Hello Veeky Forums, for a few weeks, I've been preparing for you guys the ultimate bulking food. Some say it could not be done, but it exists. I'm talking about a type of meat that has a 3:1 ratio of protein to fat, no carbs, is a source of fiber, and contains a nice bit of calcium and phosphorous. Yes, you guessed it, the majestic cockroach. >but OP, where do I get cockroaches from???? Simple, my friend. I raise my own cockroaches in a bin, and am able to eat the babies. For the past few weeks, I've replaced their diet of dog and fish food with corn meal and fruit, along with some table scraps. This is to make sure their digestive tracts are clean of anything I wouldn't want in my body. I have isolated a few nymphs who I wanted to eat, then I euthanized them in my refrigerator. After this, I soaked them in lemon juice for about 40 minutes to weaken their waxy cuticle, and then I used scissors to remove their legs and heads. After this, I seasoned them in curry, oregano, salt and pepper, and then sautéed them in a bit of olive oil and lemon juice.
The end result was a pretty decent tasting, albeit gamey, bite sized bit of protein. I don't want to spare too many of my darlings, but when my current batch of nymphs molts into beautiful adults I'll gladly eat some more of them.
I will post some more images of the cooking/preparing process, as well as a detailed analysis of their taste.
Nolan Johnson
The OP image is me cleaning the already euthanized cockroaches. pic related are the lemons I soaked them with. Also, I reused the lemon juice to sautéed the roaches.
Wyatt Smith
Once they were finished, I then had to prepare them for cooking. To do this, I cut their legs and heads off with some scissors. In the future, with small Eublaberus nymphs like these, it may be a good idea to cut the some of the tergites (dorsal exoskeleton segments) off as well.
Thomas Peterson
Unfortunately, I do not have an image of me seasoning these darlings, but I can assure that they were seasoned with curry powder, oregano, salt, and pepper.
In this picture, I am cooking them. I pan fried them a bit, and then added lemon juice. I think they could have cooked just a pinch longer. Boiling or deep frying may also be a superior method of cooking them compared to what I did.
Lincoln Edwards
Finally, they are done. Ate one straight, and the other two I tried making a roach sandwich.
Noah Brown
Fucking Christ op.
Ryder Bell
Cooked, served, delicious!
In terms of flavor, the roaches are just a pinch gamey (though, this may be because they were slightly under cooked). I believe the curry powder was a mistake, and that they would have been better off with cinnamon or some other seasoning. Their exact flavor was a sort of bitter, mushroomy taste. The meat of the roach was smooth, a bit like oyster or muscle, while the shell itself was crunchy and took a while to chew. The roaches left a pleasant after taste, and once I got over the fact that I was eating my precious Eublaberus nymphs, I soon found myself enjoying the texture and the after taste.
The roach sandwich I made was also pretty good. Siracha sauce really improved the flavor, and the bread helped the balance the texture.
In terms of macros, roaches by body mass are about 65% moisture, 23% protein, 7% fat, 3% fiber, and the last 2% of body mass in the analysis is just vaporized ash from the calorimetry process. Roaches also have 800mg of calcium per kilo of roach, and 2600mg of phosphorous per kilo of roach.
I hope you anons enjoyed this experiment, and I also hope some of you may join me in the breeding and consumption of some of God's most beautiful animals.
Jose Lewis
i can tell your ugly just from this pic alone.
Aiden Butler
Include me in the fucking screencap. You're an absolute fucking animal, and you're definitely gonna make it OP. The shit people do for (You)'s is outstanding.
Mason Peterson
keep it up user
Logan Butler
>the roachanon is back Desist immediately
Jaxon Smith
You should start mass producing them and selling, I'd like to try some.
Tyler Sullivan
What the fuck is wrong with you
Bentley Lee
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Grayson Roberts
Oh fuck this guy again
Jose Mitchell
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Mason Bell
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Xavier Howard
Im unironically considering adding them to my diet Questions Do you have to take out the organs or do you eat the bitches whole no head no legs Can you make them into a paste for some sort of mock proton bar
Elijah Phillips
The way of the future dood.
Austin Watson
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Leo Anderson
Not OP, but clearly eat it whole. Everything is so small, you won't tell you are eating organs.
Nathaniel Green
i missed you roachbro, good to known you still lurk
Connor Rivera
But will the organs get me sick if under cooked?
Jace Myers
Need a way to speed up the leg / head removal process. I could see roasting these and it being healthier than fucking potato chips.
Leo Ross
You could remove the intestines if you so desired, however, as long as you don't feed them anything you wouldn't eat I don't think you would want to.
