Crawfish has long been a louisiana delicacy and there has been many arguments about about using salt when cleaning your crawfish before boiling.

Purge crawfish with salt. Crayfish, yabby, crawdads, can be purged by only using fresh water. Then i did one purge and i noticed the water was lightly brown again when draining. The above photo from lsuagcenter.com shows a purged crawfish using the commercial method on the left and an unpurged crawfish on the right.

Do you add salt to crawfish boil? If you do not have a drain in the container that you are using to purge the crawfish, use the crawfish sack to keep the crawfish. Many times, you will see.

Three purging systems were compared in a study: A short rinse is great for cleaning existing waste, but the salt will not cause them to purge themselves. Though not a wide practice, some commercial crawfish farms, will soak the crawfish away from their food source for 24 hours to purge the gut, but the saltwater bath.

The cardinal rule is to purge and thoroughly wash the crawfish before boiling them. Now it could be that the. Pour the sack of live crawfish in a plastic children’s pool, large tub, or a large ice chest.

Fill the tub with water so all the crawfish are covered fully. Freshly harvested red swamp crawfish were subjected to four treatments that simulated different preparation methods for cooking: (1) no washing (controls), (2) crawfish.

I 'cleaned' the crawfish 3 times until the water was perfectly clear. The water will start to become cloudy and brown as the. Place the crawfish into a cooler or other plastic tub with plenty of room in it.