Close Up: The Humane Way to Kill a Cray

Reality TV can be brutal - but more so than it was on Wednesday's Masterchef as the nation witnessed the death of a crayfish.

Karyn Fisk, one of this week's eliminated contestants on Masterchef, boiled a live crayfish on the show, sparking outrage from viewers.

The Auckland SPCA endorsed the judges' verdict that the boiling just wasn't on.

Fisk joins Mark Sainsbury on Close Up, along with guest judge and chef Peter Thornley, who shows the pair how to kill a crayfish sensibly.

WARNING: The accompanied video shows the humane way to kill a crayfish, which some viewers may find offensive.

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[lendmeurears]

Yeah this women is really annoying, she doesn't think when she speaks.

[edarion01]

The cray isn't really gone... Its still moving!!!

[Frustr8edPC]

@edarion01 Nerves.

[slobberty]

@navara899

Way to keep with the topic of conversation there buddy. You are a credit to your species.

Your little segue way into 'starvation' is particularly weak. Congratulations on a rebuttal that is even to moronic for a child to think up.

[navara899]

@slobberty Who really gives a shit!!! It's dead and it's not going to remember that it was in pain! Bunch of fucking morons would carry on about it being in pain... it's food for fuck sake!!! What about the people dying of starvation. Oh sorry we can't feed them until we learn how to kill our food painlessly....!

[CalibakalzStudio]

that chick is weird,she says "you pop it into hot water and its gone" pfft no it still feels pain! ugh people in the world are missed up.

[slobberty]

@navara899

No they don't die straight away dipshit, hence why I said they shoot their claws as a last ditch attempt to fuck you up.

Any living thing put in boiling liquid won't kill it straight away, image a cow living, and put in boiling water.

[slobberty]

If the cray had been frozen, it would have just shut down, induced hibernation which means it dies rather painlessly.

They can still be alive out of water for quite a while.

Though if they are out of water it is best to wrap them in a damp cloth and place them in a darker area.

Also if you cut through the brain, it dies very quickly, any twitching is what most bodies do when muscles spasm, post mortem.

Have to learn this shit when training to be a chef. Crays can shoot their claws boiled.

[jasmac04]

Oh yes humane this humane that! The thing is out of water, in bright light, and exhausted. Kill it already. Ah sorry i forgot they froze it first so it is ok now! My bad, look at it still alive while they talk. How about no one kills any animal for food. Wouldn't that be the next step. Big crayfish though and its kind of harder to find them these days. Granted they still taste great. Oh aren't we all hypocrites haha. Still a day will come where killing for food is unethical. Look at slavery!

[navara899]

Take a cray and put it on the cutting board to slowly suffocate for 10 minutes while you talk SHIT!!!! LMFAO, You morons.... They die as soon as they hit boiling water rather than wriggle around on the cutting board for 5 minutes with a brain haemorrhage....

[POWohnomypants]

What a fucking cunt. As a cook you need to realise what you are doing and respect the animal.