/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10807493]

Crawfish are never good and the perpetuation of the lie that they are is retarded. There is no fucking meat in them. The Old Bay seasoning is fucking dogshit and has no flavor. You get messy while you eat them. Crawfish are for the mentally retarded swamp people and have no redeeming quality.

[Anonymous No.10807502]

>suck the head

[Anonymous No.10807510]

>>10807493
the redeeming quality is standing around getting hammered on cheap beer and BSing with your buddies & family.

Agreed about the old bay. no self respecting cajun would ever touch that shit.

[Anonymous No.10807514]

If you're putting fucking old bay in your boil there is a good goddamn reason you hate crawfish. It's because you're a fag and your shit's all retarded

[Anonymous No.10807515]

>>10807493
I agree
This next thing I say is going to get a lot of hate, but people should change the way they eat crawfish (like David Chang said)
There's no reason not to try a crawfish bisque or a tail meat fry up. But people mainly do crawfish boils because they are cheap/easy and because it's traditional.

http://emerils.com/122607/crawfish-bisque

[Anonymous No.10807529]

>>10807493
dont order them whole, order them as a dish
if you want to work on some crustacians, order crayfish or langustini

[Anonymous No.10807554]

>>10807515
Boils are for big group events, outdoors. Cheap & easy to prepare for a lot of people. Other dishes like bisque, etoufee, stir-fries, etc, are for smaller numbers of people and sit-down restaurants.

[Anonymous No.10807559]

>>10807493
Why do I keep coming back here?
I should just an hero

[Anonymous No.10807561]

>all these hamfusted deep sothrons
Don't use so much, fuck tards. Chesapeake blue crab bushels shit all over creek nigger lobster poor boils regardless.

[Anonymous No.10807563]

>>10807529
your post makes no sense
crayfish=crawfish=crawdad=mudbug, etc, etc

[Anonymous No.10807568]

>>10807510
>>>10807493 (OP)
>the redeeming quality is standing around getting hammered on cheap beer and BSing with your buddies & family.
This.

Maybe you haven't had them when they were in season or without a good boil. Everyone uses fresh ingredients and not just the Zatarains mix.
Getting messier than just your fingertips means you are just a uncultured beast. People crack lobster and crab all the time while wearing a tie for goodness sake. You should have a stack of napkins or roll of paper towels (you will use a lot) or a nicely damp real napkin (better restaurants) to blot fingers on. Feel free to use your fork to stab the meat before any butter dips, using only fingertips to crack shells. Enjoy the cajun boil and fishiness hint of the steamed potatoes, corn, sausage, cooked with it, or dip your stuffed artichoke in the melted butter, as you go too. And, yes, lots of cold beer and social time.

[Anonymous No.10807571]

>>10807561
Stop drinking when you post, Cletus.

[Anonymous No.10807573]

>>10807561
except you have to put up with fucking retard yanks

[Anonymous No.10807575]

>>10807571
Make me, Aiden.

[Anonymous No.10807833]

>>10807563
yeah it probably doesnt. not a native speaker and i just randomly googled the translations.

[Anonymous No.10807859]

Vietnamese style boil is pretty good

[Anonymous No.10808371]

>>10807514
Old Bay is great on popcorn desu

[Anonymous No.10808400]

>>10807568
Do you have someone designated to bring the fetanyl or does the host provide it?

[Anonymous No.10808446]

I don't eat anything with more than 2 legs.

[Anonymous No.10808470]

>>10808446

[Anonymous No.10808508]

>>10807529
crayfish are crawfish dude, they have like 7 names

[Anonymous No.10808512]

>>10808470
poultry, anon, poultry you sick fuck

[Anonymous No.10808533]

>>10807515
I don't at all dissagree that you can (and should) do way more with crawfish than a boil. I do disagree with this >>10807493 retard who says they can never be good. Maybe if you only ever get them from your flyover Chinese buffet, sure, but crawfish are unironically better than probably most other crustaceans, or at the very least hold their own. I've been all up and down the east coast and had Maine lobster, Bay blue crab, and fresh caught, head on shrimp. Fresh cooked (from living) crawfish compared to the rest is like good catfish compared to pollack or something. It's got a "gamey" kind of flavor but has much more going on than the plain, run of the mill fare.

[Anonymous No.10808544]

>>10807493

i agree. i actually like the taste of shrimp and lobster, but i don't eat them, because eating insects is subhumans.

[Anonymous No.10808546]

>>10808512
mainly chicken and kangaroo

[Anonymous No.10808576]

>>10808371
This too, a few drops of lime juice and a few shakes of Tony's then shake it up and it's really good. Same on peanuts.

Never both Old Bay and Tony's but one or the other and lime juice.

[Anonymous No.10808598]

>>10808576
>>10808371
I fucking love old bay and drown shrimp in it. I'll also get some Utz Crab Chips. I can't stand in on popcorn for some reason though.

[Anonymous No.10808637]

>>10807493
your old bay is too old

[Anonymous No.10808799]

Zatarain's crab boil ma nigga

Also, crawdads can be delicious as fuck. I'll sometimes go out and set a few traps, drink beer around a fire while I wait.

[Anonymous No.10808886]

>eating fucking bugs
When will this meme end? Why do people pretend this shit tastes good?

