cookin crayfish

[stump grinder]

how do ya cornbread eating southerners cook crawdady

[TeamTwistedMidnite]

red taters, corn on the cob, mushrooms, onions..lotsss of cold ones

[NightMoves]

Stump, check the seafood center in Madison. A couple years ago we got about 40 pounds from there and it wasn't outrageously expensive and it was delicious. We just used a monster crab pot and cooked them outside, about 15 minutes with a bunch of half cut lemons and cajun seasoning. It was awesome.

[stump grinder]

you just boil them?

[NightMoves]

Yes sir! I think we used a couple bags of crab boil cajun blend

[stump grinder]

How do you know when they are done? and where did ya get the crab boil?

[michael]

Originally Posted by grnhedquackadict

red taters, corn on the cob, mushrooms, onions..lotsss of cold ones

this is what i am talkin bout texas style

[stump grinder]

thanks how long do you bil them for? Until they turn red?

[TeamTwistedMidnite]

start off by puttin live crawfish in large cooler and covering with water, add salt(lots) and louisiana hotsauce(2 big bottles) pick out any floaters and small dead baitfish, drain cooler and repeat.


get the water boiling with prefered sesoning, put in the potatoes, wait 10 minutes, add corn on the cob and shrooms, wait another 10 minutes, add mudbugs and wait till they start to float/turn dark red. they are done..if you wait too long they will be dry. turn the heat off and let them sit and it makes them spicey/ they will soak up the seasoning...ps...i didnt ad but you should consume at least 6-8 beers in this process...was out cooler from step 1 and add the cooked bugs and taters/corn to the cooler to keep warm. dash any left over seasoning to the cooked bugs for more fire or add lemon juice to taste

[cajun_bowfisher07]

first of all wat is a CRAYFISH? its CRAWFISH!! you boil them until they float, but not too long or they will be tough. I cook them with crab boil and tony's. They make two kinds of crab boil. One in powder and the other in liquid, the liquid is more concetrated which means u need less of it so watch wat u buy. I cook them with red potatoes and half cans of corn. i know it sounds weird but grab some half cans of corn and poke some hole in the can and drain them then when u cook ur CRAWFISH just drop a couple of the in there and when ur CRAWFISH are done pull ur corn to the side and when its eatin' time just open one up and drop some butter in there and u got some good eatin'

[BIDB1]

you need to purge them first. get water boiling fast and add crawfish. When they start to float its about time. Turn off heat, let soak for about ten minutes.

[michael]

yall like it spicy in texas

[BIDB1]

yesir

[TeamTwistedMidnite]

it aint got enough seasonin til it burns around your finger nails

[IBBOWFISHING]

we just put them in a pan and cook them in spice

[RaginCajun]

Its a good idea to wash the crawfish well before cooking, but don't bother purging them, LSU did a study a while back and found that it would take 24 hours of purging to have any effect. Potatoes, onions, corn, celery, garlic and mushrooms...

[Pirogue Pete]

Originally Posted by RaginCajun

Its a good idea to wash the crawfish well before cooking, but don't bother purging them, LSU did a study a while back and found that it would take 24 hours of purging to have any effect. Potatoes, onions, corn, celery, garlic and mushrooms...

Leave it to LSU to do a study like this! Thats great to know! Mudbugs are the best!!!

[offthehookfishing]

ive got a good family recipe.. it begins with goin to the beer store.. then i forget how the rest goes haha

[hoopty]

Put them on a table, get the water hose out, spray them ,let them run around,spray them again....keep that up for 35 min...Just to get all the dirt off....Then get your water boiling, put lemons and onions (cut up) in there. get some red pepper, seasons salt, but alot in there...Boil the CRAWLFISH 25 min, then turn off the heat, put them in a cooler TAKE TONY'S SE-SALT AND PORE ON OP OF THEM....Wait 30 min and EAT...

[hoopty]

The coon ass is right, purging is dumb..It will do nothing...GO LSU.....Just wash them..

[hoopty]

How many pounds you cooking??? I use a cup of red powder for every 10 lbs..

[NightMoves]

This is what happens after 20 pounds of crawfish and a dozen milwaukee's best ice...
Brain failure and a food baby

[hoopty]

lol..you need to eat more..

