Definitely skin the tail. Finely dice the meats and make a turtle cake out of it. Basically like a crab cake but with turtle. Also you don’t want to leave the turtle unprocessed for more than few hours. Bacteria form fast in turtle meat.
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We always bread n fry them in nuggets, it’s usually pretty good eating. I don’t know if it’s necessary or not but when we catch them we’ll put them in a barrel or a large enough tub and keep emptying/changing the water for a few days to clean them out. After a day of changing the water it’ll turn dirt brown because of so much mud in the shell/skin. After a few days when the water doesn’t turn brown we’ll kill and definitely skin them, absolutely don’t cook them with the skin on. Tastes a lot better in my opinion when you clean them alive like that, the bigger the longer it takes till they’re clean, the bigger the longer it takes we’ll just throw some bread for them to keep em alive. With 30-50lb snappers it usually takes us a week to keep replacing water before the mud goes away. Again not saying it’s necessary but I grew up that way and they’re always tasty the way we do it. The tail, neck, arms/legs and few bits of the inner body is what we harvest, there’s a good bit of meat in a snapper if you take your time to get it.
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Snapper soup is one of my favorites. Doesn’t help you right now, but damn is it good.
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lol where the fuck did you get that and why?
Where’s the rest of it?
And for future reference, it’s way easier to skin snappers when the limbs/tail are still attached.
I would definitely skin it!
I’m always afraid one of these would bite my dick off if I swam where they live. I’ll continue to avoid the potential situation.
The fuck
Gotta say, I’m jealous, that’s illegal where I am. I have always longed to re-create Babette’s Feast. [Here’s how I would prepare turtle if I could get it](https://www.differentdrummer.cc/main/babettes-feast-iridescent-turtle-soup-with-sherry-on-the-sid.html).
Fried would be best
Definitely skin the tail. Finely dice the meats and make a turtle cake out of it. Basically like a crab cake but with turtle. Also you don’t want to leave the turtle unprocessed for more than few hours. Bacteria form fast in turtle meat.
We always bread n fry them in nuggets, it’s usually pretty good eating. I don’t know if it’s necessary or not but when we catch them we’ll put them in a barrel or a large enough tub and keep emptying/changing the water for a few days to clean them out. After a day of changing the water it’ll turn dirt brown because of so much mud in the shell/skin. After a few days when the water doesn’t turn brown we’ll kill and definitely skin them, absolutely don’t cook them with the skin on. Tastes a lot better in my opinion when you clean them alive like that, the bigger the longer it takes till they’re clean, the bigger the longer it takes we’ll just throw some bread for them to keep em alive. With 30-50lb snappers it usually takes us a week to keep replacing water before the mud goes away. Again not saying it’s necessary but I grew up that way and they’re always tasty the way we do it. The tail, neck, arms/legs and few bits of the inner body is what we harvest, there’s a good bit of meat in a snapper if you take your time to get it.
Snapper soup is one of my favorites. Doesn’t help you right now, but damn is it good.