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You have to remember that this is a crawfish boil. But unlike just a regular boil, this seafood was boiled in a very spicy cajun broth not just boiling water. So all the juice slurping is literally slurping out that spicy broth from underneath the shell.
When people start slurping that's when I exit.
Not everyone in Louisiana will suck the heads. I used to not, but now I sometimes will.
@@leahbourg6299I mean, the brain’s still in there…right?🫢
It’s so easy to forget how spoiled we Americans are in the food department. I grew up in the northeast so seafood is second nature and I consider New Orleans a true soul sister. Anyway, everyone should try this at least once. Try everything just once. You don’t have to ever eat it again. But you may really like it. That’s my motto. ❤❤❤
@@julielong8714 It doesn't have a developed brain, Just nerve bundles. You suck out mostly broth and the hepatopancreas, which is so small it's basically indistinguishable
The boiling liquid is heavily seasoned and that liquid fills the head cavity. That is what you are sucking. If you want to try this cuisine, then you have to come to Louisiana. Outside of Louisiana, cajun cuisine is often imitated, but is never quite right. Definitely something you should try.
I have had cajun food in 5 states, all of it great. Most of those were people that moved from Louisiana or southwest Alabama(Mobile area). My first crawfish boil was in Tennessee with a family that lived in Lake Charles, Louisiana for about 15 years before moving to Tennessee. The best cajun restaurant I have ever ate at, outside of SW Alabama or Louisiana, is in Georgia, a place called Gumbeaux's, a family that moved there from NOLA. Also had good cajun food near Biloxi, MS. I live in NE Alabama but have had great cajun food down in the Mobile area. The best cajun/creole food I have had in Louisiana was in Lafayette, not New Orleans.
I have also had bad cajun food in all of those 5 states, Louisiana included. Not everyone is a good cook.
As someone who grew up on these foods being cooked at home, I don’t trust Cajun food outside of Louisiana unless the restaurant/chef is from Louisiana or more specifically Southern Louisiana. I have had some bad imitations of Cajun food.
I am from South Louisiana. The body (known as the head) of the crawfish has fat, and when you boil the crawfish, the seasoning gets in the tail meat and body. All you are doing is sucking the juices from the head, aka body. You do not eat any of the shells. Please consider how the French sometimes have a unique way of explaining things.
Crawfish boils are 🔥 💯 the best, and when done right anything you throw it the pot comes our fantastic! Veggies, meat, mushrooms, potatoes, corn, shrimp. The smell alone of the crawfish boiling liquid will have you drooling. Born and raised in Louisiana , no state can cook like we do, our flavors are on point.
Exactly. You're not going to get real Cajun or Creole Louisiana cuisine anywhere outside of Louisiana. Even if a great Louisiana cook is making your meal, they're not going to be able to get all the fresh produce and seafood required to make is just right. Even the rice will be different, the oil will be different, and certainly the ambiance will be different. For example, when we have a crawfish boil we get sacks of live crawfish just before we cook them, we don't get them frozen from Vietnam. It's an entirely different experience.
Don't you just love the way Lewis says "croyfish" LOL
It’s funny the way “crawfish” and “crayfish” are both valid words, and “crawdad” is a valid word, but “craydad” is not
@@coyotelong4349 Also, called mudbugs.
Little does Lewis know that our US crawfish have somehow become an invasive species in the UK and they grow even bigger there in the colder fresh waters.
I live in Southern Louisiana and we generally have between 4-5 crawfish boils every year. When you suck the heads you are only sucking out the juices that got in there from them being boiled. I also wanted to say the gloves are necessary because of the amount of seasoning usually used in a boil. It is super spicy and if you don't use gloves you will have super hot spices on your hands for a couple of days. NEVER wear contacts to a crawfish boil.
A tip for getting the seasoning off your hands is to wash your hands with either salt and soap or salt and lemon juice. It usually gets the majority of the seasoning smell off your hands, though you may have to wash them a couple times.
Wash your hands THOROUGHLY before sex.
Exactly. Growing up (I'm 67, so this would have been sixty years ago) we didn't wear gloves (no one had gloves) but parents would supervise washing their children's hands and keeping those spicy little fingers out of eyes or someone would be very miserable. Most of the time, adults would peel crawfish for the very little ones and not let them touch them any more than an adult would let a toddler handle raw jalapeno peppers or sharp knives!!!
I'm originally from NYC and when I first moved down south and went to New Orleans I was so confused when my friends handed me gloves, of course I forgot and rubbed my face at some point and the instant regret hit. I looked like I'd been stung by a 1000 bees for a day or so after.😂 That spice has a kick.
GUYS do not...Not pee before you remove And Wash your hands!!! Don't know how the Gals handle that situation 😢
Louisiana girl, here. Lol, yes, they're alive when they start. Crawfish live in ditches and shallow muddy water. You get them live, then boil them with a lot of seasoning, potatoes, corn, and boiled eggs. The seasoning is very spicy (if you're not from Louisiana). The gloves are because the seasoning really soaks into your hands. So after it's hard to like rub your eyes etc for hours after if you didn't wear gloves. Locals aren't going to wear gloves though. Learn from a young age to not rub your eyes while eating and just wash up with a lot of fresh lemon after. Gets the seasoning off.
