When to add each side to crawfish boil

Potatoes, garlic, and onions when you add the seasoning. If the potatoes are small add just before the crawfish.

The test of your list, when you cut off the fire to soak.

I do potatoes, garlic and sausage first. Mushrooms when I add the crawfish and frozen corn when the crawfish come to a boil.

A lot of people add the corn once they cut the fire but I didn’t care for it that way.

Potatoes first, 4 minutes later everything else. 11 minutes later dump the bugs in. Perfectly cooked sides everytime.

Potatoes and garlic = 15 min to cook in rolling boil
All other = 5 min to cook in rolling boil

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Potatoes

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I toss them in while adding all the seasoning to the water.

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Sausage
Garlic

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Drop these after the crawfish go in.

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Frozen corn
Mushrooms

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Both go in after I cut the flame.

Potatoes/onions/garlic in with seasoning (1 jar of zatarans powder boil, 8oz liquid concentrate, 2-3 baggies of boil spices, 3lemons halved, 3 oranges halved). Rolling boil for 15 minutes, then crawfish, sausage, and mushrooms go in. Fire to max until the first sign of a good boil. Kill fire, drop in frozen corn. 5 minutes later, put in frozen shrimp or crab legs. Soak crawfish for a total of 20-25 minutes. Everything comes out perfect. This is the basic “cook em till they float, soak me till they sink” method.

This is perfection.

I have always wondered how to add jalapeños to the boil. Do I add an entire small jar? Do I do it with seasoning? This is what I want input on.

I also want to know how to mix with lemongrass and Asian spices. I just want to try something new.

We bought a bundle of fresh asparagus and a bag of fresh green beans just to screw around and throw in tomorrow.

Anyone done these and know the best time to do so?

I boil all my sides first.

I light the fire.

Dump inHalf jug of regular zatarains powder, potatoes (I cut them in half), carrots, garlic, onions. Once that gets to a boil I let it go for 15 minutes. Then i throw in mushrooms, sausage, hot dogs and frozen corn in with the other stuff and let it go for another 10 minutes.

Once that is done I pull it all out. Add the other half jug, bring to a boil and do the crawfish. Bring to a boil same let them go 3 minutes. Cut the fire and let them soak.

I add the potatoes early on because I find it takes them longer to get soft.

I haven't found a difference when adding anythign else.

I drop pretty much the rest of it with the crawfish.

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Frozen corn

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Rarely in cooking do Cajuns get anything wrong, but this is one of them. Frozen corn transformed into a mealy molar-sticking mess. Yes, it tastes fantastic, but frozen corn overcooked with dimples just doesn't do it for me. There should be an entire thread about how to treat corn. Funny though,even when overcooked, it's still one of my favorite things out of a boil.