You could puree and dry them to make some type of powder, or turn them into a sauce of some sort. I would recommend eating them with rice, I think that would improve the flavor, as their texture is both smooth and crunchy, having something soft, but firm, such as rice or bread really improves the experience.
>pic related, my roach colony. Note the corn meal which is their primary food source.
Insects are able to synthesize their own protein via their symbiotic bacteria, so they can exist with pretty lousy food like corn meal.
Adam Morris
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Joseph Kelly
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Gavin Watson
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS THREAD?
Ethan Phillips
fucking based roachbro
Dylan King
>bitter, mushroomy taste
Jacob White
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Austin Hall
No worse than shrimp or any other shell fish. Cockroaches are like land shrimp or land lobsters, sorta. My adults are larger and will probably provide more meat.
Caleb Rivera
I don't give a fuck how healthy it is I'm not eating another roach in my life you fucking animal
Joseph Cooper
no
Jayden Jenkins
NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN
Angel Hughes
>I'm not eating another roach in my life >another Explain?
Ryan Long
Just use scissors or your hands. When i was doing it, it was possible to cut off multiple legs at the same time. Also, it's probably OK to leave the heads on. The only reason In dislike the legs is due to their spininess.
Camden Hughes
I thought you just raised them and that you were joking about eating them in the last thread you sick fuck. Can tell from this mouth shot that you are an ugly ungroomed faggot, reconsider life.
Wyatt Parker
remove kebab
Thomas Morgan
>this is considered a delicacy in the nation state of yuropooria
Charles Lee
>spininess Yea seems like they would fuck your intestines. I'm talking about industrialization though. People are fucking retarded and will eat anything. With an endless supply of these fuckers for free it would be easy $$$$ if you could figure out process.
Liam Edwards
>the curry was a mistake >the curry
Noah Long
You guys are such closed minded bitches
Michael Russell
Jesus Christ This is the future
Justin Hall
>this son of a bitch actually raises cockroaches to get his protein Ever heard of chicken breast you filthy cunt
Carson Bailey
Yea fuck it, people literally eat spiders and scorpions served from hotdog style trucks in some places... there is money to be made here.
Jacob White
UMA DELICIA
Jace Smith
Hmm. Interesting idea, you could probably get day laborers or something to do it for cheap. If you wanted, you could also sell them at a farmers market or something at a premium. Those types of people love novelty.
Jordan Howard
>this fucking thread
Include me in the screencap
Aaron Gutierrez
Jesus fucking christ....
David Reed
jesus fucking christ i've heard of threads of threads like this but i thought they were only legend
Jacob Thompson
ayy it's the roach thread guy
Dominic Ortiz
the cockroach eater is back brace yourslevs
Samuel Foster
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Levi Reed
Yea, but we're already dealing with cockroaches so cheap mexican labor would be about like kikes working at Auschwitz.
Easton Edwards
I'm just here to farm some reaction images
Chase Hernandez
AYE Roachbrah, welcome back
Landon Cook
Fuck it, I'm hopping on the roach train, one way trip to gains town incoming Where do I buy roaches and what are the meatiest breeds
Luis Rivera
You're not wrong. I personally just love cockroaches, and I want to inspire others to integrate them into their lives.
If you have family, you may be able to get them to help you de-leg and behead them. The process was decently quick for me, even though it was my first time. I think with practice, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to do a whole dozen roaches.
Joshua King
NEVER POST HERE AGAIN
Jonathan Wright
>implying the holocaust Promise I wasn't
Luis Smith
I would recommend you breed them yourself. That way you can control their diet and really be like a farmer.
I hope that cockroaches will become part of the future of personal sustenance and farming.
Camden Ross
>If you have family Nah, I want to the one profiting off of retards, not the actual retards. I'm thinking cockroach mogal not a fast food worker. Think big win big.
Joseph James
I was a cell technician for towers and we'd drive to these middle of the fucking woods towers in bum fuck Virginia. I had a crew of Mexicans assigned to me and they all thought I was the actual Texas ranger because I had grown up Inna woods. I used to catch snakes with my hands etc. etc.
Well one day I wrangled up this big fucking cockroach on an indoor site and was showing it off to all the Mexicans who looked at it with fear and I made mention they were super healthy to eat as far as nutrients go.
They immediately started putting money on me eating it and I caved at 75$. It tasted horrific, fought for too long and probably gave me aids. Second worst taste of my life.
Adam Sanchez
You don’t eat shrimp-of-the-toilet with their shells on, you goof.
Dylan King
I would recommend you breed them yourself. That way, you can control what diet and species you have. Also, the joy of raising these beautiful, precious, adorable animals is a reward in and of itself.