Boudin (boo-dan) is a lot like haggis. But totally different flavor. It's amazing. My favorite way is deep fried. ...a little like falafel.
Thank you for this explanation. It was very helpful. Northerner who has never had a Louisiana Boil. Hope I can get down there to try it now. Peace
@@RevPeterTrabarisAlso another tip for you is that crawfish are like bottom feeders. They eat mud and dirt basically. To not have that taste in the crawfish put them all in a singular place with lots of water (like a fish tank) and pour water in and later pour salt in the water. Make sure its a lot of salt (depending on how much crawfish you have). Reason is that the salt makes them puke or spit out any dirt or mud from their stomachs. That's why after taking them out the water left is extremely dirty. Then you can do what you like with them.
In my experience, Cajuns will eat anything that doesn't eat them first. The secret is 1) the seasonings, and 2) the spirit of bold adventure. Every Cajun I've ever met, including my father's wife, will try ANYTHING, then find some way to drive up the heat and turn it into gumbo or a boil.
I was looking if anyone pointed out that locals don't use gloves because we learn young. I have eaten at more boils than I can count and have never used gloves. I thought it looked funny the first time I saw someone use them. As far as veggies go in a boil, if you have not tried it throw mushrooms and artichoke in the boil because they really soak up the spices and add some good variety. Artichoke you need to tear a leaf off and scrap off the tinder part with your teeth and it is super good, but then you have to fight over the heart when you run out of leaves...of course after you scrap off the hairy part of the heart. Also, one of my buddies loves throwing a whole head of cabbage in the boil near the end and it is good too.
@@RevPeterTrabarisyou can order them raw from Louisiana and all the ingredients. They ship them frozen and you thaw them in room temperature water. Don't freak out because they're not dead so you'll know they've thawed when they're all moving.
They're just sucking the juices that are in the shell of the head area. You're not actually sucking any body part out. It's just extra flavor. It's really good.
Good ol spicy brainjuice
@@koraegiThat’s what I figured 🫢
😢 gotta suck out the " mustard" too
The "mustard" is also called the "tomalley"
@@bettyir4302 And the “mustard” is what, exactly?🫣
For those that have never had a seafood boil or cajun crawfish boil. The gloves are there to keep your hands from getting extremely messy covered in the seasonings. I've had so many crawfish boils. When she said someone had 5lbs that is nothing to what my family could put down at our reunions in Baton Rouge Louisiana and Tallahassee Florida. We cook up 110lbs for 15 people and none are left.
We must be honest, though, and admit that when you're only eating the tail meat, 110 pounds of raw crawfish for 15 isn't that much per person, is it? I think the ratio of meat to whole crawfish is about 15%. Still, that's a bit over a pound of meat per person. Eaten slowly over an afternoon or evening? It's very easy to eat that pound.
@@jeanvignes the only thing is that only 3 of us eat the crawfish and we polish it off in 1 hr. The others eat shrimp, potatoes, corn, crab and sausage. Myself, my brother and my mother are the only ones that like crawfish. If you are confused by this response it is because I'm not my brother whom made the original post I'm just using his CZcams account. He never explains things the correct way the idiot.
She said the average was 3-5lbs. She then said one person was able to eat 42lbs. a literal sack of crawfish.
@@Nevario1 that is easy. Just because I mentioned what my family cooks up doesn't mean nothing. I can put down 50 to 60 pounds of the crawfish meat myself when I'm hungry. They mention a sack of crawfish. You don't eat the entire thing you only eat the meat. There isn't a lot of meat on them little dudes. So a sack of crawfish is only about 15 to 30 lbs of meat.
If you wear gloves it defeats the purpose of licking your fingers clean
During my college years in the New Orleans area, I would often be at a crawfish boil almost every weekend while they were in season. Big picnic tables in a friend's back yard covered in newspaper, crawfish with potatoes, sausages, and corn on the cob poured down the middle of the table, everyone sitting around eating from the pile, drinking beers, talking, laughing... then afterwards... cards (usually Spades or Pedro), more drinking, and music. Some of my fondest memories. 10/10
Definitely a community meal.
This is the way!!
When my dad retired the guy who threw his party bought 300lbs of crawfish. And I didn’t eat the first one. I’m prolly the only person from LA who won’t eat mudbugs. I just can’t stand the idea of eating something my cat can bring to me as a trophy
Crawfish boils are the best get together! Delicious crawfish and beer. 10/10 always.
A true community meal... dumped out on a newspaper lined picnic table and everyone digs in.
They didn't even get hushpuppies. lol
The craw (CR-AHH) fish ARE cooked. That's where the "boil" comes from. Crawfish look like miniature lobsters so you're cracking the shell to get to the meat. When they're sucking the head, it's the juice created from the cooking process that's trapped inside the shell. You should really check out more seafood videos, lol.
Really the only good meat on a crawfish is the tail, though. The claws are tiny and not worth the effort, unlike a lobster or crab claw.
