Cooking and Eating Fried Snapping Turtle for the First Time!
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2017
- Kevin, Sarah and the girls are trying something new on the homestead tonight, Fried Snapping Turtle. While fishing down at the creek we came across two large common snapping turtles. We kept them in clean water for about a week and then got them ready for the fryer. Since we've never had it before, we were all pretty nervous about trying it. Will everyone like it? You'll have to watch to find out.
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Bought my first house on 15 acres with a creek in the front yard, pond in the back, deer everywhere, squirrel and rabbit everywhere, frogs, and foxes/coyotes, and also quail. So happy I moved here.
You are eating good. Good for you.
I heard you live in a condo downtown😅
Your girls are darling! I just started watching your videos in the last week and I haven't stopped smiling. That's saying a lot in this time of Covid. I have become hooked on your homestead. Thank you so much!
"I was worried it was gonna taste like the creek." Omg, I'm dying!
This video brought back a lot of memories for me. I am almost 70 years old, when I was around 8 I helped my Granddaddy clean a snapping turtle. He used there heart for a medical lesion. It would continue to beat for hours after it was completely separated from the rest of the turtle for several hours. It is different from a human heart because it is a 2 chamber heart where a human's heart has 4 chambers. It was up to me to be the cook. Like you they told me about 7 different kinds of meat. Like you I looked closely to the different pieces. I decided that the neck had the best looking. I had also heard that it was extremely chewy. So I opted to pressure cook everything and then put it through a sausage mill. Then I made it into patties (like tuna patties) and fried them. I liked how you kept it all separated where you got the chance to try all the flavors.
When I saw the part where the chickens were cleaning out the shell, it reminded me of when Granddaddy told me of why he always chopped the head into small pieces before it was discarded. He said that the first turtle he had cleaned, he just discarded the whole head and a chicken was getting too close and the head clamped around that chicken's leg. So they had to clean a chicken too.
Over my life we have cleaned turtles several times. It was always an adventure. Thanks for helping to bring back the wonderful memories. As they say, memories are your past experiences that your mind replays for you so that you will never be board.
Sandy, this was so interesting!
I think your family is one in a billion. You must be so proud of your daughters. Love love love your family and videos.
When i was a child in Southeast Missouri, right on the Mississippi River. It wasn't unusual for the old men drag HUGE snappers out of the river, i helped measure one once. 34 inches and change from front (behind the neck to base of tail, where the notch is). Got just handle two turtles. I'm sure you see opportunity/challenge. They cleaned the turtle with axes, respect, and thankfulness. Four men left with bags off meat twice the size your turtle. Year's ago. Swamp lands, Missouri.
Love that you guys are so adventurous! My "homesteading" is in its beginning phases with my garden, chickens, and rabbits. You have been such a wealth of information and I really appreciate you taking the time to do these videos.
Great show! Thank you for taking time to take us along and experience this. I'd love to try turtle now.
I love your CAST IRON SKILLETS. I HAVE LOTS OF CAST IRON SKILLETS. I have STARTED USING OLD POTS & PANS TO COOK IN. I GAVE SEVERAL OF THE MODERN DISHES AWAY. OLD APPLIANCES ARE BETTER TO ME.
I WISH I HAD A FRESH YARD CHICKEN! I CAN ALMOST TASTE THE CHICKEN. THIS IS GOOD, HEALTHY LIVING!!
Jean Jean alot better and more versatile and durable.
Growing up my dad always made snapping turtle soup whenever he got a turtle and it was always soooooo good. I've never heard of deep frying it till this video, but next time I see one I'm definitely trying this!!!
Thank you. I appreciate your adventures. You reach so naturally. Watching your older videos while your on vacation.
I really enjoyed the family "lets try this together " dynamic.
After dad tried ir i love how enthusiastic the girls were to have some.
Mum, i get the apprehension, and i am so glad it didn't deter the girls. And i am also glad you had a positive experience with it too.
Thank you all for your sharing. I have, am and look forward to continued learning from you all.
