Amateur hour crawfish boil

i'm boiling this weekend and i'm real interested in the chackbay. do you add one bad per sack or just one bag total? also, i'm assuming you're adding one of those tubs per sack or splitting it and adding the liquid?

How much of the liquid per sack?

I wanna say the directions said 4oz for every 6lbs of crawfish, or shrimp. I had a sack of crawfish, and added about one cup of liquid. It wasn't overbearing with spice.

After, I added another cup of liquid to do 3 dozen crabs. That was perfect.

I'd probably use 2 cups of the Cajun Land liquid for a 30lb sack of crawfish, one bag of Chackbay, one container of the powdered Cajun Land, plus your onions, lemons, garlic, celery, etc...

Good luck.

For a beginner don't make it too complicated.

How large is the pot? How many quarts?

for an 80qt pot or more (a large pot you may need to add some more seasoning), here is just a very basic recipe:

Wash the crawfish. Just put them in a basket and spray them off until the water coming off is clear.
Fill the pot up halfway with water
8 Garlic Cloves
8 yellow onions cut in half
2 stalks of celery cut in 1 inch sections
8 lemons cut in half, squeezed into the water, thrown in
2 Oranges, same process as lemons (optional)
1 Container of Zat's powder seasoning
1 8oz liquid crab boil
1 bag of red potatoes (i like to add my potatoes at this point, others will disagree)
Mix it all up

Bring the water to a boil.
Put in a sack of crawfish once boiling.
Bring the water back to a boil. Once it gets back to a boil, cut off the burner/propane. Spray the outside of the pot with water for a minute to bring the temperature down. Some people also add ice.
Add your frozen corn, sausage, mushrooms and whatever else.

Leave it alone. Let them soak. At about the 20 minute mark pull one out and check it. Once they have all sunk to the bottom they have gotten soaked. You'll probably want to soak them for about 30 minutes but if you check them at the 20 mark and they are good to go, pull them. You don't want them soggy.

That is a very basic recipe and there are many variations of things you can do and add, and every ahole will have an opinion. But for a beginner, this simple recipe should be fine.

On the 2nd batch, just use a half jar of Zat's powder seasoning, everything else pretty much the same.

If you want more heat, you can always add 16oz of liquid boil, or 1/4th cup of Cayenne.

It doesn't hurt to stir the pot when they're soaking. It helps, I think.


But Fun Bunch is right, you can just leave it alone. If you're going to stir, do it gently.

Take pics, and let us know how ya did.

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Also, I'm incredibly impatient so I have to do something during the soak

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I exercise with 12oz arm curls.

I have a fancy "crawfish" paddle so I have to stir it at least once!
I'm sure the first batch will need to be weak. I like them hot though so I will try and ramp it up for round 2

Will definitely update everyone after the weekend. Thanks for the input.

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I have a fancy "crawfish" paddle so I have to stir it at least once!

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You're going to stir quite often, actually. You stir to mix all of the seasoning and everything. Stir a bit once the crawfish are added. Once you cut the propane you're going to want to stir a few times.

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I have two 30qt pots and burners available to cook with.

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This will be fun to cook them in. Going to have to do like 2 batches in each pot most likely if I am reading that correctly.