Frog Cleaning 101 (here ya go Steve)

[Gary Lee]

First cut the legs off. Depending on the person, and the size of the frog this may vary.

Next make a slit up the inside of the leg, I use a fillet knife for this.Once you have done a few it is really easy and not a jab and poke ordeal.

Next slide your index thumb into the cut. Your thumb will slide around the muscle and exit the other side. Then touch your thumb to your finger and pull.

Pull the skin down until its to the toes, or past the joint you are going to cut.

Which is right at the knife tip. You will see a light colored line.

After this is done, split the pelvic bone and remove anything you are not wanting to eat. ... LOL

After this rinse well, and freeze, cook-up, or give to friends and family.

Hope this helps ya, or is what you were wanting to see. If not, let me know and I'll get ya more photos this coming summer.

 

[Chris Toy]

I'll be your friend if ya send me some of them legs
Haven't done any in years, but we used to have big parties every summer and fry up bunches of frog legs. My Dad worked at a golf course so we had permission to go in at night and get them out of their ponds.

Once we split the skin on the legs, we would grab the skin with a pair of pliers and pull it off.

Fried up with a little Old Bay they are mighty tasty.

 

[Steve Sutton]

just pull their pants off and eat em.....

I always left em in pairs instead of splitting them......works either way......

I thought this would be a neat post for people to see.....don't think we've ever had a "frog post" on the site before...and sure haven't seen one on "pulling their pants down".....

The place is booming....carvers and froggers and WHO KNOWS whats next?

Steve

 

[Phil Eager]

It's amazing how human they look w there paints down. With the batch you have there I guess there good to eat.

Phil

 

[Jay Anglin]

There are 7 types of meat on a turtle....anybody care to demonstrate!

I love frogs and I love eatin' frogs so I stay neutral on this and don't kill them myself.

 

[Mike Repp]

That reminds of when I was kid. Me and my best friend jeff would go froggin with spears. Jeff would carry a mess kit and butter with. We would go early morning by noon we had enough for the 2 of us to feast on. Brings back great memories! thanks for posting

 

[Andy Grant]

Did you collect the frog spit? It is supposed to be very slippery stuff. Did you find any frog's hair? You may have missed it though. It is very fine.

 

[Hitch]

The place is booming....carvers and froggers and WHO KNOWS whats next?

Steve

Fudgesicles on sticks in boxes maybe

Hitch

 

[Matt_n_Barb]

"Fudgesicles on sticks in boxes maybe "

That sounds like Bill Murry in Caddy Shack with said Baby Ruth, but that was in a pool and not on a stick...


I personally have never eaten frog legs....no such edible froggies in Utah...at least that I am aware of..

 

[Ed Askew]

I have a better way, especially if you have to clean several hundred of them, which typically I do as we can catch 1000 a night and 300 is a typical good night for us in an airboat anyway.

Very simple I can clean 3 a minute this way: First with any luck your frogs were in an ice chest at the end of the night, so they're cold and don't move much, hopefully don't feel anything either. Grab the frog in your left hand with the legs coming out the same side your thumb is on. Using a fillet knife, make a cut just barely through the skin in the back along the backbone of the frog from about where his neck would be to about 2/3 the way towards his rear end. Then, laying the knife aside, put your thumb and first two fingers of your left hand into the slit you've made with your thumb on one side of the backbone and your fingers on the other side and have them meet on the belly side of the backbone. Essentially, you are grabbing the back bone of the frog. Then, take your right hand and grab the rest of the frog from the belly side all of it (with the frog's head pointing down) skin, guts and all and get the thumb and fingers of the right hand around that through that slit and you should meet up just behind where your thumb and fingers of your left hand are. So now each hand grasped two parts of the frog: The left hand is grasping the backbone and all the things attached to it (legs, etc.), the right hand has the rest abdomen, skin and everything attached to that (which you will see includes the head.) Now pull the frog apart. Now in your left hand you should have the backbone and legs no skin, guts, etc. In your right hand, if you have thought ahead and have the bayou on your right you should have nothing as you have tossed the head of the frog, skin, guts, etc into the bayou. If you do this often you will see a gator right there who will dispose of that unwanted frog material for you. All you have to do now rinse off the eating part of the frog and you can cut the back bone and feet off with a meat cleaver or cane knife if you want. Purist want to retain the fore legs as well, and a slight adjustment in your grip with the left hand can accomplish that. Not worth it if you ask me. I throw all my cleaned frog legs in one pile and rinse them all off at one time because I want to go fishing and not waste a lot of time cleaning frogs. So the only tool you need to clean frogs really is a knife. When guys get out pliers I know they don't know how.

Ed.