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How to eat crawfish
Amateur crawfish eaters have learned to appreciate the delicious mud-based delicacy -- de-mudded and boiled in proper seasoning, of course -- but find them daunted by the process of peeling the crusty tail covering to extract the meat. We crack, pull and peel laboriously, as though they were tough shrimp, finally to retrieve the delicacy you should remember this how to eat crawfish.
Crawfish are not fresh water shrimp, tough or otherwise . . . as any Pro will quickly attest! Said Pro will further attest that the preferred shelling technique is much different and said crustacean, obviously hatched to be eaten, comes with a specialized shelling feature, much better than the measly shrimp.
Tip from Chef Brian Smith how to eat crawfish: When eating crawfish, there\'s no need to remove the peel from the tail. While you are laboring over the crust of the crustacean, your Cajun friends will eat five times as many crawfish as you do.
Here\'s the easy way to how to eat crawfish. First, break off the head and discard it. (There are those, however, who suck the heads and pick the delicious meat out of the larger claws.) After you break the head off, place your thumb on the ejection button near the tail of the crawfish on the underside and mash firmly to break the meat loose.
Steps for how to eat crawfish
1. Boil or order three to five pounds (per person) of fresh boiled crawfish. You can purchase prepared seasoned mixes for boiling the crawfish with directions, if available in your area.
2. (Optional) put on a special bib to protect clothing. (This allows a little more freedom with the crawfish.)
Note: Here in Louisiana we usually add whole potatoes, onions, and corn along with crawfish. We place newspapers and garbage bags on a big table, and once these are all done, we just dump everything on the table, and everyone just serves themselves!
3. Take a deep breath to enjoy the fullness of the aroma.
4. Grab the nearest crawfish off the pile.
5. Hold the crawfish with your left hand and gently twist off the tail.
6. Take the head and suck the hot, spicy juices out of it.
7. Squeeze your thumb and forefinger at the sides of the top of the tail, causing the shell to break.
8. Remove the meat and eat. Go to step 4 and repeat as often as you like. Your steps are over for how to eat crawfish.
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