[mlmtx01]

Originally Posted by grnhedquackadict

start off by puttin live crawfish in large cooler and covering with water, add salt(lots) and louisiana hotsauce(2 big bottles) pick out any floaters and small dead baitfish, drain cooler and repeat.


get the water boiling with prefered sesoning, put in the potatoes, wait 10 minutes, add corn on the cob and shrooms, wait another 10 minutes, add mudbugs and wait till they start to float/turn dark red. they are done..if you wait too long they will be dry. turn the heat off and let them sit and it makes them spicey/ they will soak up the seasoning...ps...i didnt ad but you should consume at least 6-8 beers in this process...was out cooler from step 1 and add the cooked bugs and taters/corn to the cooler to keep warm. dash any left over seasoning to the cooked bugs for more fire or add lemon juice to taste

I use about a bit more crawfish boil that whatever the package calls for. I also add some garlic salt.....not to much because you're not eating italian food. i do it just like this, but I also get the wife to boil dozens of eggs before hand. We peel the shells off. When you add the crawfish, put these peeled boiled eggs in with the crawfish, mushrooms, corn and taters. The boiled egg will soak up the seasonings and tast like...ummmmmmmmmm a really bad ass seasoned boiled egg...the more beer yo drink, the more you can eat....just my two cents

[stump grinder]

Do ya have to keep them alive or can I just freeze them until it is party time!I know when I was a kid dad and us trapped them all ssummer and cooked them all at once they seemed fine but that was a long time ago.

[cajun_bowfisher07]

Originally Posted by stump grinder

Do ya have to keep them alive or can I just freeze them until it is party time!I know when I was a kid dad and us trapped them all ssummer and cooked them all at once they seemed fine but that was a long time ago.

No dont freeze them!! u can keep them alive for a good while but dont leave them in a cooler with ice cuz when the ice melts it will drown them and thats the last thing u wanna do cuz u cant eat dead ones. You can buy a cheap kiddy pool from walmart and put them in there or even just let the lay in the cooler with the plug out.

[stump grinder]

Why cant you eat the dead ones I know we did that one summer?Never got the $hits or nothing.

[J Roux]

Put all your seasoning in your water (twice the recommended amount) and potatoes onions whole garlic sausage and whatever else then get the water boiling once it's boiling drop the crawfish in and when the water comes back to a boil let it go for 3-4 minutes then cut off the fire, drop a bag of ice on top of them while still in the pot then let them soak about 35-45 minutes or until they peel easy.Don't leave them soaking too long or they will just break up when you peel them!

[J Roux]

Originally Posted by hoopty

lol..you need to eat more..

He kinda looks like one of those ethiopian kids!

[cajun_bowfisher07]

Originally Posted by stump grinder

Why cant you eat the dead ones I know we did that one summer?Never got the $hits or nothing.

If u eat enough of them u will get sick. Just do everything u can to keep them alive plus they taste better if their not dead when u cook them.

[stump grinder]

you say crawfish I say crayfish I will take your word for it and eat them fresh

[KLansing]

Don't forget to suck the juice out of the Crawfish heads!

[gigem]

The good thing about keeping them alive is that you can pick out the dead ones......they are the ones that don't pinch! What would you rather eat? A fresh, live mudbug or a dead, spoiled one? You don't know how long it's been dead....an hour.... a day......a week? I wouldn't take the chance.

[stump grinder]

I would not eat them dead unless they where alive when I froze them That is what I ment.Now I think I will buy a small cattle tank to keep them in until I have enough to cook.Do you think I would be able to keep them alive for a week?

[Carpocalypse Now]

Where do you get fresh crayfish in Wi this time of the year? I want some bad! I love mudbugs with hotsauce.

[NightMoves]

Originally Posted by Carpocalypse Now

Where do you get fresh crayfish in Wi this time of the year? I want some bad! I love mudbugs with hotsauce.

Where in WI do you find fresh crayfish? hmm down in Louisiana

[cajun_bowfisher07]

Originally Posted by stump grinder

I would not eat them dead unless they where alive when I froze them That is what I ment.Now I think I will buy a small cattle tank to keep them in until I have enough to cook.Do you think I would be able to keep them alive for a week?

yea they should stay alive for a while but like i said dont drown them. If u keep water on them just put something in the tank they can climb up on and get air, like some cages or a tree limb or two. If u wanna keep them that long it wouldnt hurt to throw some dog or cat food in there for them to eat on. just make sure u wash them off after cuz i dont no ab u but i dont want my crawfish tasting like kibbles and bits if u no what i mean

[stump grinder]

Im not going after them until it warms up this spring I dont know if you would have much luck catching many right now.I ordered two traps last night.Being they show be fresh I will order a few more when I get some money.I figure this will be a good way to get rid of some of the fish I shoot.I might even run a trot line this summer but dont know much about it.I always get more game trapping than I do hunting so I would think trotlining would be productive too.

