Protein-rich maggots could revolutionize the global food supply

Me too!

It limits are restraunt choices though. Most of the restruants in our town refuse to server it extremely rare, and I refuse to eat it if it isn't Red inside.

At home I am usually too lazy to grill, so I just throw it on the cast iron for 2 mins each side. Browned outside, Red inside, dripping red juice, Perfect.
I blacken or char broil them on the grill but I can pull off the same thing with a heavy cast iron, well seasoned skillet and a high broil in the oven. Got to have a good vent or you will smoke your house out quick!
 
Last time i checked, "bugs" are $20-40 per pound. Not bug meat, just the bugs. And bugs are less than 10% protein by weight.

An acre of land used to raise soldier fly colonies can produce more than 130,000 pounds of protein per year, according to various peer-reviewed estimates. That’s several orders of magnitude greater than the per-acre protein yield of cattle (about 40 pounds), soybeans (950 pounds) or chickens (1,800 pounds)

There is no way that "bug meat" will be 100 times cheaper than chicken breast, When chicken is $2-3 per pound, and bugs are $20-40 per pound, today.

If bugs (not bug meat) ever got to 2-3 bucks a pound, your 1000 count box of crickets would cost a buck at the store, if you "bring your own box" :)
Dude, love ya man but you just have to suck the life out of everything at the slightest notion of an inaccuracy, don’t you?

I respect your commitment to the truth but jeez man, relax a bit!
They are a very good feeder in that regard. I feed them once or twice weekly as larvae and the ones that pupate I feed off when they turn to flies.

Note: I do not put ketchup or A1 on my steaks that I order very rare. I do occasionally have them with sautéed mushrooms.
Mushrooms or smothered onions is perfectly acceptable! Plus your our resident Jackson’s Goddess, we cant loose you!
 
Bug protein is the future of human civilization. Kentucky fried cricket, McRoach and the new double superworm Whopper etc.
 
I blacken or char broil them on the grill but I can pull off the same thing with a heavy cast iron, well seasoned skillet and a high broil in the oven. Got to have a good vent or you will smoke your house out quick!
On high broil? Do you sear it on the stove top first before putting into oven to broil? I've been following a recipe that called for searing first in cast iron skillet then into oven on low broil. Comes out OK according to my kids but not great (I'm almost vegan--I have serious kidney problems--so i don't taste test, I just guess, lol). Tell me how to do it best please so it's better than just OK!
 
Tell me how to do it best please so it's better than just OK!

Right here
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Mushrooms or smothered onions is perfectly acceptable! Plus your our resident Jackson’s Goddess, we cant loose you!


Now now, no poluting the Steak with Veggies.

Give me a big ole Rib Eye, and a chunk of French bread. That's all I need :).

The wifey limits my steak intake, sadly. She is not found of me spending 15+ dollars for just me on steak (her and kids share one, I eat my own :p.)

And she says you can get this bottom round for 1/3 the price. She just doesn't understand....

The local casino has all you can eat Prime Rib for 25 dollars per person. We stopped going, because I would take her and she would get the Chicken..... She is not a steak person sadly. She likes to smother it in veggies, trys to cook it in tinfoil with garlic and stuff, I am like NO. You can buy that bottom round and do that, leave the Rib Eye alone!
 
On high broil? Do you sear it on the stove top first before putting into oven to broil? I've been following a recipe that called for searing first in cast iron skillet then into oven on low broil. Comes out OK according to my kids but not great (I'm almost vegan--I have serious kidney problems--so i don't taste test, I just guess, lol). Tell me how to do it best please so it's better than just OK!
Yes and pan sear 1st

Make sure your measurements are accurate, makes a big difference.
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Now now, no poluting the Steak with Veggies.

Give me a big ole Rib Eye, and a chunk of French bread. That's all I need :).

The wifey limits my steak intake, sadly. She is not found of me spending 15+ dollars for just me on steak (her and kids share one, I eat my own :p.)

