re: Made Etouffee, bad crawfish ruined it

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did you wash them before use or did you use the fat as well? provided the fat was included in your frozen package. i once had a chef tell me that frozen crawfish fat goes rancid after about six months and he always made us wash all frozen crawfish for this reason. some links from google seem to back up his belief.

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ETA: used frozen LA crawfish (black bag at Rouses's) last week. washed them well and had no problems. Fresh tails are not out yet.