Is cooking lobster easy?

[SneedYstwyth]

I'm feeling like scranning some seafood but if its peak to cook then I won't bother. Probably a microwave job right?

 

[Shamefur Dispray]

How much emotional damage would killing a lobster with your bare hands cause you?

 

[SneedYstwyth]

How much emotional damage would killing a lobster with your bare hands cause you?

Better dead than red

 

[Haramburger]

Better dead than red

But lobsters are supposed to be red when dead!

 

[Miller]

Get some ear plugs so that you won't ear it scream when you put it in the boiling water.

 

[Cats]

yes but you must karate chop the lobster first before dropping it in the boiling water to euthanize it painlessly.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

if you can cook ramen you can cook a lobster. Just boil a pot of water, plop it in, pull it out after a couple of minutes and you're done. Melt some butter and add some minced garlic to it, dip, enjoy

Do make sure that you have a large enough pot and enough water in it, if the water stops boiling it takes the lobster longer to die. idk how much pain they're capable of experiencing but I prefer to be humane.

If you just have the frozen tails you can do it that way, or my dad used to grill them and they were pretty good that way too

 

[Lichen Bark]

 

[Moths]

But lobsters are supposed to be red when dead!

When you turn up the pressure their true colors are revealed

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

As far as science goes, the current consensus is that they cannot feel pain. The various afferent somatosensory nerve tracts throughout the body don't have the necessary complexity to transmit such data (yes, pain is a fairly complex sensory phenomenon compared to other somatic sensations, itch is probably the most complex). Somatically they have temperature (which is separate from pain), touch, pressure, and minimal point discrimination. That's it. Even if their afferent fibers had the necessary complexity to transmit pain, their nervous system isn't really structured like how we normally think of a central and peripheral nervous system for processing complex signaling. Their nervous system is more similar to a distributed node processing model. They have clumps of neurons that do various tasks throughout their main neural plexus. They have a "brain" but it is no more complex or capable of processing than any of the other nodes in the lobster's nervous system.

This is a fairly good diagram of a lobster nervous system:



You can see that their "brain" and nervous system is substantially different from higher level animals, representing a more distributed and less central neural model. Their nervous system is quite simple. They only have about 100,000 neurons for all their neural processing, compared to a human that has 100,000,000,000. The processing power they have is enough for vision, motor, some sensory, reflexes, and that's about it. They completely lack any higher level function.

So, feel free to throw them in the pot without any guilt that you are actually hurting it. Also, any noise you hear from throwing them in the pot is expanding gases trying to escape, not any noise the animal is actually making.

 

[Waifu Days]

You can certainly mess it up. Raw lobster meat becomes dangerous only within a few hours of its death. This is the main reason lobsters are either sold live or frozen. Boiling them alive makes it safer to eat.

 

[Cats]

As far as science goes, the current consensus is that they cannot feel pain. The various afferent somatosensory nerve tracts throughout the body don't have the necessary complexity to transmit such data (yes, pain is a fairly complex sensory phenomenon compared to other somatic sensations, itch is probably the most complex). Somatically they have temperature (which is separate from pain), touch, pressure, and minimal point discrimination. That's it. Even if their afferent fibers had the necessary complexity to transmit pain, their nervous system isn't really structured like how we normally think of a central and peripheral nervous system for processing complex signaling. Their nervous system is more similar to a distributed node processing model. They have clumps of neurons that do various tasks throughout their main neural plexus. They have a "brain" but it is no more complex or capable of processing than any of the other nodes in the lobster's nervous system.

This is a fairly good diagram of a lobster nervous system:

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You can see that their "brain" and nervous system is substantially different from higher level animals, representing a more distributed and less central neural model. Their nervous system is quite simple. They only have about 100,000 neurons for all their neural processing, compared to a human that has 100,000,000,000. The processing power they have is enough for vision, motor, some sensory, reflexes, and that's about it. They completely lack any higher level function.

So, feel free to throw them in the pot without any guilt that you are actually hurting it. Also, any noise you hear from throwing them in the pot is expanding gases trying to escape, not any noise the animal is actually making.

My ganglia is bigger than that. Haha. fuckin idiot fish

 

[NaggotFigger]

Kill it humanely first, then you can boil the killed lobster, and you would not hear its clanking.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Make sure to cook it alive, it will be most fresh and yummy. It's not hard to cook, shucking it takes a little bit more skill and there are parts you can choke on if don't do that right. Make sure to take out it's gills and do not eat the gills (choking hazard) and don't eat the green stuff inside it's torso bc that's their poop.