Peace out and god bless. XO
Caught one today going to try for the first time soon as it gets cleaned thank you for the video
Im 23 and loved what you all did here awesome video sir!
This is amazing the dish looks good thx for this brilliant video much RESPECT to you all.
We found out a way to have tender turtle meat years ago. We put all the meat in a pressure cooker for 45 minutes first. After the meat cooled, we breaded it, like you would chicken or fish, and fried it. Tender, good, and we did it all in one evening. The meat was much too tough without pressure cooking it first. After our first experience, another guy I knew brought turtle meat to fry up for some of us military guys. I asked if he'd pressure cooked it first. He said no, it would be fine without doing that. But after he served up the toughest meat ever, he apologized. No one could chew it! If done right, turtle is very tasty.
I'm a new subscriber so I'm catching up on all your videos (which I love by the way). I just watched this one, and from being from Southeast Louisiana, I love turtle meat. Fried and in a soup is pretty good but my favorite way to eat turtle is in what we call a sauce pecant, which basically is a runny, spicy tomatoe sauce. We cajuns like to cook things slow and low. We find it brings the best flavors out. If you tried cooking in a sauce let me suggest cooking it down for at least 4 to 5 hours or longer. I don't mean to boil it for that long but after you think its cooked long enough, let it simmer on a low to medium heat for a few hours. You will be amazed how tender the meat will be and how roboust the flavor of the sauce is. I do enjoy living of the land and providing as much of my own food as possible so keep cranking out the videos. They are a pleasure to watch and I'm learning a lot I didn't know about the gardening and canning aspect. Thanks!
So glad you found us and thanks for the tips on the turtle!
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I'm having turtle right now and watching this just makes it more tastier honestly....much love from Fiji
I had forgotten how much I loved your cast iron racks in the dining area! Such simple ware to be art but due the honor of display. Lovely.
The turtle head will snap till sundown, at least that’s what my Grammy said. She would get it right to the trash so we wouldn’t get hurt lol. My sister used to play with the beating heart. She always made turtle soup that she loved. Us kids would never eat it though.
I just loved this video you all remind me so much of my folks when I was younger. They both were raised on large farms and they wanted to do everything for their selves. We raised our own cows and chickens we had ducks and oh the gardens they had an acre garden and then we had a half acre potato and half acre strawberry. We had aspargus beds apple trees and cherry trees you pretty much name it we had it. My mom canned and preserved everything. I now have their place it's a beautiful 12 acres I have a garden its more for fresh eating and sharing, they= joy I get when I see the neighbors eyes light up when I bring them a bag of tomatoes is priceless. I do have chickens but the are more for pets and the fact they they give us eggs is just a bonus. My dad loved snapping turtle but in his later years he made more of a pet out of them we have a female that has been in our pond since she was a baby and we see her every year when we feed the fish she comes in for her bolonga and bread she is a little bigger then the ones you showed on here. You do not need to let then set for along period of time before butchering them the smell is from the male glands as he gets mad is what you are smelling. Try and lightly pressure cook them and fry them just like you would fried chicken also if the turtle is large enough you will see in the back of the shell a set of ribs under those ribs is a piece of meat that taste just like frog legs. Lastly if you get a turtle with eggs in her take those eggs and bury them in a 5 gallon bucket of compost 9 out of 10 times they will hatch and you can turn the babies back to a creek or pond just make sure to check the bucket regular as they need to be turned loose as soon as you find them for water
We ate turtle when we were little. We have watched you so much that you seem like family. I halfway expect you to show up a the next reunion. As soon as Covid is over. lol Love you guys.
A friend of mine at work brought in some turtle soup and we all devoured it. It was so tasty. He and some friends would go (cooter hunting), North Carolina for snapping turtle, and would clean and butcher the turtles but then grind all the meat together and cook it in a broth and then can it into jars for all year round eating. This is what he used to make the soup.
Thank you for sharing your life style with us.
I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences.