Yeah he kept saying "croi-fish" which was annoying! LOL!
@@jovetj lol
Cajun food is hands down the BEST food I have ever had. Crawfish boil, crawfish Etouffee, Crab Stew....OMG!! I have been waiting for the guys to go to Louisiana. The spice palette is like no other!
This is my absolute favorite reaction from you! You made me laugh so hard at your concern over what was being sucked from the heads! 😂
You would have a hard time at a Polynesian luau then. The pig is cooked in a pit for hours and definitely looks like a pig but it is so good and pull apart tender.
You don’t suck the brains out just the juice and seasonings haha
Exactly, your sucking out the juices and seasonings from the head of the crawfish.
I laughed until I cried!😅
I use my pinky finger to scoop it out. So good
@@zenvibrations432 tongs always go with tongs
Amazing how many people think we are actually eating the brains
Being from Louisiana myself, I’ve had a lot of crawfish boils and the crawfish is always top notch as long as the crawfish is seasoned really good.
The crawfish/crayfish/crawdad head contains cooking liquid and fats from the critter. It's delicious and provides much more flavor from the crawfish. There are no hard parts that come out--it's kinda like a mouthful of mild hot sauce mixed with butter and other spices--goes great with the tail.
They're using gloves because the liquid used to boil the crawfish is really spicy and would seep through your skin otherwise. Plus, having gloves on reminds you not to wipe your face or eyes with your hand after they're covered in crawfish boil liquid.
I'm glad to someone else that actually put all 3 names, I'm from California and we call them Crawdad's but live in the southern states and see the other 2 names
@@pisces-fairy7552He forgot Mud bugs 😊
Crawfish bowl for every Thanksgiving. Let's go!!! Southern novelties on their way to you next week.
Can’t even imagine how good a crawfish boil COMBINED with a normal thanksgiving dinner would be
Unfortunately, it's not really Crawfish season around that time. It's usually between February and July. Easter boils are a regular though. In fact Lent season is not really a sacrifice here in Louisiana, but you can eat seafood instead of meat.
Heavenly 🥲
I am the Cajun Boiler in my family. We have the entire family come to boils. The trick is all in how long you let the crawfish soak in the seasoning pot after they are cooked. You want to clean them good. Let the water come to a boil, then dump them in. After it comes back up to a boil and let them go a few minutes, turn the heat off and cool the water in so they can soak up the seasoned water for 30 minutes. Then you sit around an outside table, drink beer, pinch tail, suck head and enjoy one another like you would in a pub.
I lived in New Orleans for 25 years. Not a big fish eater but, let me tell you, shellfish in Louisiana is like nothing you've ever had before or after. At my first Crawfish Boil our host put an entire branch from a bay tree into it. They also added corn on the cob, potatoes, artichokes and Tony Chachere's Crawfish Boil seasoning. Travel like a native, my friend. You won't regret it. Also, southern Louisiana has the most delicious food. You can't find a bad meal. ALSO, absolutely the best fast food fried chicken can be found at Popeye's Fried Chicken. Not kidding you, bro. And, I make gumbo. There's all kinds but I usually make Andouille (pronounced: An-doo-wee) sausage and chicken. The culture, the history, the beauty of the bayous, THE MUSIC. Like another world.
I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast & the crawfish and soft shell crabs are seasonal and absolutely delicious!
I'm from Mississippi. Crawfish are delicious and you don't eat the shell, you eat the meat out of the tails like a little lobster, and suck the juice from the head. The juice is just a spicy broth that everything was boiled in. we usually have corn on the cob, little potatoes and sausage in our boils as well.
Around our house we do a low country boil. The things that we put in are: shrimp, small corn on the cob, small red potatoes, and lots of old bay spice/ Cajun spice. You can add other things but this is the base we usually do. Think I'll make some tonight.
Don’t forget the Tonys!!
@@amberrodriguez851and the slap ya mama.
I always preferred the low country boil too.
Zatarains
Yes! This is the best!!
1. The seafood in this type of boil, is boiled in a huge vat of spices that season the crawfish (you can call them "craw-fish or cray-fish, same thing) and things like onion and lemon (which you would discard after) and sausage and corn (which you would eat).
2. You suck the heads because they are filled with that wonderful leftover flavor and seasoning from the boiling water
3. You wear gloves (if you want to) because the business of opening tons of seasoned crawfish and other seafood is hecka messy. Most people out at like a family gathering, generally don't wear gloves, but it does help on the cleanliness side
4. You CAN eat the shells of softshell crabs. Nothing else on the table has an edible shell.
5. You should 100% try to go to a boil in the US. They are 10/10. Its often very intimidating at first because most modern humans aren't used to having to dismantle their food or see the whole food before they eat it, but once you get a quick lesson and have at the cracking and snapping and sucking of the heads, you'll wonder where the whole platter went! It's so good.
