Crawfish excrete waste through their gills, and this takes time.

Why purge crawfish. Salting can help clean crawfish better by making them vomit and purge any waste or mud lodged in their stomachs. Some cooks purge with salt, adding a. The cardinal rule is to purge and thoroughly wash the crawfish before boiling them.

Clean the shite out of them until. Fill the tub with water so all the crawfish are covered fully. Salt them again after stirring them up with a large instrument.

proper purging method dump the live crawfish into your ice chest (make sure the drain is closed). Dumping that in ice chest. Place the crawfish into a cooler or other plastic tub with plenty of room in it.

The water will start to become cloudy and brown as the. Repeat until all water rinsing and draining runs clear. Do not put your ice chest in the grass.

Don't waste you time or salt!!! Pour the sack of live crawfish in a plastic children’s pool, large tub, or a large ice chest. Do you add salt to crawfish boil?

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. Fill ice chest with crawfish, spray/fill with water, drain dirty arse water. A short rinse is great for cleaning existing waste, but the salt will not cause them to purge themselves.