Did I hear somebody say, "Love shack?"
Posted on 01/19/2016 2:13:00 PM PST by BenLurkin
Katharina Unger and Julia Kaisinger, 25 and 28, have developed a device to breed in the comfort of your own home the protein-rich grubs of the meal beetle, to then eat.
"With this current design you can make 200-500 grams (seven to 18 ounces) of mealworms every week," Unger told AFP at a recent tasting and fundraising event in Vienna.
"You freeze them and then you make them like any other type of meat. You can cook them, roast them, make them into burger patties and mix them into sauce for pasta," she said.
Into the top of the sleek, white "desktop hive" go pupae which then hatch into adults. In the next section, the "love shack", the insects mate and their eggs fall into the next layer.
Helped by a controlled microclimate, the eggs hatch into larvae which gradually grow and descend to a drawer at the bottom where, around three centimetres (an inch) long and plump, they are "harvested".
"Our team eats them almost every day," Unger said, showing off some of her creations -- Greek salads topped by toasted grubs, quinoa-and-mealworm meatballs and even chocolate (and worm) cake.
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I like a bowl of crickets occasionally for fun of it but, I ain’t giving up Chicken, Steak or Fish.
I believe that is what we fed the pet tropical fish when I was a kid.
My chickens would love this and if it comes down to it I can eat chicken.
Did I hear somebody say, "Love shack?"
This’ll be the next school lunch.
What about gas? Dont’ they give you gas?
Gives new meaning to ant farm.
Agenda 21
Yuck!
Give me a 2 lb Premium Ethyl R-Burger for a fill-up.
One of the most moronic things I’ve heard tell of.
Perhaps if Mooch and Brak give up the waygu beef, and they have such a pleasing diet of bugs for months on end, they can lead by example!
For some reason I immediately thought of Grandpa’s wonderful expression, “Let’s not and say we did!”
They are really pushing this eating bug garbage, aren’t they.. It will fail even bigger than, kale chips, quinoa and chia.
I spray for bugs, I don’t eat them.
People who are into bird feeding buy those worms and feed them to the birds. -tom
They are going to have us eating bugs. All the cruelty of slaughtering intelligent mammals like cows and pigs, the savage butchery of chickens and turkeys, will stop. The most just and kind nation in the history of mankind will be reduced to eating insects. We are no better than aardvarks.
Seems like you wouldn’t want them (the grubs) outside, either, because they could destroy your lawn or something.
Hmmm, what about using this to supplement chicken feed? Thoughts?
At least it isn't on the school lunch menu...yet.
Well, given a choice, it’s the lesser of two weevils...
fish bait.
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