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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error, huh, good name for someone with that thought spilling out their mouth.
NO don’t cook lobster , you make the meat less tender, its better to spit the lobster true his head in 2 parts with a big knife, its also not that painful for that lobster , its quicker then boiling. .
what will we move onto after their fished out i know you
eww…
More than instructions on cooking it, they need to show how to eat it. After the claws and the tail, you throw most of it away. There are a few New Englanders than can eat damn near the whole thing!
Ok, I see your point, and I agree, but don’t come at me calling me ignorant.
More Michelle, less lobster!
but that’s not necesary you can eat something else or something different.
i’m a cook, and the easiest way to kill a lobster is a knife threw the head, quiest way aswell, one time i cut threw the head i had the lobster upside down, and he curled up and his tail hit my hand i was bleeding for awhile, word some nice cooked lobster iwth some butter and a crowned lemon mmmmmmmmmm
Yum, make me want to go to the L.A lobster festival
I’ve never eaten lobster before, but it looks really off-putting so I don’t think I will.
Lobster must taste heavenly, though I have to say the more I watch this video the more it looks like a giant bloody spider…uhh!!
Yum Yum, lobster with one of your cocktails and a beautiful cool day, It’s all set I know what I’m making tonight. =)
hahahah yeah right, convince yourself that you’re doing something right… but you don’t.
Will lobsters be covered in Obama’s health reform bill? Or are they considered illegal aliens? Then they surely will be covered, just as they are covered in the pot.
Im up for some lobsters right now…OH LOOK! A SALE AT THE SHOP! CUTE AND SAD LOBSTERS 40% OFF?! GIMME GIMME GIMME A LOBSTER FOR DINNER!
my mouth full of water.
taste goooooooooooooooooood
vlogolution, Lobsters do not know the word cannibalism or that they are being cruel to one another as you stated. Their sole mission is to survive while in captivity. Humans on the other hand know perfectly well the meaning of cruel or cannibalism. This is why your going to get a lot of negative feed back. I love lobster! Whether I think this video is cruel or not I’d rather keep that opinion to myself.
Hmmm….well all that animal protein people buy at the supermarket surely doesn’t grow off trees. Squince, most of the “naysayers” commenting like any excuse to say “fu” to someone. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were poppin’ popcorn shrimp in their mouths as they type. Not ALL humans know cruelty. Humans are animals too – and some more than others! “People” is a rarity in this world…
I agree protein doesn’t grow off of trees! I myself prefer protein over anything else whether, it’s cow, pig or seafood! I’m not debating your video at all. All I’m saying is you are going to get a lot of negative feedback when you upload a video showing any type of animal being killed. Starting at 4:00 to 4:10 is really going to irrate animal lovers, whether it’s a lobster or not. I am subscribed to you because I do enjoy your videos, so let’s leave it at that. I have no problem.
spiny lobster tastes so much better IMO, more meat in the tail
Did Lobster died?
I found this offensive…I have pet lobsters (well Yabbies), have you no heart!
some people eat beef…even though to some people cows are sacred…
Very true…and when my lobsters are big I am gonna eat em mwahahahahaha
Looks so good!
Shut up tree hugging emo
that is a good idea to kill it before its boiled that dude one lucky mofo