Lobsters on sale at Shoprite for $6.99 (with card)

mrincredible

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:02am

But butter is $30/lb.

Just kidding! I wonder if I can man up enough to throw some lobsters in a pot this weekend...

maplewood2005

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:07am

They steam them for you for free.

mrincredible said:
But butter is $30/lb.

Just kidding! I wonder if I can man up enough to throw some lobsters in a pot this weekend...

country

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:08am

I always ask them to steam them a little less than the usual time because they end up continuing to cook when the are wrapped in the foil and get overdone.

mrincredible

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:13am

Oh I know they'll steam them for free, but sometimes they're busy. Plus the timing is best when it goes:

Mercilessly boil lobster
Pluck hot and red from the pot
Place on plate, crack and eat with lots of butter

Without any car rides in between!

debpod

Jun 19, 2015 at 9:21am

i feel intense sadness when cooking, but lobsters are so amazing. My 3 yr old cries when we crack them open though. He may be traumatized.

valley_girl

Jun 19, 2015 at 10:47am

Thank you!! I think we should keep a lobster and cherry alert thread going all summer long!

Klinker

Jun 20, 2015 at 6:11pm

Cooking anything alive is just plain nasty.

I don't agree with Klinker. I love to eat lobster, clams, mussels and scallops. If I can't kill them myself by throwing them in boiling water, I am more than happy to have some one do it for me. Deliciousness out wins nasty any day. Bring it on!

oneofthegirls

Jun 20, 2015 at 7:20pm Edited

Ooh, I forgot crabs. Yum. And raw clams and oysters. Are you kidding me?

MsSumida

Jun 21, 2015 at 4:50am

does anyone know if they are hardshell or soft shell?

LED

Jun 21, 2015 at 6:35am

MsSumida said:
does anyone know if they are hardshell or soft shell?

The ones I got on Friday were very, very hard shell. But well worth the effort it took to crack them

mumstheword

Jun 21, 2015 at 6:40am

Klinker said:
Cooking anything alive is just plain nasty.

As my parents used to say when the kids would go "yuck" -- MORE FOR US!!!!! LOL!

Klinker

Jun 21, 2015 at 10:03am

I don't know. There was a kid when I was growing up who was caught cooking cats this way. It just turned me off to the boiling alive thing. Hard to get that image out of my head. My loss perhaps...

oneofthegirls

Jun 21, 2015 at 12:13pm Edited

Understandable Klinker however, I don't think of lobsters as pets, more like delicious huge palmetto bugs of the sea. grin

wendy

Jun 21, 2015 at 12:33pm

I have fished for fish and skinned them. I have bought live lobsters and cooked them. Based on the nervous system I think I am being kinder by plunging the lobsters head first into boiling water over the flopping around fish. I have also plunged a knife into a lobster's neck prior to baking. That was hard to do. I once decided to only eat what I could kill. That's why I always continued to eat fish of all kinds. Yum and not nasty. Also my best times were spent on my friend's lobster boat, baiting the traps and tossing them back when told to.