Crayfish. Dispatch And Cleaning Crayfish.

How to humanely Dispatch and clean a Crayfish ready for the kitchen, This is field to fork, stream to plate, and its up to us as the hunter/gatherer to dispatch our quarry as quickly and as humanely as possible.And this is the quickest method.
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[@platinumskies7968]

PLEASE NOTE: no crayfish were harmed during the making of this video they are highly skilled actors

[@notreleventinfo]

After the scene they threw on their coat and headed home to the missus crayfish

[@motleymenace]

Platinum Skies 😂😂😂

[@purpledude603]

Platinum Skies Oh good. I was convinced that one got his head cut in half. They must have used CGI,. They sure fooled me. I'll be damned.

[@indianaredneck7076]

It was a prop knife the end flips up

[@MrMeme-qv4kr]

I have crayfish And they are not actors I know this is a joke :/

[@paulsteelballs]

I appreciate how maturely you handled the explanation of death in this situation and I also appreciate how you didn't treat it like it was no big deal. You are a gentleman and a scholar

[@Treatsandthreadscom]

for sure

[@kluas948]

Thanks for showing an better way of cleaning and ethically minimizing the impact on the crayfish. It's always good to learn and be educated.

[@charleslittle458]

Damn an English guy teaching a southerner tricks he didn't know. Great video subscribing

[@corbinhaydel3604]

Bruh I'm a southerner and this video ain't teaching us shit

[@firecrow7973]

yeah im from the south this video is a complete waste of time

[@corbinhaydel3604]

nigga please don't fucking tell me that i shouldn't cuss bitch

[@charleslittle458]

Thaddeus Winsett I support your right to free speech. But we are not going to let a small minded bigot destroy our mood or our hospitality

[@christoff124]

idiots have difficulty learning. you sound like you have difficulty learning

[@misterjim4458]

I literally said “Wow” when you pulled that poop tract out. No longer need to purge them saving me six hours. Bravo! And kudos on the humane dispatch.

[@georgethomas9436]

thanks Scott. I do like the tip on removing the waste sack. They are good eating.

[@Food_D]

Yes fascinating. I will try this out next chance. Great work Scott.

[@ericsilvalewistownpennsylv3245]

George Thomas shit eater

[@sethclayton-gf5fi]

Hey! It’s Seth Howard here, your favorite Marine from the US, I do all found a river spot oozing with crawfish and man I’m eating them everyday, finally found a place to practice what I’ve learned from you!!!! SEMPER FI!

[@Gixer750pilot]

Bloody things are everywhere in the lakes and rivers in Wiltshire . I trip over them some days . The silly thing is they are a menace but you need a licence to trap them and it's a complete pain in the arise to obtain, if you don't you can be prosecuted for poaching and theft . If they are such a pain they should be grateful for people catching them

[@Jzwiz]

In duluth minnesota you can catch as many as you want. Its common to see families or kids dunking nets to catch em for a boil. Idk if we require a license but no one gets one

[@thewintergardener2873]

I lived a few years in Rochester MN when I was a kid... We used to use live Crawfish to catch Walleyes... Still one of the best eating fresh water fish I've had over the years...

[@binzsta86]

So these things are considered a threat to the native animals but you are required to have a license to catch them? Damn mate, I think your liberal politicians are more of a threat to your country than some signal crayfish.

[@Gixer750pilot]

Yes its a valid comment. but I think the reason behind it is to prevent untraceable food entering the human food chain. All food needs to have a traceable history of where it came from and who supplied it incase of health issues.if somebody caught them from a polluted river (where they probably wouldn't find them anyway) and sold them on to a restaurant and people were made sick, it would cause serious problems for all.

[@DonCapiche]

then they need to monitor the sale not the catch, because everyone who catches them is not going to sell them. That would save time and money.

[@mitchpickett2576]

Brother get yourself a big pot of ice cold water put some salt into it and throw the crawfish in there. They will purge their own system of the mud and everything in the digestive track

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Mitch Pickett does that work?

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

Mitch Pickett balls deja vu..hate that!

[@Sandstorm9562]

Except crayfish are freshwater and can't handle saline water

[@AJohnsonJr]

@@Sandstorm9562 Hence why you put them in saline. The purge everything from their system before you cook them.

