Crawfish Boil help

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200lbs

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1 pot 100qts

With all the fixins? You'll have at least 4 batches. Depending on how well you clean the crawfish, you'll need to dump the water after the second or third batch.

You can do a sack and a half in 100 qts, but with sides it might get crowded. It's doable though, but you might be googling 120 qt pots after this.

For the initial batch do:

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1 4.5 lb bag powder boil. Louisiana, zatarains, and slap ya mama are all good. Which is best is personal preference. 
12 ounces liquid crab boil. LA or zats, either is fine. 
1/4 cup - 1 cup cayenne pepper. More or less on the last 2 ingredients for how spicy you want it. 
10 lemons halved and squeezed into the water 
10 onions split in half 
2 stalks celery cut 
8 heads of garlic 
12-15 small new potatoes. About 2-3 per person. 
Bag of frozen corn. 1-2 half ears per person. 

Put the crawfish in an ice chest with the plug open or a round laundry basket with holes. Rinse thoroughly, but do NOT leave them in standing water. You'll kill them. 

Fill the pot a little over halfway full. 
Add powder boil, liquid boil, cayenne, onions, lemon, celery, and garlic. 
Bring to a boil and let it come together a bit. 
Add potatoes. Boil until soft. Check after 15 or so minutes. 
Add crawfish. When the water starts to slightly bubble and foam, cut off the heat, add corn. 
Soak until the crawfish sink, then start tasting. Make sure the flavor is good and they peel easily. Should be 30ish minutes. 

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Second batch, cut the seasoning in half. If you clean really well, you can get a third batch in. If you do, repeat the second batch. They'll be nice and flavorful.

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1 4.5 lb bag powder boil. Louisiana, zatarains, and slap ya mama are all good. Which is best is personal preference. 
12 ounces liquid crab boil. LA or zats, either is fine. 
1/4 cup - 1 cup cayenne pepper. More or less on the last 2 ingredients for how spicy you want it. 
10 lemons halved and squeezed into the water 
10 onions split in half 
2 stalks celery cut 
8 heads of garlic 
12-15 small new potatoes. About 2-3 per person. 
Bag of frozen corn. 1-2 half ears per person. 

Put the crawfish in an ice chest with the plug open or a round laundry basket with holes. Rinse thoroughly, but do NOT leave them in standing water. You'll kill them. 

Fill the pot a little over halfway full. 
Add powder boil, liquid boil, cayenne, onions, lemon, celery, and garlic. 
Bring to a boil and let it come together a bit. 
Add potatoes. Boil until soft. Check after 15 or so minutes. 
Add crawfish. When the water starts to slightly bubble and foam, cut off the heat, add corn. 
Soak until the crawfish sink, then start tasting. Make sure the flavor is good and they peel easily. Should be 30ish minutes. 

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I agree with most of this but I would cut down on the veggies as the day goes on. People arent going to keep eating them, well unless you will have waves of people.

If you have everyone coming at once, youre gonna need an extra pot and help.

My only change to his cooking method is that I do the potatoes, onions, and lemons first. The celery, garlic, hotdogs, sausage or whatever goes in with the crawfish.

You dont need to look for bubbles and foam. Just put the lid on and wait for the steam to come out of the top. If the crawfish are large, you can give it a stir when the steam comes and let it go for a minute or two. Im saying this assuming you will have a hose to help with the cooling

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I agree with most of this but I would cut down on the veggies as the day goes on. People arent going to keep eating them, well unless you will have waves of people.

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Yeah for sure. At least the potatoes and corn. Lemons are flavor and I'll eat that onion and garlic for days.

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You dont need to look for bubbles and foam. Just put the lid on and wait for the steam to come out of the top

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This is basically what I do. Steam comes out, I take the lid off, and the bubbles are there. It's the same timing pretty much.

Best if you borrow another pot or you'll be boiling for HOURS!!

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This is basically what I do. Steam comes out, I take the lid off, and the bubbles are there. It's the same timing pretty much.

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Word.

I guess I was thinking that he doesn't need to keep opening the lid to look. He can do some other stuff and just look for the steam

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Best if you borrow another pot or you'll be boiling for HOURS!!

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I'd follow this advice if you know another person who has a pot and a burner. You will be boiling into the night with nobody left to eat them. In addition to that, depending on how many people you have coming, the 100 qt pot might not be able to boil enough crawfish to give everyone a decent amount to eat with each batch. I've found that about 45 lbs or so (which should fit in your 100 qt pot) is about enough to cover three six foot tables, and usually there's about 20-25 people eating at one time. So if you think you'll have a good bit more people and more tables, I'd go with the second pot.

We are boiling 5 sacks tomorrow using three pots and the two pot method. 5 sacks in 1 pot will be miserable. Better hope for some rain to cool you off!