Crawfish boil prepration "purging"

[kenmore_mo1]

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/news_arch...g-crawfish.htm

[papap]

Swamp. I think I'll keep using your plan B. loL

[mudman03]

nah Swamp you got it all wrong. You do not remove the poop vein if done correctly. This set up takes me literally 5 minutes to do. Take pool out of shed and place on ground near my pond (2 minutes) and dump crawfish, Put a few bricks in 1 foot of water in my pond to prevent sucking up grass/mud 1 minute, place bilge pump on top bricks with 6 foot hose going to pool (1 minute), hook old charged battery to bilge/live well pump and turn on (1 minute) and done. Battery last a good 24 hours if not I put another. Bilge/livewell pump shuts on and off every 10 minutes. Walk away for 2 hours and let it to do its thing while you live life doing what you do. Yea this may be hard for some but it is a fairly simple setup for me and the next day everyone including the females ask how come there is no poop in veins. I simply tell them I purged the crawfish. Seriously if it seems to difficult I would not try as you may hurt yourself.

[AubreyLaHaye458]

If you leave 2-3 sacks of crawfish in a pool with holes drilled in the top how do you not lose half your crawfish?


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[mudman03]

the hard plastic ones they cannot climb. drill a few 1/2 inch holes a few inches from top around the edge. if they can get out the 1/2 hole they to small to eat anyway right? and if the pool is to small for 3 sx just put a cover on top pool. Maybe a piece of plywood or turn a round table upside down and lay on top. Never had the issue of any getting out pool though.

[cgoods17]

who the hell would go through all that to boil crawfish? that is what i am trying to figure out.

[mudman03]

http://www.thetoolworkshop.com/genfo...db-gv242d.aspx

that's the pool... go through what? dump crawfish let water run for a day and boil. Damn its not an act of Congress to do. If you enjoy eating good clean crawfish I was just trying to help some people out. If you see this as work and to hard to do then you probably applied for Obamacare a few days ago on the last day. I like eating a clean crawfish and some people must like the crap in the vein, I don't. With the recent study showing that salt does not clean out a crawfish I figured I would attempt to help some people that like clean crawfish out and give a tip. No worries it will not happen again as it seems there is people here trying to figure out any way possible for something not to work that truly works.

[mriguy]

Thanks for the tip

[swamp snorkler]

I ain't saying it won't work.
Not everyone has an extra bilge pump, battery and pong laying around.

[sugardad]

Originally Posted by cgoods17

who the hell would go through all that to boil crawfish? that is what i am trying to figure out.

I get drunk just trying to boil a few sacks without cleaning them! Lol!

[papap]

Just pour them in a tub, change water out a few times, then cook them.. Of course while drinking beer the whole time. By the time they are cooked who cares. LOL

[swampman46]

A lot of people ragging on you, but it's probably a good concept...just on a smaller scale. Maybe like a #3 washtub with a drain plug changing the water out a few times a day like someone said. This idea may have merit yet! I may get a patent and make millions!

[SULPHITE]

People may take ur concept and run with it...others...well it's not their bag
You've got a right to prepare your table fare in whatever way you see fit.

[clay67]

I've seen a couple large purging tanks that were set up with a large air pump. It worked very well to clean out the vein in 24 hrs. The advantages were no grit in the veins and the crawfish survived twice as long in a cooler.

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by swampman46

A lot of people ragging on you, but it's probably a good concept...just on a smaller scale. Maybe like a #3 washtub with a drain plug changing the water out a few times a day like someone said. This idea may have merit yet! I may get a patent and make millions!

This is what I do now, dump them in a number 3 tub as soon as I get home and put some water on them. Change it till it runs clear.

[swampman46]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

This is what I do now, dump them in a number 3 tub as soon as I get home and put some water on them. Change it till it runs clear.

Is that method purging them? And how many times do you change water?

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by swampman46

Is that method purging them? And how many times do you change water?

I'm more concerned with washing the mud and feed off of them than I am purging them. I change the water 2 or 3 times and it normally gets clear.

[Samarai]

thats just too much trouble. my bil has a big crawfish/seafood operation out of mobile any he doesnt go through that much trouble. He has a large tube that soaks it a little then goes through a conveyour that rinses them off and sorts out the dead ones.

[Raymond]

Pour them into a champagne and soak in a larger tub, you can agitate (W them) to get mud off. Large purge tanks are designed to hold enough graded crawfish so to be commercially marketable;Hawks or Texas processors cause they don't catch enough at one time to have enough to sell.