How to Use All the Parts of a Lobster

Lobster is too good -- and too expensive -- to waste. Learn how to eat up every part of it for a satisfying meal.

Step 1: Eat the claws
Break off the two big claws at the point where they connect to the legs. There is a joint between the pincers in each claw where you can bend the smaller pincer back and break it away from the other half.

Tip
A cocktail fork is useful to pick the meat out of the claws.

Step 2: Break the shell
Use a heavy knife or a nutcracker to break apart the shell. Then remove the cartilage from inside and pick out the meat.

Step 3: Eat the legs
Break off the front legs and use the nutcracker to break them open so you can get at the meat. Twist off the small back legs and suck the meat out as if they were straws.

Step 4: Eat the tail
Get to the meat in the tail by breaking the tail away from the body. Then bend the tail back and forth at the point where it meets the body. When it's separated from the body, hold it with the curved backside against your palm. Then squeeze the sides together until they break.

Tip
Once the tail is open, it's easy to get to the meat.

Step 5: Eat the body
Get to the meat inside the lobster's body by gripping it at the hole where the tail was. With your other hand, peel away the softer underside of the shell. From inside the body, you can eat the roe and the green tomalley (the liver), as well as the last sections of meat between the legs.

Step 6: Make stock
Don't eat the shell, the head, the black vein in the tail, or the cartilage. Instead, throw it all into a stock pot and add herbs, vegetables, and white wine to make your own lobster stock.

Did You Know?
Rockland, Maine, which hosts the Maine Lobster Festival every August, is known as the lobster capital of the world.

[cherroccoberry]

Lobster stock will make your kitchen smell like the ocean goddess..

[PastorPeewee]

Actually each tail flipper or whatever they are called has great meat in each one as well...

[LadyofdeathWeaversoftheweb]

She ate the whole lobster by herself... in one sitting... WOW! I think I would explode if I did that....

[TheKatywska]

I'm looking for how to remove the intestines, they must be somewhere and I don't want to eat that.

[Jim-ce]

I love Lobster. If you can get a 3 pounder or larger they are almost always loaded with Roe

[LadyofdeathWeaversoftheweb]

@DOPEXAMP Broth made from the boiled lobster shell.... like beef stock.

[XclusiveChiq]

qo to 0:09 ! it moves when she puts it down!

[pwea]

Yum yum yum I'm getting about a 2 pounder lobbie tomorrow cause of watching this vid .. She shore eats that lobbie some fine ... Of course we all know that Bay of Funday, New Brunswick Lobsters are the best !! I also enjoy ripping the little guy on limb at a time ...

[MrHushnow]

Lobster in front of me, eating it as instructions go yumm.

[ravemasterdbzwwe]

i tried to do step one and the lobster almost cut off my hand

[Adhdburnout]

id never be abel to eat it like that. id need it apart before hand, id feel to bad cause it still looks alive =(

[Grickler]

she said you NEED white wine WHAT IF YOUR A NON-ACHOHALOC

[TheIsabellaNightmare]

I cringed every time something was broken off the lobster.

[wanderlustwarrior]

It's a shame to waste the lobster head. It can make a soup to serve with bread. Crack the shell for your tasty prize.

TOO MANY LIES. TOO MANY LIES!

[MrItsMeMario]

i dont think i can do this. JESUS FUCK MAN 

[zeldris]

am I the only one here who finds this so disgusting?

[tuesday]

its fun to do all ths, before killing it :]

[howardjohnson]

Whycome you use that lady with a skin disease on her hands to demonstrate this procedure?

I want to throw up.

[pwea]

Yum yum yum I'm getting about a 2 pounder lobbie tomorrow cause of watching this vid .. She shore eats that lobbie some fine ... Of course we all know that Bay of Funday, New Brunswick Lobsters are the best !! I also enjoy ripping the little guy one limb at a time ...