Steaming Crawfish. Ever seen this video?

I've been to some asian restaurants that steamed crawfish. I've never tried them though.

I'm sure steaming them is fine and all but why do people have to make simple shite so complicated? The point of the backyard boil is to throw everything in one pot, boil and dump on a table.

Now, the recipe this guy uses is absurd. 4 bottles of concentrate, 3 bottles of cayenne, a jar of pickled jalapeños, 12 cups of some boil mix with more cayenne in it and just to make sure your taste buds get burned out of your mouth, he heads some supposedly super hot hot sauce. So silly.

I've never eaten steamed crawfish but I have eaten steamed crabs and they were pretty good. My buddy from LaRose moved to the Georgia coast for a while and picked up the method there. His aren't as seasoned as the typical South la boiled crabs and they take a good while longer to cook.

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I'm sure steaming them is fine and all but why do people have to make simple shite so complicated? The point of the backyard boil is to throw everything in one pot, boil and dump on a table. Now, the recipe this guy uses is absurd. 4 bottles of concentrate, 3 bottles of cayenne, a jar of pickled jalapeños, 12 cups of some boil mix with more cayenne in it and just to make sure your taste buds get burned out of your mouth, he heads some supposedly super hot hot sauce. So silly.

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Think of the physics involved. Cooking time is important to avoid overcooking the crawfish. You have limited time for the crawfish to absorb seasoning which is accomplished by diffusion. Steam has lower concentrations of seasonings than a liquid solution, so diffusion occurs at a slower rate than boiling. In order to get sufficient diffusion with steam in limited time you need higher concentrations of seasoning in your water boiled to create the steam than you would need if you cooked the crawfish in the boiling solution.

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but why do people have to make simple shite so complicated?

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AMEN! 2 boiling rigs and endless techniques and times People have been boiling crawfish just fine for generations......

You didn't watch the video, Poodlebrain.

He steamed them with UNSEASONED water ...

... then soaked them in a different pot that had an insane amount of seasoning that included granulated boil, liquid boil, cayenne pepper, onion puree, celery puree, two bottles of bay leaf, a jar of pickled jalapeños, and some hot sauce ... in 7 inches of water.

So even though he "steamed" them ... the seasoning method was still to soak them. His entire reasoning for steaming them was to clean them. He said he doesn't like the "gunk" that's normally in the heads either.

You really could've watched the video before giving an irrelevant physics lesson on a method that wasn't used.

Absolutely.

Steamed them with Turbodog in the water ...

... then showed how dark the water was after steaming them.

No sh!t.

Watched it. Absolutely dumb as hell. Talk about over-complicating a really easy process.

This guy is long winded