/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Out of the ones mentioned Ive only had alligator since i used to live in new orleans. Its best blackened.

I want to try exotic meats too mainly wild game or more rustic meats like venison or bison, elk, rabbit. All shit that would have been eaten in the middle ages.

>animals native to your own country
>native to your own state, even
>somehow more exotic than livestock imported from overseas

>>6159206
I frequent a bar that serves bison burgers. It's good and tastes a lot like lean beef.

Do really wanna try alligator. Is it true that it tastes like chicken with a fish or steak consistency?

>>6159206
Bison tastes like lean beef. It really should be more popular.

I've had antelope but it honestly wasn't memorably different, so I can't comment.

Alligator tastes like chicken mostly. I've also had it fried and it tasted like chicken fingers that had been fried in the same basket as fish.

I've had rattlesnake. Tasted like chicken. So do frog legs. I suspect white meant reptiles and the like probably all taste like chicken.

>>6159220

venison, bison, and rabbit are hardly rare, unless you're from suburbia.

>>6159206
Just ate some antelope this morning, good shit. Bison, depends on who prepares it, most chains fuck it up. Alligator is good, prefer frog though for similar flavor profiles. Boar and nilgai are some of my top choices though, also ostrich, but I have a hard time sourcing the meat.

>>6159206
Bison is very tasty. Quite similar to beef but stronger flavored and a bit leaner generally. Bison short ribs are very good.

Also had elk, moose, rabbit, boar, bear, dog (in SE Asia),frog, and snake. Elk/moose are god-tier meats and probably my favorite of any animals to eat. Rabbit and boar ate excellent as well. Frog and snake were pretty good but nothing spectacular, and dog was pretty meh in my opinion. But bear was just terrible. Not sure it's always like that but when I had it it was tough and extremely gamey, really not enjoyable at all.

>>6159252
You had antelope this morning? Is eating that exotically just an everyday thing for you?

>>6159206
I've had:
bison
elk
alligator
ostrich
kangaroo
axis deer
white tail deer
mule deer
rattlesnake
frog legs (which, honestly, aren't exactly "exotic")

Love bison, alligator, elk, frog legs, and axis deer. Those are my favorites. Not a fan of kangaroo (too sweet tasting for me), ostrich is okay, and white tail deer is too gamey unless it's the saddle or made into sausage, but ground white tail is gamey as fuck.

>>6159276
Not everyday, but it is available. I live in area mostly known for its hunting, and wild game is almost as plentiful as stuff at the grocery store. If it weren't for hunting regulations, I'd eat dove most every day though.

>>6159248
>Bison tastes like lean beef. It really should be more popular.
Yeah I'm genuinely surprised it's not more popular. The place I get it at doesn't charge a whole lot for it and you'd think health-nuts would love having essentially healthier beef.

>>6159293

I live in a mid-sized town in the US and bison is readily available in ordinary supermarkets. Also, places that have "bison burgers" on the menu are hardly rare.

>>6159289
Never heard of eating dove, is that a favourite where you are? What country are you in?

>>6159303
Huh that's weird. I live in a fairly decent sized midwestern town and it seems like you can only really get it from the farmer's market.

>>6159310
The US, dove is a favorite in early fall through early winter. The local fields are packed when the season opens up. It's a good, rich meat, stuff a few pieces with jalapenos and wrap in bacon, you've got a nice field meal there.

>>6159277
Oh, I forgot to list domestic birds.
quail
dove
squab
pheasant
wild duck (of various kinds)
wild turkey

Am I a horrible person for wanting to try dog or cat?

Mammoth burgers will happen in your life time

>>6159323
I had a bowl of deep fried cat ears in Taiwan.
Disgusting.

>>6159249
sure they arent rare, but they arent meats you find in your average grocery store. The average person grows up eating beef and chicken so thats whats always sold

>>6159318
I was thinking somewhere is Africa. Maybe I'm just ignorant but I don't think there are wild antelopes in America so if I'm right you must pay a fortune for your meat.