[Anonymous No.10808914]

I could have sworn this thread was about chicken wings a few hours ago... Oh well, I guess I'm just drunk.

[Anonymous No.10808972]

>>10807493

You probably don't know how to eat them. You don't peel them like most people try to do. That doesn't work. Break the tail off from the head and squeeze the bottom of the tail with your fingers. The meat of the tail will pop up a little from inside the shell. Grab it with your teeth and pull it out. Then if you want, suck the juice from inside the head. It is full of fat and spices. You can eat a lot of crawfish fast this way. Enjoy.

[Anonymous No.10808973]

i used to eat shit tons of crayfish when I lived in eastern China, shit was amazing

[Anonymous No.10808998]

>>10807493
they are basically insects, cockroaches of the waters

[Anonymous No.10809285]

>>10808576
>>10807493

[Anonymous No.10809308]

>>10807493
What do crayfish taste like?

[Anonymous No.10809327]

>>10809308
Compared to what? It’s hard to say if you give no comparison, or state whether you have tasted a similar crustacean like lobster or shrimp. It’s stronger than both, a little more wild/gamy, in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.10809402]

>>10809327
Crayfish are the second best crustacean you can get.

The best is maryland blue crab.

[Anonymous No.10809410]

>>10807493
You're the same homo that made the hot wings thread arent you
why are you so angry about what others enjoy?

[Anonymous No.10809412]

>>10809402
I think crawfish are better. I grew up in Chesapeake and I think blue crabs are overrated. They are certainly good and all, don't get me wrong, but you have a lot of hipster faggots from Baltimore that can't seem to shut their cock holster about them.

[Anonymous No.10809416]

>>10808998
What's wrong with That? Bugs are great, don't fall for the jewish plot that you're too good to eat from the earth and you gotta buy overpriced kosher foods

[Anonymous No.10809423]

>>10809412
Well, least you ain't a faggot that thinks they're too much work.

They're the worst.

[Anonymous No.10809434]

>>10808576
Tony Cachere's Creole... Hello fellow poorfag.

[Anonymous No.10809442]

Is this the dank new copypasta? Earlier this morning it was wings.

[Anonymous No.10809455]

>>10807493
There are more ways than 1 to prepare them. . .

[Anonymous No.10810630]

>>10807493
>old bay
Found the yankee

[Anonymous No.10810651]

if i walk into someones kitchen and see a can of old bay sitting on the back of the stove i immediately know they don't know how to cook

crawfish are boring and shrimp is the baseline for seafood boils

swampfire is god tier

[Anonymous No.10810684]

>>10807493
I have never been invited to a boil where old bay was used.

[Anonymous No.10810759]

Stop arguing which bag of salt and shitty spices is better and just make your own. I toasted and ground my own spices for my last boil and it was the best one I ever fucking did.

[Anonymous No.10811572]

>>10810759
Nice, you have a hefty amount of cayenne in there.

[Anonymous No.10811579]

>>10811572
Hefty my ass.

I use an entire pound of cayenne in a 15 gallon pot, and frankly it's not that hot.

[Anonymous No.10811590]

>>10810651
>>my shitty commercial spice blend is better than your shitty commercial spice blend.

[Anonymous No.10811619]

>>10807554
Nah, you can have boils for like 5-10 people
t. Someone who has had boils for like 5-10 people

[Anonymous No.10811629]

>>10808972
No, there legit isn't much meat
proof:
https://agrilifecdn.tamu.edu/fisheries/files/2013/09/Enjoying-Louisiana-Crawfish.pdf
https://www.academy.com/allaccess/content/crawfish-boil-101-how-many-pounds-crawfish-person
You have to go through about 5-7 pounds of crawfish to get 1 pound of meat

[Anonymous No.10811641]

>>10811619
That was me. I agree with you 100%, and I've done the same. I consider 6+ to be a "lot" of people.

[Anonymous No.10811706]

>>10811641
When I hear a lot I think like 50+ people
or like festival numbers

[Anonymous No.10811735]

>>10808973
I used to live there too, I think I remember you!

[Anonymous No.10811785]

>>10811629
that is true for most of the crustacean out there.

[Anonymous No.10811801]

>>10807493

I’ve never had crawfish but are they not essentially the same as shrimp, which are great?

[Anonymous No.10811830]

crawfish are great you don't need a fishing license to catch them.

[Anonymous No.10812459]

>>10811572
>>10811579
I had a 10gal pot, 10lbs of crawfish. It was pretty spicy but not too intense.

[Anonymous No.10812665]

>>10807493
>People use Old fucking Bay in their crawfish
>No sausage
>No heads of garlic
>Corn even looks completely average
Ah I see what you guys did wrong. Next time if you actually add some fucking flavor to the boil everything will turn out great!

[Anonymous No.10812668]

If you ever watched the movie Scooby Doo on Zombie Island Crawfish are the most delectable looking food in the whole movie

It tricks you into wanting to eat Crawfish

[Anonymous No.10812676]

>>10811801
Not the same at all. Way different taste and texture.

[Anonymous No.10812677]

>>10812668
Maybe it's just because I live in New Orleans, but man crawfish are awesome. We just had a boil last weekend, and man with a cold drink and some boiled vegetables it's amazing.