Thread: Is cray fish overrated or am I cooking it wrong?

Has to be cooked in salt water. From the sea not fresh water with salt added.

I would agree with that but fresh with salt if nothing else

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Has to be cooked in salt water. From the sea not fresh water with salt added.

What the man said for 6 minutes then dump into ice water.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Has to be cooked in salt water. From the sea not fresh water with salt added.

That’s a piss off, being in Kinloch with a frozen cray! They’re great fresh, but watery from frozen. It’s a bugger cause I keep getting them given to me. Her daughters boy friend thinks she likes them, she cannot disappoint him

Originally Posted by Maca49

That’s a piss off, being in Kinloch with a frozen cray! They’re great fresh, but watery from frozen. It’s a bugger cause I keep getting them given to me. Her daughters boy friend thinks she likes them, she cannot disappoint him

Don't you live by the sea?
Tell her to get the lazy bugger to cook them before he gives them to her. But give her definite cooking instructions to pass on.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Don't you live by the sea?
Tell her to get the lazy bugger to cook them before he gives them to her. But give her definite cooking instructions to pass on.

Yes Sir

Originally Posted by Maca49

That’s a piss off, being in Kinloch with a frozen cray! They’re great fresh, but watery from frozen. It’s a bugger cause I keep getting them given to me. Her daughters boy friend thinks she likes them, she cannot disappoint him

Thaw them, cut in half and de-poo and de-pootube them, marinade in white wine with a drizzle of cheese and a sprinkling of crushed garlic and some paprika or a very light dusting of curry powder and on the BBQ or into a frypan until cooked. They will not seem splushy or watery after that and are damn tasty.

marinade in white wine

any one who cooks crayfish or marinades crayfish in wine deserves to be made to drink wine coolers until they are horribly sick and become repentant

Originally Posted by Barry the hunter

marinade in white wine

any one who cooks crayfish or marinades crayfish in wine deserves to be made to drink wine coolers until they are horribly sick and become repentant

Mate, try it before you knock it. BBQ on the back of the charter boat used to do a roaring trade in crays done like that, not a single complaint ever recorded. Except maybe "All gone? This is bulls...".

Originally Posted by No.3

Mate, try it before you knock it. BBQ on the back of the charter boat used to do a roaring trade in crays done like that, not a single complaint ever recorded. Except maybe "All gone? This is bulls...".

I have tried it off a bbq after some Muppet poured wine all over it - nearly bloody fainted with horror - wont touch it - go visit me mates up the east coast put wine near their crays and ya be run out of town - I never have any food cooked with wine including so called reductions - it does crack me up with this thread all those saying they dont like crayfish and then seeing what they put with it - wine - curry - what do they expect with a crustacean that has a very delicate flavor - in years of mixing with east coast locals I have only ever seen crays boiled and they love their crays

Originally Posted by No.3

Thaw them, cut in half and de-poo and de-pootube them, marinade in white wine with a drizzle of cheese and a sprinkling of crushed garlic and some paprika or a very light dusting of curry powder and on the BBQ or into a frypan until cooked. They will not seem splushy or watery after that and are damn tasty.

I’ll try, without the garlic, can’t stand it!