Comments on: HOWTO: Clean a Rock Lobster

By: M. Sands

M. Sands — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:25:37 +0000

What do you do with the heads / body cavity of the lobster? How do you seperate the guts from the meat / substance that can be used for cooking in rice etc?

By: T.J.

T.J. — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:26:33 +0000

Caught my first two lobsters tonight – it was great!!!!!! Now, thanks to you guys I know what to do with them next………take your advise, have my wife cook em, then enjoy the hell out of eat um!!!!!!

By: Q man

Q man — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:56:35 +0000

nice now all i have to do is make a good catch tonight sd lobster here i come !!!!!!!!!!

By: nogg3r5

nogg3r5 — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:05:04 +0000

Comedic and useful. What more could we want?

I lvoe eating lobster, its just a shame its not as easy to btain in the UK as it is in the states!

By: Coin

Coin — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:00:56 +0000

I was introduced to this techinque last year (I live in the Carribean at the moment). The first time you see it (and do it), it does really seem very brutal, but as long as you don’t anthropomorphize your food too much, you’ll be fine.

Alex: Is does indeed seem like desecration, but it’s the perfect tool for the job, and (more importantly) readily accessible. Kudos to the original discoverer.

Seeker: Dead easy to cook, just cut them length ways, and put lemon, garlic and (real) butter on them, then steam and grill them on the bbq. Doing anything excessive to them is a waste.

You save yourself hassle doing it on the boat, takes no time at all, and ideally while you’re diving down around the coral head for the next one, your buddy on the boat will prep them for you and plus we throw the waste back into the sea for a decent snack for the fishes, so everyone wins.

By: aron

aron — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:33:12 +0000

yet another reason Crab is superior to lobster.

1. Get live crab
2. Put into boiling water (maybe 8 minutes or so for Dungeness)
3. Remove crab from boiling water.
4. Serve.

If you want to kill them first you can break them in half on the edge of your counter top.
You can also melt some butter, or even make clarified butter if that is how you roll.

By: seeker

seeker — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:57:00 +0000

Brutal. But what about showing us how to cook and eat?

Also, why don’t you just put the whole thing headfirst into a pot of boiling water, and do all the dismembering after cooking? Inquiring minds want to know…

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:00:24 +0000

There’s something so brutal and fine about the idea of using one body part to clean another. It still makes Baby Jesus cry to some extent, I’m sure, but…it’s cool.

By: Paul D.

Paul D. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:51:23 +0000

Great. Now I have that awful B-52s song in my head…