Big Mistakes Everyone Makes When Cooking Lobster

Though lobster was once so cheap that it was fed to prisoners, according to History, it is now undoubtedly a luxury food. It's a mainstay on fancy restaurant menus, with preparations sure to wow and impress. It's near the top of the seafood hierarchy, to be sure.

If you don't want to spend the big bucks on a lobster dish at a restaurant, and you'd prefer just to make it at home, there are definitely some important tips to keep in mind. Just doing what you think is right based on what you've seen on TV may cause you to end up with some rubbery and unappetizing shellfish. Do yourself a favor and avoid these big mistakes everyone makes when cooking lobster.

#Mistakes #Lobster #Cooking

Being intimidated | 0:00
Buying at the wrong place | 1:05
Choosing the largest lobster | 1:52
Overcooking | 2:43
Undercooking | 3:24
Only boiling | 4:16
Cooking your lobster alive | 4:56
Crowding your pot | 6:04
Never roasting your lobster | 6:45
Buying frozen lobster | 7:24
Too many ingredients | 8:22
Not saving the tomalley | 9:04

[MashedFood]

Do you have any tips for cooking lobster?

[gulfstream]

My biggest mistake when cooking lobster is I can't afford lobster...

[joesavary]

I wouldn't cook the lobster with the bands on, especially faux pas when boiling them

[edkeaton]

During the discovery of the New World, lobster was in plentiful supply. It was once regarded as peasant food and was served as food for penal colony prisoners.

[zekelucente]

I worked for a large seafood company for years and I would get a case of 4-5oz lobster tails for Christmas. The case usually had 32-34 tails along with a beautiful beef tenderloin it was an amazing dinner.

[bubbatommy]

I love how it immediately starts with showing shrimp and talks about lobster

[FreedomCompatriots]

They forgot to include the minimum safe cooking temperature for these things.

[Chrissers]

The prisoners were like, "No! Please! Not lobster again for dinner (wink wink)!"

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Step one. Take rubber bands off claws before cooking.

[CaledoniaProgramming]

Even if you are boiling a lobster, you should never put them in alive! Not only does it make the meat worse (the lobster often sheds its claws and releases lots of adrenaline which toughens the meat), but it is just cruel.

20 mins in the freezer puts it to sleep slowly, and then it can be dispatched with a knife to the crosshair on its head (it has a huge nerve cluster there which if severed kills it instantly). All it will have felt is a quick, sharp pain and then its over for it.

Important to respect our food if we decide to eat living things

[sfebon]

I always thought if it was alive it was fresh

[skelegunsoooooo]

0:33 that is how Denny Hamlin got his fear of lobsters

[deanjericevic]

A very good review. You should always remove the head from the tail when speared or killed. There is a reason for boiling or removing the tail from the head carapace part of a crayfish while living. If killed & left for a few hours enzymes from the stomach region leach into the tail flesh tissue which breaks it down, to an almost paper-mashie effect if left long enough. Degraded, the flesh is soft & unpalatable; this does not happen to all crustaceans though, neither crabs nor prawns. The criterion that the crayfish has been freshly boiled alive is to bend the tail around & it should be springy. If the tail goes limp then the cray was boiled when not alive; don’t buy. This is why when you buy crayfish tails uncooked (in Australia) they are never with heads attached.

[imaxjunior]

I cut the meat into small chucks, shake with seafood shake and deep fry - absolutely delicious.

[BigLob]

Totally not true that big lobsters are tougher than small lobsters. It’s all in the way you cook them. Truth be told, you get a better meat yield with larger (over 2 pounds) lobsters.

[paxundpeace]

Just thinking about when gordon ramsay discovered the dead lobsters in the tank.

[jakejacobs]

Lobster used to be eaten by the poor because it was plentiful and unwanted by the gentry. Even I can remember a time in the late 70's it was cheaper than hamburger meat when bought off the dock.
Keep in mind they eat rotting flesh off the sea floor. Depending where you catch them they may have been reared off of fallen mobsters....lol

[randmayfield]

Everyone? Not me, I am a retired cooking instructor that knows how to prepare shellfish. You may want to change "everyone" to most. That aside, your content has value....thx.

[BrodyYYC]

For sure you shouldn't buy uncooked frozen lobster if it's more than just the tail. But frozen cooked lobster is fine.

[TheCynedd]

In early America (pre-USA) lobster was the food of the poor😊! It took me a long time before I could shock a live lobster in freezing water and then steam it.