I know I'm chiming in rather late here, but I wanted to let you know another way to use the meat. I caught a couple turtles long ago and asked my mother to cook the meat. She wasn't sure how to prepare it, so she called an aunt who had been a professional cook. The aunt told my mother to find a good clam chowder recipe and substitute the turtle for the clam. We just rinsed the meat, diced it up and added the other ingredients. Mom, dad, and I all enjoyed it this way. I'd like to try it your way too!
Great video I have been watching your channel for a while now and this video popped up in my feed, I just loved it
Grew up on nature from a child. I am 78 yr old lady now and we eat squirrel regular, wild hog, rabbit. We didn't eat turtle but I would. I would not eat possum since my granny said their meat was nasty. She would not eat chickens raised in the open cause they nasty also. We had our chickens in a big pen with scrap greens etc . Love living off the land. God Bless you all
Funny story. When my nephew was 4 or 5 he was obsessed with turtles. One day in the car he said “I’m going to make turtle soup” and I said “well, what are you going to put in it?” And he said, serious as ever, “chicken” hahaha. Kids LOL.
Good looking turtles Kevin, you remind me of my brother for sure he loved catching snapping turtles. Great video.
Squirrels! My grandpa was an avid hunter. Grew up eating rabbits, squirrels,quail, deer, frog legs. It was all tasty! He’s been gone for over 25 years now. Still miss his hunting skills
Wow that's a top collection of skillets you got there awesome.it's great you involved all your family in the eating of the turtle.great vid and thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Here is a video tour I did of our collection. ua-cam.com/video/73SeiVtnuEI/v-deo.html
Before ever watching I am going to say yes. You are going to love it.
Wow! Haha that was some amazing video i loved watching. The sense of humor you guys have, your children's bravery, the adventurous spirit of your family, your wife's awesome support... Just lovin'your videos, may God bless you guys 🙏🏻🥰
Turtles sounds crazy, it's food and it's from mother nature haha 😎 awesomeness
My family has ate turtle for decades. We do what you call slow fry the turtle. This way make it very tender. Thank you for your UA-cam videos I have learned a lot from you all on here. God Bless
I haven't eaten turtle for 40 years. Mama use to make turtle hash with fried eggs and the best turtle soup with cornbread, yummy. I just gained 10 lbs. just typing this, lol! Blessings
I'm impressed! Glad that it's another meat you can add to the freezer.
I’m almost 70 years old and I remember helping my grandpa butcher turtles as a boy. It was my job to get them to bite a piece of broomstick and then pull on the stick extending their head out of the shell where he would cut off the head with a hatchet. He would then hang them by the tail and let them bleed out for awhile. And yes, the severed head could bite quite hard for a time after it was removed.
I kind of understand why you wouldn't want to show the dispatching of the turtles and the processing involved but some of us out here would really like to see that so that we can do it ourselves. I love to learn new things and if I'm not Hands-On I have to at least physically see what I'm doing. Thanks for the video
great job keek the videos coming
R S because people get buthurt and offended when people kill animals, even if the animal is killed properly
Yes, please do so we can learn. 😬and if someone doesn’t want to see it, they can just go to a different video.
The channel Deermeetfordinner has a video of him preparing a softshell turtle, and it's very informative.
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I love turtle is is what we call surprize bites lol great video thanks for sharing
I have been eating snapping turtles since the late 60s, and have cooked them a dozen different ways, including ground and my favorite recipe is turtle soup. There are various ways to make the soup, with rice, noodles, veggies, but i like the turtle noodle soup the best, carrots, celery, noodles, chicken stock, turtles are really a favorite wild food. Nice to see people willing to try different foods, particularly wild ones. Really enjoying your videos a lot.
My greatgrandmother loved the soft shell turtles for stew. She lived in southern Missouri and fished the black river.