[Syoung]

Dont forget to purge them in water to get the mud out if you are going to eat them the day you catch them!

You can get dysentaryform eating dead crabs or crawfish.

[buffalohuntr]

do they have to be the real big ones or can you use any crawfish?

[Redneckwonder]

Man the one thing nobody has said yet and should have been the first thing mentioned is butter, put lots and lots of butter in the water before you boil em, it makes em 100 times easier to pull out of the shell. Also just like Hoopty said lemons.... cut in half give a good quick squeeze and drop em in the water.

[Syoung]

Originally Posted by Redneckwonder

Man the one thing nobody has said yet and should have been the first thing mentioned is butter, put lots and lots of butter in the water before you boil em, it makes em 100 times easier to pull out of the shell. Also just like Hoopty said lemons.... cut in half give a good quick squeeze and drop em in the water.

We use vinegar here to toughen up the meat when boiling or steaming.

[Redneckwonder]

Butter acts like KY, makes the tail meat slip right out without any effort.

[hoopty]

I eat them all the time.........They went down some this weekend...Hope a bunck more next, In a couple of weeks I can go to my brother-inlaws house and get ALL I want....UMMM He has ponds..

[Redneckwonder]

After Lint you should be able to get em at rock bottom prices.

[BigRed1439]

me and grnhedquackadict have cooked some bad ass crawdaddys make your mouth water and man them mushrooms hold the season man makeing my mouth water right now aint had none since friday night lol and get you some cold ones to make it taste better lol

[TeamTwistedMidnite]

yea im just waiting for the price to go down that way we can really get in their ass

[Redneckwonder]

Man all the talk about them mudbugs got me goin so i had to get me some today. Boy let me tell you what them bad boys was something gooooooooood, hell my upper lip still feels like I got a blow torch workin on it. Them mushrooms............... man I can't even tell you how good they was, not to mention the corn and taters. Them and the shrimp made for one hell of a happy RNW!!!!!

[TeamTwistedMidnite]

damn you red, makin me hungry

[stump grinder]

I have four traps now I am just waitng for warm weather.

[quackhead]

i used to cook 20 to 25 bags a weekend and i ate all i wanted and never got sick,

[BigRed1439]

lol quack head go back up there jeff needs you

[quackhead]

i might

[BigRed1439]

lol hell when you get back up there give me holla ready for some good dads lol logan was cooking them pretty dang good friday

[braskis]

going to a birthday party two weekends from now, and we are having crawfish. thanks too stump ill be thinking crawfish for the next 11 days. I can taste them right now. ill make sure I take some pics.
other than the crawfish, i like the mushrooms, garlic (whole cloves), and corn. The red potatoes are good, but nothing beats the 3 listed.

[BigRed1439]

hell to the yea man some mushrooms

[quackhead]

HELL WITH THE MUSHROOMS

WE USED SHROOMS THATS WHAT KEEP OUR COSTUMERS HOOKED LMFAO

[Warrior-P]

we always cook the corn and potatoes first with minimum seasoning. Then the first batch for the kids. Second batch we add half the seasoning to get it kicking and the final batch, you put everyhting you have left in the pot (you should never have seasoning left over after a crawfish boil). A big jar full of jalepenos works well also.

[Redneckwonder]

Originally Posted by Warrior-P

we always cook the corn and potatoes first with minimum seasoning. Then the first batch for the kids. Second batch we add half the seasoning to get it kicking and the final batch, you put everyhting you have left in the pot (you should never have seasoning left over after a crawfish boil). A big jar full of jalepenos works well also.

That's how i do it. Feed the kids first then the wives and then the men try to show their asses by triin not to drink any beer between heads.

