I have never understood why lobsters aren’t just killed before boiling. But what do I know? Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.
” Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.”
Big bugs of the sea! But tasty! I told my BIL they looked like big bugs, and ha won’t eat them anymore. His loss, my gain!
“I have never understood why lobsters aren’t just killed before boiling. But what do I know? Lobstetrs don’t even look appetizing to me anyway.”
It’s impossible to quickly kill a lobster except by boiling or electocution. At least the ones that are truly alive straight from the sea and not sitting half-dead in a tank for a month.
I’ve lived in the FL keys and would grill fresh ones at the dock side. I’ve cut the heads off and cut the entire body in half lengthwise. The halves would still fight your tools and try to escape from the grill. They definitely felt the fire until cooked.
IMO, there is no way to kill a lobster without it suffering. They do not lose consciousness like fish or other animals with spinal cords.
I don’t really get it either. Maybe they kill it by boiling it so it is as fresh as possible. What difference would it make to cut the head off just before throwing it into the pot though?
Some people believe the fear a creature feels just before dying sends something into the meat to make it taste less good or even bad.
I’m a meat eater and love seafood, especially shellfish, but it has gotten so expensive I hardly eat much of it anymore. Probably for the best health wise.
Sea roaches...
I hate lobster....the only time i ate one was while starving in the boondocks of Jamaica, i had no choice.
to pay big money for that hard to eat muck...forget it.