How much water do you use for a sack of crawfish?

I have a 120 qt. I fill it just over half way. When I used to use a 100 qt I would do they same.

Enough to submerge all the crawfish, not so much that it overflows when the crawfish are submerged.

You need to just cover the crawfish, so in my 100qt pot, a very heavy third full, but not 1/2 full.
My pot has developed a boil line from use.

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Put rinsed/clean crawfish in strainer basket, put in pot, fill pot with water until it covers crawfish. Mark line on pot for 1 sack or 2 sacks or whatever. Pull strainer basket out and boil away.

Adjust for accoutrements accordingly...

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This.

40qt for one sack.

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and you find it's not enough, just fill with the hose if necessary.

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Put rinsed/clean crawfish in strainer basket, put in pot, fill pot with water until it covers crawfish. Mark line on pot for 1 sack or 2 sacks or whatever. Pull strainer basket out and boil away. Adjust for accoutrements accordingly...

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Do this. And then take your paddle and insert it into the pot make sure it touches the bottom. Make a line for the watermark on the paddle - now you never have to guess.

This works really well with a. 120q pot because you can make different marks for 1 sack vs 2.

Edit for clarity: pull the crawfish out before you measure because the pot will be empty next time you fill it up. The crawfish will displace the water roughly the same every time you boil.

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This works really well with a. 120q pot because you can make different marks for 1 sack vs 2.

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Exactly. I see people quite often overfill their pots with water, and then wonder why they added the “recommended” or “normal” amount of seasoning and the crawfish just weren’t soaking up the seasoning….well if you have a few more gallons of water in this batch than you did the last batch, your seasoning got much more dilluted. This method helps with seasoning control as much as anything IMO.

Update us to let us know how much dusting you did..

I have a 100qt pot and I fill it just over 1/3 for a 35ish pound sack. I find half is too much water.