[@donerkebab778]

I've always heard this trick but never tried it myself. How effective is this and how long does it usually take for them to fully purge? Do you notice that there is absolutely no trace of poop in the crayfish once cooked or is there still a little bit here and there?

[@stevenemull1]

perfect video. I just took my son down to the creek at night. we were catching frogs, and I showed him the crawfish. they are everywhere here in ohio. I am making some for my grandma here I the next week. thanks Scott Rea

[@Rebekahdavignon]

Freshwater shrimp.

[@pastailike4021]

i have just recently got my licence to catch and dispose of these big buggers! your video is very helpful for me to dispatch them humanly and less messy! 7 year old video still teaching somthing new to many, many people! thank you very much!!!

[@lumpyq6385]

I never saw that Waste Sack Trick before, that works great. Nice job Scott.

[@lunarmagoo]

People need to know that these have infected our waterways for years! You’ve professionally educated us all and used your skills to show us how to dispatch and prepare “meat” for eating x every meat eater should know this! Keep up the great work mate! I’ll be watching xx

[@ZiggysRevenge]

They're not our waters, we all share the earth lol

[@lunarmagoo]

@@ZiggysRevenge ours as in we the humans use them…..amongst other living things…as we are all one….in the threads of the tapestry of life! Except some are more “all one” than others! 😈

[@phlyphlo]

Crayfish: (at the beginning) I NEVER LET GO COMPADRE!!!!!!!

[@theoriginalpauly]

It's Jack and Rose from Titanic XD

[@Nellyontheland]

The stand-up bit at the end was what was needed. Factual for meat eaters that like to 'source' their meat. Well done fella.

[@jpkral]

Extremely helpful video. I did it for myself the first time today and didn't really knew what I was doing. So many different methods out there and didn't know which is best to use. This felt humane to do and liked knowing about the disposal trick. The feeling of killing the crayfish is odd and appreciate the maturity behind this video

[@danieljordan2442]

Bro wtf. I’m literally crying rn. I’m high as shit and you added the emotional ass music. Idk how to feel rn. 😂😭💔

[@lonniejcarter5969]

I guess if you are eating four or five, this makes sense. Back here in the South, we have crawfish boils. It would take two days to "kindly dispatch" what we go through in an hour or two. Good video though, I appreciate you taking the time to post it.

[@TheWolfmun]

Yeah..try that with 300 we eat at a time...hahaha

[@MrAlwaysRight]

I'm from the south, and do/have done/will do crawfish boils and always take the time to clean them. To me, with food, there is no excuse. I personally think it's important to be respectful and prepare shit properly with care and attention. It makes a difference and REALLY isn't that hard. Anything otherwise is just apathetic laziness, and that's just not me.

[@lonniejcarter5969]

You from the South, or just in the South on vacation Tory??

[@DoubleD19788]

The more I watch this channel the more I love it....nice.

[@johngaskill6316]

Thank you for showing and explaining what so many today simply do not understand, and especially thank you for stressing the need to be humane about it.

[@contreeman]

I LEARNED SOMETHING THANKS SCOTT GREAT VIDEO GOD BLESS

[@susaetern]

Haahaa! The sad ominous music got me laughing.

[@esthermungal4552]

Suave Chiang got me cryin

[@kadiru.4419]

Jhon Doe :( rip Mr Krabs

[@DesertSessions93]

Haha yeah the music was a great touch pretty funny!

[@tonycorrea2320]

Clive Bindley mr. Krabs is with a K I think.

[@koitsme]

I was like "Really?". Lol

[@223rocks]

Thank you very much for your honesty and the fact that you don't apologize for reality. Greetings from the US.

[@gorbashin]

As a native of Louisiana, it is always a treat to watch other cultures eat crayfish (spelled and pronounced 'crawfish' over here). Glad to see you trapping them. Look up a few vids on cajun crawfish boils. It'll learn you a thing or two. Good vid :)

[@mikee6220]

Great vid. No need to justify how we dispatch our food. We're all adults here

[@Weaver0x00]

i ain't, for example

[@khadijaazouz6328]

I can't even open a bag of noodles.