I got my wife to try rabbit for the first time. She was skeptical about it but was willing to give it a try. Kinda like you and these turtles. We raise our own chickens and I've been wanting to get into raising rabbits. That's how I found your videos. I needed her to try one before I got into raising them for meat. She loved it so It looks like I'll be building some hutches and I'm even going to use your idea of putting them into tractors. I never used them for my chickens but think it's perfect for the rabbits. Thanks for sharing your lives with all of us.
That is FANTASTIC that your wife tried rabbit meat and loved it! Wow, that opens up a whole new meat source that you can raise for your family. I'm glad to hear that you are getting started on hutches and tractors. Keep up the good work!
if you wanna try something really good, fry up some frog legs. basically breaded this same way.
My father would cook a cooter stew at least once a month. All of us loved it. Added corn, potatoes, onions, fatback, celery. He cooked it outside in a big iron pot. Love your videos.
Many,many,many moons, ago I am from Canada and visited my cousins down in Indiana and the kids were cleaning a snapper and they nail it to a board (through the head ) and then take a pair of pliers and pull the meat off. Their mom made turtle stew , so it cooked for a long time. Well I am a pretty picky eater and I loved it . This was when I was about 15 yrs old and I am well I hate to say it , but I am now 57 and I can still remember how much I liked it, so give turtle stew a try !! Love the videos !!
so funny. I just loved the looks on ya'll face
Great video my friend! I really enjoyed it and suscribed. Thank you.
I love turtle, my mom use to always cook it. And frog legs very good .
I love turtle!! I grew up eating it. My momma would boil it a little while then she would roll it in seasoned flour and fry it. It is delicious. Haven't had any in a while. Now y'all have made me hungry for turtle.
I do not know if you guys watch your comments. I can not begin to tell you what a pleasure it was meeting all of you. Coming to your homestead was fun, exciting, and very educational. I have just a few months left and I will be retiring in the same community as you. Grateful to be of common community. I just realized I already had your number for an ad for rabbits on craigslist!. see you guys when I get back. God bless you and again thank you for your time!!
We definitely watch all of the comments! It was great meeting you as well. We had a good time showing you around and answering questions. Looking forward to you moving out here so we can get to know each other better. Off to the market for us this morning....Thanks so much for the kind words and keep praying for us. God Bless - Kevin & Sarah
Makes me hungry! Very good video.
My grandma used to make turtle soup. I can remember as a child how good that soup was.
I just like the fact that your family is a beautiful adventurous family
+Gregory WilliMs Thank you so much!
Turtle soup was my favorite when I was a kid, we only had it once a year while on vacation and the turtles were in season.
Philadelphia snapper soup ,so good ! I would love to watch , I’m a city girl and haven’t a clue !
I used to eat turtle when a kid. My Granny would soak them in fresh water..for a day or so. Then soak in salt water after she de-shelled them. Then she'd soak in buttermilk a couple hours before breading..yum
My grandma used to talk about making Mulligan Stew. It had all kinds of meat in it and turtle was one of them.
That's a awesome cast iron collection hall have , great video
Roasted raccoon, with sweet potatoes, so good!! Snapping turtles are great too! Each part tastes like several other types of animals!
This was great... I'm from Ky. I have never eaten turtle, but I would give it a try! You have a great family.
Well I’m not sure. Would have tried that myself??? But the fact your girls liked it must be pretty good. Looking forward to see Possum soon? Interesting and entertaining at the same time!!! Cheers
I’m from Tuscaloosa Alabama. My daddy used to scald the turtles before cleaning them, because of the bacteria that live on them. He also told us kids that if on of those bit you it wouldn’t let go til it thundered!!! Haha!
I know this is a late comment but... inside the top of the shell are ribs you cut them out with wire cutters and there is more meat in the top of the shell and that is the turtles back straps... they are hidden and easy to miss.
just found your channel and i subscribed.... ive had soft shell turtle fried over a camp fire and i liked it. this july ill be catching some snappers and butchering them myself for the first time. it would be cool to get a new natural resource from the water that freezes and keeps well.. thanks for the video !! greetings from indiana !
thanks for this! ive made bbq turtle with mixed results. Your girls are so sweet! I'd love to see more of them in your videos and would love to know more about how they feel about your lifestyle. :-)
They can't show the kids in any new videos because of privacy reasons and also cause of youtube rules.
