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Old 11-Apr-07, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by chris-cool View Post
When you defrosted the pinkie, did you put it in luke warm water? Because I found that sometimes if I left the pinkie in the luke warm water for too long, it'd become really soft and when ziggy coiled it, the pinkie gazzrd as you put it would go everywhere.. and then she'd just look at it.. so I'd take it off her, do a new pinkie that wasn't so soft and she'd take it right away.
My defrosting technique is this (please tear it to bits if it's no good)

Get frozen pinkie.
Put in plastic bag.
Get very hot water from tap
Immerse platic bag in water
Wait about 5 minutes
Extract pinkie from bag
It's pretty dry anyway but dry it in paper towel.
Present to snake when cooled a little.
Pinkie is still warm.

I get the feeling you are right about softening the pinkie up. Maybe I'm nearly cooking it.
 

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