[@cmanchan12]

+DysfunctionalBubble that sucks that they would ban any form of hunting,what country are you from?

[@cmanchan12]

+DysfunctionalBubble damn that's horrible best of luck two you repent before it's too late

[@renzoarana3972]

Mike Neely Being an Adult, doesn't mean you know what you are doing or determine your level of maturity.

[@slaybae777]

Lol he got me weak when the sad music and slow motion came on with the second one 😂😂

[@briancarpenter6413]

sad music makes you weak?

[@pauln2661]

That was fantastic! I have never, ever, seen the trick for pulling out the last bit of the intestinal tract. catching and cooking crayfish is one of those treats enjoyed while camping and enjoying the outdoors. Sinking a trap in a pond or stream and letting it fill up during the day to have a boil that night. Yum!

[@benjaminjones512]

I love the field to table stuff, great work. I do have to smirk though when people worry about humanely dispatching a crayfish, given they have a central nervous system comparable to a cockroach.

[@Krispykashew]

LOLz at the Vegans.. Great video Scott.

[@carlfluke3237]

I don't see any vegans here at all.... I never understood the hate for vegans. I would never consider going vegan, but you have to respect them for their choice. It isn't easy to live without meat, and they believe in their ideals enough to forfeit that pleasure.

[@helljumpper]

Noone worth their salt hates vegans for being vegans. We just hate the loudmouthed holier-than-thou minority that see fir to call any omnivore satanic and evil, while holding themselves as godlike for eating bland cookies.

[@SoloBudgetVegan]

I'm vegan, and I love Scott's videos! I respect and enjoy the art of butchery. His videos are informative, have increasingly good video quality, and he displays great game. Keep the videos coming!

[@helljumpper]

You sir, are a gentleman and an example among Vegans. Good day.

[@Krispykashew]

Kecha Thornton helljumpper could not have said it better.

[@JohnBodoni]

Kudos. You treated those crawdads with more respect than most others I've seen.

[@nickotto4539]

we caught them by hand as kids, but then did not know what to do them after that, so back in they went. Great cleaning technique excited to give it a try.

[@hannahrose4266]

This is an important video. Thank you for showing the proper humane way to do it. If we're going to eat them anyways, it's nice to make things easier when we can. Thank you, doll.

[@Leo-we7ht]

Very informative video, unfortunately I have never had the chance to try a crayfish yet.

[@jonnyrox116]

That method would take hours when you cook as many as we do, we use a 50 gallon plastic drum put about 30 gals of cold water and 3-4 cups of salt and stir it to dissolve the salt, toss in the crawdads and wait half an hour, the salt makes them purge and cleans the shell but doesn't kill them, then dip them out with a net and hose them off and drop them into boiling water. We do this outside with 30-50 lbs at a time...good eats!

[@briancarpenter6413]

just boil them

[@K7SJA]

You're a mean one, Mr Rea. . . Here in the Pacific Northwest of the USA, we call those "crawdads". Great little guys if they if they come from the creeks/small rivers, but a little "muddy" tasting if taken from lakes. I enjoy your videos -- thanks for the great work.

[@Imokanurnot]

I'm glad I found your video. The way I learned to clean them for cooking is far more barbaric, hence the reason I never cooked them. I feel a great deal "better" about the process you show here, so I may be able to handle catching and cooking them, as they are plentiful, and a number of my friends and family members do enjoy a good bunch of "mud bugs" or "crawdads" with new potatoes and corn on the cob boiled in the same pot with a little crab boil, maybe a half of a lemon, & some Creole seasoning now and again - just cook 'em up, throw 'em on a plate, & go for it. Some like a good Etoufe as well. Thanks for sharing this!!

[@evilactions1749]

Can promise you everyone from Louisiana that watches this will get a good laugh. Can just imagine doing 50lbs of crawfish this way.

[@genghiskhan6809]

Evilactions anyone from the south in general

[@hilohahoma1547]

CrawDADS f' sho cuzzin'.

