Christmas dinner.

[alchemysa]

We call them crayfish but most people seem to know them as rock lobster. The big one was about 9lb (4kg).

 

[czechsonofagun]

We call them crayfish but most people seem to know them as rock lobster. The big one was about 9lb (4kg).

Really nice, how do you cook them?

 

[Egon]

That do look like a proper meal there! I'd take that over Turkey any day!


They seem to go by different names depending on location.

These are our local North Atlantic Lobsters! They do grow up to thirty or fourty pounds?? but the market size is about two pounds. It is said the smaller ones taste better.[My wifes Father used to fish lobster]

 

[JDGREEN4ME]

I caught a bunch of "crayfish" as a kid growing up in north central PA...but none of them were that big!

 

[Stimw]

Those look like what we call Spinny Lobster here in Florida. Ours don't have claws, the North Atlantic Lobster has claws, found off the northern coast in colder water.
I knew a guy that caught a 18 pound Spinny Lobster while SCUBA Diving in 90' of water. He said when he grabbed it that it was like grabbing a Jet Ski!! It carried him back and forth across the reef!
I never heard any complaints over Spinny size and taste.

 

[NSBound]

Lobster are kind of a New Year's Eve tradition up here.

 

[Bird]

We call them crayfish but most people seem to know them as rock lobster. The big one was about 9lb (4kg).

I had no idea anything like that existed. They do look more like our little fresh water crayfish (or crawfish or crawdads, depending on where you're from) than the lobsters we're accustomed to seeing.

 

[rox]

That do look like a proper meal there! I'd take that over Turkey any day!


They seem to go by different names depending on location.

These are our local North Atlantic Lobsters! They do grow up to thirty or fourty pounds?? but the market size is about two pounds. It is said the smaller ones taste better.[My wifes Father used to fish lobster]

Eagon- Your lobsters are making me drool..... However what really caught my eye was your stove. I love it, it looks awsome.

 

[jayste]

WOW! That's one big crawdad!

We kicked the old bird to the curb (or in our case the county road ditch) and cooked up a good old elk roast this year. Mmm, that cow sure was some good eating!

Jay

 

[Lloyd_E]

Egon,

Had to do a double-take on the stove. Thought the clearances were close until I noticed it was an electric one...

Lloyd

 

[Ezlivn]

There's nothin like good ole Maine awwww and New brunswick lobstah!! Yessah

 

[Egon]

However what really caught my eye was your stove

Rox:
It may have "Looks" but lacks in performance. The higher end models like this may preform better. It's electric but they also have airtight wood burning models.

Lobster prices are low again this year with many of the lobster men selling there catch by the road. I'm just hoping they make out as their operating cost can be substantial.

Out in Western Canada one can order Steak and Lobster tails. I've always been under the impression that these tails were from Rock or Spiny Lobster but have never know for sure.

 

[jinman]

We call them crayfish but most people seem to know them as rock lobster.

I don't know what Tallyho8 (Dudley) would say, but I'd doubt you'd ever see a cajun rip the tail off one them crawdads and suck the juices out.

 

[brin]

lobstah prices are high ...high ...high in Ga. $25.00 per lb. I need at least 2lbs. just for me ! LOL You fellas in Maine are lucky with your cheap lobster prices but I don't envy your weather and Snow but the countryside is beautiful..Send Lobster to our roadsides at your prices ..

 

[JeremyL]

No one around here is selling such succulent crustaceans by the side of the road. Wish we could get such bounty in the MidWest. Thanks for the visual treat; pass the melted butter.

 

[Bird]

Out in Western Canada one can order Steak and Lobster tails.

Egon, I think that's available just about every steakhouse I know of in this area and I assumed nationwide. I think the first time I ever ordered the "Surf & Turf" was in a Chicago suburb in 1972.

 

[Egon]

Egon, I think that's available just about every steakhouse I know of in this area and I assumed nationwide.

That is probably so Bird but unfortunately my travels have been limited. .

 

[Egon]

No one around here is selling such succulent crustaceans by the side of the road. Wish we could get such bounty in the MidWest. Thanks for the visual treat; pass the melted butter.

Set up a group, make some contacts in Lobster land and have lobsters flown in.

The lobster men here are selling around $5.50 a pound which is more than the commercial buyers will pay them. The stores are selling at$8.00 /# ??? and in the Restaurant it's probably $23.00 / # or so.

After last weekends storm we heard some folks were able to pick lobsters up on the beach although I'm sure that is Illegal.

 

[tallyho8]

I had some of my first crayfish of the year last night even though they sold for over $4 a pound. I just wish they were as large as some of those smaller lobsters and still as tender and juicy as crayfish.

I'd love to have a potful of the small lobsters to boil in some Zatarain's Crab Boil to see how they taste compared to our world famous Louisiana crawdads.

 

[dfkrug]

We call them crayfish but most people seem to know them as rock lobster.

Wow, those are impressive.

When I visited Down Under in the 80s, everyone called them "bugs".

Growing up in MI and OH, we called the fresh water versions, "crayfish".

My friends from Louisiana insist they are "crawfish". The freshwater ones.

Nothing is quite as impressive as the big saltwater lobsters with claws
that come from the NE Atlantic. The New England Aquarium in Boston
displayed some giant specimen that must have been over 30#, a record at
the time.

When I lived in San Diego, you were allowed to legally catch something like
one per season, over a certain size, and no SCUBA equipment was allowed.
You did it with bare hands and used your dive knife as a guage. Those, of
course, were "spiny lobsters", and could not pinch you.