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Help me improve my crawfish boiling technique
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:10 pm
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:10 pm
I salt and soak 1 sack of crawfish only once. I will spray with water and drain a couple of times.
Fill the pot halfway with water and add 1 large container of zatterains crawfish boil, 1 small jar of liquid pro boil and roughly a cup of salt. I squeeze 10 lemons and drop the lemons in. I add potatoes and let boil until finished, remove.
Then I add my mushrooms, onions, garlic and sausage and let boil for 2 minutes.
I add the crawfish and wait for them to come to a boil. Once a solid rolling boil has substantiated I stir once and cut the heat. I add the frozen corn and put the lid on to soak for 20-30 minutes.
Fill the pot halfway with water and add 1 large container of zatterains crawfish boil, 1 small jar of liquid pro boil and roughly a cup of salt. I squeeze 10 lemons and drop the lemons in. I add potatoes and let boil until finished, remove.
Then I add my mushrooms, onions, garlic and sausage and let boil for 2 minutes.
I add the crawfish and wait for them to come to a boil. Once a solid rolling boil has substantiated I stir once and cut the heat. I add the frozen corn and put the lid on to soak for 20-30 minutes.
This post was edited on 4/5/13 at 1:11 pm
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Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:18 pm to Lookin4Par
86 the salt
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:19 pm to TigerWise
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86 the salt
On which part, the soak or the season?
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:20 pm to Lookin4Par
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roughly a cup of salt
not needed
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:20 pm to Lookin4Par
Don't have time to address all the problems here....how big it the pot?
Also, never ever use salt again to "purge". Its total BS. Just rinse them off several times till clean.
Also, never ever use salt again to "purge". Its total BS. Just rinse them off several times till clean.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:23 pm to EMILIO
80qt
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:29 pm to Lookin4Par
Dammit. I need this on permanent clipboard.
Rinse until water runs clean. no purge BS
I will assume you are using a one sack pot or enough water to cover just one sack. Add five to 7 lbs of LOUISIANA brand powder. Bring to boil. Add garlic, onions, celery, lemons and potatoes. Boil for 15 minutes. Add crawfish. Bring to boil for appx 1 minute. turn off the heat.
Add 1 cup of ZATARAINS liquid boil and frozen corn. Stir up well. Let them soak until they are submerged in the water. Prepare for blowjobs and for people to tell you they are the best crawfish they've ever had.
Rinse until water runs clean. no purge BS
I will assume you are using a one sack pot or enough water to cover just one sack. Add five to 7 lbs of LOUISIANA brand powder. Bring to boil. Add garlic, onions, celery, lemons and potatoes. Boil for 15 minutes. Add crawfish. Bring to boil for appx 1 minute. turn off the heat.
Add 1 cup of ZATARAINS liquid boil and frozen corn. Stir up well. Let them soak until they are submerged in the water. Prepare for blowjobs and for people to tell you they are the best crawfish they've ever had.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:38 pm to Motorboat
Holy shite...7 lbs? I use Zat's regular powder boil, not pro boil. Most or all of a sack size container. Then 2 of the large bottles of their liquid boil. 1/2 to 3/4 of a standard salt container. Lots of lemons. Toss potatoes in a soon as I begin to heat the water. Garlic next, while heating up. Then when close to boiling, whole onions, sausage, any other tough veg. Cook till a rolling boil. In go the bugs. When rolling again, cook for 3-5 mins. Kill fire and toss in shrooms and frozen corn, ice can be thrown in here as well. Bugs should sink. Soak for 20-30 mins tasting regularly. Dump when they taste like you want them. This is what I do with my 120qt pot.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:38 pm to TigerWise
Agree with 86 the salt if using Zatarains. I switched to Louisiana Seafood powder last year. I find it has much better flavor than the Zats, but needs the extra salt.
I don't do mine the same as yours, but that looks good. I usually add the onions, lemons, celery righ5t off the bat. Boil for 5 minutes, then add potatoes. Boil for 5, then add the crawfish.
I don't do mine the same as yours, but that looks good. I usually add the onions, lemons, celery righ5t off the bat. Boil for 5 minutes, then add potatoes. Boil for 5, then add the crawfish.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:48 pm to EMILIO
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Holy shite...7 lbs?
IDK. I have a 50 lb box and I scoop out of it. I do two to three scoops for two sacks. Not sure how much a scoop weighs. I eyeball it.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 1:58 pm to Motorboat
All you experts should come show-off your skills.
Bugs and Brew 2013
Sorry, gonna keep posting this in every crawfish thread now until the event.
Bugs and Brew 2013
Sorry, gonna keep posting this in every crawfish thread now until the event.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 2:04 pm to gds682
I would love to go to that but some slap dick is getting married that day.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 2:18 pm to Motorboat
Motorboat we got room for another trophy don't we? I use a red solo cup of liquid, 1 seasoning bag and 1 dump and boil. Onions, garlic, potatoes and lemons, boil 10, add shrooms, 5 more mins. Add bugs, bring to boil 2 min add corn and asparagus if you do that and shut it down.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 2:23 pm to Lookin4Par
I've had them several times via the two pot method
rinse em then boil em in one pot just water
then put them in another pot seasoned water to get happy.
its not a shreveport thing, some local coon asses do it this way and they tatse great.
rinse em then boil em in one pot just water
then put them in another pot seasoned water to get happy.
its not a shreveport thing, some local coon asses do it this way and they tatse great.
This post was edited on 4/5/13 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 4/5/13 at 4:51 pm to Motorboat
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IDK. I have a 50 lb box and I scoop out of it. I do two to three scoops for two sacks. Not sure how much a scoop weighs. I eyeball it.
just buy the big bag. It is for a 40-pound sack of crawfish. LOUISIANA brand is the god damn best.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 6:19 pm to Lookin4Par
Boil in plain water, soak in seasoned water.
Yeah whatever people, Yankee yankee yankee. But guess what, the crawfish my family make are cleaner and better than anything I have had elsewhere.
Yeah whatever people, Yankee yankee yankee. But guess what, the crawfish my family make are cleaner and better than anything I have had elsewhere.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 8:10 pm to IndependentGeorge
I understand the 2 pot system, just not practical for people that know how to boil bugs.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 8:30 pm to Lookin4Par
I use a big bottle of crab boil a big jar of cayenne and three cardboard canisters of salt. Boil the shite out of the water then just do what you do.
Posted on 4/5/13 at 8:41 pm to Lookin4Par
10 lemons 
Cup salt
Just add little cayenne.
I like Louisiana brand powder yellow sack.
Everything else sounds good.
Cup salt
Just add little cayenne.
I like Louisiana brand powder yellow sack.
Everything else sounds good.
This post was edited on 4/5/13 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 4/5/13 at 9:27 pm to Lookin4Par
Chackbay or Tony's Twice as Hot.
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