Crayfish and crabs...

[Unimexsol]

Erm, I didn't think we had to cook them Newt? We just ate them straight from the packet. I'm sure they were cooked already - you've got me worrying now! They were red, like cooked prawns and were next to the cooked prawns - I bloomin' hope they were cooked.

[Newt]

LOL - they were cooked then. Raw and they are translucent like raw shrimp.

[Unimexsol]

Phew, either way I won't be trying them again.

 

Besides I'm not entirely sure I'd be happy eating them from the Lee in London, no matter how much it's been cleaned up!

[Newt]

If you ever get across the pond and into the southern section of the US, find a good Cajun eating place and order

Crawfish Jambalaya

Crawfish Bisque

Crawfish Etouffe

or any of a number of other great dishes.

 

A warning though - if you do get some good mudbug/crawdad/crayfish dishes, you may never again enjoy a curry quite as much.

 

If you have a chance to boil some live ones for yourself, most spicy crab boils do fine and you will want to break off the tail and then suck out the contents of the head. Truly a food fit for the gods.

[gorton]

Dont worry about eating them from the Lee I've eat thousands of the little buggers.

 

Mind you I am a bit worried about this extra head I seem to have grown.

[Vagabond]

They MUST be killed - if you release them alive you are actually committing an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act

 

So, if you take them home alive (in a bucket of water with a tight -fitting lid) so as to cook them fresh, then technically is that an offence?

 

I suppose a particularly officious bureauprat might say it is, although I'm sure most bailiffs would apply common sense.

[Newt]

Best way to take them home alive would be in a wet, porous sack. Burlap is good material if you have it available. As long as the bag stays really damp and not too hot, they will do fine for several days.

 

If you have very many in a bucket of water, the water would get too foul in a short while and they would die.

[Patch]

kill both of them they both take the hook bait

 

 

 

[Note - it is illegal to kill the native crayfish - John S]

Edited May 5, 2007 by John S

[gozzer]

As John says it's illegal to kill native crayfish, but the signal ones are a different matter.

 

I know a few people that do like to eat them, and I am told they're very tasty. (not tried them myself).

 

If you catch crabs, then I think you need something from your GP, a powder or a lotion.

When they are dead I don't recommend that you eat them.

And just be more careful where you dangle your worm in future.

 

 

John.

[Steve merlin]

If you catch crabs, then I think you need something from your GP, a powder or a lotion.

When they are dead I don't recommend that you eat them.

And just be more careful where you dangle your worm in future.

John.

 

excellent.