Thread: 'Bout to start cookin'

Originally Posted by bacon ops

I've seen it done.


http://www.davidlnelson.md/Cazadero/...sh_anatomy.jpg

Yea, normal people around here only eat the tail muscle. And the shit tube comes out easily too. Some people suck the heads, but its all mush by then. Out of the people I know that like crawfish (every single person i know), about 10 or so like to suck the heads.

Well, it ended up great! I cooked everything else first, boiling the shrimp for a few minutes at the end. Then I rigged up the basket, put half a can of Old Bay on the crabs, and steamed them with the water from the boil.

Originally Posted by Anonymous D

Should have got crawfish.

I was going to but at $3.99 a pound, and with only two of us who eat them, I figured it wasn't worth the effort. As for the head sucking thing, I tried it at a Chinese buffet (of all places) last time I had them. Not bad, probably much better with a good flavorful broil.

Originally Posted by Pepsi

My question is...why spend $500 instead of $200?

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Originally Posted by Syme

I also doubt that they could have gotten "12 pounds of super jumbo shrimp, 3 dozen blue crabs, 15 pounds of potatoes, eight ears of corn... ...and plenty of other edibles... ...Not to mention a few cases of beer", or the equivalent, in any restaurant for anything close to $200. I assume the $200 figure cited by fm would have bought much less of a feast in a restaurant. Plus there's the fact that the $500 included the stockpot, burner, and "other hardware", which they now own and will presumably get plenty more use out of over the coming years.

Yep, the seafood was only $100 or so. The stockpot, utensils, burner and a propane tank (I only grill with charcoal so needed a cylinder) were roughly $250. The other $150 went to beer, Boone's Farm, vegetables and seasonings, and grillables such as burgers, boudin and southern-style hot dogs.

A few months ago $200 got five of us each a small seafood entree, a couple appetizers and perhaps one drink apiece.

We bought 40 lbs of cooked crawfish last week. It was like $180. They are expensive right now.