Hello everyone, I was thinking about eating a red squirrel I shot witb my pellet gun and was wondering your thoughts on the taste of red squirrel and if it is edible.? Thanks!

Cook him up, boil then bread and fry.

You need a fox squirrel they have more meat.

Red squirrels are small, but taste the same as grey squirrels around here. They might taste different in areas where they eat primarily pine nuts. I've never tried one that did.

Keith

simple way to cook them , 2-3 sheets of aluminum foil laid of flat ,lay your cleaned squirrel in , some butter salt and pepper then a good squirt of your favorite bbq sauce
fold that up in the first sheet , flip it over fold the other way ,and if you like one more time again different direction

bake about 350 for 35 minutes
you can pull coals out of a fire and lay the foil packet right on the coals , this is the reason for a 3rd sheet

the mess throws right out for simple clean up

60 some years ago i was a mountain man/ trapper my Mom fried them in butter

Or a grey

Cant stand the smell of them.Have to be pretty hungry before I'd eat one.

Me too

Do the red squirrels in your area eat mostly pine nuts?

Keith

I thought you were gonna say throw the squirrel in the trash and eat the aluminum foil.....Im with Boco on this one.

Me three!

I use this on greys the kids loved it camping they were asking me to bring squirrel to every camping trip
if your going to eat a red it would be worth a try.

Pressure cook for 20 minutes. Then brown them in a frying pan with bacon grease and steak sauce .

Pressure cook for about 5 minutes or so, debone, cook in chili. You need a couple of them though.............also good in baked pot pie ie. pie crust, chopped up taters, carrots, peas etc., gravy, mix it up and dump it in the pie and put the top on and bake.................

I've ate hundreds of them always good ,

Sounds like the dove of the squirrel family.

I've eaten few, just small is all

I can't believe no one has commented on OP's username.....

When I and 2 of my friends went squirrel hunting, we shot all of them.
The red squirrels tasted just as good as the fox and gray squirrels.
Just a lot smaller !

Back in the old days, when my kit mostly consisted of a pocket knife, a Model 94 Daisy, and a "quarter pack" of BB's, Red Squirrels were my favorite prey when camping in the Upper Peninsula. I'd smite them, skin and gut, and me Mudder would fry them up and we'd proudly eat them with the trout we would catch in what ever creek we camped along. Good stuff.