[@Smallpotato1965]

You are so lucky that you are allowed to take these from the wild. Over here (the Netherlands), those American crayfish are the same kind of pest that is eridicating our native species, but we are *forbidden* (hefty fine) to fish/set traps for them. The why of this eludes me, but after Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall talked about them a couple of years ago, I did some research and found that fishing for these pests are absolutely verboten! It boggles the mind...

[@Food_D]

Could it be by taking out the alpha males it allows even MORE to breed in their place? That's why you need a license over in the UK (if you are catching multiple) which Scott has/is applying for.

[@Smallpotato1965]

Yeah, something like that (I checked). Apparantly, the reasoning is that unless you remove at least 75 percent of the population, the ones that are left will simply only grow bigger and breed more. To me, that sounds a bit backwards, like throwing your hands up in the air with an "oh, what can we do? I know, we will do nothing." Not only is nobody interested in fishing those 75 percent, but the general public is strictly forbidden to use a trap to catch even a few of them, because "traps are professional equipment of professional fishermen, and anyone who wants to use a trap will have to register as a professional fishery and pay a huge (and I mean HUGE) fee/taxes/stuff. I mean, even if you want to fish on a sunday for a bit of sport in the local ditch, you have to buy a yearly permit, costing around thirty BP, or risk a hefty fine, but even with that permit you are not allowed to use a (no matter how small) baited trap.

[@dimesonhiseyes9134]

+Smallpotato1965 that is insane. in the US depending on the state you live in all you need is a standard fishing license. you just have to follow all the local laws and not exceed the limit, if there is one. of a species is a nuscence it is generally considered open game and erradicate by any legal means. we have our own invasive fish species and usually they want you to kill as many as possible whenever possible.

[@1320crusier]

idiotic govts..

[@1320crusier]

in the case of hogs... tannerite traps and miniguns..

[@arlynnoel]

Good show, Scott! I spent some time in NM, USA, catching the critters at night in one of the northern lakes in round hoops baited with cans of the cheapest store-brand cat food I could find. Two foot strings were attached to champagne corks that floated on the surface. I set out about 6 or 8, gave it a little bit of time, then paraded along the "trap-line" with a flashlight and a bucket. It wasn't unusual to get 3 or 4 at a time in each set and after an hour return to the camp fire on the beach, prep and feast. My French wife was fond of the flambé technique.

[@browner8125]

another fantastic video by Scott. I'll definitely be using the waste removal process

[@battmann678]

We eat these regularly and have devised a simple method of dispatching them by the hundreds. We force them to watch a looped video of Hillary Clinton laughing. They don't really die, rather they commit mass suicide. It's like Jone's Town all over again.

[@SamuraiPie8111]

animal abuse

[@thewintergardener2873]

She would refer to such Crawfish as "Deplorables"... LOL

[@MisterCOM]

genius they would just jump in the water themself

[@TheAlhambralions]

Batt Mann I make them watch Alex Jones they get all cucked out on conspiracy theories and so they taste better.

[@alexisfishinhuntinandfarmi2923]

Batt Mann hahaha

[@beenjamin594]

BIG MEATY CLAWS

[@ModestCube100]

What did ya say... punk!?

[@charliemac9057]

Scott. You are a freakin' champion. Thanks for helping all us city boys and girls deal with the "unpleasant mechanics" behind our fancy meal. From Charlie in Sydney, Australia.

[@SteveAbrahall]

Good on ya Scott! I don't like the killing side of things but your honest and open about this - that in it's self takes a lot of guts, openness and courage. And yes I love me meat & 3 veg!

[@bittertongue96]

Very informative! thank you! All the way from Asia here!

[@suffolkngood]

Hi Scott, I look forward to the next vid on crayfishing. I am a licensed crayfish trapper ( unlike most !! ) and appreciate the damage that these animals are causing to the environment. It is unfortunate that the Environment Agency have not promoted this For example ; the erosion of river banks due to burrowing, the consumption of fish roe and the spread of disease to our native crayfish. Oh.... They taste great.... I usually drop into boiling water as well. I'll wait for your next vid and perhaps swap recipes !?

