I cut It Into small 1.5" to 2" pieces and throw It Into a bag of Fry Magic and get It coated nice and good. It then goes Into a pan of grease or butter and gets fried up. Frying the onions with It at the same time gives It a great flavor as well. Heart Is a muscle and It does have a different texture to It when eating It. Kind of a rubbery texture but at the same time It's still tender enough to eat. I collect everybody's deer and bear hearts on there blood trails If they don't want there's. Some years I'll have 10 hearts In the freezer, good stuff!!!!!