Thread: 'Bout to start cookin'

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.