Mudbug boil tips, tricks, pointers, and secrets

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

I will dominate the eating contest.

Drives me nuts when I see people peeling crawfish. **** rookies.

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[ramrod]

Steamed some last week. I will do it that way from now on.

How To Steam Crawfish ~ Recipe - YouTube

Looks like a great recipe, but I think he spent more on seasonings than crawfish.

[salth2o]

I will dominate the eating contest.

Drives me nuts when I see people peeling crawfish. **** rookies.

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Do you eat them whole?

[Shake N' Bake]

Following!
I bought a pot last weekend and plan on doing my first book soon. But dang there is a lot of info out there!

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Do you eat them whole?

Rookie alert.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Following!
I bought a pot last weekend and plan on doing my first book soon. But dang there is a lot of info out there!

Simple version.

If you get them from HEB they are already cleaned. Rinse em off and you are good to go.

Use more seasoning than recommended.

Do not overcook. About 5 minutes after you add them is time to take them out. Test one.

The longer they soak the better and hotter they will be. Stop the cooking process and let em soak.

[bboswell]

Corn & potatoes will soak up lots more seasoning than the crawfish.

I always start my pot with about 50% of the seasoning and cook all the sides. When done throw them into a separate cooler, add the rest of the seasoning to your pot and start the crawfish.

And don’t over cook the crawfish!

[salth2o]

Rookie alert.

http://youtu.be/nzxVHDbkCVQ

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Well, he did it. Lol.

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[Retodd]

That dudes going to have some sphincter problems.

[Clay C]

Mudbug boil tips, tricks, pointers, and secrets

I will dominate the eating contest.

Drives me nuts when I see people peeling crawfish. **** rookies.

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Lol same. I was at a boil Saturday where not only were people peeling the entire tail and leaving the heads untouched, but a lot of people were using gloves.


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[mjhaverkamp]

Looks like a great recipe, but I think he spent more on seasonings than crawfish.

That seasoned water will probably do 100 plus pounds of crawfish, I think our cost for the seasoned water figures to be about .20 cents a pound, so around 20.00 dollars for 3 bags of bugs.

[Mike]

Here is a simple overview. This is a steam and slurry method, one that I and many others prefer. They are only using a few inches of water in the cooking pot. It's a long video but worth the watch.

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZHy_J86HeE"]2014 Crawfish Cook-Off For Hospice "TEAM FROG BONE" - YouTube[/ame]

[bearintex]

I do the clean water boil as well. I get a pot boiling, add about half of the expected seasonings to it, and add the potatoes, onion and garlic. Let that boil 5-10 minutes depending on the size of the potatoes, add the corn and mushrooms and cook just a couple minutes, then dump all that into the soak cooler. Start another pot of clean water boiling. About the time that pot comes to boil, scoop the veggies out of the slurry and add the rest of your seasonings. Check the temperature, if it's still too hot, add ice as necessary. Throw the bugs in the clean water, return to a boil, dump into slurry, drink a couple barley pops and get busy.

[Traildust]

Lol same. I was at a boil Saturday where not only were people peeling the entire tail and leaving the heads untouched, but a lot of people were using gloves.


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I've prolly eaten a ton of bugs in my day....never quite understood the " sucking the heads" thing......at least not for a man anyway.

My wife uses gloves cause she don't like digging crap out of her nails.