[@TheScottReaproject]

+suffolkngood definitely mate, I go through all the legislation in my next video and I hope there will be a few more crayfish video before they start hibernating..many thanks

[@damillionmalania]

I'll swap recipes with you if you want! :) In Sweden we make a kind of "stock"/solution on the side while we cook our crayfish which the cooked crayfish then go into. They then get to soak up the flavors up overnight in the fridge. It consists of water, porter, loads of salt, a bit of sugar and crowns of dill. Never had crayfish any other way because it's the only way they are prepared over here, so it'd be interesting to hear how others prepare them.

[@cmanchan12]

+damillionmalania in Louisiana where I crawfish we just mostly get a pot of water and seasoning(cayanne,red pepper,salt) and liquid boil and put them in there

[@damillionmalania]

chanchan1200 Thanks! My prejudice of americans eating everything with ketchup is finally broken! :D I bet you could use crayfish meat in a seriously good gumbo, though I havn't thought of it before.

[@thewintergardener2873]

There's a great variety of pre-packaged Cajun seasoning blends we use when cooking them called Crab Boil... As for the Crayfish, the tail meat is excellent in Gumbos, and can be used as a substitute and many Shrimp dishes..

[@joeday397]

great video,I have gathered crawdads my whole life,but never used that trick to take their waste sack out.Definitely going to give it a go the next time I get some though!

[@JohnS-mu3hr]

Interesting and educational as always, thank you!

[@GIBiochip]

Vegetarians Against Gratuitous Injustice to Nature's Animals will not be happy about this. You'll most likely be on V.A.G.I.N.A.'s most wanted list now!!!

[@annabellavetra]

Hmm I see... you don't like V.A.G.I.N.A.S's

[@frankbartlett3264]

u throw it in some salty water and then boil it in some cajun crab boil

[@HammerBoi225]

frank bartlett yes

[@mwilson70201]

Wc Fields The salt acts as a laxative causing the grayfish to purge their intestine in short order. We may not know everything, but we know that. Cheers.

[@TheDeadDudeWalking]

I'm pumped! Favourite thing about living in Louisiana were the crawfish boils.

[@SpLiC3]

One of the best things about the USA, having a party with a huge massive vat of these buggers boiling away then chucked onto a huge table with lime wedges and that popular seafood seasoning, i forget the name, old summat i think. A crawfish boil party they call em and they are some of my finest memories.

[@trix798]

@Scot Rea, CAN U PLS TELL US THE NAME OF THAT SONG? thank you

[@mrmat2007]

Glad you included the digestive tract removal, it a very little known trick. I wonder if it'll work on lobsters? Might try tomorrow when mine arrive. Will let you know.

[@albertomartinez8320]

Well? Did it work?

[@1Atheeleyah]

Yeah for real

[@this.handle.is.alreadytaken]

Did it work?

[@fuzzball57]

Mr. Rea... Love your video's, I've learned a lot about the processing and cooking different meats. Almost feels like I'm attending an online class. Neat trick on taking out that gut sack. THANKS.

[@davidsonpedro1494]

Thanks Scott, I learned so much from you bro!

[@GurrasGarage]

Here in Sweden we boil them, drop them head first in boiling water they die instantly

[@briancarpenter6413]

boiling water is hot!

[@abesapien9930]

No, their muscles just freeze up. They very likely feel it. Take a few extra seconds to kill it humanely.

[@GurrasGarage]

Abe Sapien muscles freezes up 🤣🤣🤣 no they die

[@slow_diver]

Chuck them in the freezer for 10 if you want to chill them out before the iki jime

[@adrianfirewalker4183]

WOW! I grew up in the American South, and never knew about the Waste Sack/"Vein" trick!

[@stuffeyemake6506]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT CLEANING TIP !!!!!! I HAVE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE !

[@Alpay__Kara]

Omg why the sad music .I was like YAS and then the music started and i was like im ready for my funeral.

[@bubbasteamchannel120]

•Slaying tbh• so emo. Why?

[@afrikanqueen2519]

Zayn. woods true that music makes me feel like „"we should give that crayfish a proper burial "

[@ryefry]

I enjoyed it. Crayfish have fewer nerve endings and they don't experience "pain" like higher evolved creatures. That's why they can lose claws in the wild and keep living.

