Smoked Gator

[59FLH]

I just got home from a cook out, Smoked Gator, Pork Shoulders, Chickens, and Brisket. I did not cook so I have no recipe to share, BUT I did eat. Going into a food coma soon so Ill check back later.

 

[Ross1147]

So I take it it was good? I've tried it a few different ways, but to be fair think it's all garbage compared to fried? If it was that's my next way to try it! Once I stock the freezer again when season opens in August of course!

 

[xsn10s]

My movie mind went right to a scene in "The Waterboy".

 

[LVJ76]

I have never tried it, but if I ever get my hands on some, I would fry it in my beer batter recipe and pair with a very cold beer, or two, or three, well, you get the point.

 

[xsn10s]

I've always wanted to try gator when I was stationed in the South, but never had any. I imagine it's good.

 

[xsn10s]

Fried sounds good but smoked with some applewood sounds really good too.

 

[Recon$$]

I love fried tail, bet smoked is just as good. How's it smoked?

 

[59FLH]

I did not get a chance to talk in-depth to the cook, but his uncles mentioned he brined them (wet or dry IDK) personal concoction cajun rub then on the smoker they went, unknown wood.

It was excellent, I wish I would have taken a pic of the carcasses, they crushed them, men women and children.

Nobody mentioned frying, my guess is they did not have a 5' diameter frying pan.

 

[59FLH]

So I take it it was good? I've tried it a few different ways, but to be fair think it's all garbage compared to fried? If it was that's my next way to try it! Once I stock the freezer again when season opens in August of course!

I was very good.

 

[asd9055]

I don't eat chicken....well they say gator tastes like chicken, so why try
Seriously, I dont eat repilians or amhibians, not my thing
Enjoy what you like!

 

[59FLH]

I love fried tail, bet smoked is just as good. How's it smoked?

It was good, l expected it to be a bit dry and tough, it was not. My surprise was the people I expected to go "yuck" tore into it and liked it.

 

[59FLH]

I don't eat chicken....well they say gator tastes like chicken, so why try
Seriously, I dont eat repilians or amhibians, not my thing
Enjoy what you like!

My little sister told me that's where I went wrong hunting as a youth, she said squirrels, are a gate way meat.

 

[asd9055]

My little sister told me that's where I went wrong hunting as a youth, she said squirrels are a gate way meat.

I love squirrels, I even ate hedgehog. There are some things that I have a "mind block", I eat brains and eyes and tongue of mamals. Just can't handle reptilians and amphibians. There are probably 4 billion people or more who enjoy them, so I leave it for them.