Snail Farm

Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail farm.
I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have made any
progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail farm. I
don't remember the name. I wonder if they have made any
progress and might have some words of wisdom.

Thanks

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Quoted message said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail farm.
I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have made any
progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I had a college professor who raised snails to eat. iirc,
there's a process involved and I can't remember the details
really. Do you have feed them cornmeal for two days before
using? And, the garden/farm would have to be sterile and
organic, I imagine. I wasn't as brave as I am now
(culinarily speaking), so I turned off my ears and said ick
when he started to talk about his snails. He was Italian,
taught Geography, at San Jose State, maybe I should google
and find out if he's still around.

Karen

Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail farm.
I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have made any
progress and might have some words of wisdom.

In CA, the common garden snail is the same as the French
snail used for escargot. The state is lousy with 'em. I
think almost everyone here has considered raising them for
profit after some newspaper ran a story about a French
restauranteur who, while visiting, discovered we were doing
our damndest to kill off what he was doing his damndest to
find a supply of. He was so freaked on the hordes of little
slime buckets, he moved here and started up a big snail farm
in Marin county to export snails back to France. Pretty
soon, every paper was runnning snail raising articles in the
food section.

The whole thing peaked back in the early days of the
dot.com boom when everyone started making and blowing wads
of money on more trendy and silly things and the hipness of
having a box full of slugs in the back yard lost it's slime
..er... sheen.

There's still a couple websites still doing it, though:

happysnails.comdept 3.htmlOpen ↗

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Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have
made any progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

Don't count on it. ;-) It's a business I've considered and
investigated. There is currently no local supplier for live
Escargot, and one of the specialty markets in the area was
interested when I made some phone calls.

I'm still considering setting up a small greenhouse out back
with shelving and aquariums and giving it a shot. It should
not cost me more than maybe $1,000 set up costs.

That's cheap for a business. <G>

K.

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Quoted message said:

Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't

remember

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the name. I wonder if they have made any progress and
might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

On 1 Jun 2004 13:22:35 -0700, [email hidden] (Karen

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Quoted message said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have
made any progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I had a college professor who raised snails to eat. iirc,
there's a process involved and I can't remember the
details really. Do you have feed them cornmeal for two
days before using? And, the garden/farm would have to be
sterile and organic, I imagine. I wasn't as brave as I am
now (culinarily speaking), so I turned off my ears and
said ick when he started to talk about his snails. He was
Italian, taught Geography, at San Jose State, maybe I
should google and find out if he's still around.

There's more than enough information available on the
internet... and it was also on TV in the olden days.

Yes, you feed them on cornmeal and lettuce for a few days.
That's the EASY part. Then you have to boil them and pick
their dead bodies out of the shell. After that, you'll
prepare them with garlic and butter so that others can enjoy
while you munch on white bread.

recipecottage.comescargot13.htmlOpen ↗
Capture 18 snails. Place them in a ventilated box with corn
meal. With a sprayer bottle, spray the corn meal. Keep them
in this environment at least 72 hours. Remove the snails and
wash them in cold water. Drop them into boiling water with
bay leaf and let simmer 15 minutes. Drain in colander and
pick meat out of shell. Remove the fall or the tail end
where the snail is attached to the shell. Wash snails in
cold running water. Set aside. *If you prefer, use canned
snails, and rinse in cold water.

Recipe: Mushrooms Stuffed With Escargot

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Soft butter 1 tsp Minced shallots 1 Clove garlic
(large), crushed 1 tbsp Minced parsley 1 tbsp Finely
minced celery
2/4 tsp Salt Freshly ground black pepper to taste 12 large
Mushrooms 12 large Canned snails, drained

Cream 6 tablespoons of the butter with the shallots,
garlic, parsley, celery, salt and pepper. Remove the
mushroom stems and reserve for another purpose. Heat the
remaining butter in a skillet. Add the mushroom caps and
turn to coat on all sides. Arrange in the depressions of a
snail pan, in scallop shells or in a shallow baking-serving
dish. Place a scant teaspoon of the herbed butter in each
mushroom cap, add a snail and cover it with a little more
butter. Before serving, bake in a moderate oven (375
degrees) about 15 minutes.

NOTE: Any leftover herbed butter may be used for baked or
broiled fish.

6 servings

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

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Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't

remember

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the name. I wonder if they have made any progress and
might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

ROTFL!

