What are you eating?

[Luke]

Come now Luke, you know if the wife really wants it, there is a good chance of it happening. That and I love shrimp, but like you said they are just ruddy expensive. My goal on dinner most nights is around $5 a head. So after tonight, this will have worked out to be right on point.

I can't justify buying frozen shrimp when live lobster is cheaper*, and I make a mean lobster stuffed lobster. And although I won't advocate buying lobster tails, you can usually find those for $3.00usd a pop.

But I understand fully, if the wife wants shrimp, shrimp it is. And one of these days I want to have a crab boil...Shrimp stock, live crabs, corn on the cob, onions, oysters, clams, and cabbage. Throw the entire pot on a covered picnic table and just go at it. Definitely a reason to have friends over (and chip in too) and celebrate for no reason (which I'm pretty darned nifty at).

*Know what's more expensive than live lobster? Canned tuna. Most people don't believe me until they look at price per weight. Canned tuna is some expensive stuff, and also the most prized food in American prisons.

[fastbilly1]

I worked in a slaughter house for a while. After several hundred pig and cows died by my hands, my days of killing animals are over.

[MrPopo]

*Know what's more expensive than live lobster? Canned tuna. Most people don't believe me until they look at price per weight. Canned tuna is some expensive stuff, and also the most prized food in American prisons.

Doing a quick bit of research puts the good solid white albacore canned tuna at about the same price as lobster. If you're getting the cheaper canned tuna it's about half that price.

[Luke]

*Know what's more expensive than live lobster? Canned tuna. Most people don't believe me until they look at price per weight. Canned tuna is some expensive stuff, and also the most prized food in American prisons.

Doing a quick bit of research puts the good solid white albacore canned tuna at about the same price as lobster. If you're getting the cheaper canned tuna it's about half that price.

I usually go by the Star*Kist canned tuna for that analogy. And not that fancy pants in a foil package stuff, but oil and tuna in a can. Still close to a dollar a can, right? And I'm talking about bulk, as you don't buy lobster in bulk.

[MrPopo]

I was doing a comparison with Starkist Solid White Albacore, and looking at the AmazonFresh site it was showing up at $0.43/oz, or $6.88/lb.

[Stark]

I worked in a slaughter house for a while. After several hundred pig and cows died by my hands, my days of killing animals are over.

Yeah I can see how that might be a turn off, although I think hunting and slaughtering are completely different. Not that I know from first-hand experience on either front.

[Luke]

I was doing a comparison with Starkist Solid White Albacore, and looking at the AmazonFresh site it was showing up at $0.43/oz, or $6.88/lb.

Per can?

Lat time I did this exercise canned tuna was closer to sixty-six cents an ounce, a fairly big difference.

Shocked: I just watched one of my culinary heroes Jaques Pepin place mushrooms in water. Blasphemy I say. Never, ever clean mushrooms with water (unless they are dehydrated). It takes out all the flavor.

"Mushrooms have no taste"

'Did you rinse them with water?'

"Yes"

'That's why they have no taste'

"But they were dirty"

'They are mushrooms. That's where the flavor comes from"

Far be it from me to tell Jaques how to cook, but my mushrooms will remain dirty.

[Luke]

I worked in a slaughter house for a while. After several hundred pig and cows died by my hands, my days of killing animals are over.

So you'll never squish a spider? Swat a fly?

Lobsters are bugs. Place them in a freezer for a half hour and they won't twitch a bit when you slice their head in two.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Shocked: I just watched one of my culinary heroes Jaques Pepin place mushrooms in water. Blasphemy I say. Never, ever clean mushrooms with water (unless they are dehydrated). It takes out all the flavor.

Giving them a very quick rinse to get off the dirt and grit is perfectly acceptable. Gourmet magazine conducted an experiment a few years ago to determine how much moisture mushrooms actually absorb if you wash them. The magazine found that mushroom's absorb no more water than most vegetables (i.e., they absorb about as much as asparagus), and the magazine recommended washing them. Accordingly, I now give mushrooms a quick paper-towel bath before using them. I have noticed a decrease in grit but no change in flavor.

[fastbilly1]

I worked in a slaughter house for a while. After several hundred pig and cows died by my hands, my days of killing animals are over.

So you'll never squish a spider? Swat a fly?

Lobsters are bugs. Place them in a freezer for a half hour and they won't twitch a bit when you slice their head in two.

True they are anthropods, aswell as some insects, but that does not make them bugs, they are crustacean. I have no problem with other people killing the animals, I just have issues with it now. I say this with two five pound logs of venison summer sausage in my freezer.