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re: Do you purge your crawfish before you boil?
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:49 pm to USMCTiger03
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:49 pm to USMCTiger03
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No. I wash/rinse them until the water is clear, but "purging" is a myth.
"purging" is not a myth. its happened right before my eyes hundreds of times.
and the salt is used to speed up the process
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Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:50 pm to NoHoTiger
You would think these people knew more about crawfish being from south la
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:50 pm to Choctaw
From the LSU AG Center
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–Myth No. 1: Pour salt on crawfish to purge them. "In reality, the salt doesn’t do anything," McClain said. Fully purging crawfish can be accomplished only by placing them in an aerated water bath for up to 24 hours, but washing them removes mud and debris.
–Myth No. 2: Don’t eat boiled crawfish that have straight tails because that means they were dead before boiling. Crawfish crowded into the cooking pot can end up with straight tails, according to McClain, and dead crawfish at cooking can have curled tails. Even crawfish that are dead before boiling can be suitable for eating, depending on when death occurred and whether the crawfish were kept chilled. If a crawfish tail feels mushy, it’s probably best not to eat it.
–Myth No. 3: Louisiana’s Red Swamp crawfish are so well-liked as table fare that they’re welcome everywhere. Not so, McClain says. Louisiana crawfish brought to California have flourished, and they are nuisances to California rice farmers. They are destroying native habitat and vegetation in Spain and Portugal. Also, they are immune to a fungal disease that they carry, and it’s killing native species in Europe.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:52 pm to ScroatMaGoat
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–Myth No. 2: Don’t eat boiled crawfish that have straight tails because that means they were dead before boiling. Crawfish crowded into the cooking pot can end up with straight tails, according to McClain, and dead crawfish at cooking can have curled tails. Even crawfish that are dead before boiling can be suitable for eating, depending on when death occurred and whether the crawfish were kept chilled. If a crawfish tail feels mushy, it’s probably best not to eat it.
How many times have you eaten a straight tailed crawfish that tasted right?
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:52 pm to ScroatMaGoat
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Don’t eat boiled crawfish that have straight tails because that means they were dead before boiling.
I still won't eat these.
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Louisiana crawfish brought to California have flourished, and they are nuisances to California rice farmers
frickin left coasters...THEY are a nuisance to everything
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:53 pm to ScroatMaGoat
frick the AG Center. i go by generations of full blown coonassery
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:53 pm to ScroatMaGoat
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"purging" is not a myth. its happened right before my eyes hundreds of times.
and the salt is used to speed up the process
What did you witness happen? You did not all of a sudden have crawfish with no shite in them becaue you ran them through some water and sprinkled salt on them. It is a proven fact salt does not help the purging process.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:53 pm to AP83
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Purging in water or salt water does absolutely nothing unless you are running a continuous flow of fresh water through them for at least 24 hours. Soaking them in a tub of water for a hour does nothing.
this is true. I asked the owner of the Crawfish House in Houma about purging. He said it takes at least 24 hours to properly purge them. Anything else I was just wasting time.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:53 pm to Bestbank Tiger
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Better to just peel off the vein.
That's why Louisiana is better than the rest of the world.
We peel that little vein off because it gross...right after sucking the brains out of the crawfish head.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:54 pm to Alter X
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Purging requires that crawfish be confined in water or in very humid environments where food is withheld for 24 to 48 hours. Purging should not be confused with the practice of immersing crawfish in salt water just before boiling, which does not evacuate the gut and is little more than an external wash.
LINK
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:54 pm to Alter X
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:54 pm to AP83
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What did you witness happen? You did not all of a sudden have crawfish with no shite in them becaue you ran them through some water and sprinkled salt on them. It is a proven fact salt does not help the purging process.
Whatever you say hoss.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:54 pm to jrodLSUke
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I've been told that the purge is a myth.
It is.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:54 pm to ScroatMaGoat
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"In reality, the salt doesn’t do anything," McClain said
Well dammit now my whole world has been fricked up
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:55 pm to AP83
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What did you witness happen?
Joseph Stalin says it's true
The Great Soviet Purge? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Is this thing on?
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:55 pm to ScroatMaGoat
McClain Is a sharp guy, I know him well
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:56 pm to AP83
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How many times have you eaten a straight tailed crawfish that tasted right?
You should be worried about mushy crawfish not straight tailed ones. Straight tails are generally from crawfish in a crowded basket with not much room to move.
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:57 pm to AP83
I dont eat the blue crawfish
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:57 pm to Alter X
I don't see why you wouldn't, doesn't take all that much effort
Posted on 3/30/12 at 3:58 pm to LSUTygerFan
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frickin left coasters.
You shut your whore mouth. We buy our crawfish from La and have them shipped in. And we are always in demand at parties and anytime someone out here opens a new bar
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