re: Best way to clean crawfish LATE SEASON UPDATE p2

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No offense but maybe you should let your wife do the boiling.

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She's not very handy at working a hose either.

Hang the sack on the fence stick the water hose in the top of the sack and let rinse... and repeat if necessary!!

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is that you can't change where your crawfish come from. A good product from a good swamp will exceed the quality of every crawfish from a ditch or some such every time. I think your problem isn't so much the cleaning but where your product came from.

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I haven't made that many crawfish, but I've never had an issue just dumping them in a cooler, filling it with water from the hose, letting that sit about 30, and repeating. Usually takes 3-4 times maybe 5. I do this in the morning casually before a cook, I can see if you want to buy them and cook them within an hour to use an aerated method. But ive never needed to run water over them

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I don't think it is necessary to let them sit in water if you have a good product. I put them in some kind of tub and fill/ drain with water until the water drains clear. A true purge takes a long time and is unnecessary if you buy a good product

I buy them washed and graded.

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I think your problem isn't so much the cleaning but where your product came from.

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You may be right. The meat had more gray color to it than I usually see. I kept thinking mud must have penetrated the shells more so than usual.

But I did go through way more cleaning cycles than usual in pursuit of clean water.

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Bought one of these in response to a suggestion on this thread:


This has to be one of the best additions to my crawfish cooking setup I've made in years. I even tried it on a sack that was supposedly already thoroughly cleaned and found this simple looking contraption made them even cleaner.

I'm now amazed how much better I could have been making crawfish all these years. This was a significant difference maker and it'll become a permanent fixture.

Maybe you guys can get an off-season discount in the coming months.

i got the crawfish washer for the FIL for his bday

those crawfish were the cleanest most beautiful red bugs i have ever seen after running them through it. need to be careful on water pressure though we had a bottom full of crawfish legs the first time we used it.