As a Louisianian, crawfish done right = 10/10 It's making me want some! 🦞🦞
Then why'd you use the lobster emoji? 🦞
There is a crawfish emoji, ya'know? 🦐 LOL-sorry, I just had to ask! 😂🤔
@@gNOme_5 erm.. that's a shrimp 🤓🤓
@@i_have_a_fadora_i_think This is the emoji I get for shrimp: 🍤
And, the other for crawfish, so, I don't know? 🦐
I'm from Louisiana. I think of a crawfish boil as you invite people over and stand around this crate full of cooked/seasoned crawfish and enjoy together. Usually it goes with whole boiled potatoes and corn on the cob. I'm a squeamish person and have to get over my gag reflex when I see them, but they really are so good b/c the flavors are so rich and juicy and yummy. It reminds me of sunflower seeds in that you get a little meat for the work you put into it but you can't help but keep going.
Basically, they are drinking a spicy broth. If you are not yet adventurous enough to try seafood straight from the shell, then there are many things you can order in NewOrleans where you don't have to eat it unshelled. Try shrimp Po' Boys, or crayfish etouffee. Fresh crab is my favorite, but shrimp is excellent too and often served already shelled in pasta dishes or on skerwers and the like.
The reason why they have the look on their faces is because the Cajun seasoning is spicy. Everything is boiled in the seasoning,juices, and hot sauce.
A good crawfish boil is a family/friends event here in South Louisiana. We will do one for any given reason. We are fully aware of how odd it looks but it tastes too amazing to care. We also put corn, onions, mushrooms, and potatoes in the boil too. The spices are so strong that you can dump a lot of side dishes in with the crawfish after they start cooking and the sides all really soak up the seasoning quite well.
"Eat the tail and suck the head." Now get your mind out of the gutter! That's how you do crawfish (also crayfish). I'd think with England being an island, y'all would have lots of seafood. You could probably make a close variation with shrimp/prawns, corn on the cob, and whatever spices make you happy. Then a BIG table for all to enjoy. Even in Atlanta, not part of the Louisiana culture, we have neighborhood crawfish boils. Great if you don't mind being messy around neighbors and friends!
As a kid, my family would visit other family on the coast of Virginia almost every summer. We'd go "crabbing" on the river nearby. You tie a chicken neck to a long string, and lower it to the river bottom. When you feel a tug, you oh-so-slowly pull it up, and a friend scoops the crab into a net. There are some animal lovers who think boiling live is inhumane, so they'll cut down the back of the crab to kill them before going into the pot. I learned to toss them in live. Not a lot of meat in a Blue Crab (what we caught), but oh so delicious!
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This was a great reaction. You get over the 'alive' look pretty quickly and it's just another food.
I'd rate crawfish itself a 6.5/10, it's quite a bit of work for not much meat, like lobster or crab, but get around a campfire with some buddies and beer you've got a 10/10 night every single time.
You must not be a Louisiana native. We can peel fast.
I'm a Louisiana lady & I can not live without my boudin, cracklin, crawfish, gumbo, jambalaya, barbecue shrimp, etc etc etc... I'm Never leaving Louisiana 😆 🤣
Crayfish looks like a mini lobster 🦞 people also call them mud bugs, which is also pretty accurate.
I call them mudbugs to gross people out so I can eat more.
They also call them crawdads.
As a child we caught them in ditches and such but I’ve only ate them once but they were not seasoned well so I did not like them but blue crabs, love themmmmmm
@@CoffeeCrazy I am originally from Maryland and blue crabs are our main food. Blue crabs are the best.
@@lacygearheart5700 Yeah we always called them crawdads.
I’m so glad you finally got some New Orleans culture! You have to remember that no where else in the US is like this. New Orleans is different, actually- we are absurdly uniquely special in so many ways that you just have to visit. Our food is legendary, but so is our music & art. Come on down! There won’t be a bleak snowy winter & carnival season (AKA Mardi Gras) is right around the corner followed by peak crawfish season & festival season!
And yes, crawfish boils are far superior to a bbq
Southern Louisianan here!! You really HAVE to come visit Louisiana during the early spring months to experience the best of crawfish boils. The food here is unmatched outside of our state.
They are boiled live if fresh, though in other states they may be frozen. They are sorta like eating a tiny lobster. You break off the tail/body and you get a solid chunk of meat. Also the cavities inside the crawfish fill up with the liquid they are boiled in so when you suck on the head, it is basically just liquid. They are good, but it is a lot of work.
Hilarious Lewis! I needed a few good hearty laughs and I got em! Crack me up! You are coming over open-minded and will try everything and love it!
Born, raised and live in Louisiana I love crawfish boils. I hate peeling crawfish (usually have someone do that for me) and I refuse to suck the head ( not because it’s spicy but because I don’t like my food looking at me).
My aunt and uncle, like to make a fish fry and the whole community comes together and he just has his whole backyard set up. It is so good and amazing definitely when you have it fresh. You always have to have fresh seafood. If not, it’s not even worth it.
You will never forget your first Crawfish broil. The reason you think they are getting high is because you can see they were drinking some beers while eating and the food is so good it’s exciting them while they are buzzing. Don’t knock it till you try it man! 😂
Being from Arizona we don't get seaside cuisine but having eaten seafood freshly caught in California, South Carolina, Maryland and Massachusetts I gotta say the seafood here is fantastic. Next 2 places I have to try is Louisiana and Maine.
