How to Clean and Cook Crayfish - (see sidebar)

[rekonmode]

@mmmmmarcus either you're one great chef or your high as a mothafucka and got the munchies lol

[mmmmmarcus]

I like to mix some pancake batter with pepper, and garlic salt, then I crush some cornflakes up, and roll the battered crayfish in them. I swear this is what KFC does. I'm gonna try it with krispy crackers next time. I add bacon bits to the ground cornflakes. It's awesome.

[asdfxyz1]

By the time you finish dissecting one, Id be done eating the whole bowl. All you have to do is pull the head off, break the tail, then wiggle it out from the front side.

[samljer]

overkill imo, but great for the germ-aphobic and paranoid.

[sandrifter]

Some people pour cornmeal into the water you put them in. They eat the corn meal and it cleans out their digestive track and leaves semi digested cornmeal all the way through their system.

[todddguillory]

crayfish?????Ransing it off??????discard the head?????use scissors?????

not even baw!

[itshark1]

@todddguillory

I believe he is freaken gay!

[jraybu09]

lmao!!! that vein is not a vein dumbass...its shit!!! but you can eat so much more than the tail...get a new hobby because fishing is not yours

[geckoguy597]

u should take out the claw meat and add it its good to and i like ur way much bettere than just eatin em strait up with soup its easier and more flavorfull

[Kishamk]

You are making it way to complicated. The only tools you need are your hands and it would take less than 20 seconds.

[bbjohn73]

Great Vid. DONT FORGET THE CLAWS! they are pure meat. Maybe not much but if your starving its going to help.

[razzorx831]

now thats how i would do it!

[pissedoffkevin]

wow im hungry! going out tomorrow evening to set a couple traps, but heres a hint for ya, if you grab the center tail fin and twist then pull it will devein the crawfish, just a little time saver and thanks for the trap design its a good one!

[MrBudTugly]

btw JRK I did give u a thumbs up on ur videos im glad to see someone going into so much detail to help the beginners out there u've donated alot of time and money to save others very much time and money i gotta give u major props keep it up! A+++

[MrBudTugly]

I boil them in my recipe and then tear them in 2 pieces like he has shown in the video then with my fingers i grab where the back meets the stomach part of the shell and tear open i then pull out the meat and devine it and rub off all the contaminates and dip in garlic butter.... if u do as he is with the rinsing under tap water u are also rinsing off ur "broth" which seems a waste to me... but i am not hatin on the way he does his cleaning of crawfish it just seems u get more flavor unrinsed

[Harleyman440]

What a waste you don't know how to eat them

[vazquezpop]

Great videos! I really did enjoy them. Now I am ready to get some crayfish ; up in North CA most people just don't eat them so there are plenty where I'm going

[MossyOakMax]

what about the claws

[MrDtallman]

nicely done. just finished watching your crawfish trap instructions ; your videos are great teaching tools!

[beforiforgetyou]

whats with all the hater comments jheeze

[roryshane02]

pussy



[TheOnlyHatchet101]

Thanks Princess !!

[gunnerinteriors]

It is so much easier than that ! way to much overkill,you dont even need to cut them

[Mimopudu]

@eagle2fla

Turns out it can be either, and it's not a yankee thing (I'm british and i call them crayfish). Turns out there's a type of marine lobster that is known as a "Crawfish", I think it's also called a "Spiny lobster". I always refer to the freshwater kind as Crayfish, so I don't get confused. Hope I could help

[Mimopudu]

Now, do you leave them to purge for a few days before you boil them up? I've been told that if you purge them (Leave them in a bucket of water and starve them so as their "poop shoots" are clear of the crap from the stuff they ate in the wild) then you don't have to worry so much about cleaning them.

You may even be able to put more flavour in them by feeding them strong tasting meat or fish (like smoked bacon or kippers) during the purging process. Has anyone tried this?

[BIGxGUN]

Put some craboil an boil it untill good and red and let soak then take the tail off and peel it with ur hands and shove the whole tail in ur mouth that's how we do it

[David45Abq]

I was wondering when I'd come across a clip where someone cleaned the poop shoot out of the tail. I love the taste of crayfish/crawdads but not keen on the idea of eating crab shit. Heh .. Puzzled though, after boiling them in seasoned water, doesn't the seasoning wash out when you clean/rinse them? I for one enjoy the fishy flavor all by itself, occasionally dabbed into melted butter and a shake of salt though.

