What does a guy look out for so he doesn't get sick. I want to try one this year.

Just be sure to not eat too much.

Brother.....are you bored?

Feeling a little lucky ....are yah ..

Hard to beat a good beef steak

Well Grandma would only cook a yearling/small one. She would boil it and change the water out removing the fat off of it each water change. Once it was falling off the bone she would de-bone it and put it in a roaster pan with barbecue sauce and bake it. When she was done it was like eating barbecue brisket.
No one cooked like Grandma.

B

With enough Barbecue sauce ...an otter would taste good.........but I don’t think so.

I have never been...nor do I ever hope to be...that hungry.

Anything you have to keep changing the water out of or skimming the grease off of as it cooks is not fit to eat in the first place.

Maybe we can take up a collection here , so you don't have to eat one of those nasty critters

I think Cheechako about nailed this one!

Oh I’m sorry, I grew up in a time where my family sat at a table together. We gave thanks for the food that was set before us.

B

Make sure there are no spots on the liver or the meat, and take out all of the glands before cooking.

Don't be sorry , just remember the good Lord made many many animals more fit for human consumption

Glands and fat. All glands gone or you’ll never try it again. Trim off as much fat as possible. Cook low and slow.



Owl

Yes , take the glands out
Soak it in salt water over nite
Then fry it up like rabbit, a young one that is

Cook it raised up like on a broiler Rack so the grease drains and won’t lay in/absorb it.

after skinning and gutting my grandpap woulld just cut the head and feet off and then cook em with sweet tators and onions laying belly down in a roasting pan.
do think he cleaned all the fat off he could tho, lol one sunday with most of the family at his house he pulled a coon out of the oven and said that was dinner.
he let the wimmin folks think that was all he cooked for a bit then got the beef and tators off the flour box on the back porch.

Ankle worms and parasites would be my main concern. Seen many reasons, over my lifetime of skinning them, not to eat one. LLL

Coon is very good to eat. Remove all the kernels and as much fat as you can. BBQ coon is good.

Rickey

peel off the hide and see guinea worms, strung out 10-12 inches long, going down between the different muscle groups,,,,,nope,,,aint eatin' that.