Need help with a boil.
 

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if I could get some advice for a boil. I'm doing a boil for a friends birthday, and he wants to do crawfish, crab legs, and shrimp. We are throwing this shinding on the cheap for about 15 people. I was wondering what the order of operations should be for the proteins.

I've got one big pot to work and an outdoor propane tank. Can I just throw the crawfish in let that go for awhile then throw in the crab and shrimp?

I'm worried I'm not gonna get a good enough soak on the crawfish.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

I would not boil shrimp with crawfish, even if you managed to cook both properly, I think the shrimp would overcook after you pull the basket. Crawfish will retain heat and overcook the crawfish.

Would it be wise to just do two seperate batches? Halve all my ingredients and do crab and shrimp, and another with just crawfish?

Boil your vegetables, take them out, boil your crawfish, when your crawfish come to a boil time them for a 2-3 minutes then add your shrimp ( I would go to the dollar store and buy a laundry bag to stick them in so you can pull them out before the crawfish because they will not need to soak as long) when the water comes back to a boil cut your fire and add your crab legs. Crab legs are already cooked all you doing is letting them defrost with the crawfish and getting a little spice to them. Adding the frozen crab legs will help cool the water and get more spice in the crawfish.


ETA; a few questions

Are you using fresh shrimp?
What size pot do you have?
Are you boiling any vegetables/sausage?