[@TheDrakenZ]

as opposed to humans that lose limbs and keep living? lol

[@billdixon3703]

TheDrakenZ try losing a limb with no doctor help or aid... and no bandages to stop the bleeding.. nothing, just hack off an arm and see how long you live.. now stop being a fuckwit, you understood what he meant

[@TheWolfmun]

Oh god..im laughing my ass off here....its food man..who cares if it feels it

[@shadowbanalternateaccount0309]

It's not about fewer nerve endings, it is about nociceptors. Nociceptors are how vertebrates feel pain. No other animal has them. However most other creatures can be shown to be able to act as if they experience pain like we do, which is why we simply dont know whether anything else (ie insects or invertebrates) can feel pain.

[@hugolindum7728]

Of course they experience pain - they behave as if they suffer the same as we do. I still eat them, but accept that it’s not nice.

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

Well I did enjoy that, not in a nasty way, but in learning a new tip on removing the waste vein. 👍

[@gerardoh5365]

Love the musical interlude during the rerun on the digestive tract extraction.

[@srspower]

Scott I don't suppose you need any Woodpigeons do you? I don't live far from you and I have shot around 100 already this week or so and I'm out on them again tomorrow, I can't fit any more in his freezer!

[@TheScottReaproject]

+srspower sorry Bro, I'm on holiday else I would of had some of you, thanks for the offer.

[@TheScottReaproject]

+srspower sorry Bro, I'm on holiday else I would of had some of you, thanks for the offer.

[@srspower]

Scott Rea No probs Scott, I just thought I'd ask you'd be doing me a favour! I shot 33 on Saturday :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqKad6Okr7NmmsU

[@ashrafshehab2153]

srspower

[@kaskaroregano347]

srspower why shoot so many are they overpopulated?

[@nawaazayube1735]

Why u gotta play the sad music when u showed us back how u do it like come on bro its sad enough for me to watch dis then ya gon put sad music on

[@none.892]

But it's food...

[@nawaazayube1735]

for god sake its alive!!!!lol

[@theoriginalpauly]

So was the spider I killed earlier today. I'm already over that one.

[@eddietruly8807]

Love to eat them and use um for largemouth, smallmouth & hybrid bass fishing bait in the late summer...absolutely wonderful. thanks Scott

[@catboyzee]

I needed to see this video. My wife and I went fishing recently and for some reason she kept pulling up crayfish. We released them because we were really after bass and panfish. But in retrospect I wish we'd have kept them and used their meat for bait. I know what to do next time, thanks for posting.

[@aliveandfilming2]

do you apply a desensitization agent when you get ur tats too ?? lol

[@deathbow123]

Probably not, but getting a tat is surely nothing compared to having your insides ripped out 😂 I mean come on that is common sense

[@FootballofOregonBro]

Poor mans Lobster

[@noonespecial1904]

FootballofOregonBro Here I was thinking lobster was poor mans crawfish. Lol

[@jonnycoppiano]

Absolutely love this channel!

[@u0432865]

I liked the message at the end. Thanks

[@OrbitalRescueSage]

Thank you! Those of us that cook and eat well are not the triggered snowflakes. Please continue to show us the truth and how to do things properly. I was wondering if you'd show us how to slaughter other game animals. Like say fish, birds, and small game that might still be alive after initial hit (if shot or bow), or after trap. Think along the lines of, "yay, i have a rabbit in my snare, umm, now what?"

[@heathenfromtexas7264]

What song is that?

[@paulco4145]

Excellent video, thanks Scott!

[@sunbladerr]

Thank you, Great technique for situations where I have to roast crayfish when I don't have the option of boiling.

[@Izzy1989.]

That looks like a crawfish to me not a crayfish oh yeah I’m from Louisiana lol

[@briancarpenter6413]

it's all the same dude

[@noonespecial1904]

I’m guessing, I’m just evil. I boil 40 pounds of them at a time. Will the poop trick work if they are already cooked?

[@LiveFishFood]

Blah blah yes

[@noonespecial1904]

Bruce Banner I just had a crawfish boil.... it does work. Makes for a cool party trick.

[@PawPawMountain]

Thanks Scott, Very informative! Keep'em Rolling!!

[@nemo9xiphos]

Love your attitude sir!