[Paddylobsterman]

Your missing the point altogether. Thanks for confirming my worse suspicions. I never mentioned anything about America not being a good place, nor did I mention anything about any organisations. I only spoke of Big mouths and Equal sized cray fish & what happens when those mouths are not full. Good to know you do research. Now I know you'll educate yourself on the history of some of your presidents ancestors and their Irish connections. Good boy. You know you can do it.

[ezkill99]

worst fucking method on earth

[Urudrim]

nice.

i thought crays have meat in the claws as well. do these not have them?

[khmerkrazie]

@Urudrim

these are too small. maybe in lobsters or bigger crabs but crawfish, you just want to eat the tail :)

[khaniu]

You can take the vaine out b4 you boil them by pulling on the middle pannel of the tail and twisting.

Doing this right b4 you put them in the boiling water makes the juices coagulate and keep them inside .

[Darythd1]

When my GF is involved I do the same thing, she like to make a effin GREAT egg roll with the meat......gotta luv a womens touch 8D

[1965semaj1]

to much work!

[jonnyisawsome]

whats the most crayfish that you think you caught plz reply!!  -jonny!

[irishfan84n]

i like the vid.!!!

[Dustin42076]

what about the low claw?

[Gone2Huntin]

This guy is a sissy! What i do is eat EVERYTHING but the shell, even the head! WITH MY BARE HANDS! He wasting a lot of good meat! You need to cook and eat like a real man!

[JRKFamilyOutdoors]

What can I say, I'm just different. I don't personally like sucking the GOLDEN FAT and eating the poop shoot. We are all different. I prefer to clean my meat and add it to a soup. When you go to a fish food place and order lobster tail it is cleaned in a similar way to mine. Is that wrong? some people like sushi I prefer mine cooked. Is that wrong? It may not be your way' but that doesn't make me an idiot or wrong! I don't mind your opinions. We all do things different. Thanks!

[Jenult]

lol scissors

[Cutecooker]

man your all lucky! i still havent had the chance since catching crayfish up here is illigal.

[rangerjoseph1]

ru talking about canada or one of the northern states?

[Cutecooker]

@rangerjoseph1 canada. manitoba to be specific

[playdrums]

You're feeding your family some of the shittiest, flavorless crawdads you posswibly can. EPIC FAIL, FAMILY MAN LOL!!!

[jikininki1]

jesus lol im 14 and oyu just gave me a heart attack. your not supposed to do it like that, you rip the tail of suck the shit out of it and then eat the tail

[freefromself]

This is ridiculous...! I'm going to a 100lb boil tomorrow and I'll make sure to show everyone this video, should be some good laughs.

[jasongiddensviper478]

Boy you aint got a clue! Cmon down we will have some fun with you.

[yotoky901]

man you eat crawfish like a girl eat the head its the best part dip sh*t

[spitoncat]

A Cajun was watching an unfamiliar visitor peal crawfish at a Louisiana resturant. The man was peeling the crawfish and made 3 piles. One pile was the heads and shells, 2nd pile was the tail meat, and the 3rd pile was the vein pulled out of the crawfish back. The Cajun wondered if the stranger was from outside of LA. The Cajun knew that the man was local when he finished eating the tail meat and started eating the veins. True story from Chalmette LA.

[odenkiller]

i tell you what he must be a city yank ... cause i never seen anyone in the south do it that way.. lol.. your wasted so much flavor , an taste its not funny.. PLEASE PPL DO NOT DO THIS.. UNLESS YOU WANT BLAND TASTEN FOOD.. odenkiller -@kentucky said this.. W0000t w00t..

[playdrums]

why do you rinse of all the flavor, FAMILY MAN?

[zczaldy]

"One last thing" < (columbo) I say make friends with the JRKF and look at all those extra heads you get to suck and if they take a little longer to get to theirs then you are gonna get full quicker than them but hey. I'm just sayin' folks ;)

[zczaldy]

Hey folks, it don't have to be about wrong or better it can just be another way to skin a cat, if you do it different show or tell us your cool way. All I know is sugar not vinager, and if you can't say anything nice well you know the sayin'. Oh yeah and sombody send me some of dem so I can eat some too. Peace Bro's and Sis'

[DisturbedS10]

Wow, who in the hell takes this much time to eat a craw? Scissors are for 5 year olds to run around with...not the best damn meal in teh south!

[13lael]

Save the Fat !.... U wastin the best part

[TheBubba6587]

he is not from Louisiana....i could shell 5lbs in the time it takes him to do two...and i use my hands only... no knife or sissors needed....what a joke!

