Crawfish Boil

1st - find someone who knows what they are doing and learn from them.

I advise you to have an experienced friend/somebody to help you. You dont want shitty crawfish for your first time.

I say give it a shot. Just know the season ends late May early June. Do your research and make it happen

If you're going to spend the money to order and give this a shot, order plenty to allow for a first batch error. Generally, folks who don't know what they're doing, get a pretty bland batch on the first go round. When they're bland, they're just not good for eating, boiled. You can still peel those and use them for another dish, though.

I'm surprised that no one else is surprised you've ever had crawfish?
If this really is your first time ever eating them, I wouldn't try making them myself. Especially if it's some kind of big gathering with friends. i would order them from some place that you know/heard was good.
I was would try boiling them yourself for something smaller so you can try some different things out to where if it doesn't work out, you don't waste a lot and you don't get a bad impression.
Because honestly, it really isn't that easy if you don't know what you're doing.

I never had any complaints and had request to boil for people.

Pretty much idiot proof....

Soak crawfish in water in #3 tub for a while. You can add salt to help purge crawfish too. Empty water out of tub and add fresh water w/out salt and soak again.

73 oz jar Zatarain’s Crab boil
16 oz. Bottle of Zatarain’s liquid crab boil
6 oz Bottle of Crystal hot sauce
6-8 oz of Cayenne pepper
Bag of red potatoes cut in halves
3 lbs (4-5) yellow onions (cut slices in onions but all the way through)
2 cases of garlic
½ oz. bay leaves
Bag of lemons cut in halves (approx 12 lemons)

Bring to a rolling boil
Boil water w/ seasoning for at least 10 minutes
Put crawfish & 2 cases of mushrooms in pot
Cover pot and return water to rolling boil (steam coming out from under lid)
Boil for 3-4 minutes covered depending on the size of crawfish
Turn off fire and remove cover off of pot
Put frozen corn in pot
Soak for 15-20 minutes uncovered


You could hold back a bit on the Cayenne pepper if you and your guest are a bit sensitive to seasoning. Good crawfish should taste well-seasoned, not just hot

And yes, summer is a little late to be boiling crawfish. The shells start getting harder hence harder to peel