If you’re a vegan, or animal rights activist against seafood consumerism and consumption, now is the best time for you to click the back button on your browser and leave this how-to at once (but thanks for stopping by!). Okay, so if you’re still reading this I assume you looovvee the mouth-watering and heavenly taste of a lobster tail lightly spritzed with tangy lemon juice and dunked in warm, drawn butter. If so, read and watch on my fellow lobster lovah!
For some, killing and cooking a live lobster can be intimidating. After all, most of us aren’t like the contestants on Top Chef, right?! If you enjoy chowing down on America’s “favorite crustacean” you can easily do so from the comfort of your own home and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg either (although, it will cost the lobster some legs and two meaty claws…and a tail).
Since the onset of the Great Recession, the market price for fresh Maine lobsters has become an affordable luxury for us common folk. Kind of funny, since lobsters were considered “poor man’s” grub since the early days of the New England colonies and as recent as the 1950′s! Our “select” sized live lobsters (1.5 lbs/each) were purchased at a seafood market in New York City’s Chinatown for about $6.50 per pound. The friendly Chinese fish mongers even threw in (quite literally) a bunch of scallions for that price. Gotta love New Yawk!
Okay, yes, the idea of killing and cooking a live lobster may be a wee fretful but you’ll soon get over it. In addition to the yumminess factor, eating lobster can be beneficial to your health as well. After all, lobster is all protein (no carbs!), low-cal and rich in zinc, potassium, vitamins A, B, B12, D and vital Omega-3 fatty acids. So, warm a pot, tie on a bib and get crackin’ to a healthier you.
Health tip: Now just don’t get too crazy with that butter!
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Suck it up, hippies!
Mmm… Boiled lobster
Cockroaches from the sea.
lol.
lol I usually refrain from eating juicy beef burgers =P
Crual…See, the long way alive until you “kill” them and fail might even be worser than the 5 minutes boiling alive…hard to say. But thing is…from funny, videos are now…cruals.
learn to spell you faggot crual isn’t a word
You should have a government contract with the Peace Corps! They could do well to take your tips ! No, I do Not mean this tongue in cheek. Think about it.
poor lobster ouch
Well, thank you and glad to have you as a subscriber. Unfortunately, many of my “funny” videos are “too sexy” for YouTube (or so says the prude intern who reviews them). So some vids will be funny when in inspired….and when I feel like sharing something else…I will!
And I will remain a subscriber so that I can catch them when inspiration hits. Thanks again.
LOL “An alternative to the death blow, is to put your lobsters in the freezer” Because freezing to death is prefered over boiling to death? Has anyone asked the lobster which is better? I subbed because you guys had some really funny stuff, but lately it’s all been cooking and how to mix drinks? What happened?
Mman that looks good…
Poor of them!! You assasins!! >:(
Very cool to have you as a friend! Smoochy!! x0x0 Dixie Dash
i like ya voice .i sure miss lobster havent had it in years
WANKERS !!!
adding that amount salt doesn’t significantly increase the boiling point, salt is just for flavor
Thanks for the video, I am going to cook and eat my own lobsters. It is a heck of a lot cheaper than buying lobster at a restaurant.
poow lobsters that shit wasnt funny
this isn’t a “funny” video. this is an instructional cooking video! the title doesn’t say “Lobster Telling Funny Jokes!”!!!!
You used to make really fun and funny videos. As opposed to these generic instructional videos. Methinks people liked that.
evil!!!, poor lobsters
Next time have Stewie Griffin come and beat up the lobster first. It’ll taste better.
ur lame why not its in our geans to eat other things that dont wear bling bling
Just because someone doesn’t agree with someone doesn’t mean you have to stoop to a lower level and attack them by calling them lame. Get a life
I became hungry while watching. Mind sharing?
wow i never knew cooking a lobster was so easy. thanks
dont feel bad. if the lobsters were bigger than us they would catch and cook us too…..
My god, you murderer! Don’t make me go all peta on you
FAGGGGGGGG