The Entopod

Perhaps you weren't eating bugs because it wasn't easy enough to prepare them. Well, now there's the Entopod. Designed by Edinburgh student Courtney Yule, the Entopod is a "starter kit" for eating bugs. It includes a grinder for making insect flour, detachable containers for heating the insecto-food in the oven, and more! She hopes it will encourage people to experiment with "entomophagy." More info at BBC News.

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Posted By: Alex - Thu May 14, 2015
Category: Food | Insects and Spiders

Comments

NO! if I find bugs in the flour its time to throw it out.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/14/15 at 10:39 AM

Whoa!!! Got mine on order!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/14/15 at 11:34 AM

The only arthropods I'm interested in eating are crabs, crayfish and lobsters. The rest are pests.

Posted by KDP on 05/14/15 at 02:30 PM

Ooo, here's some fun stuff!:
An Ohio University fact sheet estimates that we eat from one to two pounds of insects each year, and without knowing it.

Do you know how many rodent hairs, insect fragments and maggots are in the food you eat? The FDA does!:

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/06/29/how_many_insect_parts_and_rodent_hairs_are_allowed_in_your_food.htm

And yet we're all healthy and happy! (Well, maybe some of you may be a little less happy now, but c'est la vie.)

Posted by Captain DaFt on 05/15/15 at 03:35 PM

Thanks so much for forcing that unwanted info in through my eyeballs Captain! :sick:
(I am choosing to believe you made that up btw. Yeah...made it up...that's it.)

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/15/15 at 04:26 PM

Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
Patty ate a bug...
💋

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/16/15 at 12:29 AM

We are omnivores
We eat carnivores
We eat

Hey I hate disco.

Posted by BMN on 05/16/15 at 04:23 AM

didnotdidnotdidnotdidnotdidnotdidnotdidnotdidnot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 05/18/15 at 04:31 PM

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