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Crawfish Tasting Fishy
Posted on 4/1/22 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 4/1/22 at 3:11 pm
So, I have been a long time crawfish eater and been boiling them now for years. Sometimes when I cook them they come out fishy. It never fails. In the past I even used salt once during purging to see if that helped. Can anyone tell me if I am doing something wrong?
I remove the crawfish from the bag and put them into a very large cooler. I fill them up with water and rinse them about 4 times untill the water is clear. I’ve also bought a crawfish Washer to see if it would make a difference. Making sure to pick out any dead ones and trash them. Here is what I add to my 120 quart pot.
10 gallons water
3 - 16oz liquid crab boil
4.5lbs bag of dry seasoning
6 - 3oz zatarians bags
1.75 oz cayanne pepper
half a contaniner of salt
.25 oz bay leaves
6 large lemons
4 large onions
4 heads of garlic
I bring everthing to a boil and let it boil for 10 min. Drop the crawfish in and bring it up to a rolling boil and then I turn off the flame. I let them in for 20-30min! I admit they tasted not as fishy as some of mine I have done in the past but. It had no spicyness, very small amount of flavor and tasted fishy. Once a little colder they tasted way more fishy.
I remove the crawfish from the bag and put them into a very large cooler. I fill them up with water and rinse them about 4 times untill the water is clear. I’ve also bought a crawfish Washer to see if it would make a difference. Making sure to pick out any dead ones and trash them. Here is what I add to my 120 quart pot.
10 gallons water
3 - 16oz liquid crab boil
4.5lbs bag of dry seasoning
6 - 3oz zatarians bags
1.75 oz cayanne pepper
half a contaniner of salt
.25 oz bay leaves
6 large lemons
4 large onions
4 heads of garlic
I bring everthing to a boil and let it boil for 10 min. Drop the crawfish in and bring it up to a rolling boil and then I turn off the flame. I let them in for 20-30min! I admit they tasted not as fishy as some of mine I have done in the past but. It had no spicyness, very small amount of flavor and tasted fishy. Once a little colder they tasted way more fishy.
This post was edited on 4/13/22 at 12:18 pm
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Posted on 4/1/22 at 3:32 pm to wilsonjn91
Sometimes it's just the crawfish.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 3:42 pm to MightyYat
quote:
Sometimes it's just the crawfish.
this ^^^^^^
we used to catch crabs in a closed off dead end canal on an oyster lease, dont think many fish were in that closed off area and the crabs always tasted like oysters because that was their main source of food. its the only time we ever experienced that
if these are pond raised crawfish they only catch on pogies then that would explain the fishy taste and not much you can do
This post was edited on 4/1/22 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:21 pm to wilsonjn91
Not enough salt.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:22 pm to keakar
Did you notice if you had a bunch of the darker hard shelled crawfish before you dumped them in the pot? That'll do it too.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 4:24 pm to wilsonjn91
You may want to change the place where you are purchasing your live crawfish. Maybe try to find a place that has purged crawfish for sale.
Posted on 4/1/22 at 6:15 pm to Gaston
No enough salt in the with the other seasonings?
Posted on 4/1/22 at 8:32 pm to wilsonjn91
I feel like this is less of a problem with pond crawfish that have been cleaned well.
Posted on 4/2/22 at 6:43 am to wilsonjn91
3 bottles of liquid
1 - 4.5 lb of Dry Seasoning
18 oz of Zatarains
Cayenne Pepper
AND you said no spicyness, very small amount of flavor?
It has to be your water/seasoning ratio. I use 1 4.5 pack of Dry and 1 bottle of Zatarains liquid and add a few dashes of cayenne and people still tell me mine are spicy.
Other factors to consider:
-Do you leave the crawfish out in the sun? How long do you let them sit for before boiling.
-Just getting bad crawfish from your supplier. I have gotten two sacks from the same place before and 1 sack tasted fine and the other tasted rotten and spoiled. I did the same exact thing to both.
1 - 4.5 lb of Dry Seasoning
18 oz of Zatarains
Cayenne Pepper
AND you said no spicyness, very small amount of flavor?
It has to be your water/seasoning ratio. I use 1 4.5 pack of Dry and 1 bottle of Zatarains liquid and add a few dashes of cayenne and people still tell me mine are spicy.
Other factors to consider:
-Do you leave the crawfish out in the sun? How long do you let them sit for before boiling.
-Just getting bad crawfish from your supplier. I have gotten two sacks from the same place before and 1 sack tasted fine and the other tasted rotten and spoiled. I did the same exact thing to both.
Posted on 4/2/22 at 1:34 pm to wilsonjn91
quote:
I have been a long time crawfish and been boiling them for years now
traitor!
Posted on 4/2/22 at 2:16 pm to wilsonjn91
Thats a lot of shite to have no spice or flavor.
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