/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18605278
i would have but when i was in canada they come up to you and let you pet them
so nah if they trust me enough to be around me im not eating them

>>18605278
Im too slow to catch one

buffalo squirrel is yummy

>>18605305
dibs on tail piece
tastes like nuts

>>18605278
negative

>>18605278
yeah they are hard to catch though. you need a rifle. they are stringy and tough because they are rodents. best in soup.

>>18605278
heck no, even squirrels need a pint

Look at this qt

Would you eat these /ck/?

>>18605278
I have. More curiosity than anything. Friend had a wooded house by a lake and a new .22, so after a football game we shot, gut, and cleaned it. A bit stringier and definitely less meat than a rabbit. Still about the same game white meat for what you did get.
You'd probably have to do a larger harvest and processing to make it worthwhile, but whatever, we were poaching without a small game license for shits and giggles. Better than his brother who literally spear-hunted a Canadian goose with a broom handle on the shoreline.

Hell no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeEqgafoeK4

The problem with eating squirrel is the best way to get your hands in the oven to cook it.

>>18605461
ay i heard this bug tases like a potato

>>18605278
i ate a few batter fried after shooting them on a youth hunt
best to stew them like >>18605421 said

>>18605474
If hit by those weapons there wouldn't be anything left of that squirrel to eat.

>>18605278
if you offered me some already-cooked squirrel meat then yes
I'm not going through all the trouble of preparing it just for a few bites of meat

You people will eat your soylent squirrel wafers and like it!

>>18605278
Of course I would. Also, sorry OP, I'm going to derail the thread on a squirrel related anecdote from my youth:

When I was much younger my dad, granddad, uncles, cousins, and I had a tradition of going out for a hunt during the wee hours of Thanksgiving Day. Behind my parent’s house is a long row of trees that starts in the backyard and goes on for about half a mile. We would walk along either side of it, armed with shotguns, eyes peeled for rabbits and squirrels. My uncle Gary and granddad would yell, holler, and whistle into the underbrush, sometimes beating the dead leaves and bare saplings with a long branch, trying to scare one of the little buggers from their hiding place. Once we saw one scurry in front of us we would aim, fire and there they'd drop. The man who shot it was responsible for gutting and cleaning it once we got back to my granddad’s farm. Unfortunately we've been seeing fewer and fewer rabbits in our area (there is a scourge of wild house cats along our street), so it has been more of a squirrel hunt as of late. My grandmother, bless her heart, always took the time to prepare some of the game we brought in after these hunts, serving them alongside the other Thanksgiving meals. Squirrel is pretty tasty but there isn't a lot of meat on their bones. Rabbits are akin to squirrel; they're gamey, though. Both are great in stews and gravy, but I think squirrels are better solely because my grandmother's squirrel biscuits and gravy are to die for.

>>18605631
I take it you're meming, but a .22lr is teeny to the melon of a rodent and a pointy stick is what it is. If my recollection of the story is right, the goose put up a a fight and needed a head-clubbing, then ultimately to hold it under the water 'til the thrashing and bubbles stopped.

It's that time again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFitQn0W-Ns

>>18605278
Neighbor lady use too feed them all they time, when they were fat we would pick em off with a pellet gun and grill em up with the boomer doomsday prepper next door. Not bad but hardly any meat

>>18605714
based death cult doomer milf, it's just free meat running around

>>18605692
Pretty sure he meant your pic..
The best way to catch squirrels for survival is rat traps, but .22shorts are a hell of a lot more fun.

>>18605840
Oh, well I feel sheepish for not playing along. Think they'd murder several warrens along with the tree rats on accident.

>>18605847
Shock and Awe hunting...lolololol.
Like fishin' with hand grenades.

Are sugar gliders edible?

>>18605282
on the other end, cats run away from you in the street, sooo

>>18605278
SquirrelJak

I like squirrels, they amuse me with their antics. I’d still murder a couple dozen for stew if I had to eat.
But if squirrels are an option then grouse are too and I actually relish killing those dumb bastards.

Why not have some yummy squirrel jerky?

