Crawfish Boil Total Cook Time?

About an hour

Depends on how many extras you are doing

But yeah an hourish

Hour. Or 3 beers

Depends on your pot, burner and starting water temp. We have hot water outside so it’s a huge help.

About 350

25 minutes can be plenty enough soak depending on how seasoned the water is.

Might not have had enough seasoning. A bag of Louisiana seasoning says good for 1 sack. A container of Cajun land says good for 7 gallons of water. I never measured my water until last boil I just would go to the fill line from last time. I need 10 gallons to cover the sack with some extras. I always started out with a bag of seasoning and the a small lb bag of more and some extra other things. Now I see why one bag is not enough for the water content.

I’d say about a hour...but I never timed it start to finish. I don’t boil the crawfish one I drop them, I’ll get it back to just about a boil...few bubbles and smoke then I cut the fire. That way I let them cook slower while soaking VS trying to dump ice and cool them once cooked.

You can oversoak your crawfish if the water is too hot

If the water is seasoned well enough, just sample a few as they are soaking after 15-20 minutes and sample different size crawfish when doing so. Smaller ones soak up the seasoning quicker than larger ones. This is why I like to buy sacks with the same size crawfish as I can get.

I got a sack from Schaefer's on Lake Ave. last weekend and they were all nice size and very consistent.

Just give them a mix every few minutes to get the ones on top to get a better soaking and general rule of thumb is once they start to sink a bit, they are ready.

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How do yall preheat?

Just dump a pot of boiling water in from the stove?

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Nah. It's mainly just heating your water up on the burner well before you are ready to throw in the crawfish.

For example, I used to start boiling my water once I figured there were enough people to eat the first batch. But that means they'd have to wait an hour ish until that batch was done. "Pre-heating" is just bringing your water to a boil earlier, then cut the heat and cover. When you are ready to cook, turn the burner back on, and the water should come back to a boil pretty quick, instead of 15-20 minutes when starting with cold water.