/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Why the FUCK is it that EVERY TIME I end up in some place where I have the golden opportunity to eat insects, the insects are fucking DEEP FRIED?!?!

Holy shit, why can't cultures that cook insects in their cuisines just fucking PAN FRY or ROAST or STEAM the ants, grasshoppers, roaches, scorpions, spiders whatever the shit they cook (like pic related, haven't tried yet btw but heard it's God tier)?!

I need to TASTE the texture and flavor of my actual food. What the fuck kind of cooking method is that to deep fry all or most insects by default, leaving them to be sorry trash tier combos of 95% fucking casual pleb-tier breading and only 5% volume of the actual meat, the protein, the actual insect you're trying to EAT?

tl;dr: Why is insect cooking so KEK tier?

Where can I find insect foods that are actual COOKED INSECTS instead of AMERILARD-TIER DEEP FRIED TRASH BREADING WITH PIECES OF INSECT THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN TASTE BC IT'S OVERPOWERED BY THE FUCKING BREADING????