>>6159335
So I guess you can say that cat didn't have your tongue.

>>6159344
Well actually they were kittens.takes a whole litter to make that dish

>>6159224
>no indication of poster's nationality
How would you know what is exotic to them ?
I've had buffalo(delicious), alligator(meh, you can deep fry anything with the right dip and it's good), and snake(same as alligator but a stranger texture).

>>6159343

I'm not the guy you are replying to, but I live in the US and I hunt. Antelopes are not as rare as you might think. In many places they have been imported to private land. I have hunted a variety of different antelope in Texas.

As for what it costs, it varies a lot. The motivation behind all of this is trophy hunting: someone has a huge ranch with thousands of acres of land and sets free wild game on it. Then they charge hunters to come and hunt on that land. The land owner charges a "trophy fee" for the animals you shoot. This can cost a lot of money if you want to shoot one with big antlers to put on your wall....but only a few will be of that kind of trophy quality. The fees for most are very reasonable when you consider the amount of meat you can get.

>>6159343
Pronghorn is native to the US, and where I'm at, they import them by the herd. Nilgai, while I don't refer to it as antelope, is the most popular antelope species around here, and the most plentiful. We do have blackbuck, eland, waterbuck, oryx, and few other species in the local area. Hell, my buddy raises caribou, and I didn't think hey could survive in the southwest US. Pic related, good eating.

>>6159351

maybe you were just there on a bad day, the ones I got were purrfectly tender.

>>6159206
I wouldn't consider bison meat "exotic". But then again I live in the midwest where they have that shit everywhere.
I imagine alligator meat a lot of places down south.
I guess it all depends on where you live.
Penguin meat... Now THAT would be exotic.

>>6159360
Man I need to travel and try all of this! I'm going to see if I can get dove in the uk before that though.

>>6159359
America sure is a different place. Are you an honourable chap who hunts for meat? And how much do you spend on average?

>>6159372

I do hunt whenever I get the opportunity, and I eat what I shoot. I also have a lot of friends who hunt and we all share what we have. That being said, probably about one quarter of the meat that I eat was hunted either by me or a friend? Most of it still comes from the market or the butcher.

What do I spend? I very rarely pay to hunt. My post above was explaining the how-and-why of African antelopes in the US. I hunt local animals--whitetail and mule deer, feral hogs, as well as doves, quail, and ducks. I don't specifically seek out rabbits, but if I see one while I'm out and it's legal, then I'll shoot it and cook it up for the next meal.

I hunt on both private and public land. Public land is free to all to hunt on. The private land I hunt on is also free since it belongs to friends. The only expenses I deal with other than the cost of fuel and ammunition is the hunting license. Last year it was $25 for the whole year, plus an additional $17 for a waterfowl endorsement; there are other optional extra "tax stamps" that are required for certain things, but $25 is the basic that covers most hunting.

>>6159206
aligator tastes like chicken but with something else

>>6159406
Fish, or it can be swampy.

>>6159406
>>6159417

naw, it really doesn't have that much flavor but it's greasy as fuck like the fatty skin on an undercooked chicken leg,.

>>6159424
>it's greasy as fuck like the fatty skin on an undercooked chicken leg,.

I think you've been eating farm raised, wild is leaner and with a more pronounced flavor.

>>6159206
Had bbq'd (smoked and sauced) beaver before. Rich, gamey. 6/10, would try again.

I've had bison, antelope, alligator, ostrich, buffalo, crocodile, elk, venison, wild boar, rabbit, frog... I think that's all. A few of those aren't that exotic but some people consider them to be.

either alligator or crocodile was really great, I'm almost certain it was crocodile. It tasted like a combo of chicken and crab, the texture was chewy but I didn't mind.

I think the only one that I'd say was gamey would be the wild boar. I didn't mind it but I know many people don't like that.

Haven't had snake, I'd like to try it. Haven't had bear but I've heard it's not great.

>>6159323

Even disregarding any sort of moral issues about it, I've heard they are not tasty at all.