And she says you can get this bottom round for 1/3 the price. She just doesn't understand....

The local casino has all you can eat Prime Rib for 25 dollars per person. We stopped going, because I would take her and she would get the Chicken..... She is not a steak person sadly. She likes to smother it in veggies, trys to cook it in tinfoil with garlic and stuff, I am like NO. You can buy that bottom round and do that, leave the Rib Eye alone!
That may be grounds for divorce. The judge will understand.
 
Dude, love ya man but you just have to suck the life out of everything at the slightest notion of an inaccuracy, don’t you?

I respect your commitment to the truth but jeez man, relax a bit!


I was in the body building supplement thing when "cricket protein" came out and was going to be "super cheap vs whey". We all laughed later. id love if the BSF numbers came out to be true. Any competition to pea/lentil/whey would be good competition. Plus they have "making it taste good" down to a fine science.

You want strawberry BSF we have you covered
You want chicken and waffles, we have you covered
you want cinnamon bun, we got you there
we even have "red cake"
Now if you want banana BSF, well we still havent figured out that flavor in 30 years.
 
I feed them once or twice weekly as larvae and the ones that pupate I feed off when they turn to flies.

I've not gotten my boy to eat BSFL so I've been burying about 10 to 20 once a week in the bio viv and they gradually morph into flies. Jack loves to pick them off with minimal effort. So......I wonder if the flies hold as much calcium and nutrition as the larvae does?
 
I've not gotten my boy to eat BSFL so I've been burying about 10 to 20 once a week in the bio viv and they gradually morph into flies. Jack loves to pick them off with minimal effort. So......I wonder if the flies hold as much calcium and nutrition as the larvae does?

According to this interview, they don't retain nearly as much calcium. It's an interesting podcast episode!
https://www.chameleonbreeder.com/podcast/ep-103-black-soldier-flies-with-lauren-goza/
 
I've not gotten my boy to eat BSFL so I've been burying about 10 to 20 once a week in the bio viv and they gradually morph into flies. Jack loves to pick them off with minimal effort. So......I wonder if the flies hold as much calcium and nutrition as the larvae does?

"the chicken folk" will feed them off via a ramp. Just before the pupate they will "want to go on a journey" so they setup a lemming ramp. And the little suckers climb up the ramp, and the chickens pick them off as the fall.
 
"the chicken folk" will feed them off via a ramp. Just before the pupate they will "want to go on a journey" so they setup a lemming ramp. And the little suckers climb up the ramp, and the chickens pick them off as the fall.
I feel like I need to get this ramp thingy for my chickens now, lol, they would lose their minds!
 
According to this interview, they don't retain nearly as much calcium. It's an interesting podcast episode!
https://www.chameleonbreeder.com/podcast/ep-103-black-soldier-flies-with-lauren-goza/
So I finally got around to watching this podcast over the weekend. As for the calcium content from BSF, all I got was they will still have some calcium but not as much as the larvae (paraphrasing, not verbatim).

I know the BSF are just "treats" and not staple feeders but if the chams could get enough calcium from the flies to not have to dust the other feeders, it would be good to know. Nothing easier than buying BFSL and just burying some in the soil of your bioactive.
 
So I finally got around to watching this podcast over the weekend. As for the calcium content from BSF, all I got was they will still have some calcium but not as much as the larvae (paraphrasing, not verbatim).

I know the BSF are just "treats" and not staple feeders but if the chams could get enough calcium from the flies to not have to dust the other feeders, it would be good to know. Nothing easier than buying BFSL and just burying some in the soil of your bioactive.

We are actually talking about just that in another thread.

However it would have to be a 3, feeder approach. Snail's, Reptiworms, and Isopods. A snail a week I think would completely replace dusting and then some. There shell is 97% calcium.

We have study's, Chams do eat snail's in the wild. It's a part of their natural Diet, and obviously nothing wild is dusted.
 
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