Yo there is Angry Crab Shack in the Valley now, where you can order this
Also Angie’s Lobster is good too from what I’ve heard, I haven’t tried it yet. Think there’s a location in East Mesa
Pappadeaux Seafood Kitchen in Phoenix is also a lovely dining experience 👌 Food and atmosphere are great
in massachusetts and maine you gotta try fried calamari which if you dont know is squid or octopus, its some of the best food ever and a 10/10
I’m in AZ too and I cannot wait for some Maine lobster. My husband and I are planning an anniversary trip just for the food.
Angie’s is good, but almost overly buttery. There’s nothing like fresh caught out here in AZ.
If you go to Maine make sure you go during a good lobster season don't go when they are soft shell not as tasty. I'm from Washington State and I have to say I think our fresh Dungeness crab is far better than fresh Maine lobster.
Just a reminder that crawfish are a fresh water delicacy. I have caught them in the streams in Oregon. They're more plentiful in Louisiana, but you can catch them elsewhere.
A Louisiana crawfish 🦞 boil, crabs & gumbo is wonderful!! Louisiana does it best in seafoods IMO.
No you have to. It's amazing. The crawfish comes out of the Bay, they cook it like a Lobster, but it seasoned, and then they serve it on that platter. It's cooked like a Shrimp.
What bay? They come out of the swamps and marshes
I'm a Cajun from Lafayette, just down I-10 from New Orleans 3-4 hours and right next to Breaux Bridge, the self-proclaimed "crawfish capitol of the world". My father had a big propane burner built by some welder he knew. The crawfish were boiled in a giant pot outside. Lots of Zatarain's crawfish boil seasoning. It's very peppery (red pepper). Cajun food is quite spicy and peppery hot. The sausage they ate was called boudin, just a a blend of cooked pork, rice, onions, peppers and seasonings stuffed into a sausage casing. Crawfish is sort of like a miniature lobster, but it's MUCH more flavorful than lobster. Better than shrimp, too. When I was a kid, we'd get a 50-pound bag of live crawfish and have a big boil in the backyard. That 3-5 pounds the waitress mentioned would be for the average non-Cajun. We'd figure on 5-10 pounds per person. Note that you're not eating that weight of food, since the crawfish tail is only a fraction of the weight of the whole crawfish. We'd sit at a picnic table in the backyard eating for hours and hours. Sometimes, we'd get a few bags and all the neighbors would come over. Unfortunately, I can no longer eat crawfish. I developed a shellfish allergy about 20 years ago.
If you are inclined to try crawfish, you have to go to south Louisiana and a good Cajun restaurant. Elsewhere, they may not put much seasoning in the water and they'd taste rather bland.
That is one of my biggest fears is developing a shellfish allergy; it hurt me just reading that you developed that allergy. My family has lived in southern Louisiana for many generations now with many of us having a love for fishing/crabbing and knowing what fresh seafood is like makes it one of my favorite pleasures. When I was a kid, we would scrap together some pocket money to walk down to one of the local seafood processing businesses. They mostly supplied seafood to restaurants, but they also would do boils and sell it themselves. If we got enough we could get some shrimp or crabs with some veggies, but sometimes I could not afford that treat and would only buy a bag of potatoes from the boil. I had not thought about that in many years, fond memories.
@@Valecan There were places we could go to catch our own crawfish. I think we had to pay something like $0.10 a pound. Ten pounds of crawfish for $1.00. So long ago (1970).
@@Valecan It was odd that I ate shrimp and crawfish from the early 1960s until around 2000 and never had an issue. Around 2000, I had some shrimp at Papadeaux's here in Houston and felt odd. Was "full" after eating only a few shrimp, and my throat got a little tight. Similar experience next few times, but with more discomfort and more tightening in my throat. My mother asked me to try her shrimp gumbo. It was great, but about 30 minute later I felt terrible for about 3 hours. Allergist said I tested positive for a mild shellfish allergy. I haven't eaten any shrimp or crawfish in 20+ years, though sometimes I'm tempted to try again.
@@chrishebert5672 That is scary and you are lucky it was not a more severe allergy. I always heard that allergies can come and go over time. I know personally I had a allergy to insect bites when I was young, but not any more. If you really want to try it again, it might be worth asking your doctor to run another allergy test to see if you still have the problem. I don't like the idea of risking my throat closing up on me as a test to see if I still have a shellfish allergy.
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Nothing fishy or traditional, just dope ass Japanese snacks that regular Japanese young people eat
Crawfish Boils are awesome, it's definitely better eaten outside, because it's messy. Usually, newspaper is put on top of a picnic table and the crawfish plus the small, red-jacketed potatoes and ears of sweet corn that was boiled with it is just drained and dumped onto the newspaper. What Ollie was sucking out of the head was the seasoned water (broth) that they were boiled in. The nickname for crawfish is mud puppies.
From Houma Louisiana here. My mom and Mawmaw stopped peeling my crawfish for me at the age of 4. I’m 32 now so yeah I’ve got some experience. Blue shell crab are much more difficult, so they helped until 8 years old. We used the back of butter knives to get the claws open.
