Grilled Crawdads!

Crayfish have a wonderfully sweet meat and can be grilled, boiled, or broiled.

Step 1

Select live, fiesty crayfish. Wash them off in the sink.

Comments

[AussieAnglerGal]

mmm...

i have been cooking *yabbies for a while now, but found out I'm getting a bit tired of the usual slightly salty taste (at least they don't taste like where they come from..a muddy dam...)
(*Australian version of crawdad)
i'll have to try this...MMMM

[vernors]

i have a creek and it has huge crayfish in it i should try this

[jakee117]

we were on a boy scout camping trip to summer camp last week and we boiled some crawdads... they were good.. kinda like shrimp and lobster combined...

[PikminRed]

Technically, they are shrimp.

[h0tsauce]

Yes. Yes you should.

[PikminRed]

I used this. Its pretty good! Next to my grandmothers house there's a large stream. I put on boots, gardening gloves and a weighted bucket and im good. They dont pinch the gloves really. And it doesent hurt because they are thick, so I stick my hand in a hole feel it and bam! I got one! I catch like 13 a minute (that's fast for hand fishing) I look under large rocks and clumps of floating grasses. Think like a bug. What would you hide under? They get pretty big. I actually have a easier time catching them near Thanksgiving. I always bring my cousins and we get some for dinner that night. They are good!

(I caught some last night and looked up new ways to cook them other than steaming.)

[bylerfamily]

I love eating crayfish...

[Shifman]

please it would be great ifc you ad in this: befor cooking blance the crawdad on its head and pet it on the head and put it in the freezer its the most humane way of killing it put it head down

[RedneckAsian]

shifman is a member of the P.E.T.C people for the ethnical treatment of crayfish lololololol dud over 20 million tons of crustaceans are eaten every year around the world

[Country dude]

ok buddy killing a couple of crayfish is nothing compaired to what potchers and cruel people do to other animals, My mom worked at thehumane society and they had a cat weresome one doused it in gasoline then lit it so it had lots of burns and no hair or wiskers, but it lived i got to pet it when it healed

[LasVegas]

The crayfish are dead a fraction of a second after placing them on the grill... I wouldn't worry about being so humane. Ewilhelm, You didn't mention sucking the body after removing the tail. You're missing out on so much flavor! I have no idea where I'd find crayfish for sale here in Vegas. This looks so good I can almost smell them!

[Lithium Rain]

Look in a small(hopefully privately owned by someone you know and unpolluted!) stream or river. Your slower moving ones are better. Look under rocks and in small holes for these. Don't stick your hand anywhere without looking!

[korgoth25]

When goin for crawdads it dosnt really matter where you stick your hand, if u want to not get pinched then ya look, but ther little and it dosnt hurt me at all any more when i go for em

[teqsun.com]

this instructable makes me miss the gulf coast.

[Gavabc123]

now i just need to find one!

[bombs go boom]

numm-e!!!

[mr2monster]

Nice... I've been meaning to try crayfish for a while.

[mensmaximus]

Nope!