Cooking With Crickets

[FRANCEVENLOUSE]

whos had scorpion before

[84updown]

dude you are really nasty just like when that guy was cooking a caterpillar

[john84753]

so, where were you stationed?

[VentusOfficial]

your fucking disgusting



[motoclown]

You went to all that trouble baking organic crickets then turn around and use crappy toll house pre-made cookie dough for you cookies, gross. I will be trying this but with my homemade cookie dough with our fresh free range chicken eggs and gheridelli chocolate. nom nom nom

[JesusGodHolySpirit3]

Oh thanks for this video I can't wait to do this I am soo excited to eat crickets... If I can't freeze them then can kill them another way before cooking them? Also would you recomment boiling them and what site do you buy them from? And is it cheap?

[okpapereat]

seriously? what do they taste like???

[bangurdead102]

I wouldn't eat any insect gathered in the wild tbh, so many contaminates that could get in them some way or another... buy em or grow em yourself, I believe some parasites attack crickets, might want to read up on the signs etc.

to kill insects generally you just put them in the freezer

[gwsslowstick]

I’m going to go and get live crickets for our two small lizards and me (yes I said ME). I have been wanting to try cooked crickets ever since I had seen Andrew Zimmer on “Strange Foods” eating all kinds of things including deep-fried crickets. I have found a few recipes on the net that I want to try, SO tomorrow 4/24/2011 I will go and buy some live crickets, cook them (two different ways), eat them, get it all on video and post it on You tube.

[MrBusyIzzy]

Where can I buy insects (not just crickets) that are safe for human consumption, and also how long and at what temperatures do I roast them?

[TheMehGosh]

lol your wife saying "that is why i live here" :)

[JohnnyFedora]

@YAHWEHisperfect I froze them for a couple of hours and then put them on a baking sheet and baked them all at once

[JohnnyFedora]

@ThrashMan91. I bought mine commericially. They are baked. What parasites live on crickets? I have heard of nematodes in grasshoppers, but never any parasites of human medical interest on crickets.

[YAHWEHisperfect]

they r not jumping...did u kill them individually or as a group?

[ThrashMan91]

So when eating crickets/grasshoppers..how do you get any parasites removed? do you just fry them or bake them in the oven?

and when you eat them, do you have to take off the legs?

[WhiteWolfos]

@ThrashMan91 The companies that sell them usually harvest them at farms. (They don't come with parasites and whatnot.). Of course if you are getting them off of the street then that is a different story.

[LedaMonsterBunnyFan]

how do u seperate the legs and the crickets when ur done?

[DrCockStar]

interesting

[nadiapolonia2]

I have no idea where to buy live/dead insects for cooking. No local stores that I know of sells them :(

I've read that it's unsafe to get them straight out your yard, and when I look on the internet to buy some they're always dried and packaged. I would like to have some fresh insects to cook. Gosh :/

[cafekawaii]

@nadiapolonia2 You can get them from pet stores. Personally I like to breed them for a few generations to try to get rid of any parasites or worms that may be harboring in them.

[grappler321]

and r u doing any other vids on other insects u can cook ?

[grappler321]

I,ve just got my first load of mealworms for breeding I also got wot I thought was grass hoppers but inow beleave to b locasts...r these still edibal ??

[JohnnyFedora]

@RevVic: I would always try to tell people whats in them. Some people have chitin or other arthropod related allergies. People who are allergic to shellfish will generally be allergic to ingesting insects as well!

[RevVic]

Do you think it would be possible for me to get other people to eat the cookies without telling them what they are? Is it good enough that you don't know you're eating bugs until you're told because I know for a fact I couldn't get any of my friends to try it out.

[CoolConejo]

Red dye in food coloring Comes from a red bug that is cooked then ground up. It is in many food products that use red coloring.

[m1chae11956]

No joke, I love eating insects. Thanks for the post.

[JohnnyFedora]

They have a slightly woody taste to me.  They are kissing cousings to crabs and lobsters (but don't feed off the nasty sludge at the bottom of the ocean like crabs and lobsters) and taste much the same.

[themyspacethug]

What do the crickets taste like?

[andlee71694]

dude ur my heroe

[DonClaude]

Wow, this is just what I've been looking for. How do you get your bugs? The supermarket? The internet? I live in Sweden and trying to get a taste of cooked insects is, well, looking for a needle in a yadda-yadda.

[roddwolff]

mmmm

looks interesting