re: how much crawfish do you account per person

Say you were trying to come up with a per person amount for a large group, how much do you think is spent on seasonings & extras per sack? $10? More?

Obviously I can do the crawfish math. Trying to figure a price to tell people that includes the boiling extras too.

I'd say more than that but I have no idea how much any of that stuff costs in a store cause I buy it all wholesale.


I have a spreadsheet for quotes that all I do is enter the amount of people and it figures everything down to how many trashbags I'll need for heads.

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Of course you have to Texas style dust them after you dump the pot on the table

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No you don't

ETA: fin, can we get that document? That sounds badass. Up there with the jamb calculator

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Of course you have to Texas style dust them after you dump the pot on the table

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Don't know how useful it would be for a few sacks, it's set up to buy corn by the case, seasoning by 50# box, liquid by the gallon, potatoes by the case, etc

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shite some of you people quit too soon

Go to restaurant depot and get all your supplies. Much cheaper.

Just to boil 2 sacks you looking at $50 for corn, potatoes, sausage salt, seasoning, onions, mushrooms. When we boil for my wifes family we all pitch in and its normally $15-20 a person.

I eat WAY more crawfish at a boil than I do if I get some already boiled for at home or if I dine out and eat it.

I think it's just because it's there that I eat so much. And I already put down 5lbs at home/restaurants, so I imagine at a boil I put down ~7 at least. Depends on how much they make and how long I'm out there. I'll definitely go back once I digest if the batches are spaced out over the span of a whole day.

The size of the crawfish also determines how many lbs. a person can eat. Large crawfish dont go near as far as the smaller to med sized crawfish.

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, 1-40 lb sack of crawfish (expecting up to 8-10% being dead) =

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you need to buy your crawfish elsewhere if youre getting 10% dead.




LE, I think 5lbs/person is a good amount if youre including sides. Onions, celery, carrots, garlic are all very cheap at produce stands. Mushrooms are usually $2-3 for the blue box size. Obviously sausage can add up. Not a favorite of mine but plenty like hotdogs in the boil and they are pretty cheap. Potatoes are around $1/lb. Frozen corn is relatively cheap and we only use it to help cool down the pot.

I have a boil at my place every spring and we usually have around 100-150lbs. With sides and beer and all the random shite you need for whatever, it usually comes out to $400-500. Biggest price factor is the crawfish.