What's the most humane way to cook a live lobster?

Answer 1

,,,,,,,,,,these are very sensitive creatures,,,,,,,you have to talk to them, calmly,,,,,,dont take them into the kitchen until you have gained their confidence. Once you have this....dont look them in the eyes, coz if you do they`ll know straight away that you`ve been sweet talking them.......OK....the difficult part, you cover their eyes with a teatowel, so they think its night time and go to sleep.......not you!!!! wake up......OK,,,,,the water has reached boiling point....you whip off the teatowel,,,,and shout at the top of your voice (while laughing like an idiot) I LIED......YOUR MINE, ALL MINE.......then drop them tail first into the pot...easy peasy.

Answer 2

Recipe for boiled lobster with butter.
INGREDIENTS:
live lobsters
boiling salted water
melted butter
PREPARATION:
Bring a very large kettle of salted water to a rolling boil. Using long tongs, quickly but carefully lower live lobsters into the boiling water. Simmer for about 10 minutes, or until lobsters are bright red.
Serve with melted butter for dipping.

Answer 3

Put it into a cool pan of water (with some salt in it) and then very slowly bring it up to a boil-the lobster will gradually drift off into a nice deep sleep before dying and being cooked....I'm sure this is better for it than putting it into a pan of boiling water and listening to it scream and bang on the lid for several minutes...although I may be anthropomorphizing...!

Answer 4

Use the hottest water you can. make sure it is fully boiling and bubbling away.
Drop the lobster in fully and quickly, the shock from the extreme heat will give it a heart attack within 3 - 5 seconds and it will be dead... this works for fish anyway so I guess a lobster would do the same.

Answer 5

How to cook a lobster in the most humane manner has been a concern of guilt-ridden chefs for generations. In order to put the matter to a rest scientifically, one researcher instructed his graduate students to boil lobsters after having subjected them to various relaxation techniques. The students determined which method of dispatching them was the kindest by counting the number of tails flicks heard in the kettle before each lobster succumbed to the boiling water. They tried hypnotizing the subjects (rubbing their backs until they stood on their heads), soaking
them in fresh water, heating them slowly from room temperature to boiling, and other accepted strategies. They found that putting them in the fridge before cooking to numb them up, (as happens naturally in winter), resulted in the lowest number of tail twitches. So, according to modern science, a few minutes in the freezer means less agony in the kettle.
http://www.mainefreshlobster.com/faq.htm

Answer 6

Place in the freezer for around 30 minutes - not long enough to freeze it, but it WILL effectively shut down it's system slowly & painlessly, longer if you wish to 'make sure' but you risk frost damaging the meat.

Then either straight in a pan of rapidly BOILING water - (don't put in cold & bring to boil!!) - lid on & wait.

Any 'squealing' is NOT the lobster in distress - just gasses escaping from the shell as it cooks.

Answer 7

well all I know is you throw it in a big pot of boiling water and close the lid. As for being humane I doubt the lobster really would feel anything while its insides are being cooked.

Answer 8

This is the most humane AND the best way to cook them...

You "dispatch" them before you put them into the water. To do this I use an ice pick. Place it above their brain and one swift push. Its over in a second. Now you can boil them and not have to think about the pain.

THE REAL REASON to do it this way is that the meat will be SOOOOO MUCH more tender. When you boil them alive their mussels tighten,

I do crab this very same way and the difference is amazing.

Answer 9

This was just discussed recently on 20/20. They die immediatley upon reaching the water and the thrashing around taht you may see are reflexes. This was reported by a professor of some sort, I cant recall. If you are still concerned regarding this, maybe you should not eat lobster.

Answer 10

Put them in a pot of cold saltwater and slowly bring it to a boil. The lobster doesn't even know what's happening to him. It's just like the frog experiment where if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, he'll jump out, but if you bring a pot of water to a boil with the frog already in it, it will stay in the pot until it is boiled to death. Presumably, the frog would jump out if it felt pain and the same should be true for your lobster.

Answer 11

You could put the lobster to sleep first, but it would probably wake up after it feels the heat. You put it to sleep by turning it over and rubbing the area between the ribs on the tail. Up and down. This does actually put it to sleep for a few minutes.