re: Boiling Crawfish for the first time...... whats your recipe?

Make sure you don't boil them longer than 5 minutes. I boil mine for about a minute usually. Use oak grove smokehouse swampfire. Also put smoked deer sausage in there. Tastes good and the grease out of the sausage makes them easier to peel. Soak em till they taste right, but after bout 30 minutes they'll quit taking seasoning.

U won't need butter or oil if you cook them right

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Boil your water with Louisiana Brand powder. Add Garlic, lemons, celery and onions (potatoes too). boil for 10-15 minutes depending on size of your potatoes. Add crawfish and crank up your burner. If they are small tender crawfish, just barely bring to a boil and shut off the heat. If they are larger, boil for 1-3 minutes and shut off. As you begin the soaking phase, add ZATARAIN's liquid and sweet corn. Let them soak until they are right (sometimes an hour, but worth it). Serve out of a kayak.

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pretty much how I do it. Except the veggies part and soak time. We just started doing that to the veggies and the taters don't fall apart or are too hard. And the corn n shrooms turn out perfect every time. Kayak doesn't continue cooking them? I've always found putting them in something ( I.e. ice chest) post boil will ruin em

Eta: I use 8oz of liquid OP

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The so called "purging" of crawfish has been debunked as a myth.

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and kills a lot of crawfish before they get thrown into the pot. and you know what THEY taste like.

Aint that the damn truth.

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Don't worry, as soon as you put water in the pot 10 guys will show up to tell you that you're doing it wrong.

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No shite huh.
Just this South Louisiana way of life man.

This thread amuses me.

And if you have to add oil or butter to a crawfish boil, you suck at boiling crawfish. /discussion.

Hardest part for me is getting the seasoning right with the crawfish and potatoes/corn so here is what I started to do to solve this problem.

I save the bags that the crawfish come in and place the potatoes in one and the corn in another and cook them in the bags. This way I can remove them when they are just right.

Also try placing some canned green beans in there too. Tear the label off and poke some holes in the can. Dump the water out and put the can and all in the pot.

These are just some of my ideas you don’t have to like them

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Don't worry, as soon as you put water in the pot 10 guys will show up to tell you that you're doing it wrong.

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Word.

Tried and true family recipe:

Per sack of crawfish

1 6pack of beer
1 sacksize seasoning
1 8-12 oz bottle of liquid boil
1 box salt
4-6 yellow onions
6 lemons
2# sausage
6 corn (1/2 cob size)
1-2 pints mushrooms
3-5# small red potatoes
5-8 pods of garlic


Drink at least one beer gathering up all the stuff. Open beer #2, Put potatoes, onions (cut in half), lemons (halved and squeezed), seasoning, liquid boil, sausage and 1/4-1/2 box of salt in water bring to boil. Open beer #3, depending on size of potatoes, boil for about 3-8min to start potatoes cooking, Open beer #4, put in crawfish. As soon as water begins to boil (just barely) again shut off gas (Open beer #5) and let soak. Soak for total of about 20-25 min. About 10-15min prior to eating out open beer #6 and put in corn, garlic and mushrooms. (sooner if you want corn and mushrooms to be real spicy) If they are taking too long to soak, you should add some ice (10 lbs) to speed up the process of soaking and stop the cooking.

If you're boiling more than one sack, on the second time around don’t put anymore salt and add about 1/2- 3/4 of sack seasoning – all other things remain the same, increase beer consumption by 2-4 beers

If you boil three sacks, on third sack dump water and start with clean water all over again, forget beer and start on whiskey

Don’t forget squeeze butter for potatoes and corn.