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How To – prepare a cooked lobster


00:00:04hi I’m Pete

00:00:06poutine I’m going to show you how to

00:00:08prepare a cooked lobster please my

00:00:11lobster it’s cooked obviously it’s

00:00:14bright orange it’s cool enough to handle

00:00:18I’m going to sit it on my board and I

00:00:23put my board on a tray the reason for

00:00:26this is because inside that log there’s

00:00:28a lot of juice and when that pours out

00:00:30when I cut it I don’t want to lose it

00:00:32cuz it’s delicious if I sit the board on

00:00:34the tray it will collect all the juice

00:00:37around the edge anyone run all over the

00:00:39table and on the floor now it’s not

00:00:41actually secured by a cloth normally I

00:00:43always say put a cloth under your board

00:00:45stop it moving but if I did that you

00:00:47would soak up all the lobster juice when

00:00:49al a taillight like that hold the

00:00:54lobster in the left hand and take a

00:00:56sharp chopping knife put the claw to

00:00:59either side and what I’m going to do

00:01:01poke the knife in here chop straight now

00:01:05between your lobster dies turn a tray

00:01:20round and chop through the tail you do

00:01:31need a shot and a heavy knife for this

00:01:33or you will get nowhere okay and that’s

00:01:40the lobster neatly cut in half

00:01:46now this a little bit here behind the

00:01:48lobsters eyes is where the stomach sack

00:01:51lives slip all that out same thing on

00:01:58this side

00:02:04and the next thing to do is to find

00:02:09little vein that runs down the back of

00:02:13the lobster-tail here we go it’s a

00:02:20digestive digestive pipe and you pull

00:02:25that out I remove the stomach sack from

00:02:28here and I’ve removed the intestine from

00:02:32the tail of the lobster all the rest of

00:02:38stuff anything is good to eat so as far

00:02:39as the claws go they’ve been held

00:02:42together a rubber band top the lobster

00:02:45pinching you so you can take them off

00:02:46now and lobsters not gonna pinch anyone

00:02:51and the last stage is to crack the claw

00:02:56to make it easier for the person who’s

00:02:58eating it to eat to do this you take

00:03:01your chopping knife but instead of using

00:03:03the sharp side turn the knife over to

00:03:06the blunt side and just thump the claw

00:03:13crack it so that it’s easier to eat

00:03:28there we go

00:03:32okay that’s your Lobster prepared

00:03:40clothes are nicely cracked so it’s easy

00:03:44for you to eat or your friend or

00:03:47wherever you’re serving it to stomach

00:03:50sacks been removed that’s where the

00:03:51gritty stuff the lobsters just been

00:03:53eating which you don’t really want to

00:03:54eat again this green stuff here is is

00:03:57called tomalley it’s a lobsters liver

00:03:59and some people eat that some people

00:04:02don’t

00:04:02I personally eat it I don’t think is

00:04:05going wrong with that it’s really quite

00:04:06tasty this orange stuff here is lobster

00:04:09Roe so that’s eggs so this is obviously

00:04:12a female lobster male officers don’t

00:04:14have eggs but that’s perfectly good to

00:04:16eat gives a really nice color if you’re

00:04:19going to chop the lobster up or make a

00:04:21sauce out of it or something like that

00:04:22and this is the nice chunky juicy meaty

00:04:27tail which many people think is the best

00:04:29part of the lobster other people like

00:04:31tab the claws some other people out of

00:04:32this bit is all really fantastic to eat

00:04:35you can serve it like this just like

00:04:37this with some mayonnaise and crusty

00:04:39bread a glass of wine or you can get a

00:04:42lobster to this stage and then pull all

00:04:44the meat over it and cook it in a sauce

00:04:45cook it in a soup and make it in a patty

00:04:48do whatever you like but that’s

00:04:50basically how to prepare a lobster