How to eat crawfish like a pro

New Orleans native Darren Chavis teaches reporter Katrina Tulloch how to peel and eat crawdaddies before the annual Crawfish Festival in Syracuse. Chavis owns Creole Soul Safe in downtown Syracuse.

[PassionGodAlways]

THANK YOU for making a video that is short, sweet, and HELPFUL!!!
I didn't intend having to watch SO MANY POORLY done videos about how to eat crawfish before coming across this gem!! 💎💎

[ichike]

Finally somebody that knows what they're doing!! This is the correct way to eat a crawfish baby!

[luciadeoreo]

I’ve seen several videos of people eating crawfish and they were lucky to get maybe 2-21/2 inches of meat. I thought, such a waste of life for a small morsel.then I saw your video and I admire your dedication to getting the most out of it. That’s the way it should be. My great grandmother was a rancher and she learned to use every single bit of the chicken, cow, pig, etc. especially during the Great Depression. Thank you for your video! 😊😊😊

[nateplumley]

A video from Syracuse, New York is the last thing I expected when I searched this on YouTube

[GaB-doyc]

This is the proper way to do it. Thank you 🙌🏽

[tommygun]

Just getting ready to make this at home. Wanted to make sure I did it right. Thank you 😊

[dynasty]

Thank you for this simple way to eat crawfish!! Straight to the point.

[LukeDog-dl]

I'm here because I am craving crawfish. Earth's most underrated food

[lisakp]

I married into a family of Cajuns, and they do one thing differently: instead of peeling the tail by hand, they use a slick movement that accomplishes the same, but in one move:

put the meat end in your mouth, holding it gently with your lips & teeth, then push the tail inward, toward your mouth. This telescopically collapses the shell segments together (which separates them from the meat) and you can just slide the shell off, leaving the meat in your mouth.

SUPER efficient, especially since they too believe in quantity 😄

[ThanosTheManos]

Thank you for this 😂 my local Chinese buffet had crayfish today and I’d never eaten it before (cries in Northern California) but it was delicious! I cannot wait to travel to a place like New Orleans to have some REAL soul food

[SevenTailedWolf]

Scooby and Shaggy, made it look so easy on Scooby Doo on Zombie Island. 😆

[dakrt]

When I was in Vegas there were crawfish at one of the buffets we ate at. Being from Pennsylvania I've never been anywhere that serves them, so I grabbed a few of em because I heard they were a delicacy in the south. I had no idea how to eat them 😂

[shaunpendraig]

Now I was all excited to eat crawfish for the first time, but why she had to go and call 'em "MUD BUGS"....Now I can't get that out of my head. Thanks A LOT lady😝😝🤣🤣

[kathrineprescott]

I watched a few videos and this was by far the best I e seen so far. Definitely like the “quantity of meat” family style lol get the bang for you mini lobstaa! 😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[AOAvina]

I live in Washington state and I have never craved anything more that to try a crawfish boil

[MehRHEE]

Thank you! I’ve always wanted to try crawfish since it looked so good but didn’t wanna look stupid so here I am ahahah

[ONLYSWIM]

Im in wisconsin. This is the best tasting food you'll ever pull out of the river (not most filling but best). They include fish.

[luxury-style]

What about the meat in the body do u eat that, and do u eat the meat in the claws??

[SamanthaMac]

Going to visit a friend in Syracuse this summer and I’m definitely stopping there 😂

[CJihoo]

So my ignorant west coast self went to a new fish place and ordered Crawfish takeout thinking I was going to get breaded chunks of Blindly picked one up out of the bag and snatched my hand back so fast. I usually don't eat things while they're looking at me but I paid $14 for my bag of corpses and there was no way to not waste it so I scoured YouTube looking for an instruction video so I wouldn't have to rip at it like a science experiment in a high school biology class. I talked to myself as I ate reminding myself that they're dead and I'm eating dead food and I kept my eyes on what my fingers were doing and not that I was consuming sea bugs. I got through a whole bag of about 20. I wasn't counting but it was delicious. I hope my ancestors are proud of me for completing this rite of passage.