What’s your crawfish boil technique? Does it change with your ingredients?

1 container zatarains proboil.
1 16oz bag regular zatarains or Louisiana brand.
1 bag of chackbay.
1 cup celery seed

12oz liquid

About ten lemons

The only sides I use is corn and mushrooms.

I fill a 100qt pot halfway. Bring to a boil. Put in the crawfish, corn and mushrooms. Bring back to a light boil for just a minute two. Turn off the heat. Stir frequently to release the heat. They soak for 27 minutes.

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Should I soak less for smaller crawfish or longer?

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Typically you'll soak less but really what you'll do is soak to taste. After about 15 minutes, start tasting them. But only taste the crawfish. Whatever else you have in the pot will likely soak up flavor and heat much more than the crawfish. If you eat a mushroom for instance before you try the crawfish, it'll throw off your taste buds.

Do the veggies separatly, either in a different pot or after the crawfish. Otherwise the corn and potatoes soak up too much of the spice.

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zatarains proboil

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Nasty. I use zatarains extra spicy though. I keep forgetting to try swamp dust.

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zatarains proboil



Nasty.

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I think it's really good. It's expensive though.

As far as the swamp dust goes. It seems to me if you follow the directions on the bag, your crawfish might kinda suck.

Half a container of powder? I usually use a whole and a 8 oz bottle of liquid.

I also cut heat when it comes back to a boil, remove lid, and soak like that until they sink.

C’mon man! It’s the other way around. Once you’ve used swamp dust, all other crawfish pretty much suck

I usually boil mine in plain water and then throw them in an ice chest with mustard and Tony’s

I boiled crawfish yesterday afternoon. Here's what went in it.



About 8 or 10 onions halved, at least 8 heads of garlic, about 8 lemons(I don't really remember but at least 6 or 7 of everything), still have some oranges on the tree so I cut up 10 and added that, two heads of celery. about 5 pounds of small red potatoes, one WHOLE container of Zatarain's and a bag of Chackbay crab and shrimp boil. Oh, also added fresh green onion and Cajun hot sausage.
Came out perfect! Some thought they were a lil spicy some thought they could be a bit spicier but I'm picky and I thought they were perfectly seasoned.
Extra potatoes always make a great potato salad the next day.

Whatever boil juice/powder is cheapest. Potatoes, mushrooms and good sausage. Timing, 10/10/10. Boil veggies, boil bugs and soak bugs. Start tasting at 10 and then extend or pull.