Cooking with Crickets - Grinding Crickets into Cricket Flour

In today's video we quickly show how to grind whole dry crickets into a cricket flour. The cricket flour can then be added as a 10-25% flour replacement into some of your favorite baking recipes.

[@fabo806hubcity7]

We are two local guys from the West Texas area and are very interested in becoming a cricket producer, wether it be live, froze ect. We are so serious that we have become a LLC under our soon to be company. We are anchoring the rest of our paperwork so we can get going. We are very excited and we will be even more ecstatic if we could get sum feed back, pointers and or any mentoring that y’all could share with us. We love what y’all are doing. Hope to hear back soon.. there’s so much to talk about!! Thank you.

[@dannyvalentine8315]

Fabian Guzman what a shame that I JUST moved away from Odessa haha that sounds awesome

[@catenjoyer2114]

I wish you the best of luck if you tell me the website I will make that a source for when I buy them

[@Food4thought1234]

Not sure if you're going to do a video, but how do you clean the crickets both inside and out? Also, how do you know when they are ready for consumption? Thanks and nice videos.

[@beefshorty1234]

Richard Andrews they usually come prewashed baked and ready for human or animal consumption.

[@jasonhenn7345]

So I'm seeing prices from 50 to 150 per kg, I can buy tons of prime beef for that, what am I missing

[@ericsilverado7757]

They(the Left) want to get rid of those cows. Its a carbon thing I guess. Yeah they're idiots.

[@carleeu9932]

How many crickets are half a cup?

[@jasonwee3986]

Please advice if I can totally replace my current 200 grams of Bread flour with Cricket Flour to make bread? or should I mix? if a mix is advice, what proportion would that be? Bread is a standard loaf, nothing fancy :) thanks for your advice

[@ironsharpensiron8073]

keep up the good work

[@crazykenny1213]

How did you turn this into a 6 minute video! All you did was put dried crickets in a food processor lol.

[@motavisjones]

And you watched every minute of it lol

[@abigalerose1410]

Does this work with other insects?

[@dominykasaleknavicius3155]

How much grams silica gel it was?

[@craftcrickets847]

I haven’t been overly scientific but usually use 1 gram silica per 1 ounce I store. I have had success with that, but you should test based on your humidity and the level of moisture in your crickets.

[@deniskirichenko1055]

Ectually i dont undertand why some flour has green colour and some floure has beige colour? can someone explain me ?

[@craftcrickets847]

Good question. My flour has always been pretty consistent when it comes to color. I would suspect you'd see different coloring based off the crickets' diet or perhaps some variability by species.

[@ayandas874]

Probably some unfortunate grasshoppers.

[@APerson-ei4tx]

yum
dead bugs

[@kmonnier]

Something is crawling back and forth on your light source.

[@craftcrickets847]

Our videos are a quite amateur, but I hope you still learned something. Plus, when you have as many crickets as us, it is inevitable that they will be crawling over all your lights :).

[@robertjohnson5124]

Probably a cricket

[@kenztalks9420]

Why would people want to eat cricket?

[@ayushbh6839]

Protein

[@TheShadowWolfie]

It gives more protein cheaper than beef.

[@danielrocha5297]

Well, somehow I’ve gotten here and I think the answer is it is much more nutrient rich, and extremely sustainable.

[@ChadX]

@@TheShadowWolfie stumbled on this video randomly and i know your comment is old, but cricket is absolutely not cheaper than beef (if buying from stores). probably one of the most expensive sources of protein i've ever seen. a pound of cricket flour on amazon is like 35 dollars lol

[@TheShadowWolfie]

@@ChadX It's theoretically cheaper, if only the logistics of it were in place.

[@DrBhoumik]

gross

[@competitivespeed2]

Horrific.