How to cook and prepare garden snails?

Question

These are the large garden snails (Helix helix) that the French and Spanish eat. We have a plague in the garden so I though to put them to gastronomic use. Any recipes/advice much appreciated.

Answer 1

You will have to purge them by feeding them on one food, like carrots or lettuce, for between 3 and 5 days, and then starve them for 2 days to clean their guts and to make them less slimey.You can omit the starvation bit if you are hungry for snails now. Keep them alive in a well ventilated container with room to move, wire across the top to stop them escaping.Cook in well salted boiling water with stock vegetables, carrot, onion, celery and a splash vinegar.Cook for 10 mins. remove from shell with a pin when cooled. Re-heat in garlic butter to serve.

Answer 2

I get them in the flat, they get in from next door's garden, I find a few strategically placed "slug pubs" work wonders. slug pub is exactly what you might suspect it is: an open beer bar for slugs and snails. However, a slug pub operates a bit differently from a human-oriented pub. The goal of a slug pub is to eradicate such creatures from the garden, ensuring that they do not damage or kill valued plants. Several garden supply companies make slug pubs for gardeners, and making your own is fairly easy. Slugs and snails are attracted to the aroma of beer, so a slug pub can be a very effective form of bait. There are several theories as to why slug pubs work. In the first case, many gardeners suspect that slugs become acutely dehydrated when they consume beer, in particular if the beer is salted, so they die. Others believe that slugs and snails die in slug pubs, especially when they are designed to make escape challenging. Beer has been used for quite some time as a natural method of pest control. The simplest slug pub is simply a saucer filled with beer and deposited near some particularly tempting plants, with the goal of drawing the slugs and snails off. More complex versions are enclosed, buried, or designed to be concealed so that they do not become unsightly, although it is important to check them on a regular basis to remove victims. Enclosed slug pubs can also entrap more slugs, as slugs and snails often gravitate towards dark, damp spaces. There are several advantages to using a slug pub over conventional slug bait. In the first place, slug pubs are nontoxic, making them appealing for gardeners who wish to grow organically. The use of slug bait is also dangerous for neighborhood pets and animals which might feed on the slugs, as the poison could potentially be passed higher up the food chain, sickening or killing harmless or even beneficial animals. Also, as some advocates point out, while slugs may die in slug pubs, at least they die drunk, and presumably therefore happy.

Answer 3

I would make sure you really have the right snails first. Then do a search for French cuisine, I think its garlic snails that they eat the most. Happy eating.

Answer 4

I think you should go to a French restaurant and sell them your snails instead of eating it yourself.
You'd get rid of them & make money too!

Answer 5

Hang on..wait, yeah, I think I just vomited a little...

Answer 6

eeewwww!!!!!! that's nasty