How to you clean and cook a rattlesnake?

[Longhorn]

thanks for the response guys...I think I might cook up the next bad boy I see around the camp house.

[texasdeerhunter]

i was half kidding with my comment, but have never tought of cooking one. . .you guys are really serious!! Since i am an amateur, how do you know that you got the venum out? Is it all just at the head? How far back to you have to cut the head off? Where are their venum pockets?

[TexAg2002]

the venom is all in the head. Even if you ingest some venom, you won't get sick unless you have ulsors or something like that. The stomach acid takes care of it. has anyone else ever ate rattler jerky? I had it once and it was really good, but don't have a reciepe.

[willie]

better that chicken. if its big enough you can fillet the backstrap off and just fry that instead of messing with the bones.

[Duane]

Find a good snake....




Cut off the head, and slit him up the belly....




Then peel off the skin.

[BrianL]

I've had it fried before and it was alright. I just can't get over the fact that they make their living eating mice and rats. To me kinda like eating a yote or bobcat.

[JMG]

Everyone says it tastes like chicken but I would say more like frog legs. Still good.

[Bonesplitter]

Its not bad but still isnt something I prefer.

[Sippy]

nasty! lol

[acal871]

The lareger the snake, the easier it is to get the meat from between the rib bones. It will remind you of chicken rib meat

yup.

[texag93]

Everyone says it tastes like chicken but I would say more like frog legs. Still good.

Agreed, not like chicken to me. I like it.

[bobo]

Where's trailboss when you need him. Anyone wanna take bets to if he's tried eaten snake or not?

Dang I missed his thread he's using NAPALM to cook them to nothing.

[Big Poppa Blake]

with a blow torch, 15 hand grendades, and a possible 100kilo nuclear device.

[152 Sumo]

I've had it fried before and it was alright. I just can't get over the fact that they make their living eating mice and rats. To me kinda like eating a yote or bobcat.

After tasting how good muskrat is, I will try just about anything. I am not going to rush out and eat a coyote, but I bet there is someone that could cook one up and make it good.