Thou art easily amused??? ;-)

K. (who's gotta go make those shrimp and mushroom kebabs
for grilling now that they are done marinating...... The
coals are ready!)

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Katra said:

It's a business I've considered and investigated. There is
currently no local supplier for live Escargot, and one of
the specialty markets in the area was interested when I
made some phone calls.

I'm still considering setting up a small greenhouse out
back with shelving and aquariums and giving it a shot. It
should not cost me more than maybe $1,000 set up costs.

That's cheap for a business. <G>

You can harvest the organic snails from my yard any time.

Katra said:

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Dave Smith said:

Glenn Jacobs said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have
made any progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

Don't count on it. ;-) It's a business I've considered and
investigated. There is currently no local supplier for
live Escargot, and one of the specialty markets in the
area was interested when I made some phone calls.

I'm still considering setting up a small greenhouse out
back with shelving and aquariums and giving it a shot. It
should not cost me more than maybe $1,000 set up costs.

That's cheap for a business. <G>

K.

Let me know how it goes. I live a a dry and cool area
(Mountains of Colorado) so I have a couple of strikes agains
me to begin with. But I have not been able to find a
supplier up here.

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On 1 Jun 2004 13:22:35 -0700, [email hidden] (Karen

O'Mara) said:

Glenn Jacobs <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
farm. I don't remember the name. I wonder if they
have made any progress and might have some words of
wisdom.

I had a college professor who raised snails to eat.
iirc, there's a process involved and I can't remember
the details really. Do you have feed them cornmeal for
two days before using? And, the garden/farm would have
to be sterile and organic, I imagine. I wasn't as brave
as I am now (culinarily speaking), so I turned off my
ears and said ick when he started to talk about his
snails. He was Italian, taught Geography, at San Jose
State, maybe I should google and find out if he's still
around.

There's more than enough information available on the
internet... and it was also on TV in the olden days.

Yes, you feed them on cornmeal and lettuce for a few days.
That's the EASY part. Then you have to boil them and pick
their dead bodies out of the shell. After that, you'll
prepare them with garlic and butter so that others can
enjoy while you munch on white bread.

recipecottage.comescargot13.htmlOpen ↗
Capture 18 snails. Place them in a ventilated box with
corn meal. With a sprayer bottle, spray the corn meal.
Keep them in this environment at least 72 hours. Remove
the snails and wash them in cold water. Drop them into
boiling water with bay leaf and let simmer 15 minutes.
Drain in colander and pick meat out of shell. Remove the
fall or the tail end where the snail is attached to the
shell. Wash snails in cold running water. Set aside. *If
you prefer, use canned snails, and rinse in cold water.

Recipe: Mushrooms Stuffed With Escargot

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Soft butter 1 tsp Minced shallots 1 Clove garlic
(large), crushed 1 tbsp Minced parsley 1 tbsp Finely
minced celery
1/4 tsp Salt Freshly ground black pepper to taste 12 large
Mushrooms 12 large Canned snails, drained

Cream 6 tablespoons of the butter with the shallots,
garlic, parsley, celery, salt and pepper. Remove the
mushroom stems and reserve for another purpose. Heat the
remaining butter in a skillet. Add the mushroom caps and
turn to coat on all sides. Arrange in the depressions of a
snail pan, in scallop shells or in a shallow baking-
serving dish. Place a scant teaspoon of the herbed butter
in each mushroom cap, add a snail and cover it with a
little more butter. Before serving, bake in a moderate
oven (375 degrees) about 15 minutes.

NOTE: Any leftover herbed butter may be used for baked or
broiled fish.

6 servings

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Hey this is neat! :-) I'm filing this recipe...

I actually have some escargot dishes, heavy porcelain with
large divots in them, 6 to a dish. The most delicious
escargot I ever had was up in Sedona Arizona at a little
Swiss restaraunt. He served them in the Escargot dishes (no
shells) with herbed garlic butter in a light bed of whipped
eggwhites.

They were tender, not tough as they were fresh. Canned ones
tend to be kinda rubbery. Overcooked.

K.

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Glenn Jacobs wrote:

> Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
> farm. I don't

remember

Quoted message said:

> the name. I wonder if they have made any progress
> and might have

some

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

ROTFL!

Thou art easily amused??? ;-)

K. (who's gotta go make those shrimp and mushroom kebabs
for grilling now that they are done marinating......
The coals are ready!)

