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Skriven 2007-04-10 13:39:24 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Michael Loo
Ärende: FILIPINO RECIPES 334
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 > And I presume that any oxtail recipe can be used for roo tail.
 > Or one can just make a stew in the usual throw-it-together style,
 > making sure that the simmering or braising time is enough to
 > break down the tendons.

Any oxtail recipe can be used, but as there is so little fat on a 'roo tail, it
is not necessary to trim it before cooking or try to remove it later.  I
normally use a pressure cooker, and the long, elastic tendons, which you may
recall are very strong when used as a binding to hold your spear head in place,
disappear completely by the time the meat is cooked tender.   Another way to
cook 'roo  tail is to hack it off from the back of the 'roo, and throw it on a
fire.  The fur burns off, and then it is easy to pull of the skin and eat the
meat.

 >>GJ> where I had a reasonable croc burger (with fried egg).)
 >> What species egg?
 >GJ> Chook's.   I would have liked to try crocodile balut, but the croc
 >GJ> eggs are too valuable.
 > 
 > I wonder what the analysis would look like.
 > 
 > ChookEgg + CostsOfRaisingChook = FinishedChicken 
 > CrocEgg + CostsOfRaisingCroc = FinishedCroc
 > 
 > With numbers for some of the items, the variables ChookEgg
 > and CrockEgg can be quantified, with their difference in
 > value being the premium you would pay for a croc egg garnish.

One would need to take into account the cost of personal insurance for the
persons who raid the wild croc's nests, as the mother crocs get quite nasty
towards egg thieves.  The eggs are 4 times the size of a chooks' eggs.
The final value of a crocodile would be of the order of hundreds of $$, mainly
for the leather, after 4 or 5 years, all of which would indicate quite a high
egg value as harvested, and far more at maturity. 

 >GJ> fee, it is possible to get a 60cm baby from one of the croc farms, take
 >GJ> it home (or the kids, to their school), feed it until it grows to about
 >GJ> 1 metre, then give it back to the croc farm.  That takes about a year,
 >GJ> and the farm wins on two accounts.  Normally they are killed for skins
 > 
 > I take it that it is not easy to become emotionally attached to
 > a reptile in the amount of time it takes it to grow from 60 cm
 > to 100 cm?

I cannot understand anyone becoming emotionally attached to a crocodile,
particularly when it is large enough to remove fingers.  "Salties" are bad
tempered beasts at the best of times.  The smaller "Freshies" are somewhat more
timid, and tend to run/swim away rather than eat intruders into their domain. 
I never smile at a crocodile, even if he does at me.

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