Kevin and Sarah, I just got started watching all of your videos. I am retired army from Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo and had spent about 13 years total there. The Missouri conservation department published a cook book a few years ago with any and all edible animals found in Missouri. We have a lot of the same animals down here in Alabama, so I use it a lot. You might want to contact them and get a book for yourself.
Great video.. I'll be checking out the link also. watched afew others & hopeto get one @least this summer.. Thanks you for sharing..
Very good video man...ive always wanted to try turtle...snapping and soft shell
My mother was born in 1923 in east central GA. (Stapleton) just before the depression started. She was the second child with one older sister and another younger sister and 2 boys in the mix. Here father was a bootlegger and died just after the youngest child was born in the early 30's. They had nothing. They lived in a rented house out in the country and the rent was 50 cents/ month and they were always behind. They grew all the vegetables they consumed. They had a cow for milk, cycle raised pigs & chickens just as you guys are doing. They ate anything they could kill and eat as do you. There were no deer in the area that she remembered. They ate lots of fish, turtles, quail, dove, rabbits, squirrels, possums. She told me a story once about a lack of meat at one point and it was during the time when blackbirds swarm in the fall. She would take the shotgun and shoot into a mass of blackbirds to not waste her shot. She said they would pull the breast out of the bird as you would do a dove, and use them in a meat & whatever vegetable they had, pie like chicken pot pie. All said I was wondering if you had ever tried Blackbird Pie?
As a child (I'm now 70yo), my father hunted deer, raised rabbits and chickens. We would, on occasion, eat snake, which I remembered liking a great deal and absolutely LOVED frog which we had plenty of at a nearby creek. Must say, living in CA, I loved abalone season and didn't realize what a delicacy I grew up with.
Missouri is a wonderful state for foraging food in the wild! We ate anything we could find. Turtles, fish and frogs were some of our favorites. Turtles are hard to clean, but great to eat!
I have some in my freezer now! My husband kept a bucket in our trunk, just in case he seen one crossing the road during the spring!
This is a nice video and this family is very adorable. That said, I don’t think I’d eat turtle 🐢. However, I wanted to see this process. Thank you!
Your daughter is truly ... minnie me!!! Clone of mom. Cutie pie!
I'm new to your channel and I've eaten turtle my whole life and it's one of my favorites. The Everglades way to cook it is to just flour and fry until golden, like chicken. You can also quick fry and cook in gravy. I'd certainly come to dinner for turtle! I'd even cook it for you, my husband can prepare it for cooking.
when we were kids in Ohio, our family went turtle hunting often. We had it fried but moms snapping turtle was the best. I envy you your great dinner.
Just ran across your video. Growing up in Florida my grandma use to catch snapping. We also use to crawl in the hole and pull out the hard shelled turtles as well. But when you deep fry them they are the 💣.
The way you cooked it, its really good with like pioneer country gravy mix, dip and eat. Very good. I make a gumbo with softshell turtles. Ima try a stew with some next. God bless yall.
We use to eat turtle all the time when I was a kid.
It is MUCH better than I was anticipating! Can't wait until next summer to catch a few more! - Kevin
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@@yasminelopez9213 I know this comment is old but you shouldn’t realize that anyways😂. Could you please translate this to English I’m so confused of what this is supposed to mean.
Would love to taste someday. Plenty of other videos on how to butcher so not showing that on your channel seems fine to me. Good video showing how you guys live off the land. Great that the kids had no problem giving it a try.
Those girls are adorable. My baby’s name is Grace, too!
😂😂😂 when the girls look back at this video years from now.
