Taste Testing Edible Bugs & Insects Alternative Proteins
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Date: 2020-08-17
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HaydenX
I like to make savory pancakes with brown rice flour, sesame seeds, and cricket flour. and because crickets kind of taste like a blend of crayfish, malt, black pepper, and walnut. they go well with fermented sauces like soy. or hoisin. Seriously, hoisin sauce on savory cricket pancakes is really good. especially with a bit of fresh green onions or pepperoncini. Mealworms, however, require no preparation or adornment beyond the initial roast and a light sprinkle of salt. They are seriously delicious, tasting a bit like buttered toast with a bit of nuttiness and having a texture like a very thin, crispy shell surrounding a texture like the white of popcorn. If people weren't really turned off by the appearance of mealworms, I could see them becoming a really standard snack because they are amazing.
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I like to make savory pancakes with brown rice flour, sesame seeds, and cricket flour. and because crickets kind of taste like a blend of crayfish, malt, black pepper, and walnut. they go well with fermented sauces like soy. or hoisin. Seriously, hoisin sauce on savory cricket pancakes is really good. especially with a bit of fresh green onions or pepperoncini. Mealworms, however, require no preparation or adornment beyond the initial roast and a light sprinkle of salt. They are seriously delicious, tasting a bit like buttered toast with a bit of nuttiness and having a texture like a very thin, crispy shell surrounding a texture like the white of popcorn. If people weren't really turned off by the appearance of mealworms, I could see them becoming a really standard snack because they are amazing.
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Erin
When I was in college I participated in a lot of research studies for the economics, physiology, psychology, etc. departments for money (usually 20-30. There was one experiment where they would offer you money with some chance that you would have to eat an insect. Theyd show you a picture of the insect and youd have to say whether or not youd eat it and for how much and if it came up that youd have to actually eat it if you refused youd lose everything youd made. They were all fda approved, food safe, so it was just paying you to eat food. I made 300 in like 2 hours, it was great and most werent half bad. The dried scorpion was pretty terrible, extremely bitter.
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When I was in college I participated in a lot of research studies for the economics, physiology, psychology, etc. departments for money (usually 20-30. There was one experiment where they would offer you money with some chance that you would have to eat an insect. Theyd show you a picture of the insect and youd have to say whether or not youd eat it and for how much and if it came up that youd have to actually eat it if you refused youd lose everything youd made. They were all fda approved, food safe, so it was just paying you to eat food. I made 300 in like 2 hours, it was great and most werent half bad. The dried scorpion was pretty terrible, extremely bitter.
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TheCORNOX
I'm definately too late in this video but I'm from South America, and I have tried some bugs/insects however they are definately not part of common diet. In some rural areas you can get little bowls of hormigas culonas (fat-ass ants literal translation, Atta laevigata scientific name) and they are amazing as a snack like nuts. Also, I have been in the amazon where the guide casually saw a fallen tree trunk and took a white silk-looking live worm which I ate whole and tasted like coconut. I hope you keep trying some of these not necessarily as ingredients but on their own.
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I'm definately too late in this video but I'm from South America, and I have tried some bugs/insects however they are definately not part of common diet. In some rural areas you can get little bowls of hormigas culonas (fat-ass ants literal translation, Atta laevigata scientific name) and they are amazing as a snack like nuts. Also, I have been in the amazon where the guide casually saw a fallen tree trunk and took a white silk-looking live worm which I ate whole and tasted like coconut. I hope you keep trying some of these not necessarily as ingredients but on their own.
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Reb
Those dried bugs, spiders and scorpions offered here are just BAD. If you completely dry insects, you basically purely eat the exoskeleton. No taste, just dry crunchy stuff you can't swallow without a glass of water. If you want to go that route again, go the Mac and cheese way of preparing fresh ingredients. Not in a usual dish, but try making them work with fitting spices and sides, like you would do with any other protein.
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Those dried bugs, spiders and scorpions offered here are just BAD. If you completely dry insects, you basically purely eat the exoskeleton. No taste, just dry crunchy stuff you can't swallow without a glass of water. If you want to go that route again, go the Mac and cheese way of preparing fresh ingredients. Not in a usual dish, but try making them work with fitting spices and sides, like you would do with any other protein.
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Karasu-kun
Where I come from it is not ubiquitous, but fairly common to eat multiple varieties of bugs.
We eat escamoles (ant eggs) roasted crickets, xamui (a type of giant bedbug) and possibly the most popular: chinicuiles (the larvae of a type of moth that plagues maguey plants)
And they are considered an authentic delicacy, possibly the most expensive local food you can find, but definitely worth trying
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Where I come from it is not ubiquitous, but fairly common to eat multiple varieties of bugs.
We eat escamoles (ant eggs) roasted crickets, xamui (a type of giant bedbug) and possibly the most popular: chinicuiles (the larvae of a type of moth that plagues maguey plants)
And they are considered an authentic delicacy, possibly the most expensive local food you can find, but definitely worth trying
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Naeem
It's an interesting conversation to raise yeah, cause if I look at it from a preservation standpoint, I would wholeheartedly agree that alternatives should be found. As a foodie though, they would need to satisfy my pallet, I am not saying it should do it in the same a juicy steak would, that is unfair, however it should satisfy me, otherwise I wouldn't eat it.
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It's an interesting conversation to raise yeah, cause if I look at it from a preservation standpoint, I would wholeheartedly agree that alternatives should be found. As a foodie though, they would need to satisfy my pallet, I am not saying it should do it in the same a juicy steak would, that is unfair, however it should satisfy me, otherwise I wouldn't eat it.
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Ostelan
The thought of eating a bug is literally my worst nightmare, which Ive been in and out of therapy for years trying to address. I avoided this video for a long time but decided to watch it today. I only got a little triggered toward the end. I hope someday with enough exposure like this, my weird OCD-induced phobia will disappear.
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The thought of eating a bug is literally my worst nightmare, which Ive been in and out of therapy for years trying to address. I avoided this video for a long time but decided to watch it today. I only got a little triggered toward the end. I hope someday with enough exposure like this, my weird OCD-induced phobia will disappear.
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Benjamin
This is what our hunter/gatherer forefathers used to eat all the time. They didn't cringe or question the ability to eat these lifeforms, many of which were nutritious enough to get them through the day if they did not have a freshly killed beast in front of them. They would likely find you disgusting for finding it disgusting.
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This is what our hunter/gatherer forefathers used to eat all the time. They didn't cringe or question the ability to eat these lifeforms, many of which were nutritious enough to get them through the day if they did not have a freshly killed beast in front of them. They would likely find you disgusting for finding it disgusting.
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allilandis88
I could probably do the cricket flour or maybe the protein powder.
I am exactly the kind of person Jamie was talking about: you can eat a steak because it doesn't look like a cow, you can kind of remove yourself from that situation (and no, I don't like any seafood)
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I could probably do the cricket flour or maybe the protein powder.
I am exactly the kind of person Jamie was talking about: you can eat a steak because it doesn't look like a cow, you can kind of remove yourself from that situation (and no, I don't like any seafood)
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Bronzed
Honestly I wish a lot of American processed foods used insect ingredients. I feel the only real problem is the stigmatism of creepy crawlies. These insects would need to be held to even higher standards of cleanliness to try and encourage people.
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Honestly I wish a lot of American processed foods used insect ingredients. I feel the only real problem is the stigmatism of creepy crawlies. These insects would need to be held to even higher standards of cleanliness to try and encourage people.
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