08-04-2011, 12:20 AM
Monsterbrown named it.... We catch them and put them in salt water for about half a hour and then rinse them off before we boil them. The salt water makes them regurgitate the food thay have in them so that there is no crud in them when you cook them...
We boil water with a crab boil that can be bought at wal mart in the spice isle then we add corn and red potatoes to it. The water should be at a good boil before you drop the crawdads in and it should only take a few min to cook.
One thing I have found is sometimes you need to cook smaller batches of them at a time as a big batch of crawdads will cool the water down to fast for them to cook right..
Also the potatoes should not be over cooked as the will turn into mash potatoes if they ar cooked to long...
If you have a extra large pot with clean cold water it helps to cool the crawdads off before you eat them if you have little kids with you so they do not get burned...
You will find that most people around here (Utah) won't eat them at first but after they try them they come to find there quite good to eat and are fun to catch..
We eat the tails and the bigger claws but I have seen people suck the heads for the juices. I have not tried that yet.
Tomorrow if I do well I will try and post a few photos of catching, cleaning, cooking and eating them... If that interests anyone?
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We boil water with a crab boil that can be bought at wal mart in the spice isle then we add corn and red potatoes to it. The water should be at a good boil before you drop the crawdads in and it should only take a few min to cook.
One thing I have found is sometimes you need to cook smaller batches of them at a time as a big batch of crawdads will cool the water down to fast for them to cook right..
Also the potatoes should not be over cooked as the will turn into mash potatoes if they ar cooked to long...
If you have a extra large pot with clean cold water it helps to cool the crawdads off before you eat them if you have little kids with you so they do not get burned...
You will find that most people around here (Utah) won't eat them at first but after they try them they come to find there quite good to eat and are fun to catch..
We eat the tails and the bigger claws but I have seen people suck the heads for the juices. I have not tried that yet.
Tomorrow if I do well I will try and post a few photos of catching, cleaning, cooking and eating them... If that interests anyone?
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