John Young
Im surprisingly indifferent about this, you do you, OP. Don't ever let a girl find out about this tho
Nicholas Carter
Don't your cockroaches grow wings? Flying cockroaches are disgusting, when you're trying to kill one they fly off the ground, it's scary as fuck.
Blake Gutierrez
I am a farmer I just need to know where to get a grill roach so I can buy a male and have him knock her up Isn't there a breed of monster roaches, like rat sized, I don't want to murder 50 of them when I want a snack
Jonathan Ross
Welcome back roachbro
Can you post more of your cockroach farm? Im genuinely curious
David Sullivan
Why is this thread allowed
Nolan Anderson
"Insect Husbandry" would entail breeding them to be larger.
Landon Young
The real question is why aren't you milking your roaches OP?
Jeremiah Perez
Oh, there's a lot of websites to buy roaches off. I would recommend bugsincyberspace.com or roachcrossing.com, those two have basically been my go-to for all my invert needs.
Wyatt Wood
>If you have family, you may be able to get them to help you de-leg and behead them
Brandon Anderson
It would have tasted better if you cooked it. You wouldn't eat raw shellfish or meat, Earth's bountiful and beautiful insects are no different.
Ryder Russell
>Tfw no insect husband
Samuel Baker
You'd have the same reaction if you ate a raw shrimp, lobster, or crab too, retard
Levi Ramirez
>step aside roachlets
Thomas King
Have you considered the humble slug OP? It has no pesky shell or limbs that need to removed. You could probably make a kind of mincemeat out of them which would be very versatile for cooking
Charles Foster
Very informative post op, I enjoyed it. Definitely gonna make it.
Nathaniel Wilson
Both of you shitty bug loving queers can fuck off. I love raw crab/Shrimp/beef. Bugs are disgusting and you can take your shitty bugs and put them in your ass. >Mammal protein masterrace
Thomas Nelson
Way to go. You ate 3 which probably equals 20gs of protein and you had to prepare them by cutting off each leg and cooking them. This is why we don't eat bugs. Not because they're bugs. Because they're not a practicle, convient, or nutrient dense source of food. Eat a chicken. 1 chicken will fill you up and will provide you with way more nutritional value. I'm more annoyed that you're dumb enough to think this is a good food than grossed out.
Connor Carter
I've never been able to get my slugs to breed, unfortunately.
>pic related are leopard slugs, the type that I have. I haven't got them to breed, but I have gotten some small glass snails to breed.
I'll try breeding garden slugs one day, they get pretty large so I bet they would provide a lot of meat.
Jonathan Carter
>another T*RK DETECTED
Levi Lopez
Southern American with Russian bloodlines thanks
Brayden Morgan
I mean I wouldn't go with roaches myself but it's not the craziest idea I've heard, although it doesn't strike me as a better idea than chicken breast
You can buy protein powder made of crickets so I suppose this is similar
Christopher White
>basically free >easy to prepare >tasty(?) What more could you want
Ian Mitchell
> shrimp and crab > mammals
Look who flunked science.
Isaiah Gutierrez
Good stuff OP. Been considering crickets as a food source as well. Cook your roaches on very high heat with oil next time maybe a peanut oil and toss some old Bay on them
Jayden Jones
This was just a test run. Once my second batch of nymphs reach adulthood and start breeding, I'll be able to eat the adults (which are larger), and also have a larger breeding stock. If you were going to eat them for more sustenance, obviously you should eat like 20 or 40 or something. Cutting the legs off is easy, it's no different than preparing shrimp, even easier than de-shelling them I believe. Each of these nymphs was about 4g each, so assuming you ate 20 roaches of the exact same size, that would be 80g of roach and about 21g of protein. 20 roaches is not an unreasonable amount, especially if you have multiple, productive colonies.
Nathaniel Taylor
Nobody says "Southern American" stupid Turkroach, stop eating your countrymen. You should have said Southern, and we would have understood.
Nicholas King
>not eating raw shellfish have you never heard of an oyster
Christopher Clark
A+ thread OP. gave me a hearty kek
Leo Walker
is that really you
Caleb Wood
BASED ROACHMAN HAS RETURNED.
Jeremiah Taylor
all roaches have wings but only american cockroaches can use them and they usually don't
Ethan Fisher
I prefer mammals for my protein source but will also consume shellfish. I did perfectly well in science. You eat fucking bugs how dare you insult me you swine
Bitch Do you know how many countries have a southern area? All of them. I was raised in SC outside of Columbia. Eat shit.
Dominic Morales
Thanks for the advice, I'll try that next time. I personally dislike crickets because they are pretty cannibalistic, not to mention the noise and the smell makes them hard to live with.
Ian Turner
>implying I'm OP > Implying eating bugs is a bad thing > calling me a swine