Mustard on crawfish? sorry but sounds disgusting. seems everyone wants to put their own twist and make boiling crawfish really fancy when its really a very simple process once you get the technique down of boil time and seasoning ratio.
I'm going to ask another dumb question, but does leaving them in the seasoned water after cooking them cause them to get soggy? Maybe I've just gotten some chitty crawfish in the past, but I swore that if they sat in the water for too long after boiling they started falling apart.
If you're doing several boils, this is a good way to do volumes of crawfish - but for the weekend warrior that is just boiling one pot, you should just kill the boil as soon as the crawfish are cooked by shutting off the fire and adding ice to the pot. (This does 2 things - prevents overcooking and helps the meat absorb the flavors.) Frozen 2 liter Coke bottles are nice because they don't dilute the boil water. If not - make sure you compensate for the dilution by just adding ice directly to the pot. You can also hose down the pot to bring down the temp fast.
Either way -When you add the seasoning to the pot isn't important at all as long as it's there when you kill boil and start the soaking. Goes for shrimp too.
I do very similar, I don't let them get back up to boiling, kind of let them start foaming then turn off the gas, spray the pot with water hose and then add frozen corn to get the temperature down, soak for about 30 minutes.
Good seasoning and spice. Varying taste of course.
Being able to pinch, pull and eat. No peeling required and the vein stays with the shell.
That's the definition of properly cooked crawfish.
How you get there doesn't matter and there are several methods that work (and some that don't, lol) as long as they taste and eat good.
If I have to peel them, the cook made a mistake somewhere during the process
You ever read a thread almost a year old and get ready to post then run across your old post? Well I did that on this thread and my thought was the same back then so it saved me the typing. I also must have been drunk cause I don't remember it.
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