Boil a Lobster

🌍 Anywhere🔄 Repeatable👤 13+

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Boiling lobster at home is surprisingly simple and much more affordable than restaurant prices. Keep the lobster alive until cooking, use plenty of salted water, and time it precisely based on weight to avoid tough, overcooked meat that ruins this luxury ingredient.

Difficulty

20/100Easy

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Cost

$15 – $50

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Time

30min

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People

1–1

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Setting

indoor

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Season

any

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Equipment

large pot

People who tried this

“So let’s get real. 30-90 seconds is a long time to be boiled alive! I’d rather be stabbed in the brain, but sadly then we would have to forfeit the tender delicious meat… What to do? We’ll in school we boiled her alive. Probably because it’s a traditional French school. Anyway she died within 30 seconds or so, which seemed super long to me. I crossed myself. (Old Catholics die hard.) I could hear the squealing of steam escaping from her shell as I silently asked forgiveness for my participation.”

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