My pond has been supplying me with lots of food over the years, here is just another example. Not to kill the unkillable beast tomorrow.
My pond has been supplying me with lots of food over the years, here is just another example. Not to kill the unkillable beast tomorrow.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson
I caught one this summer while fishing for Bowfin. I killed it in my apartment kitchen 2 days before I moved out.
That was final f-you to apartment living. I love turtle but hate cleaning em
Killing them is a PITA. They just wont die, and they fight you while you clean them.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson
A good set of tin snips, and they're cleaned in like two minutes. I wish all god's creatures were as easy to clean as a turtle. They even come with their own tray to hold the edibles while you work.
mmm i love turtles...
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
I am way slower than that. The skin is sooooo hard to get off, and the damn thing is always fighting you. Touch a leg and it pulls it in, or tries to scratch you with the other one. I got some pics of me cleaning it if anyone is interested.Originally Posted by Sniper-T
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson
try this with the next one...
poke him in the nose repeatedly with a stick, and when he bites it, pull his head out and cut it off.
let him bleed out
drop him into boiling water for about two minutes (like blanching a tomato).
pull him out and cut through the eight connectors between the top and bottom shell with the snips.
grab 1/2 in each hand and rip him in two.
keep the innards that you like, dump the rest, and the meat scrapes off the top shell nicely with a spoon (either side of spine), the parboiling should make the skin slide off the legs and tail.
Bon appetite.
BTW, the beheading is only in there for the squeamish. treat him like a lobster!
little guys like that are usually tender enough to skin without blanching, in which case the snipping of the connectors pisses him off, and ripping in two finishes him.
use a filleting or a boning knife and slice the skin off like the skin off a fish.
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
I cut his head off about 3 hours before I started cleaning him. I am not eve sure it slowed him down at all.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson
We did soft shell turtle that way. Cut a little hole in the rear of his shell to hang him from a hook stuck in a tree. then poke his nose till he got pissed and grabbed the stick. Pull hard on the stick till his neck is fully extended and chop it off! But i have only ever eaten soft shelll in florida.
Getting his head out was no problem. Just waited from him to stick it out a bit, and grabbed it with a pair of loppers and popped it right off.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes DUTY!" - Thomas Jefferson
How are you fixing him up, Helo?
ive yet to have turtle that i liked. I think it was most likely due to the cooking method.
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