maceration is better than boiling but it stinks beetles are the best way and only a small amount of work if maceration is the way you want to go its best if you skin and take out brains and eyes and take off as much meat as u can and just put them in a bucket and let them sit for about a week or more you will know when they are done when you take them out and the meat falls off i wash them off and degrees them and whiten it is a smelly way but nice product