Boil crawfish on Stove top???

Do you want your house to smell like a seafood market for a few weeks?

if u put as much seasoning as i do..u better open every window and every door....or u wont be able to stay in the house!

My brother and I boiled 20 lbs of crawfish (2- 10 lbs boils) in my 9th floor apartment in King of Prussia, PA several years back. I used my 20 qt. cast iron pot. If you want it bad enough it can be done.

He drove up from Baton Rouge with a half a sack of live crawfish and a bag of Louisiana fish fry crab, shrimp and crawfish boil...the dry seasoning. And they came out WONDERFUL.

Brings me back to growing up in the 60's when my grandmother use to boil crayfish on the stove all the time.

You can do some small batches easy enough. I have boiled crabs many times in my apartment with my shitty electric stove top.

Hell yeah, break the tails off first. Better yet, buy a couple of pounds of peeled ones and drop them in some seasoned water.

I love the smell so I wouldn't mind it lingering in my house for a while.

Maybe I'm being retarded here and I pretty much know nothing about boiling seafood

But if it's the crab boil that makes the smell why not just do without it?

I'm sure you could conjure up some other way to make the crawfish taste good.

Throw in a bunch of salt, garlic, hot pepper etc...

But like I said...I don't know WTF I'm talking about and generally don't care much about crawfish anyway.

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seems like you would have to have a major burner on their to get it hot enough to boil

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yes this could be a problem depending on what kind of stove you have.

i cant fathom doing crawfish on the stove. just go buy them already cooked

That's the only way my mother cooked them when I was growing up. No issues at all, but those were the days of the seasoning bags. We may have had liquid crab boil. I suspect she opened the windows and turned on the attic fan, but I am not sure of that,