>>18605278
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVdBvXwL3aE

>>18605278
you can't call squirrels little fuckers.

>>18605688
Could turn this tradition into a cat hunt. No need to clean, just bury.

>>18605278
They're invasive little bastards and I hear they taste like rabbit, so yes, yes I would.

>>18606987
they are though

>>18605442
Red squirrels are great, but are endangered because of introduced grey squirrels. Eat the greys, leave the reds.

>>18607029
Look at those little fuckers go!

i love these little cunts like you wouldn't believe and think they're hilarious. i feed about a dozen in my backyard, but had to take one out recently as it was getting too ballsy. was pretty simple, i used a slingshot. would definitely eat them during the apocalypse, but do the males taste nasty? their balls are huge. i heard they're easy to skin.

>>18605278
If if was good enough for my grandad as a kid its good enough for me

>you can't call squirrels little fuckers

>>18605565
I'd kill you before being forced to eat anything remotely close to that.

>>18605278
Yes. Those cunts come into my house sometimes when the doors open in the summer. They’re a pain to get out so I usually just corner and net them.
I haven’t killed any this far.

>>18605474
Speaking of broom handle hunting, my friend’s father used to kill moles that were digging in his backyard by impaling them with a sharpened stick. People do weird things.

>>18607236
Well that's better than poisoning I suppose.

>>18607242
I wouldn’t know. I used these weird solar-powered buzzing things that you stick into the ground. Moles apparently hate the sound and fuck off after a while. Worked like a charm and didn’t have to break the law nor spearhunt those little cuties.

I had a friend who fried them in gravy for a game night one time.
I thought it was alright, but I was the only one eating it.

>>18607267
What law? Is that some california shit, now its illegal to kill mosquitoes?
Those vans and sketchers wearing fags can fuck off.

Have you read that book on Americana cuisine, The Joy of Cooking?

>>18606156
but i dont eat cats?

>>18605564
>get your hands in the oven to cook it

>>18607424
So which is it?

>>18607543
which is what?
i dont eat cats or fucking squirrels what point are you even attempting to make

I would only eat squirrel or pidgeon if they were caught somewhere in the pure wilderness. The ones that hang around in the suburbs eat literal garbage and are full of toxins and probably taste disgusting

>>18607390
Moles are protected in Finland and I suppose that particular method of killing them constitutes an animal welfare offense.

>>18607566
Squab is pretty good. So is pheasant and grouse. Problem is with all these animals, squirrel and rabbit included, is that there just isn't much meat. At least with little fish you can just eat them bones and all, but you have to get breast/leg/backstrap/whatever and throw the rest away.

>>18605421
>you need a rifle
My grandfather just used a shotgun, never even left his home

>>18607420
Chinese people do this while the lil niggas are still alive I saw it on TV

>>18608876
and then they fry it in gutter oil

>>18605282
>nah if they trust me enough to be around me im not eating them
Anon, the entire concept of livestock and farming hinges on eating animals that trust you being around them.

You aren't being ethical. You're just being a hypocrite.

>>18605278

>>18605278
Yes, I would. It just seems like the sort of thing I'd rather catch in a bunch, like in lobster cages sort of deal. They're as lean, if not more so than rabbit, iirc, and even less meat yield, so some stew could be nice if you got a bunch of them. Any less, and you're better off with an egg or two survival-wise, and if you can easily get more than eggs, it seems to me that you have other issues to work out.

>>18605278
Theyre good. I cut the hind legs off and bread em and fry em like chicken wings. Except for the one squirrel that hangs around my chicken coop, i wont shoot him

>>18610365
yes

>>18610365
Kek

>>18605278
If push comes to shove, I'll eat anything, bro.

>>18607558
Recapping, much to the frustration of your chicken-shit squirming:
>>18605282
>if they trust me enough to be around me im not eating them
>>18606156
>cats run away from you in the street, sooo
>>18607424
>but i dont eat cats?
You've painted yourself into a corner: either you're a liar, or you eat cats.

>>18605282
yea we like animals (: