re: Crawfish - Over-Soaking

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Soaking doesn't add more spice, but crawfish absorb more spice available in the water the longer they soak until equilibrium is achieved.


Which is it? Soaking doesn’t add spice or the crawfish absorb more spice?

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Tell me how soaking will add more spice.

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Because it takes time for the spice to penetrate the meat. The spice has to move from the water into the meat.

Here's an experiment for you.

Take one cooked and peeled crawfish tail and dip it into a glass of water with blue food coloring. Remove it after 30 seconds.

Take another cooked and peeled crawfish tail and also dip it into a glass of water with blue food coloring. Leave it there for an hour before removing.

See which crawfish tail absorbed more blue dye.

And you will have mush.

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well then you think the laws of physics are wrong

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heat always travels from warmest to coldest

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so the crawfish being less hot draws in that water

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if you dump in ice then the melted ice creates a layer of fresh seasonless water and thats what the crawfish suck in. so the top 2-3" of crawfish get little to no flavor at al

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its science and physics.

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All of this to try to justify soaking crawfish.

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Was it now? I guess you are no fan of satire. It's cool. Your lack of understanding, and flat out denial, of how diffusion works says it all.

There a lot of theories and ways of doing it. I don't think the ice chest will do much to them, unless you let them soak in hot water for a while and then dumped them.

I am a firm believer of getting the water back down below 150 degrees as soon as possible. A bag of ice isn't going to drop the temp much, and a bag of ice is not going to dilute the water, however the amount of ice needed to drop it to 150 would.

Use a boil boss, or spray the side of the pot and stir until the water is around 150. Once the crawfish start sinking they are ready. I think leaving them in longer will only result in negative results.

I have done them every way you described, and they have tested fine each way.

Drink you some cold beer and enjoy it!

I think joeleblanc is the TD version of KenM.

Yeah. But not stupid enough to soak crawfish, corndog.