Okay...so

My mother is CONVINCED that putting a frozen rat in the toaster oven will successfully thaw it without cooking it if the oven is at the lowest setting. I know that this will NOT work, but she will not stop trying to convince me until I ask you guys.

Thanks,
Sam

I would not personally do it. I just take mine out from the freezer the night before and put it in the fridge. By the next day it is thawed out but cool from the fridge. I then put it in hot water to warm it up. 99% of the time I feed live though. It has been said that you can deforst them in the oven I have read as long as you are careful not to cook it or make it too hot BUT it is also said your kitchen will smell funky for awhile and I would imagine so. Here is a post on it:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=90054

LOL its a TOASTER OVEN. it cooks food. i love toaster ovens, i cook a lot of food in them. I'd never defrost anything in them, or put a rat in them.

I can't even think of a setting that would be remotely acceptible for a rodent..

broil - cook from above
toast - both heating elements on, cooking
any type of food (some have settings for hotdogs, or chicken or something) - cooking the food

I don't even know why someone would use an oven either. Have you ever smelled singed hair? its one of the worst smells :confused:

I feed all my snakes F/T. I take the rodents out of the freezer, put them in an extra bin in their rack and leave them for 4-5 hours. After that they are defrosted. I use a hair dryer to warm mine up and serve. No ovens, no toaster ovens, lol. Just good old defrosted rodents.

Is putting a frozen mouse in hot water to thaw it out a bad idea?

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Originally Posted by Green Tea Boa

Is putting a frozen mouse in hot water to thaw it out a bad idea?

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nope, many people do that for their snakes :) just be careful the water isn't boiling hot--you don't want to cook the rodent, just warm it up.

Ewwwwwww.

I think I'll pass on thawing rodents out in the toaster oven. :D

haahha tell your mom we all say NO! ahahah

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Originally Posted by Green Tea Boa

Is putting a frozen mouse in hot water to thaw it out a bad idea?

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thaw it in warm water then once thawed give it a quick heat up in hot. If you thaw it in hot the outside skin becomes weakened and the rodent often explodes when squeezed and/or falls apart/ Really smelly and messy.

:8: GROSS!!!!

Why wouldn't you just fridge thaw and warm up-- toaster oven? GROSS! You'd have rodent brulee and ur snakes would probably be weirded out by the burnt smell and not eat it anyway...

I'm another NO on that front...

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Originally Posted by abuja

My mother is CONVINCED that putting a frozen rat in the toaster oven will successfully thaw it without cooking it if the oven is at the lowest setting. I know that this will NOT work, but she will not stop trying to convince me until I ask you guys.

Thanks,
Sam

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Lol I dont know if it will work or not but thats pretty funny! :D

"Mom what are we having for dinner.....???"
"The food is in the toaster!"

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

Yeah cooked rat doesn't sound too appetizing, but to each their own?

Heck no!

If i did, i would have to use a seperate toaster oven just for the rats!

The smell and ewww just sick!

I think I'll pass as well . . . though I do occasionally joke that we're gonna have "rat pops" for dinner since the freezer is full of them . . . :D