As she stated, when you suck the head, you get all the spice and juice that were cooked into it. Plus, some people eat gloves because the crawfish are covered in spices and can be messy.
It's amazing. 10/10. Louisiana has some of the best food in the nation
Eating all the seafood in a crawfish boil can be extremely messy, so gloves and a bib and pretty common.
Crawfish boils are mostly a Louisiana / East Texas thing. Tried it a couple of times, really tasty. The gloves are to keep the spices off your fingers, or you don't dare touch anywhere on the rest of your body for a couple of days.
Texan here and you haven't lived until you go to a restaurant where the table has a raised rail and the waitress throws 2 buckets of crawfish down. Everyone just grabs and smashes. So good!
I moved to Texas in 2020 and went to my first crawfish boil spring of 2022! It still weirds me out having to break open the shells like that (I'm not a big crab or lobster eater) so I understand where he's coming from. The flavor is so good though! Definitely something everyone should experience.
I love crawfish, but mainly in crawfish etouffee, where they mix the meat in with a beautiful sauce and veggies, and put over pasta or rice. It’s SO GOOD
I saw this new JOLLY video last night and thought, Lewis is going to struggle with this one, lol. I'm from the west coast and to me Dungeness crab is the best thing ever. I've lived all the west but when I spent a year in Baton Rouge it felt strange, exotic. It's not just the crawdad but it's also Cajun. So things are a bit different.
Plus, I couldn't eat with Ollie either! He's always making some unappetizing comments.
Ollie seems to associate so many foods with vomit or excrement!
A crawdad looks like a baby lobster. You pull the tail section off from the body. You then squeeze the body section to crack all the internal structure and suck out all the juices. The tail section is wrapped in scales just like a lobster. Starting on the end that was attached to the body you grab the scales and unwrap it in one fluid motion all the way back to the tail. You then pull the tail section out and just eat it.
Take a look at some of the videos of the largest crawfish harvesters in the USA. They are ecologically sound as they coexist in the raising of crops and are harvested by the millions each year. Amazing stuff.
I have had everything they are eating. Food is amazing. Love crawfish. Use pronouncing it wrong by the second half of the video. She tripping. It’s not just Cajuns. Creole people were in those kitchens too. \best food in the world.
The crawfish (or mudbugs) are more shell than meat, so it takes a lot of them to fill you up. A true crawfish boil will be these HUGE pots filled with the crawfish, whole potatoes, corn on the cob and tons of seasoned broth. Once they're done, the whole thing is dumped onto the table, and everyone just dives in. Super messy but soooooo good.
Roughly 4lb whole crawfish yields at best 1lb peeled.
@@davidhaggard6812 You got to work for your meal with crawfish. LOL
Crawfish are boiled in an intensely flavorful broth. As they cook, broth gets inside the shell. "Sucking the head" is just sucking out the trapped broth.
to answer why they suck the "head" (basically the entire shell that isn't the tail) its because as the crawfish cooks, the fat on the inside renders and absorbs the spices. so when you seperate the crawfish, you pull out the tail (the meat) and that's all you eat of a crawfish (about 10-15% of the crawfish by weight is all you eat of it) you get a bite of meat, the juices inside the shell are like your "sauce" for the meat. it's where all the fatty spicy goodness is.
Crawfish cooked correctly with the right amount of Old Bay seasoning is a 10/10. Lobster is an 11/10, but crawfish is close!
I've been to a crawfish festival...fun stuff. Tasty food!
You're reaction to everything is so funny 💜 i can't believe y'all don't have whole crab over there. Crawfish i kinda get but crab not so much.
Mudbugs, Crawfish, Crawdads, Crayfish...😋
The best Crawfish boil is done on the beach itself. The other thing is that the whole appeal & fun of eating Crawfish & Lobster alike, is work involved in cracking the shells & 'finding' the delicious white meat, & dipping it in delicious garlic butter. Orgasmic!
lmao i love your reaction to this. you can tell youve never really had seafood before nothing against that everyone has their favorites but lewis you have to give seafood a try!! if cooked right and seasoned right its one of the best tasting foods
I'm not southern, and never had a crayfish. But I have had Low Country Boil made with shrimp. Thats a relatively easy recipe to make at home. If you wanted to give it a try. Its made with corn on the cob, red skinned potatoes, kielbasa sausage, and shrimp, Boiled with butter and Old Bay seasoning. Then drain the water and dump the whole thing on a table and eat with your hands. Thats where the gloves come in. I have watched a ton of your American food reaction videos and I think you should try to make some of these recipes.
I recommend buying the Louisiana Crawfish Boil Seasoning. Comes in a big jar that's either powder or liquid. Powder to me is better but I use both sometimes. But I wouldn't if you cannot handle the spicey foods (I normally use more half of it). It's a little spicier than jalapenos and has a lot of flavor. The not missing much other than some whole garlic, lemons, celery, and onions are most common. Some like to add stuff like turkey necks or ox tails.
