Cockroaches in hotel acceptable?

Sharon87

Labsuper wrote: »

Holidayed in Tenerife several times in the last 30 years and have seen them every time.

Wow, never knew this. I never saw them last year in Tenerife in 2 different hotels. Do they all over the island or in just some areas?

Parts of Florida were much worse!

And also cockroaches are in the UK, they're just not that common. Had some in my own house once!! Saw 2 in my 6 months in that place (and it was a clean place!)

cubegame

Acceptable? It really depends how they cook them. Big hotels tend to overcook to appeal to all.

If over cooked they go too dry. Ideally you just want to fry them briefly in a little butter flavoured with shallots and garlic. That way they are still juicy when you bite in. Always big head first.

photome

I have seen then in Tenerife every time I have been. didnt let it worry me.


I also lived with cockroaches in the Navy ( always had them on the ships when on deployment to foreign climes) never did us any harm

suki1964

I moved into a flat in South London once and it was filthy. I got up one night the first week I was there to get a drink of water and the kitchen was alive with the critters

HA got the pest control in and the whole block was treated ( 4 flats). The worst was having to keep the minging carpets down for a month whilst the insecticide done its job

MovingForwards

When I went on holiday to Gran Canaria the tour rep did his talk on the coach from the airport and said the island has roaches, that was over 10 years ago.

martindow

cubegame wrote: »

Acceptable? It really depends how they cook them. Big hotels tend to overcook to appeal to all.

If over cooked they go too dry. Ideally you just want to fry them briefly in a little butter flavoured with shallots and garlic. That way they are still juicy when you bite in. Always big head first.

I've always found that they jump out of the pan when you lift the lid unless you give them a severe frying. Do you have any cooking tips?

cubegame

martindow wrote: »

I've always found that they jump out of the pan when you lift the lid unless you give them a severe frying. Do you have any cooking tips?

Drown them in brandy first..

leylandsunaddict

There is no point in spraying one room in isolation when you have an infestation plus I suspect they're probably resistant to off the shelf remedies if they can survive nuclear holocausts.

All the roaches I've experienced in Lanzarote and the other Canary islands that we've been to over the last 30 years have not liked the off the shelf stuff one little bit. Spray under the door, around the skirting boards etc. Whacking them is quicker if there's only one or two at a time, but the sprays generally work.

A few years ago in Lanza we were in a private villa and the complex next door, about 60 metres away had their drains 'bug bombed'. The fact that is something that is normal in the Canaries, as well as fumigation, makes it obvious that roaches are the norm. The result was an "infestation". When they do that the surviving roaches move to somewhere else. You could hear them scurrying across the pool cover at night. They're not great swimmers though There was well into double numbers dead in the pool in a morning. They were running around near the base of the walls etc and around your feet when you were sitting out. They're horrible things but it's certainly rare not to experience them in the Canaries, although not in those numbers. They're just part of life there.

mattyprice4004

It's worthy of note that while not overly pleasant if you're not accustomed to them, they can't bite you etc so no need to panic too much.

I have one of their long-lost cousins in my front room (a Madagascan Hissing Cockroach) and they make lovely pets.

NoodleDoodleMan

There is no point in spraying one room in isolation when you have an infestation plus I suspect they're probably resistant to off the shelf remedies if they can survive nuclear holocausts.

If it's your room that's debugged the issue becomes academic.

As for them surviving a nuclear detonation - https://earthsky.org/earth/would-cockroaches-survive-nuclear-apocalypse