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Keeping Crawfish Alive Overnight - Best Method?
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:58 am
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:58 am
Having 40lbs shipped up to Boston next weekend for a boil on Sunday, but they would not deliver on Sundays so I have them coming in Saturday afternoon.
Never had to keep them alive overnight before - any tips? We don't have an outdoor fridge to store them in, and since the boil is at a friend's house I'm not going to ask them to keep them in their fridge in the house.
Really looking forward to showing some of my northern friends what a proper crawfish boil looks like. TIA.
Never had to keep them alive overnight before - any tips? We don't have an outdoor fridge to store them in, and since the boil is at a friend's house I'm not going to ask them to keep them in their fridge in the house.
Really looking forward to showing some of my northern friends what a proper crawfish boil looks like. TIA.
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Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:05 am to AbitaFan08
Fill an ice chest with ice, wet the sack of crawfish, let it drain, then lay on top the ice. Wet an old blanket, cover the crawfish, then cover the blanket with a large trash bag, placing an area in the shade without air movement and they'll be fine
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:15 am to AbitaFan08
Store in a cool place. Cover with bags of ice and then keep a wet burlap sack covering it.
Make sure to keep the burlap and crawfish wet.
Make sure to keep the burlap and crawfish wet.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:29 am to HebertFest08
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Store in a cool place. Cover with bags of ice and then keep a wet burlap sack covering it.
Make sure to keep the burlap and crawfish wet.
This
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:32 am to AbitaFan08
ice chest
in the sack
put bag of ice in chest
in the sack
put bag of ice in chest
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:33 am to HebertFest08
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Store in a cool place.
The bonus of doing this up north - I can store them down in the basement.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 9:46 am to Boston911
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Fill an ice chest with ice, wet the sack of crawfish, let it drain, then lay on top the ice. Wet an old blanket, cover the crawfish, then cover the blanket with a large trash bag, placing an area in the shade without air movement and they'll be fine
Holy hell, that is way overboard. Just put them in an ice chest, drain plug open, and put a bag of ice on top of the sack. Leave the ice in the bag. Leave ice chest cracked.
You just need to keep them cool and have enough oxygen.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 10:38 am to AbitaFan08
Turn you AC down to 50. Put them in your bed and tell them a calming children's story. Then crawl in and turn the light off. They'll be fine in the morning.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 11:44 am to AbitaFan08
Don't forget to pull plug on the ice-chest so water can drain.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 11:47 am to SUB
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Holy hell, that is way overboard. Just put them in an ice chest, drain plug open, and put a bag of ice on top of the sack. Leave the ice in the bag. Leave ice chest cracked.
You just need to keep them cool and have enough oxygen.
the correct answer
they'll be fine that way for several days assuming they were shipped to you in a similar condition, and havent been out of the water longer than normal
Posted on 5/19/16 at 11:52 am to BlackCoffeeKid
What I do is place 2-4" by 4" boards cross ways in the bottom of an ice chest. Smaller ones stacked on each other could do. Put ice in the chest to the top of the boards, place crawfish on top of boards.
Put wet towel on top of sack and fill with more ice until about half way up the sack. Tilt ice chest a few inches and open drain. Leave a slight crack in the top of the chest.
For longer periods of time wet towel a few times a day.
Put wet towel on top of sack and fill with more ice until about half way up the sack. Tilt ice chest a few inches and open drain. Leave a slight crack in the top of the chest.
For longer periods of time wet towel a few times a day.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 12:14 pm to AbitaFan08
I just stick the sack in my beer fridge in my shed. I have a little ice chest that the lid hinges broke off of so I take off the lid and stand the sack up in it then slide the whole ice chest into the ice box (shelves removed, of course).
I've transported them to North Carolina before using the 2x4 method ole boy mentioned above. Worked fine and kept for two days.
I've transported them to North Carolina before using the 2x4 method ole boy mentioned above. Worked fine and kept for two days.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 1:06 pm to AbitaFan08
I put the sack on top of the ice with the ice chest at an angle so it will drain.
Posted on 5/19/16 at 3:19 pm to AbitaFan08
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Keeping Crawfish Alive Overnight - Best Method
Probably best to not cook them till the next morning
Posted on 5/19/16 at 8:52 pm to AbitaFan08
True story:
Crawfish boil last weekend
Got drunk
Forgot to boil all crawfish
Came down Sunday at noon and they were still alive (10 lbs)
Cooked them later that night. Then boiled lobsters in the same seasoned water. 15 boiled, 15 minutes soaked. They were great!
Csb
Crawfish boil last weekend
Got drunk
Forgot to boil all crawfish
Came down Sunday at noon and they were still alive (10 lbs)
Cooked them later that night. Then boiled lobsters in the same seasoned water. 15 boiled, 15 minutes soaked. They were great!
Csb
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