re: Best way to get your crawfish spicy when boiling them?

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I put some in an ice chest while they were still just warm recently and they turned to mush.

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I never put hot seafood in any kind of container. They will continue to cook and, like you said, go to mush.

I always spread them out on a table to cool and if any are left, I'll pick them right away for the tail meat and fat to use in an etouffe or like I did earlier this spring, made 3 gallons of crawfish bisque with 180 stuffed heads. I got a 35 lb. sack and it was only the wife and I. We ate what we wanted and cleaned the rest.