[@davidbradley6040]

Quicker (More Gentle?).Lobsters and Crays do NOT have spinal cords.

[@mrmat2007]

Still killed it though

[@clmierau]

You are correct David, they do not have spinal cords but they do have a nervous system or nervous cord that does act like our spinal cord. Much research is being done using crustaceans because their circuitry is different but similar to ours.

[@guyheinzmann9401]

It's the same concept

[@steve8234]

I was gonna say that... but their nerves do run down their backs.

[@thewintergardener2873]

We always referred to it as a Mud Vein.... Here in Florida, our Lobsters (clawless) have a Mud Vein that if it isn't removed, you'd think you were biting into sand or gravel..

[@antoinedrw]

Get over it it's just food

[@abesapien9930]

It's a living thing first, and then it becomes your food. Nothing wrong with eating meat, but it doesn't make sense to make anything unnecessarily suffer.

[@rev.alexallen9651]

Good video. Very instructive. Very easy to get a crayfish licence. Download the form, put your crayfish pot dimensions in, location in where you intend to trap. 2/3 weeks later you get your licence and tags for the pots. It’s free (well a stamp & envelope) Just been out and trapped 3 monsters!! Can’t wait to cook em up.

[@StreuB1]

Great vid Scott!!! Can't wait for the next!

[@kwcbomb]

Interesting... are you going to do this to 28 pounds of crayfish? Cause it would seem highly impractical. Just put em in an ice bath and purge em then throw em in the boiler, Add corn and sausages and wait for 10 min and then boom you have a crawfish boil. Simple tradition here folks. Been doing it for 25+ years like my daddy and his daddy's daddy before him.

[@abesapien9930]

It doesn't matter if it's impractical. It's not right to make an animal suffer unnecessarily. You wouldn't skin a squirrel alive, so why would you cause pain to a crawfish? Just kill your meat properly, then enjoy.

[@kwcbomb]

@@abesapien9930 it's an interesting technique don't get me wrong, if I'm doing a small boil for a few people it works(40-60 crayfish) sure no problem, but I can't do it with 30 lbs of crayfish. But again for my yearly boil by the time I get to the end of 30 lbs(around 2800 crayfish) with this technique, I'll need another 7-10 helpers just to prep. So I'll use it for small boils when practical, but if you can find something that works for us BIG SUMMER BOIL folks, I'll switch it up. Until then, I boil as my father's father has before him.

[@lesjohnson9740]

Nice one Scott, great to see.

[@maryloumader-pipia9698]

Scott you are awesome thanks for this lesson

[@ihcfn]

To all you people saying just throw them in boiling water, if you actually watched the video and listened he actually says that this is what he does! He is just demonstrating an alternative method.

[@vam2490]

I'm watching crayfish as a pet and get stumbled to this. Very nice.

[@LordMacharius]

I live down in New Orleans, and if you did that to a crawfish here you'd get laughed out of the state. However I'm interested in seeing how you cook them! Always love to see new ideas for how to serve up mud bugs!

[@PaulTreyvaudOfficial]

Love it Scott!!

[@thewintergardener2873]

I'm in Florida and enjoyed the Vid, like I enjoy all of Scott's Vids... We do a lot of Crab and Mud-Bug (crawfish) boils here.. Not sure what the water environment is there in the UK, but here we have to purge the Crawfish before cooking.. We put them in large coolers alive, and fill with water to cover them.. They will purge the sand & mud out of them.. We usually repeat the process a few times to get them clean as possible..

[@briancarpenter6413]

Wow I'm in Georgia

[@donerkebab778]

Amazing, thanks for the tips 👍

[@stevewoods8116]

That was a great trick on the middle tail piece, learned something today!

[@astroscouse5106]

great vid Scott

[@CrustaceousAnnoyance]

I love the sad music when he dispatches the second one! hahaha great video man

[@johnmeeler9737]

great video looking forward to your next one with the crawdads

[@gooutgibbo9529]

Love your videos mate.

[@FarmFreshIB]

Excellent video... again. We live in America, so those crayfish are plentiful. Delicious!

[@stearlingestes7380]

enjoyed the video, we call that the mud vein here in the midwest USA.