re: David Chang prefers seasoning on the outside of crawfish

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I just think it's silly that you'd season something, not directly, but in a way that you're only going to taste it because it gets on your hands. That'd be like eating a hot dog, and instead of putting any of the condiments directly on it, you just squirt them on your hand

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This is exactly correct.

The whole "sprinkle/dusting" thing works like this, when you think about it:

1) Because dry seasoning can't through to the tail meat, much less the head fat, it simply rubs off on your hands when you pick up the crawfish.

2) Then, in your process of peeling the crawfish tail, you have to hope some of the dust rubs off from your fingers onto the tail, or, you basically have to put the tail in your mouth and suck your fingers to get any seasoning.

3) The head is even worse. Your lips touch the outside of the head (where the seasoning is on dry) but the fat goes inside your mouth when you suck it out. So the only way to get any seasoning there is to suck the head, don't swallow, then basically lick your lips and mash it all together in your mouth.

It's absolutely insane and stupid. I mean, I guess I could also squirt ketchup and mustard directly into my mouth, and then take a bite of a hot dog, but that's stupid as well.

My cousin's father in law is a Lafayette idiot who boils them in seasoning, and then pulls them out, drops them immediately into an ice chest (i.e never letting them soak), and then dumps cayenne pepper all of them and shakes the ice chest, and then lets them sit for 30 minutes. I tried them once... there was absolutely no taste whatsoever of crawfish... all you could taste was cayenne. Why spend money on crawfish... just open up a container of cayenne and dump straight into your mouth.