Need help with a boil.

[GAgator]

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

[B-Stealth]

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.

[GAgator]

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

[swamp snorkler]

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?