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Do you purge your crawfish before you boil?
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:33 pm
I have always purged my crawfish with salt before I boil them. Does anyone NOT purge them before they boil?
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Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:34 pm to Alter X
always have
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:34 pm to Alter X
Why WOULDN'T anyone do this? 
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:34 pm to Alter X
I can eat em either way but I like purged more
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:34 pm to Alter X
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:34 pm to LordSaintly
Only way I learned how.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:35 pm to Alter X
I just soak with water. Anything else is overkill.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:35 pm to Alter X
Our caterer does a quick purge for our boil in SoCal. I prefer a full purge, but that's hard to do with 1500 pounds that you pick up on your way to the boil venue.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:35 pm to Alter X
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with salt
Not needed, not even close.
Just keep it running on them and stiring them until the water coming out of the chest/tub is clear.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:36 pm to LSUBanker
Just water. Salt is useless, imo. I boiled crawfish for a company in BR for a long time and we never used salt. big or small boils
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:36 pm to Alter X
Salt does nothing by the way
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:36 pm to Alter X
i use salt and pruge, a lot of people i know just purge with water, both ways seem to work fine, but ill just always use salt
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:37 pm to Alter X
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I just soak with water. Anything else is overkill.
this
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:37 pm to Gaston
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Not needed, not even close.
Just keep it running on them and stiring them until the water coming out of the chest/tub is clear.
+1000......
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:37 pm to NoHoTiger
I've been told that the purge is a myth. And it kills the crawfish.
We rinse them with fresh water and put them straight in the pot. Crawfish poop puts hair on your chest.
We rinse them with fresh water and put them straight in the pot. Crawfish poop puts hair on your chest.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:38 pm to trillhog
Just boiled some spillway crawfish at 11:00. Just cleaned with water.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:38 pm to sloopy
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Salt does nothing by the way
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:38 pm to jrodLSUke
Waste of Salt
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:38 pm to chickman1313
Rinse crawfish=yes, just to clean the mud off and grass out. Purging in water or salt water does absolutely nothing unless you are running a continuous flow of fresh water through them for at least 24 hours. Soaking them in a tub of water for a hour does nothing.
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