So, that's the part where, if you lift up that cover shell of the body, on the side, you'll see outside of the body cavity are the gills and those are not really edible. It's really like the lobsters' filter, so you don't want to eat any of that portion.

There are no parts on the lobster that are poisonous. However, the ‘sac’ or stomach of the lobster, which is located behind the eyes, can be filled with shell particles, bones from bait and digestive juices that are not very tasty. The tomalley is the lobster’s liver and hepatopancreas. It is often thought to be a delicious treat; however many advise against eating the tomalley. Much like the liver of other animals, the lobster’s tomalley is the natural filter to prevent contaminants, like dioxins, from entering the system. It is a reassuring indication of the lobster’s natural defense system at work, keeping the lobster meat wholesome, nutritious and delicious.

When many lobsters turn black during/after cooking, I tend to think that they were improperly cooked. When the internal temperature during cooking doesn’t reach a certain level, the enzyme ‘phenoloxidase’ can get activated, resulting in the deposition of melanin, or black pigment. The blackening can affect only part of the lobster, or almost the entire inside of the animal. The only guideline for properly cooking lobsters is that internal temperature must reach 80 °C.

http://www.lobsterscience.ca/faq/

Kill it humanely first, then you can boil the killed lobster, and you would not hear its clanking.

Don't do this, lobsters decompose rapidly after dying. Cooking it alive is how you have it fresh and safe. Do not mess around cooking shellfish. They're also as dumb as an insect. Do you kill a fly humanely?

Lobsters start to decompose very rapidly, for that reason, it is not recommended to cook and eat dead lobster unless you know that the lobster died merely moments before being frozen. In the case of frozen lobster tails, the tails are frozen immediately after being removed from the lobster and do not have time to decompose before they are frozen.

For freshness, it is recommended that you cook live lobsters immediately within 24 hours of purchase. Live lobsters can be stored up to two days if placed in the coldest part of the refrigerator in the bag they were in at the time of purchase or in an open container. It is best to keep them moist with a damp towel or newspaper. Do not immerse lobsters in water or place on ice in an airtight container as they will suffocate and die. If you keep them at this cold temperature as described above, they will stay in their “hibernation state” until you’re ready to cook them.

 

[JamusActimus]

Lobster is an Us and anglo thing right?


Legit never ate this in Europe.
I also feel it's too expensive.

 

[Sparkling Yuzu]

Lobster is an Us and anglo thing right?


Legit never ate this in Europe.
I also feel it's too expensive.

I'm Canadian and it's sometimes cheap here, when in season. You can buy it right from the fishermen.

 

[Cats]

Lobster is an Us and anglo thing right?


Legit never ate this in Europe.
I also feel it's too expensive.

I remember hearing it was a poverty food for awhile, then suddenly some rich faggot ate it and it became trendy. idk. I mean it's good with butter or in a lobster roll but yeah I don't relish the thought of eating a seabug either. at least their meat looks good once its cooked and out of the shell

 

[JamusActimus]

I remember hearing it was a poverty food for awhile, then suddenly some rich faggot ate it and it became trendy. idk. I mean it's good with butter or in a lobster roll but yeah I don't relish the thought of eating a seabug either. at least their meat looks good once its cooked and out of the shell

Seabug is a good name.
I am not disgusted by them like oysters luckily.
It's snot in a shell my nigga.

I admit that octopus is a weird animal but good grilled octopus is incredible.

 

[Cats]

Seabug is a good name.
I am not disgusted by them like oysters luckily.
It's snot in a shell my nigga.

I admit that octopus is a weird animal but good grilled octopus is incredible.

I don't know that I would be comfy eating octopus anymore not after learning how intelligent and dynamic they are. I can stomach eating a barely-sentient animal but octopi (octopodes?) are just a little too close to ayylmaos for me these days

 

[Haramburger]

I don't know that I would be comfy eating octopus anymore not after learning how intelligent and dynamic they are. I can stomach eating a barely-sentient animal but octopi (octopodes?) are just a little too close to ayylmaos for me these days

God I hope aliens are real AND taste good. Imagine if greys tasted delicious, we'd make those motherfuckers extinct in 50 years max