>>6159435

actually it was at some Mickey Mouse themed gator park in central FL, so probably.

Alligator tastes like Iguana

>>6159388
Wow what I way of living. It seems like you have a decent variety of animals to hunt and the license is surprisingly cheap. If I were somebody that hunts I where you are I'd rarely feel the need to have to go to a butcher.

>>6159490
who cares, the specie is bound to be extinct in less than 50 years.

>>6159228
Alligator is fucking great. The taste is very mild and chickeny but the texture is a mix between shrimp and steak. I just wish it wasn't $18 a pound.

>>6159206
i really, really want to try endangered animals. like eat panda or lion etc.

How awesome would it be, if you were among some of the few people that had a certain species before it went the way of the dodo

>>6160907
>tfw you will never eat galapagos tortoise or california condor

>>6159363

underrated post

>>6160913
i want to eat a stupid fucking fat lazy panda so bad.

they would taste like shit but who cares.

>>6160907
>thinking lions are endagered

http://www.exoticmeatmarkets.com/lionmeat.html

>>6159206
Bison is like slightly leaner and gamier beef, not that exciting.

Never had alligator but my stepfather has and he said it was disgusting. I'd like to try it myself to confirm or deny though.

>>6159313
It's all over in the west. Usually ground meat in the supermarkets. Funny that it seems more popular here than where it had the greatest concentrations naturally. Ol' west nostalgia, I guess.
>>6159359
There are places where antelope are protected and thrive to the point where most regular people consider them pests. Wyoming, for instance.

>>6160931
The cheaper cuts of alligator would be the tail, so that's what most have tried. I don't think it's disgusting, but it's more soup material than anything, IMO. Very boney and cartilaginous, like oxtail, but even more so, and more chicken flavor than beef flavor, and more oily. I'd say it's more like turtle and snake, but most don't have a reference for that, either.

>>6160931
Imagine if you cooked chicken in fish stock. That's the base flavor. It's not terrible.

>worked in a Korean business
>get fed me dog without them telling me beforehand
>gnawing on the bones when they finally told
me
>mfw

It tasted okay.

Koreans almost never eat the kimchi

>>6159206
bison tastes like beef but has something about it that makes it better.
alligator tastes like chicken, but has denser meat so it ends up having a texture that's somewhere between fowl and red meat. it's actually really fucking good, though.

>>6159220
venison tastes like beef if you were to chase beef with a shot of pure Worcestershire sauce.
its really good too.

>>6159206
horse is a staple around here and i guess people consider that exotic.

What exactly is "gamey"? Is it the flavor that makes bison taste better than beef? All I know is that I seem to like things that people consider gamey and I want to try more. What would you guys consider the gamiest meat?

>want to try kangaroo
>murrican

Also I might want to try gator meat, but if it tastes like "chicken" the way frog does, then I'm not interested. Frog didn't impress me and it weirded me out.

>>6161323
>What exactly is "gamey"?

A taste that is more prevalent in wild animals than farm-raised ones.

It's not so much about the type or breed of the animal, but rather the conditions it was raised in and what it ate. The gamiest meat would be from an old, male, wild, _____. Doesn't really matter if it was a pig or a deer or a pigeon (or whatever else)

>>6159248
Does alligator truly taste like chicken, or does chicken taste like alligator?

>>6161330
If you live on the west coast, you can get kangaroo pretty easily. IDK about the east coast.

chopped bizarre foods is on right now just saying

>>6163222
Actually, they both taste like dinosaur.

>>6159206
Bison burgers are goat

>>6159206
Bison isn't exotic. Well, unless you mean "we slaughtered them by the millions so now the meat is hard to find."

Not sure why it's not more common to raise them, it sells well and it's better for you than beef.

>>6159206
Had a bison steak when I visited colorado. Was excellent, one of the best steak's I've ever had. I've also eaten gator and crocodile and they are like tastier version of chicken especially when prepared cajun style

>>6159206
Rabbit is about the most exotic meat I've ever had, surprisingly sweet, kind of similar to pork.