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Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

Cookin' Crows

8fishermen · Guru

Taste is fine. Like dove or duck. A little tough. I can't get past the smell and tought of it is STILL A CROW.

Zeddicus · Senior Member

Apparently the young ones taste good. You could make mince meat for pasta or burgers.
If all else fails, use as dog food... Some guys give it to a zoo for birds of pray to eat but then you must use steel shot.

8fishermen · Guru

Never thought about the zoo! good idea.

Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

Yeah

NGillespie10 · Senior Member

I've made it on the grill with bbq sauce and wrapped in bacon...wasn't too bad. But a little tough.

shaddart · Guru

U guys are tougher than me. Ugh!!!!

Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

Haha! I just love trying different foods that alot of people wouldn't think of eating.

Pat B · Senior Member

I can eat lobster and crab, which are bottom-crawling, garbage-eating crustaceans that have probably dined on Swiss Air and Japanese tsunami victims and I've eaten many an off-beat food item, but I just can't get to the point of trying crow....
Maybe if it was prepared and presented as a meal item.......

bon appetite

Pat

M12Shooter · Guru

Crow would probably taste better than half the ducks guys shoot. I think I'd pass though...on the crow that is biggrin

Ted

Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

Crow would probably taste better than half the ducks guys shoot. I think I'd pass though...on the crow that is

Why would crow taste better than ducks?

Pat B · Senior Member

Oklahoma Crow Buster wrote:

Why would crow taste better than ducks?

I can't answer for Ted, but once I tried to eat a western jackrabbit that probably had a steady diet of sagebrush......house smelled like thanksgiving turkey for a week, and remainder for rabbit went to the pigs (just TOO strong)........some ducks eat so much fish they reek of stale fish, yet I have a friend that prefers mergansers !!!!

Pat

Duce · Veteran Member

First attempt at cooking crows was just a fast fry in vegetable oil, not good at all. Tough, smelled and tasted like liver.

Second attempt MUCH better, sliced the breasts in half to make them thinner, coated in flour and sprinkled salt on them and fried in butter. If you have ever eaten deer heart that's what it tastes like. I really liked it the second time only wish I had more to eat. 3 crows that way is a solid meal too. Two would probably do for most.

NGillespie10 · Senior Member

I think slicing them in half and marinading in something citrus would help tenderize them. I also had a guy from Arkansas cook us up some deer and before he fried it, he pounded the hell out of it with a tenderizing hammer. Might do the trick for crow as well.

JasonSelmes · Member

why not marinate them in asian soy sauce and garlic, ginger and honey? I bet they taste good then

NGillespie10 · Senior Member

honey and soy sauce mixed is pretty good. I use that on pork chops sometimes. Its a really nice mix of salty and sweet.

M12Shooter · Guru

I was watching a hunting show on our local outdoors channel. It featured a crow hunt in Quebec, Canada. The half hour show was dedicated to spring crow hunting but was in French with English sub titles. Had a segment related to cooking crow by some chef. He claimed crow is quite good and apparently the breasts are dark meat as duck but the legs and thighs were more white as pheasant or grouse. Finished product looked quite good but I still think I'll stick to mallards and canvasbacks.

Ted

Bob · Guru

OK Crow Buster,

If you want to get rid of the gamey taste and tenderize the meat just let them marinate in Coca Cola for 24 hours. We used too do that with ducks and geese and it worked quite well.

Bob A.

Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

Bob,

Thanks! I'll have to try that next time I go crow hunting!

OK Crow Buster

Bob · Guru

Ok Crow Hunter,

It really workes well, I think you will like it.

Bob A.

Hizzoner · Senior Member

O C B- I guide Sea-Duck hunts,our recipe is excpet Eiders once in a while! Cook with favorite Work Boot, Throw duck away and EAT BOOT! bleh bleh bleh

Oklahoma Crow Buster · Veteran Member

HaHa!

Mainehunt · Guru

Ever see turkeys feeding on the maggot covered carcass of a dead porupine?

I've eaten crow. Take the breast fillets and slice them in strips like you would for stir-fry.

Put these pieces in a zip-lock bag with olive oil and a couple table spoons of Worcestershire sauce. Marinate in fridge at least a couple hours, overnight is best. Then lightly saute' in frying pan with salt and pepper.

Kev

motiondecoy · Guru

Turkey vultures will eat about anything..I still cannot get my mind off of that dead cow the farmer dragged out to help fertilize his cornfield...it attracted anything that ate meat so naturally Heckle and Jeckle would be right there too:"Come come all! Plenty to go around!"

motiondecoy · Guru

Almost forgot; had that been in the fall that cow would have looked like a fuzz ball from a distance! And had the farmer did that every fall it would have actually altered the migration path! However that was late 1970 something and that idea is long gone...

oh and about west nile virus? Crows ain't stupid; they seemingly abandon an area where they see their buddies mysteriously flopping about on the ground but this virus has impacted all other wildlife species notably the songbird and hawk population....!!!

I have yet to hear just how it started out in Long Island and oh so suddenly winds up in NH ?!?

Are we suffering for it? Well not really. The crows see that as mentioned before and they just packed up and left...someone mentioned to me the government introduced it to lower the vast numbers of sea gulls in Long Island...guess it did more than that? But even so there are still crows in long Island...?