Ever Cook & Eat A Crayfish?

Some friends of mine from down south love eating crayfish. They often fix an entire meal in one pot. Now I am not much for the cajun spiced ones, but many people enjoy eating them that way.

I have added a video on how to cook crayfish, but I thought that for those of us on the trail or camping the instructions on how to clean crayfish would be worth watching. It seems anything that lives on the bottom of lakes or streams, need to be well cleaned out before cooking. While we would just put them in boiling water to cook it never hurts to learn other methods of preparing crayfish.

This video shows cooking crayfish on a large scale, with many cajun spices in the water which makes the water look rusty. They also threw in lots of corn on the cob and had a bag of potatoes in the mix. Pay close attention at the end of the video on how to eat a crayfish. Enjoy!

 

I think most of us would only resort to eating them if nothing else was available and we were starving. Otherwise, like said it is a lot of work for such a little bit of meat. But I know of many people in the south that love to eat them, like the frog legs and the snapping turtles. Just having the knowledge of how to eat them is worthwhile even if you never do it.

 

You'd be surprised how easy to catch they are. When I was a kid I used to be able to catch dozens and dozen of them just wading around in the shallow part of a lake up north of where I live. I had never though to try and cook them, I was just messing around and having some fun. It is probably for the best though, these days you have to be careful what you eat with all the pollution and contaminants in certain areas.

 

I recently read a article about a crayfish called the "Rusty Crayfish", seems it is invading Pennsylvania, from the mid-western states. It is much larger than the native crayfish and is bigger and more aggressive as well. Anyone here ever heard of this species?

 

To be honest, even if I had caught a bucket full of nice big ones like in the video, I think I would still be a little nervous to eat them. With so many pollutants out there these days, you have to be careful about eating anything you catch from certain lakes.

 

Do they taste like shrimp?