Thread: Is cray fish overrated or am I cooking it wrong?

Originally Posted by Maca49

That’s a piss off, being in Kinloch with a frozen cray! They’re great fresh, but watery from frozen. It’s a bugger cause I keep getting them given to me. Her daughters boy friend thinks she likes them, she cannot disappoint him

Thaw them, cut in half and de-poo and de-pootube them, marinade in white wine with a drizzle of cheese and a sprinkling of crushed garlic and some paprika or a very light dusting of curry powder and on the BBQ or into a frypan until cooked. They will not seem splushy or watery after that and are damn tasty.

marinade in white wine

any one who cooks crayfish or marinades crayfish in wine deserves to be made to drink wine coolers until they are horribly sick and become repentant

fark!! just went to new world for some milk, walked passed the fish counter
$80 for blue cod!

I’d take prawns over crayfish, especially some big tiger prawns

Originally Posted by No.3

Thaw them, cut in half and de-poo and de-pootube them, marinade in white wine with a drizzle of cheese and a sprinkling of crushed garlic and some paprika or a very light dusting of curry powder and on the BBQ or into a frypan until cooked. They will not seem splushy or watery after that and are damn tasty.

I’ll try, without the garlic, can’t stand it!

The people expressing strong opinions in favour of crays will be over-represented in the answers to this thread

I've had fresh crays nicely cooked with a big buttery chardonnay and honestly I could take or leave it so you are not alone if your reaction to crays is "meh"

If everyone liked the same thing there would only be one flavour..

How can anything so white come out the other end so BLACK .

Definitely overrated, the miso will eat it all day long boiled from the pot, Just bland imo. I do eat it drowned in garlic sauce or some sort of sauce with flavour. The meat itself has nil flavour.

For me texture is just as important as taste if not more so. If I do have one I like them split, mostly cooked with salt, pepper, butter & paprika and finished/crisped up meat side down.

Originally Posted by gonetropo

fark!! just went to new world for some milk, walked passed the fish counter
$80 for blue cod!

That's mental.

Food prices in NZ are a joke.

Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Don't you live by the sea?
Tell her to get the lazy bugger to cook them before he gives them to her. But give her definite cooking instructions to pass on.

Yes Sir

Originally Posted by norsk

That's mental.

Food prices in NZ are a joke.

Yep Islands in the South Pacific and our fish prices are based on what overseas markets are willing to pay, no consideration given to given to the idea that xx% should be sold retail in NZ for a price set buy the public, i.e. if 90+% doesn't sell the price is too high.
Sorry. Rant over, just a pet peve of mine.

Originally Posted by m101a1

How can anything so white come out the other end so BLACK .

sort of the anti michael jackson

Wouldnt say its anything out of this world, the best thing Ive done with crayfish is make a crayfish pizza

Originally Posted by No good names left

Yep Islands in the South Pacific and our fish prices are based on what overseas markets are willing to pay, no consideration given to given to the idea that xx% should be sold retail in NZ for a price set buy the public, i.e. if 90+% doesn't sell the price is too high.
Sorry. Rant over, just a pet peve of mine.

worse the big companies have effectively destroyed the small local fishing fleets and the quota has gone to a few who just say screw local market price its rape and pillage for maximum profit