Jackson the Lobsterman: Learn how to Cook a Lobster

Today, i will be teaching how to cook a lobster! One thing that people do not usually understand is that, lobsters are not red until AFTER they are cooked. Before lobsters are cooked, they are dark with dots on them. This is a picture of a lobster before, and after it was cooked.

The first thing that you need, is a big lobster pot, big enough to hold and cook the lobsters. It can cook a lot of lobsters at a time. The first thing that you do, is you fill the big pot with water, and then you heat it up until it starts to boil. When the boil is going, you put the lobsters in the pot. Then, since you just put the lobsters in the pot, the boil will go away until the 2nd boil starts going. This is when you start your timer. For soft shelled lobster, it takes about 14 minutes from the 2nd boil, for them to be cooked, and for hard shell lobsters, it takes about 22 minutes.

This is Uncle Art, with the lobster pot boiling, hooked up to a propane tank.

This is what the inside of the lobster pot looks like.

When the time is done, you take the lobsters, and take them out of the pot, with some tongs, and you put them on a plate, or if you want, you can put some lobsters into a giant strainer pot, and you can make lobster pieces, instead of having the whole lobsters out. We had about 7 whole lobsters out, and we made the rest into bits of pieces.

Uncle Art taking the lobsters out of the pot

Put them on a plate, or in the other pot with holes in it.

After you are done with that, you can let the lobsters cool off, and then you can just take them inside, and then you can eat them. You need to know how to get the meat out of the lobster, because most people do not eat the shell. For the claws, there are these things that you can use to crack the shell of the claws, and get the meat from the inside of the claws.

Cracks the claws open to get the meat inside.

For the body of the lobster, you bend the tail flippers back so they all break off, and then you can push your finger along the inside top of the lobsters shell, so that the meat falls out. Then, we have butter sauce that you can dip the meat into. The meat, is usually not as big as the claw itself, because the lobsters need to shed their old shell and get a new one in order to grow. This is a picture of the actual claw of a lobster, and the meat inside of it.