The gloves are for the seasoning. The water they're boiled in is heavily seasoned, and (hopefully) every kid who's ever been to a crawfish boil is warned to wash their hands before going to the bathroom. You DON'T want that spice getting into sensitive areas. Like spicy chicken wings, but juicier and easier to forget about once it's dried.
You gotta wash your hands before using the bathroom if you’re not wearing gloves 💯
The guys were charming and funny as always. But let's acknowledge Debbie's dry, straight-faced humor. Loved her. 😊
Soft shell crab is great! That entire table looks wonderful to me. I’m going to Florida from California for Christmas, and I can’t wait to get to Louisiana to eat.
New Orleans has amazing foods and ths crawfish boils are a must along with blackened gator .
This is in a restaurant . When I've had boils its a mix. They put everything in a large pot of VERY seasoned water to cook.. Then it's all taken out (shrimp, crab, and crawfish and corn on the cob, etc). Idon't recall having lobsters in ours. It's often done for large family gatherings. My family are very hearty eaters.
I promise you, do not question sucking the head, gloves, soft shell crab or anything. Crawfish boils are absolutely delicious and it’s known throughout the US for it.
Do not question, just eat.
I’m from the southern coast of the US. Fresh seafood is hands down some of the most delicious food ever! Your reaction to sucking the head was priceless, hahaha! Crawfish (also called craydads, mud bugs, etc. depending on where in the US you’re from) are tiny crustaceans that crawl and feed on the floor of the water. They look like tiny lobsters. I’m not a fan of just eating crawfish like people do at a crawfish boil, but crawfish cooked in dishes are really good. Don’t worry about sucking the head, I think it’s gross too and totally get made fun of for it, ha. I’m the EXACT same way, which is probably why I don’t eat crawfish at a crawfish boil. If I can see the head, I ain’t eating it.
Once you eat crawfish and get over the initial hesitance of it you will adore them, that meal they are eating there is probably better than any meal you could get in the UK and I've had UK food, I've had food from just about every where and really truly nothing beats Cajun/creole/Louisiana food. Give me some crawfish/shrimp boil, crawfish etoufee, some seafood gumbo, some beignet's and a whole bottle of hot sauce (cayenne pepper sauce of a southern variety) over any other food in the world and I'd be happy.
Crawfish is delicious! It's like spicy little lobsters. Highly recommended! If you need to eat crafish etoufee first, you can. But boil is so good with cold beer.
Lobster is banging Lewis! If it weren't so expensive, we would eat it more often.
You need to come and hang in the States and broaden your pallette horizon. 😂 I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
I am laughing so hard watching your reactions I'm from Louisiana and trust me you will love Louisiana seafood
I eat crawfish all the time and they had me confused 😂😂 You have the same reaction as everyone there first time being asked to suck the head but it’s the best part 😂
If you ever come to Louisiana try to come between mid February to late April and ask a local if you could join them at a real boil. It’s bigger than the food it’s the experience
Crayfish are a bit like shrimp or lobster in that they turn pink when boiled. The seasoning mix also adds to the color transformation. Crayfish are small and it takes a lot of them to make a meal. The gloves are to keep all that spicy seasoning from coating all your fingers...it can stain.
Being French-Canadian American from New England, I have caught and eaten crayfish in almost every state in my travels with the US Army. They are just another shellfish that are consumed in many areas, but the Cajuns definitely have made them famous. They also prepare many other seafoods which are delicious as well. Boudin is prepared by many French Canadians. This is called blood pudding in England and is an acquired taste, somewhat like a liver/wine flavor. Since it is a blood product, it is not available everywhere.
You're cracking me up!!! They are NOT sucking out brains and eyes or anything else you're imagining 😂 they are sucking out SEASONED JUICES. That's it. They are not getting high from this. It just tastes really good.
P.S. it's a Crawfish... not a croyfish
P.P.S. go back and watch the looks on your face and your reactions because this was HILARIOUS to watch. 😂😂😂
lol yea it looks weird, but it's SO freaking yummy!! 9/10
The head is filled with the liquid that they boil in, it is HARD core spiced so people who are soft use the gloves because it can stain the hands and it is so spicy that you have to wash them 4-5 times before using the restroom to avoid a night of pain. You twist them near the center and they separate into the head portion and a tail portion. The tail is the part you eat, you remove it from the shell like you do a shrimp really then eat the tail like lobster meat. The head is 99% crawfish boil liquid and it tastes great. The shell is thrown away. At a boil party they useally get tossed on the ground and it feeds the lawn as the shells break down and we just lawn mower them in. If you want to try them you CAN get crawfish in the UK, just order some cajun crawfish boil bag of seasoning Louisiana brand Crawfish, Shrimp & Crab Boil Seasoning and you will love it, it is typically served with corn and potatoes that are cooked with the crawfish. You dump seasoning with lemon and garlic and the mix in boil it up then add LIVE crawfish - cant eat dead crawfish or flash frozen alive works but isnt as good. Cook for 15 minutes then let it cool for 10-20 minutes the longer you let them "soak" while cooling the more spicy it gets so fair warning.
Ayy crawfish. As a Louisiana native I can say crawfish is my actual favorite food. My family could get me to go to an intervention by telling me it was a crawfish boil. I show up to every single one.
