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re: Do you purge your crawfish with salt?
Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:17 pm to tigerdup07
Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:17 pm to tigerdup07
quote:This
if you want more dead crawfish in the pot, then purge them with salt.
Old wives tale that if you bathe em in salt water they will poop and the vein will be clearer. Also puke etc... exactly that, old wives tale.
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Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:28 pm to Count Chocula
quote:I think the only thing gettin' killed is time and the grass in the yard...but it still doesn't do "shite" to the crawfish...except wash 'em again.
if you want more dead crawfish in the pot, then purge them with salt.
Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:31 pm to OTIS2
quote:
but it still doesn't do "shite" to the crawfish...
you're right. i can't tell you how many crawfish i've caught in the gulf of mexico.
they LOVE saltwater.
This post was edited on 3/24/11 at 12:31 pm
Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:31 pm to tigerdup07
Y'all set traps off the rig, don't you?
This post was edited on 3/24/11 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 3/24/11 at 12:33 pm to tigerdup07
quote:Ive caught rock lobster diving out at the flower gardens. These count?
you're right. i can't tell you how many crawfish i've caught in the gulf of mexico.
they LOVE saltwater
Posted on 3/24/11 at 1:39 pm to Count Chocula
I'll waste 39 cents on a box of salt.
I need it to kill the weeds in the ditch.
I need it to kill the weeds in the ditch.
Posted on 3/24/11 at 3:12 pm to Kajungee
i soak mine is ethyl alcohol
Posted on 3/24/11 at 3:32 pm to Cosmo
I used to salt it doesn't do shite
If you really want to purge them then put them in an ice chest with clean water and put a fish aerator in the bottom overnight, and replace the water as it gets dirty
I usually say frick it and boil em you'll only get a few that you can actually taste the doo doo
If you really want to purge them then put them in an ice chest with clean water and put a fish aerator in the bottom overnight, and replace the water as it gets dirty
I usually say frick it and boil em you'll only get a few that you can actually taste the doo doo
Posted on 3/24/11 at 3:37 pm to LSUdm21
quote:
Guess what? You're wrong and so are they
If I go to a boil I don't care either way. For my boil, I'll waste the $1 on salt.
It will take more than one study to convince me otherwise. Do you realize how many experiments may go one way, then they can't duplicate it. Our ancestors knew something, I'll stick with hundreds of years of tradition over one science experiement 99% of the time.
Posted on 3/24/11 at 3:42 pm to tetu
quote:
I'll stick with hundreds of years of tradition over one science experiement 99% of the time.
Might just want to research that a bit. I'll wager a bet that salt was so precious in the time frame you reference, it was not used to "clean" a crawfish in preparation for boiling by the "average Joe", or probably anyone, past 2 generations ago.
This post was edited on 3/24/11 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 3/24/11 at 4:00 pm to OTIS2
quote:
Might just want to research that a bit. I'll wager a bet that salt was so precious in the time frame you reference, it was not used to "clean" a crawfish in preparation for boiling by the "average Joe", or probably anyone, past 2 generations ago.
They used salt to condition hides, to store perishable food before refrigeration (something that was done for a long time UNTIL 2 maybe 3 generations ago). It wasn't all that uncommon. Research? Eat your words.
In any case, I'm not here telling you that you need to use it. I'm just saying I do.
This post was edited on 3/24/11 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 3/25/11 at 8:29 am to CarRamrod
quote:
i soak mine is ethyl alcohol
wow, that's a way better idea than what I do...
Using handwipes to wipe them down individually is very time consuming.
Posted on 3/25/11 at 11:03 am to Cosmo
quote:
Do you purge your crawfish with salt?
no, just wash them
Posted on 3/25/11 at 11:04 am to tetu
quote:
10 generations of cajun's can't be wrong.
yes they can
Posted on 3/25/11 at 12:39 pm to Cosmo
quote:
Do you purge your crawfish with salt?
Crawfish...NO
Crabs...YES
Posted on 3/25/11 at 12:50 pm to LSUPHILLY72
quote:
All it does is torture the crawfish before you kill them
To be fair to the crawfish, you are going to drop them in boiling water. That sounds pretty torturous to me, but then again I don't have the nerve system of a crawfish so I'm not sure what they actually feel, if anything. I don't think a little salt is going to be too hard on them.
As for salt purging, no, I don't use it. To each their own.
Posted on 3/25/11 at 12:56 pm to BottomlandBrew
quote:
drop them in boiling water. That sounds pretty torturous to me, but then again I don't have the nerve system of a crawfish
Last thoughts are: "Oh shite"...
Posted on 3/25/11 at 10:33 pm to LSUdm21
Purge crabs, but not my crawfish
Posted on 3/25/11 at 10:34 pm to brass2mouth
quote:Pray tell, why????
Purge crabs,
Posted on 3/25/11 at 10:39 pm to OTIS2
Ehh I dunno, always have. I boiled em once without doing it and they tasted funny, so I kept doing it. Prolly more mental than anything, but who knows.
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