Grilled Gator

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I know a sauce piquante or fried is the best way to do it but a buddy wants to do it whole for "presentation".

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I was coming to say this exact thing

OK, just for clarity, are you grilling a gator left whole or a whole gator cut up in manageable pieces. There's a big difference in cooking either way.


If doing a entirely whole gator, I would think it would come out dry in the end, especially the parts where the meat is sparse as opposed to the jowls and tail where the meat is thick.

Now, if parting out a whole gator, you can cook the meat in stages starting with the thickest cuts on the grill first and adding less meatier parts as you go along.

Only had bbq gater twice but one thing I can tell you for sure be sure you trim all the fat off. had ribs bbqed and they were very good so I was excited to try em again when the chance came by they were gaggy f'in awful I couldn't believe the difference. The second ones were fatty a friend splained the difference to me

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Rotisserie that thing

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That might not be bad idea.

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Whole thing. Leaving the feet and head on for aesthetic purposes.

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I went on a dove hunt a couple of years ago where a whole gator was cooked just like this (with feet and head on). The meat I ate was good, but I can't say whether there were portions that were dried out that I didn't eat. Sorry I don't have the process he used, but it is possible to do it

saw this years ago at the LSV/FL game. You will get lots of attention.

please get the gator from the Lake Mechant area so that I will have one less of those nasty bastards to deal with when fishing.

We’ve been cooking it on the rotisserie for the last couple years it is not good that way we also
Fry it and cook
It different ways we were on espn the last couple of times corner of Nicholson and skip Bertman

Would a cajun microwave be better?