How do you thaw your prey items?

[Chu'Wuti]

I thaw in ziploc bags placed in hot water from the tap. For the colubrids, once the critters are thawed, I just set them in the enclosures on the paper toweling; they grab them, and no one has ever ingested paper toweling.

For the ball pythons, I do a last warm-up of the head of each rat just before feeding each python--I get the head good and hot so they got after it and not me! Had one tag me once even though I was using feeding tongs--I didn't get the head hot enough, so my hand, above the tank, was hotter than the rat. ooooops

Sometimes the plastic bags leak, so then I feed wet rats, but usually not; it never seems to be a problem.

I have NEVER had any explode or get nasty, unusually squishy, cooked, or any weirdness with this thawing method. Maybe some people have their hot water heaters set hotter than some of us?