splitting a lobster

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So after I cut its head, I then cut the rest of the body while it's still on its stomach (i don't flip it over)?

I ask because I once bought a lobster and the split it for me, and what the guy did was take a live lobster, a huge knife, laid it on its back, and WHAM! one chop and it was in 2 pieces squirming away. Lobster halves were still moving when I got home half hour later.

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the picture in your other post seems to describe my step 2. step 3 would involve the lobster still on its stomach, but with the tip of the knife pointing towards the head, not towards the tail.

[nuSFwck]

geo: like others have said, just keep it on it's back, get your knife to the correct spot, and cut the [censored] thing in half. if it squirms/muscles keep moving, just look away or read your cookbook or something. not that hard.

michael: this thread makes you queazy? you can't eat lobster bisque again? how do you think cattle are "put to sleep" before we eat them? i understand your point, but cmon, i think you're overdoing it.

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Btw, lobsters mate for life, right? That + boiling alive = me kinda sad.

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I had to look this one up. Turns out they don't mate for life (do any fish or bugs do this?) but their mating ritual is oddly tender. http://www.gma.org/lobsters/allabout...s/society.html

[snagglepuss]

i have never so much as tasted a bite of lobster for some reason.

[By-Tor]

Use 'paint-the-house'. Wax-on, wax-off is too circular of a motion for lobster.

[geormiet]

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This is horrible. I'd rather not read threads like this because then I won't be able to eat meat anymore. Ignorance is bliss, and I doubt I could ever eat lobster bisque again.

-Michael

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I'm surprised you've even tasted lobster in the first place. I wasn't aware that lobster flavored coco puffs actually existed.

[morgant]

you can bbq them. i worked on a lobster boat in high school and we cooked them this way a lot of the time. turn on weber, throw em on, when the shells turn a pinkish hue, meat is ready.............

[NhlNut]

One restaurant I worked at had a live lobster tank, where the customer could choose their own lobster. one sous chef there hated lobsters. With his bare hands, he would first rip their claws off. Then rip off the small legs. He finished it off by tearing the head off. The first time I saw him do this I was so stunned I almost fell over laughing.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

If OP is upset doing this (as opposed to therowing the bug in a pot of boiling water and letting it die slowly) he should become a vegetarian. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

I wonder if he ever thinks about the process of cow --> burger?