06-23-2015, 10:54 PM
[#0000FF]Can't believe you are openly advocating a violation of the regulations.
Purging is not the only solution. If you twist off the tails and then twist and pull on the fin part it will effectively remove the "mud vein" from the tail meat. But they should be immediately immersed in ice or ice water to bring the temperature down.
I have kept tails and claws in a semi fresh condition for a couple of days before cooking and serving.
On the other hand, if you are transporting whole crawdads keeping them on ice is not a sure fire way to keep them good. They "go south" quickly in a whole state once they die. A quick "sniff test" will let you know which ones to discard.
For what it's worth, I DO agree that there should be some kind of "dispensation" for transporting crawdads in a live state if they are meant for consumption. Knowing how things have gone in the past and the present...with bucket biologists...it is understandable that DWR wants to put up whatever roadblocks it can. But they also want to encourage greater harvest of crawdads. So it would help both causes if we could carry them home while they are still alive.
COs have enough trouble monitoring and enforcing more heinous transgressions. There is virtually no targeted effort to catch and prosecute crawdad fans who break that law. Heaven forbid we should ever have to go through checkpoints set up by the crawdad cops.
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Purging is not the only solution. If you twist off the tails and then twist and pull on the fin part it will effectively remove the "mud vein" from the tail meat. But they should be immediately immersed in ice or ice water to bring the temperature down.
I have kept tails and claws in a semi fresh condition for a couple of days before cooking and serving.
On the other hand, if you are transporting whole crawdads keeping them on ice is not a sure fire way to keep them good. They "go south" quickly in a whole state once they die. A quick "sniff test" will let you know which ones to discard.
For what it's worth, I DO agree that there should be some kind of "dispensation" for transporting crawdads in a live state if they are meant for consumption. Knowing how things have gone in the past and the present...with bucket biologists...it is understandable that DWR wants to put up whatever roadblocks it can. But they also want to encourage greater harvest of crawdads. So it would help both causes if we could carry them home while they are still alive.
COs have enough trouble monitoring and enforcing more heinous transgressions. There is virtually no targeted effort to catch and prosecute crawdad fans who break that law. Heaven forbid we should ever have to go through checkpoints set up by the crawdad cops.
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