Eric Ripert on Killing Lobsters Humanely

Eric Ripert, of Le Bernardin, demonstrates how to kill a lobster at the FCI in New York.

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Howto & Style

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• Chef
• Lobster
• Kill
• Seafood
• Ripert
• Bernardin

[Cesar21jmb]

Glad the lobster doesn't understand English. Imagine you there tied up and a person explaining to a group how he is going to kill you.

[koolkeaveney]

oh my god i tried this and shit sprayed all over my arm!!

[IAMOldNick]

@bruschj more. Also you have to be dead centre to make sure you actually do cut the nerve centres. To be blunt, the surest way to handle the front end (but shocking and brutal and also very brownly messy)) would be to use a meat tenderising hammer or a piece of 4x2 and _really_ smash the whole front end. :( I mean _really_. Te last way you should ever cut BTW is across the head. A normally brained animal may suffer little from this (we hope) but the lobster's layout is different.

[IAMOldNick]

@koolkeaveney blunt knife? Also you need to stab first, then twist the knife down, not just cut. That provides a far sharper cut at first, the gradually tears the shell, rather than trying to split it all at once.

[IAMOldNick]

@quickmantan I hope this is just a troll. Ever had a catheter? Ever had one with a sharp stick? For all I know I may like the taste of lobster urine! It may just be part of the taste. It may just be purged or neutralise during cooking....etc. Anyway you could probably do that after killing, before cooking. BTW, Chinese cooking is not all cooking. And what you suggest is probably cruel.

[IAMOldNick]

@bruschj Been looking at this OOI. The lobster has several nerve centres down its back.The way shown here will only destroy some of them. The front couple are the most developed. The final cut recommendation is to repeat the process down the back, in the other direction, as well. Is there any actual "pain"? There are many conflicting studies (many probably subsidised by interested parties). But while ewe don;t know I guess it's nice to be sure. Put in cold salty water with ice 20 mins

[bruschj]

i just did this, like 3 hrs ago, knife down the top and through the front, just like he did. am about 90% sure it wasn't dead. for like 10 min it still moved, it clamped down when i stimulated the crusher claw. then i removed the tail, and put it on the steamer dish and over the pan and it tried to escape, like tried to move out of the pan. not sure what's going on, but no way this thing could have been dead

[quickmantan]

@StateAndUnity

really doesnt not suprise me someone white woudl say that.. RACIST prick

[StateAndUnity]

@quickmantan It really does not suprise me that the chinese think its humane to kill an animal by shoving a stick up its dick

[witt19800]

Sad video. I love lobster though. I guess it's hypocritical to enjoy meat all my life but never do the dirty work.

[MitchtheeGamer]

ASS HOLE



[AntiIgnorantDimwit]

@Cesar21jmb Just imagine being kidnapped by Hamas.