Crawfish cleaning/purging set up.

A garden hose and a wash tin or an ice chest. Just wash and dump the water and repeat. I don’t understand why washing has to be so difficult now.

I have one of these. Works like a charm without a lot of lifting over and over again.

Crumble some Ex-Lax in the bag the night before the boil. Rinse and cook.

This is what I use the next day.

I took a 100 lb chlorine bucket, drilled holes in the lid and one hole on the side near the bottom. I attached a hose connection to the side hole. I dump in up to a 40 lb bag of crawfish, turn on the water (hose attached), and when the water becomes clear, I simply transfer them to my crawfish pot.

Stole the idea from a video I saw online several years back.

I have an old, short, rectangular recycling bin with some holes in the bottom of it. Just lay the sack down in it and hose it a while, let it drain, and repeat. Very simple.

Yep, that's my method. I have a large oval galvanized washtub that can hold 50 lbs. of crawfish easily. Put water in, add crawfish, fill tub to cover crawfish.

Tip and drain and repeat one more time before pulling out the mudbugs to boil.

While I've modified my boiling technique over the years, my prep technique has never changed. It's very simple and old fashioned and it always works.

1) Dump sack of crawfish into ice chest. Open plug on ice chest.

2) Spray crawfish for about 1 minute. Let water drain out.

3) When the water drain slows to a trickle or so, dump some salt into ice chest. Take your paddle, stir around the crawfish a little bit, dump a little more salt.

4) Plug ice chest, fill up about 2/3rds with water. Place the empty sack on top of the crawfish.

5) Drink a beer, start boiling water, season water, add potatoes.

6) When beer is finished, open up plug on ice chest, and spray water for 2-3 minutes, and then keep spraying until water runs clear in the drain (if they are pretty clean, by the time 2-3 min is up, water might be clear already)

7) When drain stops running, tilt chest to get remaining water out.

8) When ready to begin boil, take empty sack off top of crawfish, dump into boil basket, and away you go.

All of these $50 baskets are just an excuse to get you to spend money. This is old school... it's not hard.

I just pour the sack in one of the baskets, and let the kids spray the crawfish until the water runs clean out the bottom. Nothing too complicated to this step.