Repeat until all water rinsing and draining runs clear.

Why purge crawfish. Pour the sack of live crawfish in a plastic children’s pool, large tub, or a large ice chest. proper purging method dump the live crawfish into your ice chest (make sure the drain is closed). Fill the tub with water so all the crawfish are covered fully.

Salting can help clean crawfish better by making them vomit and purge any waste or mud lodged in their stomachs. The internet is replete with instructions for using a saltwater bath to purge crawfish, often with reference to increased mortality when soaking crawfish too long in the hypersaline. The cardinal rule is to purge and thoroughly wash the crawfish before boiling them.

Dumping that in ice chest. Crawfish excrete waste through their gills, and this takes time. Don't waste you time or salt!!!

A short rinse is great for cleaning existing waste, but the salt will not cause them to purge themselves. The water will start to become cloudy and brown as the. Clean the shite out of them until.

Do you add salt to crawfish boil? Fill ice chest with crawfish, spray/fill with water, drain dirty arse water. Salt them again after stirring them up with a large instrument.

Add just enough water to cover the top of. Do not put your ice chest in the grass. Crawfish has long been a louisiana delicacy and there has been many arguments about about using salt when cleaning your crawfish before boiling.