Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainstream tomorrow

Re:Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainst... by pistle on Friday March 20, 2015 @04:21PM (#9240458)

I'd try it. I eat raw fish, urchins, rare eggs, rare-ish meat of mammals and fowl. Who knows? Who would know if I would like it better than me?

I've eaten whole insects including crickets and the flavor was whatever. The texture of the legs was like trying to eat the tail of a shrimp - impossible. I'll be interested to see what the processing is like as I'm not sure about the utility of a flour that includes fine grains of exoskeleton. Proteins turn into magical things during cooking and shells don't do quite as well. Flour hints at baking, but I don't think it would function nearly as well.

From the first link on google, the baking results look like it doesn't form anything that can trap air or steam, so dense and mushy seems likely.

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Re:Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainst... by mmanfrin on Friday March 20, 2015 @04:57PM (#9240652)

I've had cookies made with cricket flour, they tasted normal; wouldn't have been able to tell you anything was different from the taste/texture alone.

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Re:Edible insects are a novelty today, but they'll be mainst... by tehchromic on Friday March 20, 2015 @05:29PM (#9240789)

the tail is like, the whole shrimp :} haha, but I know what you mean. Maybe it's good, maybe it's the kind of baking goth teenagers carry on just to disgust their stiff parents!

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