Us hanging around while we purge the crawfish of their excrements.

Purge crawfish. Pour the sack of live crawfish in a plastic children’s pool, large tub, or a large ice chest. Dumping that in ice chest. Crawfish are not like shrimp or lobsters that live in oceans and get to live in relatively clean waters.

Don't waste you time or salt!!! The cardinal rule is to purge and thoroughly wash the crawfish before boiling them. While you need to clean the larger brothers of crawfish, they do not need to be purged,.

Do you add salt to crawfish boil? Even though crawfish are caught in traps that have been placed in the water, crawfish require air to. A short rinse is great for cleaning existing waste, but the salt will not cause them to purge themselves.

Stir them with a big utensil, then salt them. The following information will provide you with the proper method for purging crawfish. Crawfish excrete waste through their gills, and purging takes time.

Some cooks purge with salt, adding a. Shake your salt box or grinder generously over them. 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.