Originally Posted by Goooh (Post 586527)

Secret 1 - don't take secrets from anyone who calls them Crayfish!

Originally Posted by mikedatiger (Post 586557)

SaltyShaw had an interesting technique that hopefully he can chime in on. I believe he said he boils them in hotwater then transfers them to a seasoned pot with warm water to soak. Think he said he learned this from a local restaurant.

Originally Posted by mikedatiger (Post 586557)

SaltyShaw had an interesting technique that hopefully he can chime in on. I believe he said he boils them in hotwater then transfers them to a seasoned pot with warm water to soak. Think he said he learned this from a local restaurant.

Originally Posted by "W" (Post 586537)

Originally Posted by T-TOP (Post 586526)

I agree the most important part is the soak after temp is lowered with water or ice either one.. No need for seasoning on crawfish in the cooler after that! Always put a couple more sticks of butter and squeeze a couple more lemons after each pot of crawfish come out.

BTW there is about 200 different good ways to boil em!! Lol

Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 586555)

Just follow these simple rules that everyone agrees upon:

1. definitely use ice after you boil them to cool them down
2. definitely do NOT use any ice, that is a 'waste' of ice
3. season the water before you cook them
4. season the crawfish after you boil them
5. do NOT season the crawfish after you boil them
6. throw them in the cooler after you boil them
7. do NOT throw them in the cooler afterwards because that keeps them cooking
8. Purge them with saltwater before you cook them
9. do NOT 'waste' your time trying to purge them with salt as that does nothing. Time is the only thing that truly purges them
10. place (insert any random ingredient here such as butter, vinegar, beer, etc.) in the water as it makes the crawfish easier to peel


thats all I can think of, but no matter what, you will somehow be doing it wrong and if anyone is there watching you they will let you know:rotfl:

Originally Posted by "W" (Post 586572)

That is why i hate to boil crawfish around a crowd... Boiled a few sacks at work and everyone had a better way
When im boiling Shut up and watch or buy you a sack and get you a pot and get it

Originally Posted by SaltERedneck (Post 586574)

Two pots as mentioned before... Simple seasoning in one for the boil then a transfer "cool" pot with the tastees for the soak.

Originally Posted by "W" (Post 586592)

next Real Man of Genius! :confused::confused::confused:

Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 586555)

Just follow these simple rules that everyone agrees upon:

1. definitely use ice after you boil them to cool them down
2. definitely do NOT use any ice, that is a 'waste' of ice
3. season the water before you cook them
4. season the crawfish after you boil them
5. do NOT season the crawfish after you boil them
6. throw them in the cooler after you boil them
7. do NOT throw them in the cooler afterwards because that keeps them cooking
8. Purge them with saltwater before you cook them
9. do NOT 'waste' your time trying to purge them with salt as that does nothing. Time is the only thing that truly purges them
10. place (insert any random ingredient here such as butter, vinegar, beer, etc.) in the water as it makes the crawfish easier to peel


thats all I can think of, but no matter what, you will somehow be doing it wrong and if anyone is there watching you they will let you know:rotfl:

Originally Posted by T-TOP (Post 586626)

I don't normally boil crawfish and drink beer, but when I do, I keep my beer in a yeti, and the crawfish in a Coleman extreme that the lid won't close on anymore!

Originally Posted by Matt G (Post 586623)

That's all there is too it? Hell I'm going to pick up a sack after work.

Originally Posted by "W" (Post 586592)

next Real Man of Genius! :confused::confused::confused:

Originally Posted by Swlatiger (Post 586593)

I don't always boil crayfish, but when I do I prefer to use a plethora of pots!

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler (Post 586538)

If I put it in my oustide freezer it freezes from the inside out, if I put it in my inside freezer it freezes from the outside in. If I boil spillway crawfish raised in a pond I use use the outside in frozen ice. Gets colder quicker that way. If I boil pond crawfish I use my inside out frozen ice from my good ice box. That's only with the months that have an 4 in them though. So from now till September I will outside in frozen from my outside freezer to boil them.

Now shirmp is a whole differnt story, I use only fiji water with 3 sips missing out of a 22.5 ox square bottle, they come out perfect every time and it doesnt matter which freezer i freeze the bottle in because shrimp has 1 vowel in it and not 2 like crawfish. Now if I get a sack of crayfish to boil I can use the fiji because it y is sometimes a vowel and if you have an odd number of vowels its okay.


Hope I cleared this up.