I'd try this before I ate bugs...

[PGH_RAM]

...heck, I'd try it right now just for fun.

Advice on time and temp?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/python-meat-could-be-a-sustainable-nutritious-food-source-scientists-say-180983970/

[STEbbq]

Snake method for charcoal, I assume.

[Donw]

In Western South Dakota we had an annual wild game dinner and I did like the fried rattlesnake they served a lot. Looked it up for you and Kent Rollins has a recipe. https://kentrollins.com/fried-rattlesnake/ Best I can think of.

[RichieB]

I've had fried rattle snake a few times. All of them in Arizona. It was delicious. And in a couple of restaurants they gave you the head. It was also fried fangs and all. I kept one from our vacation on the kitchen window sill. After about 2 years it disappeared. The 2nd one from a business trip tried to place in an obvious area. Didn't make 24 hours. I'll let your imagination try to figure it out. I'll never say where.

[MsTwiggy]

I’m in!! Better food conversion ratio than crickets too! Our savior is here - the Python!! 🐍 🔥🔥🐿️

[SheilaAnn]

I’ve had rattlesnake once and it was in AZ RichieB

it was fried (think calamari). It was good!

maybe texastweeter can teach us how to hunt python…….

[texastweeter]

Never done python. But have gathered and eaten many a fried buzzworm (rattler).

[captainlee]

Rattlesnake is very good so I would imagine Python would be as well.

[Draznnl]

And to think they dispose of the snakes from the annual Everglades python hunt.

[Bkhuna]

If the state would just pay a small bounty for every invasive reptile the good old boys (God bless crackers) would take of the issue in a few years. I've had iguana. It's good. Down in La república del sur de la Florida they have them falling out of trees.

Reminds me of a song by Wall of Voodo...

[SheilaAnn]

Bkhuna IYKYK and now that song is stuck in my head!

[Bkhuna]

SheilaAnn My work here is done.

[Purc]

I hope that Monty is not offended by this discussion.

[bbqLuv]

When I brought home three rattlesnakes SWMBO was not happy. They were dead and their heads were removed. But snakes do not die until the sun goes down. So when the sack they were in fell over and all three headless snakes came slithering out MAMA screamed and walked across the ceiling, slamming the bedroom door, and yelled, "#$%@^%%!!!"

There was the last time I harvested rattlesnakes.

[Murdy]

What we need are python farms all over the country. Then, when they escape and run amok like the carp and the feral pigs, we can all act surprised.

[Draznnl]

People’s pet pythons have already escaped, or rather been discarded, into the Everglades. Hence, the annual hunt I mentioned above.

[Oak Smoke]

Y’all go ahead and eat snakes. I haven’t ran out of beef, pork, or chicken yet. I’m not opposed to eating them I’m just not going to until that’s all I’ve got. We haven’t even eaten raccoon, possum, or carp yet so it will be a while before we get down to snakes.

[Johnny Booth]

Not if the snakes get them 1st. Check these stats for the FL Everglades.

Per the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), … introduced in 1980….
The agency also explained how declines in various mammal populations, particularly in Everglades National Park, have been linked to Burmese pythons.

Specifically, the USGS explains that "populations of raccoons had declined 99.3 percent, opossums 98.9 percent and bobcats 87.5 percent. Marsh rabbits have ceased to exist since that time.”

[MsTwiggy]

I’ll be eating python 🐍 long before trash panda. 🦝 🔥🔥🐿️

[Johnny Booth]

Many Florida Everglades species have been devastated by the python. I do agree with incentives for wild caught pythons, and encouraging people to eat them. They are already a ‘humane-kill-on-sight’ animal here. Breeding them is not a good idea.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/500-lb-7-foot-wide-213038421.html

[PGH_RAM]

Just a few years before the USGS started tracking these stats, Hurricane Andrew steamrolled through South Florida. It destroyed a lot of illegal breeding operations west of Miami and Homestead. Those animals went straight to the 'Glades. I agree--breeding them is a bad idea.