Have a seafood boil in the sand
🔄 Repeatable👤 All ages
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Create a festive beach feast by cooking shrimp, crab, crawfish, and vegetables together in a massive pot of seasoned water, then dumping the whole spread directly onto newspaper-covered sand for communal eating. This Southern and coastal tradition brings people together around incredibly flavorful food that's eaten with your hands. The key is getting the spice level right and timing everything so the corn and potatoes finish cooking with the seafood.
Difficulty
25/100Medium
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Cost
$50 – $200
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Time
half-day
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People
4–20
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Setting
outdoor
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Season
any
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Equipment
large pot, burner, seafood
People who tried this
“But rare is the chance to dig a fire pit in the sand and make rocks molten-hot to cover with foraged seaweed. I didn’t actually think we could finagle this. But once I saw the steam gushing from around the sizzling seaweed-draped pit I realized that it was entirely clambake-able. And, loads of fun.”
“The next day, we dug a pit and got the firewood going before noon. A clambake takes about six hours, from this start to finish. Everyone contributed: from buying seafood to parboiling potatoes to collecting seaweed to pulling off the tarp in unison like a magician with a rabbit hat.”
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