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Does anyone else buy 5 or 6 lb of live crawfish and do solo boils?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:04 pm
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:04 pm
I also cook beignets for myself. No boiler used, just straight in the biggest pot I have on the stove. I still steam in an ice chest. Not sure if doing this solo is weird or not, but I do this religiously.
This post was edited on 5/31/25 at 8:05 pm
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Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:17 pm to Saunson69
Just pay the extra $10 to have them cooked for you?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:21 pm to Saunson69
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just straight in the biggest pot I have on the stove.
So everything in your house smells like a crawfish boil for a week?
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I still steam in an ice chest.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:39 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
It's not about the money. It's about doing it right. Some places do, some don't. And I like the process.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:44 pm to Saunson69
Hell yeah.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:49 pm to Saunson69
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I still steam in an ice chest. Not sure if doing this solo is weird or not, but I do this religiously.
Umm. I’m mostly okay with that way. Don’t prefer it, but do like it occasionally or as an alternative.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:54 pm to Havoc
You claimed to be an investment banker but you cook crawfish on the stove inside your house alone 
Posted on 5/31/25 at 8:59 pm to Saunson69
I do with shrimp. I see no difference. Good on you if you enjoy it.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 9:06 pm to Saunson69
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Not sure if doing this solo is weird or not
It isn't
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I still steam in an ice chest.
This is weird
Posted on 5/31/25 at 9:53 pm to Saunson69
Where are you buying 5lbs of live crawfish?
Posted on 5/31/25 at 10:02 pm to Saunson69
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Does anyone else buy 5 or 6 lb of live crawfish
Nope. No places break sacks up.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 10:39 pm to Gaston
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Nope. No places break sacks up.
And if he's going out and catching that little amount-------what a total waste of time and effort.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 11:18 pm to Saunson69
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It's not about the money. It's about doing it right. Some places do, some don't. And I like the process.
Well, to each his own, but I’m not boiling seafood for one when I have ample options for good seafood in town. Juice ain’t worth the squeeze for 5 or 6 pounds of anything.
Posted on 5/31/25 at 11:25 pm to tigerinthebueche
quote:It's really easy for shrimp.
Juice ain’t worth the squeeze for 5 or 6 pounds of anything
Posted on 6/1/25 at 12:58 am to Mingo Was His NameO
Yes. I am not an Investment Banker. I said I had 2 offers but turned them down because of the reality of 70 to 80 hour weeks. I'm in a similar adjacent role. I live in an apartment. I am 30. A Gf but not wife. No desire to buy a house at these prices and interest rates, then she or whoever says I don't like it we need to sell and get a new one. Plus that OT post about there are more than over 500,000 sellers than buyers leads one to see prices dropping soon. Lot of investment bankers and PE finance live in apartments up to early 30s. Doesn't mean you don't do well. More strategic. I can't cook in a boiler at my apartment. Stove is only option, and it easily handles 5 to 6 lbs.
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 1:01 am
Posted on 6/1/25 at 1:02 am to Gaston
Yes, HEB sells loose. You can buy as little or as much as you want. I'm sure grocery stores in Louisiana would do this too, but not restaurants.
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 1:08 am
Posted on 6/1/25 at 1:02 am to Saskwatch
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Where are you buying 5lbs of live crawfish?
Is this a serious question?
Posted on 6/1/25 at 1:05 am to Saunson69
For those that cook fried foods, specifically beignets, does the beignet not hold any oil after its run in the hot cottonseed oil/canola oil? I was curious about if it did, so I weighed the beignet before placing it in the oil on a small kitchen scale, then weighed it after. It was the exact same weight.
The only possible thoughts I have is that it either: 1. Doesn't soak up oil to add weight to beignet, or 2: the hot oil somehow boils out the water in the beignet and replaces it with oil, netting to the same weight as it was before placed in the pot.
The only possible thoughts I have is that it either: 1. Doesn't soak up oil to add weight to beignet, or 2: the hot oil somehow boils out the water in the beignet and replaces it with oil, netting to the same weight as it was before placed in the pot.
This post was edited on 6/1/25 at 1:07 am
Posted on 6/1/25 at 10:19 am to Saunson69
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For those that cook fried foods, specifically beignets, does the beignet not hold any oil after its run in the hot cottonseed oil/canola oil? I was curious about if it did, so I weighed the beignet before placing it in the oil on a small kitchen scale, then weighed it after. It was the exact same weight. The only possible thoughts I have is that it either: 1. Doesn't soak up oil to add weight to beignet, or 2: the hot oil somehow boils out the water in the beignet and replaces it with oil, netting to the same weight as it was before placed in the pot.
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Posted on 6/1/25 at 3:50 pm to Saunson69
quote:It's number 2.
The only possible thoughts I have is that it either: 1. Doesn't soak up oil to add weight to beignet, or 2: the hot oil somehow boils out the water in the beignet and replaces it with oil, netting to the same weight as it was before placed in the pot.
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