re: Boiled Crawfish in YETI

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My crawfish go straight to the table from the pot. Ice chests are for beers and cokes. Hope this information helps your friend.

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This is the way. I have never understood why anyone would put them in an ice chest. All that will accomplish is causing them to continue to cook, making them mushy, and staining an ice chest.

Pour them on the table, and get to eating.

If you're trying to keep them hot because you have shifts of guests arriving, time out your batches better, or, you can even take cold crawfish and drop them back in the hot water for a few minutes to heat them back up.

Save the ice chest for the beer.

Drain the basket for a couple of minutes before you dump them. Use newspaper over plastic table cloths on the tables. Problem solved. When everyone's done, roll up the table cloth, newspaper, and shells, slide it all in to a contractor grade garbage bag.

Done.

It's a crawfish boil, not a 5 course meal at a banquette. There's gonna be a little mess.

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Drain the basket for a couple of minutes before you dump them. Use newspaper over plastic table cloths on the tables. Problem solved.

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Always drain the basket while letting them cool for a few minutes. Most of the leakage actually comes from the crawfish when you peel. It's worse with crabs. And if your table isn't perfectly level it drains to one spot. Newspaper or not it will leak off.

Even if you have a Yeti, you’re telling me you don’t have a regular ice chest you could put them in? I’ve got all kinds of ice chests.... even shitty ones. I’m sure you can find something to put crawfish in.

I put them in a cooler, I just take a beer can and prop it open so steam can release, the scooping em out keeps releasing the heat..they wont overcook, they will stay warm, they will be just fine.