Just caught my first 2 turtles this morning with my grandson. Wanted to learn how to cook them and came across this old video lol. I been a subscriber for a long time and love you guys. Thanks for the cool tips. I'll be putting out our catching turtle video in a few days, just wanted to say thanks for all the things you guys teach us. Now I gotta find a cleaning turtle video
We love snapper soup. Those two snappers would make a very large pot of soup. Granny used to peal the shell and cook the meat off everything , then removed the bones and shell . The broth made the soup base. She used a sachet bag and removed after cooking for the spices. The back bones dried out made toys for us kids. I'd guess it was a 30 quart pot cooking all day. It was a light soup taters hard boiled eggs, celery , carrots . Just so good it was a staple for us .
Awesome video ! just liked and subscribed !!!
So for the opossum you should try it smoked, you can do raccoon the same way. Boil it till tender then put it on the Bbq pit until they are smoked. You didn't mention squirrels but they are good smothered. You can boil it first, fry in flour, then make a gravy by adding water. Season at each step.
We eat soft shell turtles. Those are our favorites! We cut them into nuggets! Fantastic. Fried turtle nuggets grits and gravy! Gravy from turtle drippings.
I've never ate snapping turtles though.
when i lived in Camden mo. i was broke and heard of a fungi that looks like corral it is
found in the fall groes in many diffrant collers when you you fry it looks like spegti sorry about spelling
My grandpa would catch and process them and my grandma would make huge pots of turtle vegetable soup. Fed 26 of us one night!!
I was just thinking last night, on cleaning out out pond from turtles and how would I clean them, to prepare for my freezer; for another source of meat, and you just proved me right, it can be done.
the expressions on your faces were priceless.
My Uncle made Brunswick stew and the meats he used were pork, chicken and turtle meat. It was very good. Like you said with the seven different meat flavors, it really blended very well with the stew and the vegetables in the stew.....
Don't forget that you can also eat frog legs. Use the back of junk mail for your grocery list. Also, use newspapers for your patterns, that is if you do any sewing. As always, Chris Bitonti Also, don't forget that you can catch crayfish in your creeks to eat. As always, Chris Bitonti
Sarah & Kevin, fun video to see all of you together. Kevin, not sure if you have mentioned anything in your newer videos (2019) regarding trapping.
Thanks everyone,
Rob S. (Rockford MI)
Squirrel brains mmmm...
I are turtle for years ,awesome soup!!
Yum! A church where we served had a wild game supper and snapping turtle was on the menu. BBQ beaver is great!
It's nice to watch y'all. Hello from Oklahoma
I realize it's a year later, but my grandfather used to make turtle pie, like chicken pot pie. Slow stewed meat TIL tender with onion, celery diced carrot, whatever you may like. Seasoned with salt, pepper . When tender, thicken broth TIL a thin gravy. Pour into a pie shell and cover with top crust. Bake at 375 TIL golden.
Yea we always ate the soft shell turtles that have pointy noses you see poking up in the ponds and lakes. We used a trot line to catch catfish and turtles. Put the line down in the morning and return late afternoon in the jon boat and put them in large trash cans.
We never ever baked our turtle.
We just cut it up small pieces even the neck cut into small pieces. Then flour salt and pepper and fried in it in a skillet.
We never used bread crumbs because we made turtle gravy and grits. Hush puppies with chopped tomatoes and onions and fried those too, served with coleslaw.
And yes each piece is different. Our turtle is so loved by us but we're not allowed to catch them anymore. I guess too many people found out how delicious they were. In fact now days it's Illegal to catch them and keep them in Florida anymore. We now live in Alabama on Lookout mountain so we can catch them again to eat on our homestead. :) Give soft shell a try if they're in your area. Much easier to clean. Take an old door. Catch the head on a nail you've driven though the door and stretch the neck out and then cut it off.
Flip the turtle over and cut around the under side around the legs as if it was a bowl. Then you can get the meat out.
Looks delish! My family is from the tropical-woods but I've never had it..wish me luck!
I've tried alligator before and that was delicious! Not swampy tasting at all. Imagine how great a fried up alligator with baked beans and some fresh collards would be.