You eat and eat and eat, because every crawfish nets about a tablespoon of meat, but it's SO good. Then you shit your guts out over the next 16 hours.
That's because they are juicy and also you might get stuck by the shell. Mostly because of the seasonings, butter, and juices.
Butter??? Lol
Wtf you talking about dude
I've never had the opportunity to eat crawdads (that what we call crawfish/crayfish in Missouri) before, but i have caught them with my bare hands in streams, creeks, and lakes before. Those little suckers can be fast and do hurt if they pinch you.
i was born an raised in Louisiana on the north shore bout 20 min from new orleans and regularly have my own boils and sucking heads is a must and if u come to the us you have to try a crawfish boil in south east louisiana. the gloves are weird we dont wear them here. we typically cook the sausage, boudin, and other fixings in the same pot as the crawfish. my favorite get togethers with friends and family is always a crawfish boil.
I am from south Louisiana and we do NOT wear gloves to eat our crawfish. But I have been peeling crawfish and crabs since I was in Elementary school..am a pro:)
Lewis I know you don't like seafood but you will Love softshell crab and Crawfish everyone gets together and have Crawfish boils here in the South 👍😉❤️❤️❤️. You suck the head of the Crawfish it has alot of juice and season and you peel and eat the tail.
It's a 10 out of 10 for me. They are so good.
You have to remember also that they're at an exclusive restaurant, Most restaurants in the United States that serve this type of food you have to know how to eat it when you go in there, They do not have anyone to show you what to do. This is an exclusive restaurant for beginners that have never eaten crawfish before, Where they have waitresses that can show you how you're supposed to eat the Crawfish. Crawfish looks like a small miniature Lobster, With a lobster you just eat the tail same thing with the Crawfish, You eat the meat that's inside the tail, But with the Crawfish once you break the tail off of the main part you squeeze the main part and suck the main part out. Where with The Lobster you do not suck the head. You only do that with crawfish, And if you don't think about what you're doing and just do it. You'll be amazed how good it tastes. But if you think about what you're doing you'll never do it. 😊
Crawfish have literally helped keep me from starving. So good.
FLORIDA MAN HERE!
You make perfect sense, friend.
I think we've all encountered foods that we were hesitant to try due to their appearance, but then gritted our teeth, had a go, and then discovered that we loved it.
I watch quite a few of these British food reaction videos, and one thing that seems to stand out the most to me is that when British people first see American biscuits and gravy, you all say it looks like vomit, and appear quite disgusted, but the second you try it, you completely clean the plate given how good it is (and I can completely relate).
The only things that I can think of that I wouldn't even try tend to come from Japan, in cases where the food is STILL ALIVE when you're eating it.
Japanese cuisine typically isnt live, a lot of other asian countries do eat live food but most Japanese food isnt live. They do have a lot of raw food, I had raw chicken, horse, and other things like squid etc when I visited Japan but I couldnt find anything live.
I live in South Texas near the Gulf coast & we have crawfish boils
. We don’t wear the gloves & usually a whole roll of paper towels are placed on the table in which you’ll need !
It's like eating a small lobster....Sort of. The crawfish are dumped alive into the boiling water. You snap off the tail and remove the meat from the shell and eat it. Then, If you're up to it, you suck the innards out of the main body, including the "brain". That's where the most flavor is. At local boils (not a restaurant), it's usually best to wait for the fourth or fifth batch to come out of the pot. Every time you start a new batch, you add water (to replace what's been boiled out) and another seasoning packet. By the fourth or fifth batch, the seasoning has been concentrated so it's just about right.
Philadelphia used to have a seafood restaurant where you got a bucket of boiled blue crabs, a bowl of melted butter, OTC crackers, horseradish dip that brought tears to your eyes, a nut cracker, and a large plastic bib. And several bottles of beer...that's more of a New England style boil.
Char-oystee is grilled with butter, garlic herbs, and seasoning.
Crawfish are boiled and seasoned with creole seasoning. You suck the juice from the head to get a boost of flavor...do not inhale, lol. Delicious. You do have crawfish in England. They live in fresh lakes, ponds, or streams.
I live in Texas and have crawfish boils at least once a year. You can only boil the ones that are still alive. You boil them in heavily spiced water. We boil red potatoes and corn on the cob with them. Once they're boiled you crack them open and eat the meat, much like a shrimp. When you suck the heads you're only sucking out the spiced juices. They are delicious. I like to make crawfish etouffe with any leftover crawfish.
The UK has to have seafood, you guys invented Fish and Chips lol 😂 I'm from Florida, but we don't eat a lot of Crawfish or softshell crab - it's more of a Louisiana thing. All their food has a massive French background. Boils are fun though. You cook crab, shrimp, potatoes, corn all together in one pot, then you cover your kitchen table in newspaper and dump everything on the table. Don't forget your friends and beer, those are crucial
Those little red things are Crawfish, and they're boiled in water that is well spiced and salted. That's why they're wearing gloves, to keep that off their hands. These little guys are about 1-2 inches long and are easily broken open to suck out the juice and the meat.