[tylerearnhardt]

Originally Posted by cajun_bowfisher07

first of all wat is a CRAYFISH? its CRAWFISH!! you boil them until they float, but not too long or they will be tough. I cook them with crab boil and tony's. They make two kinds of crab boil. One in powder and the other in liquid, the liquid is more concetrated which means u need less of it so watch wat u buy. I cook them with red potatoes and half cans of corn. i know it sounds weird but grab some half cans of corn and poke some hole in the can and drain them then when u cook ur CRAWFISH just drop a couple of the in there and when ur CRAWFISH are done pull ur corn to the side and when its eatin' time just open one up and drop some butter in there and u got some good eatin'

its crayfish up north

[jcox265]

Originally Posted by NightMoves

This is what happens after 20 pounds of crawfish and a dozen milwaukee's best ice...
Brain failure and a food baby

i thought that happened to anybody who drank the beast!

[TroyDautermann]

I have a decent spot. How do you purge them you guys really got me hungry. I am going to have some soon. Thanks.

[Boatless_n_Waco]

Purging - Stick them in a cooler full of salt water. Makes them ill and they purge themselves.

[Jean08]

We always just put'em in a pot on the grill and boiled them alive and use some old bay or whatever seasonings and a little beer just like shrimp. Then just lay them out on a paper towel on a plate and your set!

[muddywater]

we have two big pots,one for cooking and one for soaking . Inthe cooking pot we use just salt water and in the soaking pot we use Pro boil.liquid crab &shrimp boil & tonys. You boil the crawfish 8 - 10 minutes ,pull em out & dunk in the soak pot. The longer you soak the spcier the get. We do it that way so some folks like em on fire and some don't and you can adjust how hot they are by how long they soak( we knocked down 245# at my house last time)

[chicodeke]

Originally Posted by muddywater

we have two big pots,one for cooking and one for soaking . Inthe cooking pot we use just salt water and in the soaking pot we use Pro boil.liquid crab &shrimp boil & tonys. You boil the crawfish 8 - 10 minutes ,pull em out & dunk in the soak pot. The longer you soak the spcier the get. We do it that way so some folks like em on fire and some don't and you can adjust how hot they are by how long they soak( we knocked down 245# at my house last time)

How far is from San Angelo, Tx to your casa. I am all in on the big sacks. My neighbor is originally from Lafayette and had a resteraunte in the Big Easy and Dayum he can cook dem crawfish. I usually have a buddy from Iowa,La bring me a couple of sacks when he goes. They were sho big this year

[fiyadawg]

when boilng them i use a different way. try this it works good for me. first drink some beer then u get the pot and burner set and drink more beer. then put water in pot and bring to a boil drink beer while boiling. ok now is the time we get the yagger monster take a few shots and the finger foods taters,corn,spiceies,sasauge,stuff like that r what ever u want to eat.. drink a beer and 2 shot.r until its done drink more beer.. now its time for the crawfish ok send the ol' lady to the store for some ice and beer.. get a extra bag of ice don't open it put it in a cooler!! drink a few beers and shots, now put the srawfish in the water and lid on pot ok drink more beer and a few shots. heres a trick i learned.. watch the pot when u see steam comeing out the pot let them go about 10 to 15 mins more.drink a beer ok turn off fire now take a shot and grab that bag of ice and put that in the pot mix around take a shot drink a beer till ice is gone.. take them out put in a cooler pour "slap yo momma" season on it drink a beer shake icechest and put them on a table and eat oh yeah drimk lots of beer it makes u look like you know what u doing.....

[outdoorsman]

Originally Posted by TeamTwistedMidnite

start off by puttin live crawfish in large cooler and covering with water, add salt(lots) and louisiana hotsauce(2 big bottles) pick out any floaters and small dead baitfish, drain cooler and repeat.


get the water boiling with prefered sesoning, put in the potatoes, wait 10 minutes, add corn on the cob and shrooms, wait another 10 minutes, add mudbugs and wait till they start to float/turn dark red. they are done..if you wait too long they will be dry. turn the heat off and let them sit and it makes them spicey/ they will soak up the seasoning...ps...i didnt ad but you should consume at least 6-8 beers in this process...was out cooler from step 1 and add the cooked bugs and taters/corn to the cooler to keep warm. dash any left over seasoning to the cooked bugs for more fire or add lemon juice to taste

Tried this recipe last wknd and ended up great, thank you

[CANDYMAN]

Everyone talkingn about adding corn, potato, mushroom, etc

don't forget the SAUSAGE

Get ya some links of sausage and cut in about 3" pieces. Add about the time you put in the corn and potato

[monkeyman2269]

sounds good any one in ny wanna have a catch/cookout this summer

[Bwagz26]

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