/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>be 4 year old me
>Mom is a pediatrician
>She comes home one day telling us some great news
>She was at the supermarket and they were doing a competition where you guess a huge lobster's weight and you win it!
>She held it like she was weighing a newborn and guessed 5.4 lbs on the dot
>Shows us the live lobster
>Wait, it's alive, that means we can release it into the wild or keep it as a pet
>No anon, you throw it in a pot of boiling water while it's still alive and then once it's cooked you eat it
>Imagine that being thrown into a pot of boiling water while still alive to die is an extremely painful experience
>4 year old brain trying to think of ways to save the lobster is coming up with blanks
>Lobsterbro is doomed to his horrific fate
>Crying as she brings the lobster over to a giant pot of boiling water
>Tosses it in and slams the lid
>Cry even harder for a good 30 min before my dad has mercy on me and takes me to McDonald's
>Still don't eat lobsters

Tell me everything I should know about cooking lobster.