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The cooking part was all wrong! We’ll walk you through every step of making sure your prized catch is cooked perfectly. But before you can cook your lobsters, you need to be careful handling them. Some lobstermen insist on removing the claw bands before cooking. The rubber bands, they say, impart an off taste to the water and to the lobster. Only salty and experienced lobster lovers should remove them before cooking.

Whether you’re having lobsters shipped to your door or are picking them up at the local pound, learn the best way to handle live lobsters and keep them fresh before cooking. What Size Lobster Pot Should I Use? How do you Cook a Lobster in the Microwave ? Are Big Lobsters Tough When Cooked? How do I Tell if My Lobsters are Cooked? How Do you Grill Live Lobsters? There is endless debate on whether lobsters feel pain or not, but whether the answer is yes or no, we believe it’s our responsibility to give lobsters as pain-free and dignifying death as possible.

15 minutes to help them drift in a numb sleep, then plunging them head-first into boiling water for a quick, kind death. There are a handful of other methods, which you can read about in our article: How to Kill a Lobster Without Feeling Bad About It. Cooking lobster is an art, and if you do not get the timing just right, you might be in for a tough or chewy lobster. We find most of the cooking time suggestions found on the internet are way too long. We’ll give you detailed lobster cooking times, but it is important to know how the time of year impacts timing. In the winter, lobsters have a harder shell and therefore require more time to cook.

In the summertime lobsters have a softer shell and require less time to cook. How big of a lobster pot do you need? Whether you steam or boil, pick a pot with lots of room. Do not crowd the lobsters in the pot, as the heat will not circulate evenly around the lobsters — you want even circulation for even cooking. If you do not have a large pot, we suggest cooking lobsters in batches, or using a couple of pots.