing to do with frying!!!! I was so annoyed that I wasted about 6 pounds of what people paid $9+/lb at the time for and wasted all that food because I foolishly took the word of some yahoo and didn't verify that what he said was actually accurate or that there was more to it all.

If I get to try it again I'm letting it get good and tender in a marinade for like 4 days then I may try to fry it or boil it and turn into chili, stew, beans, or other soupy type dish lol.

Anyhow that's my snake eating story haha :)

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It's going for $200 for 10 lbs of meat.

 

[uncle eddie]

I cooked and ate a bit of rattle snake once. Buddy at the deer lease ran across a den with some giant ones and asked to use my 22 lever action rifle. He came back with a dead 7ft long diamond back that was thicker in diameter than a can of corn!

I dressed, skinned, cut in sections, and threw it in the cooler. Asked the deer processors how to cook it an the guy said "deep fry it just like a catfish, its the only way".... that guy was full of crap!
I didn't know but rattelsnake meat is TUFF.

It is tough! Very tough! White meat though and a good flavor. - - - We made ours with a campfire dinner setup - foil, taters, onions, carrots, seasoned rattlesnake and butter. The butter was a bad idea cuz it leaked out and made the fire go a little bonkers - lol.

 

[tallbm]

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www.exoticmeatmarkets.com

It's going for $200 for 10 lbs of meat.

Ugh, I had to throw all that meat out

It is tough! Very tough! White meat though and a good flavor. - - - We made ours with a campfire dinner setup - foil, taters, onions, carrots, seasoned rattlesnake and butter. The butter was a bad idea cuz it leaked out and made the fire go a little bonkers - lol.

Yeah and it's not really something that can be easily filleted from what I remember. I'm going to marinate the crap out of it next chance I get. I'm looking towards chili and soup type dishes so it can fall off the bone and be mixed into a dish.

 

[Bearcarver]

I’ve got a rather large snake that lives in my shop. I’ve never seen it. Just long length if shedded skins from time to time. I let it be and hope it has an appetite for mice.

LOL----One of the kitchens I built was for an old Lady in an Old Stone Farm house. I was delivering the trim & Toe Kick cover, and the installers were there, ripping out the old kitchen.
They showed me a big old snake skin they found under the old kitchen cabinets. There was holes between the stones on that wall, and the big snake would come in whenever he felt like it. There were big gaps between the old cabinets, so the snake could have been anywhere in the house at night.
They fixed the holes in the wall, and my kitchens always got matching toe kick cover, so even if a snake got in & under the cabinets, he couldn't have got out from under them.
The Lady asked us what was found, and we just told her "A dead Mouse was under the old cabinets." She said, "Good---Mice don't scare me!"

John