Mark Thorson wrote:
> I just noticed the new Asian supermarket near me is
> carrying frozen alligator meat for $5.99 in 1 lb. packages.
>
> Is this a good meat? The package says it's bone-in,
> so I have no idea how much of that is meat, nor how
> difficult it is to separate the meat from the bone.
> I believe only the tail is eaten, and if it's anything
> like oxtail, it would be full of bones.

Nope, all of the gator meat is eaten. Some as gator burgers, some made
into gator sausage, and most is just cooked and eaten. The tail is a
large one and has lots of really good meat on it.

>
> I also don't have any idea how it should be cooked.
> Should I succumb to the temptation, what are the
> best methods? I'd consider BBQ, but there have been
> air pollution Nazis around here hunting down people
> who burn logs in their fireplaces, so I'm not sure
> I'll ever BBQ again.

Is it against the law to have a fireplace and to burn wood in it? If
not, the hell with the ap Nazis.

You can cook gator meat the same way you would any other meat, baked,
roasted, BBQed, fried, stewed, you name it. A short Google search would
give you tons of gator meat recipes.