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Any advice for boiling crawfish w/ out the gear?
Posted on 3/24/14 at 1:15 am
Posted on 3/24/14 at 1:15 am
Sadly, I don't yet own my own crawfish pot, and I'm not in a spot right now to buy the whole setup.
I'm living in Austin, Texas at the moment but plan to be back in Baton Rouge for Easter. I was thinking about maybe bringing a sack or two back west, but I'm wondering if it'd even be worth the hassle since I don't have the gear?
I scooped up a handful crawfish while backpacking in Yosemite and was able to "boil" them in a small pot by using a mesh bag to drop them in / pull them out. Y'all think the same sorta system might work on a stove top? Maybe run four pots boiling and do multiple small batches at once?
Basically, I need any advice on transporting crawfish (throwing them in an ice chest for a day should be alright, huh?) and making them delicious without using the traditional setup.
(thankfully, both the Statesman and ATX LSU alumni chapter are hosting actual crawfish boils here next month so I've got those to get my real fix in)
I'm living in Austin, Texas at the moment but plan to be back in Baton Rouge for Easter. I was thinking about maybe bringing a sack or two back west, but I'm wondering if it'd even be worth the hassle since I don't have the gear?
I scooped up a handful crawfish while backpacking in Yosemite and was able to "boil" them in a small pot by using a mesh bag to drop them in / pull them out. Y'all think the same sorta system might work on a stove top? Maybe run four pots boiling and do multiple small batches at once?
Basically, I need any advice on transporting crawfish (throwing them in an ice chest for a day should be alright, huh?) and making them delicious without using the traditional setup.
(thankfully, both the Statesman and ATX LSU alumni chapter are hosting actual crawfish boils here next month so I've got those to get my real fix in)
This post was edited on 3/24/14 at 1:19 am
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Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:24 am to npersa1
Sounds like way too much trouble.
Be careful with the ice chest. Don't want to smother or drown them. Most places that ship long distances pack with dry ice inside breathable boxes.
Be careful with the ice chest. Don't want to smother or drown them. Most places that ship long distances pack with dry ice inside breathable boxes.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 5:33 am to Dr. Morgus
Leaving the drain plug open and refreshing the ice every couple hundred miles should do the trick.
If you are with people that have never had crawfish, small batches might be a good thing anyway. Slow peeling and increasing heat with the batches will keep from turning people off.
It might take longer, but a small pot and scooping out crawfish might be tedious, but it would work.
If you are with people that have never had crawfish, small batches might be a good thing anyway. Slow peeling and increasing heat with the batches will keep from turning people off.
It might take longer, but a small pot and scooping out crawfish might be tedious, but it would work.
This post was edited on 3/24/14 at 6:12 am
Posted on 3/24/14 at 6:09 am to npersa1
Advice is simple, you're SOL.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 6:25 am to CITWTT
Need to keep ice chest lid raised on way home.... Put bags of ice on bottom and crawfish on top of the bags of ice. Maybe a bag on top of the crawfish too.
If you are transporting them - Do not let them sit in water, do not close the lid.
I would not boil crawfish inside my house if my life depended on it. You will need to open every window and every door for a week to clear the air... And no tellin how long the place will smell like it.
You cannot tell me somebody you know in Austin doest have a burner and a propane bottle?
U can buy this stuff for cheap. Certainly for the price ur about to pay for 2 sacks of crawfish.
If you are transporting them - Do not let them sit in water, do not close the lid.
I would not boil crawfish inside my house if my life depended on it. You will need to open every window and every door for a week to clear the air... And no tellin how long the place will smell like it.
You cannot tell me somebody you know in Austin doest have a burner and a propane bottle?
U can buy this stuff for cheap. Certainly for the price ur about to pay for 2 sacks of crawfish.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:21 am to npersa1
If you can't bum a rig from a friend, try calling some rental companies. You should be able to find a burner and pot that way.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:34 am to OTIS2
Wait until cittwitt wakes up, sees this, and tears this guy a new one.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:35 am to BRgetthenet
You saying he went back to sleep?
Posted on 3/24/14 at 7:50 am to BRgetthenet
Look above your post and you will see I played nice. A trip to Academy Sports will get him the equipment for around 100.00.
ETA He can look at the two outdoors/hunting stores also for pricing competition, Bass Pro shop and Cabelas.
ETA He can look at the two outdoors/hunting stores also for pricing competition, Bass Pro shop and Cabelas.
This post was edited on 3/24/14 at 8:29 am
Posted on 3/24/14 at 8:08 am to npersa1
quote:
Any advice for boiling crawfish w/ out the gear?
Magic
Posted on 3/24/14 at 8:14 am to TigerWise
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Magic
Works 60% of the time, everytime
Posted on 3/24/14 at 8:28 am to CITWTT
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you will see I played nice
Woops, you sure did. 
Posted on 3/24/14 at 8:54 am to npersa1
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ATX LSU alumni chapter
Makes me assume you've graduated college.
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Maybe run four pots boiling and do multiple small batches at once?
maybe not
Posted on 3/24/14 at 8:58 am to Motorboat
Posted on 3/24/14 at 11:12 am to Motorboat
Just buy a pot and burner.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 11:24 am to tigersownall
You can certainly do it inside, but I'd hesitate unless you had 1)a high-BTU output stove (not a "regular") gas stove and 2)a high CFM vent hood over your stove. You run the risk of not producing enough heat to bring the pot to a boil in a reasonable amount of time, and of gassing everyone out of your house for days with the pepper fumes.
I'm sure you can find propane to borrow in Austin: anyone w/a gas grill will have a tank w/a regulator. So you just need a burner and a pot, if you're trying to economize on the outlay.
I'm sure you can find propane to borrow in Austin: anyone w/a gas grill will have a tank w/a regulator. So you just need a burner and a pot, if you're trying to economize on the outlay.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 12:13 pm to hungryone
Decades ago, I supplied 2 sacks of crawfish for an Easter Sunday boil at a friend's house in NO. Guy with the stand and propane was a no show, and back then, stores were not open on Sunday, yet alone Easter Sunday. Had to boil them on the stove top with 3 different pots going - got so damn hot stripped down to my underwear. Other moral of the story was that there was a guy running around with a CIA t-shirt on and a joint dangling from his lips at all times. Come to find out, he was a Bush - not George, but Neal. At that time his father was the head of the CIA.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 12:34 pm to pmacneworleans
That was the reason I didn't pull the lever for Bush I. My thinking was simple anyone that has been tainted by that office has no business in the White House, the warping of the mind is not reversible.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 1:03 pm to npersa1
You can buy live crawfish in Austin.
Posted on 3/24/14 at 1:12 pm to CITWTT
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That was the reason I didn't pull the lever for Bush I. My thinking was simple anyone that has been tainted by that office has no business in the White House, the warping of the mind is not reversible.
He attended Tulane and lived in the same fourplex as my friend. There are polaroids of me in skivies boiling away (and swigging out of a bottle of gin) and him with the magic cigarette. As far as I can tell, neither photo has found its way to social media.
This post was edited on 3/24/14 at 1:15 pm
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