Louisiana Foods Seafood Distributor: How to Eat and Order Boiled Crawfish

Hot, Spicy, Cajun Boiled Crawfish

	How to Eat Crawfish Order three to five pounds (per person) of fresh boiled crawfish. (Optional) Put on a special bib to protect clothing. (This allows a little more freedom with the crawfish.) Take a deep breath to enjoy the fullness of the aroma. Grab the nearest crawfish off the pile. Hold the crawfish with your left hand and gently twist off the tail. Take the head and suck the hot, spicy juices out of it. For full enjoyment - take your little finger and scrape the inside of the body. Squeeze your thumb and forefinger at the sides of the top of the tail, causing the shell to break. Remove the meat and eat. Go back to step 4 and repeat as often as you like. You'll need a lot to drink so have some cold beverages handy. This is a lot of fun with friends and lively zydeco music.

How to Eat Crawfish

Order three to five pounds (per person) of fresh boiled crawfish.
(Optional) Put on a special bib to protect clothing. (This allows a little more freedom with the crawfish.)
Take a deep breath to enjoy the fullness of the aroma.
Grab the nearest crawfish off the pile.
Hold the crawfish with your left hand and gently twist off the tail.
Take the head and suck the hot, spicy juices out of it.
For full enjoyment - take your little finger and scrape the inside of the body.
Squeeze your thumb and forefinger at the sides of the top of the tail, causing the shell to break. Remove the meat and eat.
Go back to step 4 and repeat as often as you like.
You'll need a lot to drink so have some cold beverages handy.
This is a lot of fun with friends and lively zydeco music.

Species Specifics

There are about 250 species of crawfish found in the U.S., only a handful of which are commercially harvested. About 90% of U.S. production-round 50,000 tons is red swamp and white river crawfish from Louisiana.
In a typical year, 50 to 60% of all crawfish produced in Louisiana come from culture ponds - the rest from natural wetland systems.
Large Louisiana crawfish go to the live market, while smaller ones are packed off for meat picking. Meat yield for the latter averages 15 to 17%.
Cormorants are a well known pesky crawfish predator, but now there is another critter out there feasting on crawfish: raccoons. The number of raccoons in southern Louisiana apparently has skyrocketed over the last decade, ever since the region's fur industry went bust. The masked menaces turn over crawfish traps in shallow ponds and even haul up the lines attached to traps in deeper waters to eat both bait and crawdads.

Crawfish Recipes

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Updated November 01, 2001