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Socks said:

years ago there was a Wall St. Journal article about
backyard snail ranchers. it was a fun thing to read. iirc
the technique (maybe for warm places) was to stake out a
10x10 bed or something and edge it with some copper
sheeting.

in an cooler area i'd think you could use cheap plastic
tubs ... with screen lids or something they don't like to
crawl over.

Beer...???

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lots of info here (some of which seems to conflict with my
WSJ memory):

dallasobserver.com1996 02Open ↗
08/feature.html

I like snails but I'd rather raise chinchillas - they are
warm, cute, and cuddly....

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Katra said:

It's a business I've considered and investigated. There
is currently no local supplier for live Escargot, and one
of the specialty markets in the area was interested when
I made some phone calls.

I'm still considering setting up a small greenhouse out
back with shelving and aquariums and giving it a shot. It
should not cost me more than maybe $1,000 set up costs.

That's cheap for a business. <G>

You can harvest the organic snails from my yard any time.

<lol> What variety? :-)

K.

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Glenn Jacobs said:

Katra said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dave Smith said:

Glenn Jacobs wrote:

> Someone in this group was planning to build a snail
> farm. I don't remember the name. I wonder if they have
> made any progress and might have some words of wisdom.

I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

Don't count on it. ;-) It's a business I've considered
and investigated. There is currently no local supplier
for live Escargot, and one of the specialty markets in
the area was interested when I made some phone calls.

I'm still considering setting up a small greenhouse out
back with shelving and aquariums and giving it a shot.
It should not cost me more than maybe $1,000 set up
costs.

That's cheap for a business. <G>

K.

Let me know how it goes. I live a a dry and cool area
(Mountains of Colorado) so I have a couple of strikes
agains me to begin with. But I have not been able to find
a supplier up here.

I'm not ready yet... ;-) It's still something I've been
thinking about. <G> Now that I've found a source for cheap
greenhouses, I'd finally have somewhere to put them. I did
not have space in the house.

Anyhoo, there is an on-line source to purchase breeder
snails:

frescargot.comfrescargot.comOpen ↗

Hope this helps?

K.

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You can harvest the organic snails from my yard
any time.

On the globetrekker travel show, the host had gone to France
and the visit included a trip to the snail museum/shop. The
mucus/snot stuff from the snail is supposed to be good to
soften wrinkles on our skin and eliminate crow's feet. The
host had snails on the side and underneath her eyes to show
us, and the museum/shop's owner had very pretty skin.

Karen

Glenn Jacobs said:

Let me know how it goes. I live a a dry and cool area
(Mountains of Colorado) so I have a couple of strikes
agains me to begin with. But I have not been able to find
a supplier up here.

come to California and stock up!

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

Katra said:

Hey this is neat! :-) I'm filing this recipe...

Snail stuffed mushrooms are very good, serve on rounds of
baguett if you want to go over the top.

Quoted message said:

I actually have some escargot dishes, heavy porcelain
with large divots in them, 6 to a dish. The most
delicious escargot I ever had was up in Sedona Arizona at
a little Swiss restaraunt. He served them in the Escargot
dishes (no shells) with herbed garlic butter in a light
bed of whipped eggwhites.

I'm very particular about how escargot are served. I don't
like "burgundy" style.... and egg whites sound gross. Sorry.

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They were tender, not tough as they were fresh. Canned
ones tend to be kinda rubbery. Overcooked.

Hmm. I suppose that's true... but canned is the usual way
they come and you're not going to find me cooking and
picking snails out of their shells just to serve up as an
appetiser, babe.

Practice safe eating - always use condiments

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"Dave Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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> Glenn Jacobs wrote:
>
> > Someone in this group was planning to build a
> > snail farm. I don't
remember
> > the name. I wonder if they have made any progress
> > and might have

some

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> > words of wisdom.
>
> I would be willing to bet that business is slow. :-)

ROTFL!

Thou art easily amused??? ;-)

K. (who's gotta go make those shrimp and mushroom
kebabs for grilling now that they are done
marinating...... The coals are ready!)

You're just jealous because you didn't get the joke.

Louis Cohen

ok, you got me... ;-)

I got it now. Slow, snail, duh! <sigh>

The grilled shrimp kebabs came out very well! 5 minutes per
side and they were marinated overnight in Italian dressing.

Served with corn on the cob cooked in the husk, and grilled
smoked sausage.

Wood fire, not charcoal.

K.

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