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Crawfish Boil Options
Greg asks: We're planning a crawfish boil Memorial Day weekend. I've heard there's an all-in-one seasoning bag you can drop in the boil. Have you heard about this product? Any other ideas? Tom sez: Well, there's regular crawfish boil, which has everything but the lemon and salt in a bag inside that oblong box. Liquid crab boil has become so popular that many people have forgotten this older product. Then there's the granulated mix that even has the lemon and salt, sold in a big jar. It works okay, but something inside me says to use real lemons, real onions, real garlic, and real bay leaves. My instincts tell me that the flavors of the dried-and-granulated versions of those seasonings in particular will not be the same as fresh. But I've never done a blind tasting on it, and it could be that the difference is below the threahold of human ability to detect it. Revised 3/10/08 Copyright © 2008 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved. |
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