Questions about crawfish boil and recipe NEED HELP !

Put frozen corn in for the soak, after you cut the fire. It’ll be too spicy if you put it in with e potatoes.

Reduce your cook time with the crawfish. Drop them into a rolling boil. Lid the pot. When steam comes out,cut the fire. Begin tasting after 20 minutes.

If you are just starting and just want good crawfish just go with Louisiana seasoning; if you want it spicier use the louisiana cajun heat seasoning. I also add ~1c salt.

You can toss the potatoes in right at the start while the water is heating, there is really no reason to wait on the water to boil to do this. They take the longest and no one wants hard potatoes. When the water is about boiling you can add seasoning, lemons/oranges, celery. When the potatoes are starting to get a bit softer, go ahead and throw in the garlic and onions, and just cook until all the vegetables are soft. As someone else said throwing in the corn before all this will over cook the corn and likely make it too hot.

When all the vegetables are soft, turn the burner up and add the crawfish and mushrooms. Boil them till they all floating good. Cooking 8min will result in some overcooked/hard to peel crawfish in my experience, and the amount of time they need to boil varies based on size and time of season. Many other will tell you on here: boil till they float and soak till they sink.

When they all floating good shut the fire off, add frozen corn and sausage. If you just boiled them until they started floating and not for like 8min, you will not need to cool them down super quick. Soak them till they sink, possibly about 45min.

Pretty close to my standard as well.
1 jar Zatarans
1 8-12oz liq crab boil
2 zatarans seasoning bags (optional)
*Half a box of salt (optional)
*Bag of onions, large cut in half, small left whole
*Bag of lemons
*Whole Mushroom, Corn, Sausage, garlic

Fill pot around 40-45% water. As mentioned by others, too much water will weaken your seasoning. Add all seasons. Bring up to boil, I add my potatoes and boil 3 mins. I use the small red potatoes that you can drop the whole bag in and boil.
Pull potato bags out then place crawfish in and put potatoes back on top and add whole garlic.
Depending on time of season,size of crawfish and color of crawfish (light to dark red with dark red claws) I vary my boil time from 3 to 5mins.
With 1 min to go, I drop in my corn (birdseye only), onions and sausage.
Cut off fire, add mushrooms and squeeze lemons. Give a good stir and let soak a min of 20mins. I taste one and look to see if the crawfish sunk to the bottom. My standard soak is 25-30 but I keep tasting to make sure. You also check for tenderness.
Pull out crawfish and enjoy.

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1 8oz bottle of liquid boil concentrate

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I never understood using liquid boil and powder. For me it doesn't add any flavor, and just makes the crawfish too spicy.

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1/2 bag swampfire
1/2 bag louisiana brand
totaling 4.5 lbs
add 1/2 bottle to 1 full bottle 14 oz cayenne pepper
1 16oz bottle concentrated boil

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For how much water?

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Get a rolling boil
Add potatoes sausage corn for 10 minutes
add onions oranges lemons cook for 5 mins
add crawfish bring back to boil cook 5-8 mins
turn off fire

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God no. Throw seasonings (which includes onions, citrus, and garlic) and potatoes in. Boil until potatoes are soft. Add crawfish. Cut heat when they float to the top. Then add sausage, corn, mushrooms, etc anything that doesn't take long or soaks in very easily.

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cool off put with frozen jug of water or frozen corn or 10lbs of ice or some $60 cool pvc pipe that hangs on the pot??
cool the pot to 150 degrees

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Just cut the heat, soak until they sink. It's really unnecessary to worry about chilling it down to a certain degree unless you boiled the crawfish for too long. Frozen corn will chill it a little too. Should start tasting after 20 minutes. Pull when they taste right.

Here is a 2 minute video we made detailing a basic boil recipe. If you like saltier add half tube salt. For spicier add small bottle of liquid boil.

YouTube

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CrawKing

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Pretty much the only thing I do different is add 4 oranges and I cut my lemons pole to pole (give it a try).

OP...you can't go wrong doing this. I will be sharing it on Facebook. Best video I have seen on a basic crawfish recipe.

Thanks Jody, appreciate the comments and share.

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have seen youtubers doing craw fish boil this way . . .

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You have neglected to state how much water you are boiling. This will determine the amount of ingredients to use.