Eating Wild Rabbits

[Hooverfb]

I've grilled them and smoked whole ones. They're delicious.

[bownut]

Love me some fried rabbit

[softpoint]

I've eaten fried cottontails and swamp rabbits. They are good. I tried to eat a Jack once, while camped out.. It must have been an old one.. We tried frying it. That was, and still is the toughest meat I have ever tried to chew up. Like, RedWing sole tough...

[jds247]

Fried cotton tail is my favorite wild food.. I like it stewed with potatoes and carrots also .. we eat cottontail and swamp rabbits. Never tried a jack.

[DRT]

Cottontail is fit to eat. I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat jack.

Gary

[chunkinlead]

How was it cooked? Never tried it myself.

I tried to cook it on a pit. Definitely worse than coon I’ve had.


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[shiner78]

I've always been told to wait til after a good freeze

^^^ and we only eat cotton tails.

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[Nicholson84]

An epidemiologist explained on The Meateater podcast that you wait until after the freeze because of the disease that ticks (I believe) carry. Check out episode 191 - Sicker Than Hell for clarification.

I’ve only had rabbit fried, but **** it was tasty. Not sure what type of rabbit it was though.

Great Episode!

[jnd1959]

Jackrabbits are hares, a different culinary species that requires different seasonings and cooking methods.

[Goldeneagle]

Cottontails - fried with a good gravy, in stew, grilled, smoked... just about any way you want to cook them.


Jackrabbit - slow cook. I prefer a crock pot and cook them with BBQ sauce then shred like pulled pork. Also have used Mexican seasonings and made tamales.

[Jcjohnson]

Cotton tail and swampers are excellent table fair, but never tried a jack rabbit. Them bot worms are some nasty lookin creatures

[mdeaso]

Old timer rules for eating rabbit are do not
eat during any month without an R

[gatt40]

Cottontail is good , Jacks tough

[sharpshooter1]

We eat em all the time. Mommy dad has a pack of rabbit hounds so we kill one every now and then or they catch one and we’ll cook em up. Mostly only when it’s cool outside though.

[deerplanter]

Cottontails and swamp rabbits are very good but Jacks are as tough as a boot. The reason to wait until after the first hard freeze is so the weather will kill off the sickly ones. I had a friend when we were kids was cleaning a rabbit in the summer and got pricked by a bone and got what I was told was rabbit fever and was very sick for a long time.