[bjcmm]

@TheBubba6587 1. he is making a video im sure if he wanted to he could do it much quicker. 2. From where im at western rockies our crays grow MUCH larger then your sissy fish therefore a big hairy balled man like you would tire quick doin it with ya bare hands. 3. The way he does it is for a damn good soup and is the cleanest way. No offence but I dont want some ball scratchin hillbilly handling my crays at a boil. Not sayin your an inbred ballscratchin one toothed hillbilly : ) : )

[Paddylobsterman]

@bjcmm you got me wondrin boy, Do your crayfish grow MUCH LARGER just to help yo yanks fill your big gobs. Typical American, Everything has to be bigger than anyone elses, except for your brain of course. You've gotta organise a "World series", crayfish eatin competition and just like your baseball shit in the world series, nobody else is allowed to play. Think you just put your foot in your mouth yet again Mr laughable high and mighty america. Get a life.

[bjcmm]

@Paddylobsterman You dumb little cunt I was talking to a fellow American! If you have problems with America keep it to yourself you dumb mother fucker. I serve this great country. I keep terror around the world much lower just by example. What the fuck has ireland ever done for the world? At least the U.S attempts to help and make the world a better place that people can be safe in. We don't hide and fuck are sisters like some sissy countries. (Ireland)

[Paddylobsterman]

@bjcmm I think you just put your foot in it again man. If you only took the trouble to read your history you would know what Ireland has done for your nation. Even you presidents ancestors were Irish. I don't have a problem with America, just those who have used up all their Much LARGER cray fish, so now they have nothing to fill their mouths with and all we hear is yakiddy yak. Go buy a History book. See what I mean bout big mouth and small brain?? And I didn't have to resort to vulgarity.

[bjcmm]

@Paddylobsterman You seem to have a problem with the FACT that Rocky Mountain Crayfish grow to MUCH LARGER sizes then the Crawdads you will find in New Orleans. Does it offend you that people over here do research and learn? Because of America the world IS a better place. Imagin all the orginizations that would be running around if they were not afraid of what the U.S would do. We protect the small man on the totem pole. . . like ireland

[vze1k48m]

what a waste...by the team he finish cleaning one...i be full already....

[irresistiblemerrick]

nice man! going on my first crayfish hunt tomorrow in sunny England

[aerialfury]

this guy doesnt know how to eat a crayfish

what so ever!

[kvee119]

There are very few cases when you wash cooked food. Washing cooked crawfish. Geez. Reeeetard! And lose the scissor please! Clip the end tail and then pull from the head - with fingers. No scissor! Geez!

[BarmaidAz]

ZOMG and then he rinsed it off!

I am embarrassed for him, really.

[BarmaidAz]

And PS

That little ass bowl isn't even the topping on desert. You should be able to eat your own body weight in mudbugs to have a good old mudbug dinner!

[BarmaidAz]

Scissors?!

Get a rope!

No baby, just pop off the tail, pull out the meat and enjoy. You don't need all the gizmos, get your fingers dirty.

And such some head while you're at it, don't discard it, sheesh!

[afsanchez001]

What a waste of good food.

[bloodgost2]

wow you make it too complicated....good intentions though...

[bobinmissouri]

best way to have them is cajun style pull the head and suck the juice from the head then pull the meat out of tail and eat some corn and some boil taters that been cooked in the pot with them

[solrac5556]

what are u doing !!!!!! u wasted the heads??!?!?!?! then u cut it open?!?!??! that a waste of crawfish not crayfish

[binplhh]

Hahha...This video made me laugh. I appreciate the good intentions, but this man makes it seem like it's something really complicated... a knife, pliers, veins...lol.

You can simply break off the tail, Break away the first 2 rings on that tail, and then you can easily pull out the whole piece of meat from the tail. You dont have to remove that vein and if u do u can do that with one movement of your finger...no rinsing necessary. :)

[Kairis12]

lobsteretts! lol!

[shany727]

interesting video bt your oviously not from louisiana !!! we skip dat n just gone on and eat em ;) ... n we never thro away a head til all the juices been sucked clean out !!!

[ICESTORG]

Thankyou, for sharing.

[asheradensein]

If you yank out the central fin on the tail before you cook it, that will bring the vein out with it. This way, you don't have to wash out all of the natural juices.

[solrac5556]

why would u wash it ????? in louisiana we eat out the pot . we catch them season the pot . boil then eat them . you yanks make me laugh

[asheradensein]

Um, yeah, that was what I was saying. That he shouldn't be washing it...

[Hritzness]

@solrac5556 And you southern guys make me laugh sitting on your high horses of low education truly believing you're better just because you like to slacken your hygienic standards when it comes to cooking crayfish. "Drink their shit juice! It'll make you more of a man!"

[sexy52637]

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