How to Cook and Eat Live Lobster | Kitchen Skills | Conquer Your Fear

The next time you get a hankering for briny, tender lobster, take matters into your own hands rather than dining at a restaurant. They're easy to cook, we swear! Still not convinced? We've enlisted the help of two experts, the eponymous cousins of Cousins Maine Lobster, to demystify the process, from how to humanely kill these prized shellfish to tricks for getting every last ounce of meat out of the shell. What are you waiting for? Head to your local fishmonger, or order up a pair of lobsters online.

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[jacobellis]

As a lobster, I found this quite disturbing

[Starhopper-xrds]

To prepare a delicious lobster is one thing, but to put a live lobster in a boiling water is another. No one can image how much pain that they have to suffer before dying. How cruel,  disturbing,  and how inhuman.

[Slagtheangry]

"A! That's the best grade you ever got!"
This among other gems made this utterly hilarious.
Pair in how macho the other guy was coming off talking about his strength, it has massive amounts of subtle humor.

[EpicMoz]

The ONLY humane way to kill a Lobster is to take a large, sharp knife and push it directly down into the Lobster's back and then follow the cut through the middle of the Lobster's Head. Dropping it alive into Boiling water does NOT kill it instantly. The armoured portions of the Lobster fuse onto the softer parts and this causes the Lobster massive amounts of pain. 

[mildredrodriguez]

I'm not a hippie and I think this is absolutely inhumane. And 9 minutes later. Wow!

[samsadeniz]

"humane way to cook the lobster" LOL!!!

[susanam]

It is 1:43 am and I'm watching how to cook live lobster? wow... i don't know what to say now.

[shazr]

Random tip: use a rolling pin and roll the meat out of the legs

[sugarlandrun]

a lot of pissed of hippies in the comments. What did you expect with the title "How to Cook and Eat Live Lobster".

[schiaffino]

Cooking live lobsters is the best way knowing that it is fresh and has alot of flavour to it when you eat it. I love it

[celtics]

lets clear this up for the "humane" people

1. lobsters do not scream when being boiled, they do not have little vocal cords that allow them to scream and talk. The noises you hear are from the air inside the lobster expanding and escaping

2.using a knife to cut down the head of a lobster can ruin the meat and can create food poisoning (lobster releases chemicals into the meat as soon as its dead and multiplies, therefore cooking it alive is much safer)

3.Lobsters do not have brains like we do, they CANT feel pain on the same level as humans (this is an on going debate as whether lobsters feel NO PAIN or a SUB LEVEL of pain known to humans)

4.REALLY think about the next time your sitting down and you have you chicken or steak in front of you. Do you think it was raised humanely? You think the butchers don't abuse them? You think they had a humane lifestyle? Or did they grow up in cramped cages all their lives then shipped of to the slaughter house? How about all the growth hormones and other chemicals they are injected? Are your chickens and cows are killed humanely?

maybe i should include links to pictures for these ignorant people

Ignorance is truly bliss

[jetx]

Poor lobster, cooked Alive, ripped apart, eaten and then ending up as her shit the next day :(

[ian]

I'm from Maine. Don't boil lobster!!! Steam it!! If the lobster is submerged in water the flavor of the lobster drains into the water. So always always steam lobster.

[pebbyx]

her reaction says she wasn't impressed LOL

[sassyblack]

thank you for this video.  I plan to cook my very first live lobster today for Valentines Day.

[GrungeVolk]

Best human way, boil the lobster for 9 min. of course is not gonna scream assholes, but I'm sure he can feel pain and torture. That's not a human way to kill an animal fucking monsters.

[mistyaaa]

I'm always in the mood for lobster.  Yummy!

[parisismyname]

I don't even know why i'm here and i'm severely allergic to sea food. I've always wished I could try lobster because it looks so good! =( 

[nicholas]

TIL humane means cooking something alive in boiling water. I can't say whether lobsters feel pain, but don't try and say the lazy way is the humane way.

[Kingomegared]

I usually don't post on YouTube based on the constant arguing and nobody being the slightest bit open minded. But I just put a lobster to sleep and put it in head first and it didn't flinch at all. Not even a little. And hunt with a bow so I have no problem putting down large mammals. I find putting the lobster to sleep and dipping them head first worked like a charm. Next time I'll kill it first to see if it ruins the meat like I've heard. But my first trial was a success. I'm not into having creatures suffer. Sleeping lobster worked for me.