http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw6LBbeXTww

figures he’d think so and be sooo emphatic about it

PS. prom’s lobsterarium is masterful. He has lived among the Guidos and learned their ways. I did not know that about the soft/hard shell. I wonder, are the soft shells on their honeymoon?

Just poking at you! I stand in awe of anybody that was able to mskethe theatre their life, so of course I must mock you constantly. My ego demands no less!

No need for beer, I wouldn’t do it. Salted water. Like for boiling pasta, bay leaves are good, though, justs a few.

The best way to wow people with lobster is simply making sure you have good quality lobster. Now don’t get me wrong, lobsters are like blowjobs, there is no such thing as a bad one, as long as it was alive when you cooked it. But there are good lobsters, and great lobsters.

Lobsters go through a periodic moulting, when they shed their shell, and then grow a new one, a bigger one, to grow into.

A lobster just before it moults, it has a very hard shell, and when you cook it, it will be abundant with meat, when you crack the claws, the meat will almost pop out like popcorn, a lobster just before it upgrades to a new suit is popping out of the old, now too small suit.

When the shed their shell, they pump up their flesh with water, expand themselves like a balloon, so the new shell will have room to grow into. A lobster that has shed recently, will have a softer shell, it will give a little when you pick it up and it will be noticeably less dense, it will weigh less than a lobster that has not recently shed. When you go to eat it, you will find little bits of watery meat inside shells that are noticeably too big.

It may be impossible for you to find the good, hard shelled lobsters bursting with meat, they are diverted off to the high end restaurant trade. You only have a chance at the good stuff at a really good seafood purveyor. The lower end ones will pretend they don’t know what you are talking about if you ask about this stuff, by the way. Around here, the soft, recent shedders are cheap, $5.99 a pound, the good ones will be above $10 a pound.

Its not bad if all you can get is the recent shedders, but you will need more, thats all. Its still a great blowjob.

Now, cooking them the thing is to do it fast. You can boil them or steam them. Unless you have an outrageously hot stove, and a big pot, you can’t steam them at home if you are cooking more than one or two. You want them to steam fast, and if you put a few lobsters in a pot with a half inch of water (thats how you steam) it will take too long unless you have professional level BTUs coming from your stove. You are better off getting the biggest pot you have, with a lot of water in it, and getting it to a roiling boil, and the more lobsters, the bigger pot you need.

You do not want to have the lobsters, being cold, to bring the water temp way down, and then take it a long time to come back to a boil.

If you have a pot that is so big, the water doesn’t stop boiling when you put the water in, then the rule is 10 minutes for the first pound, 5 minutes per pound after that, for 1.5 pound lobsters, thats 12 to 15 minutes boiling. If the water stops boiling when you put them in, you have to count from when it comes back to a boil, but you can shave some time off.

General advice: Biggest pot you can get your hands on, salted water, to the point its like seawater, and make sure it stays boiling the whole time, which is only possible if you have a big-ass pot of water, like a turkey fryer on one of those outdoor propane boilers, going at mad frenzy level.

Its not easy to boil more than 3 or 4 at a time at home, unless you use multiple pots. The thing is, again, cook them fast, don’t put so many in the pot, so many that it lowers the temperature and it takes it 20 minutes to come back to a boil. Its like cooking pasta, you want the water to stay boiling.

If I were serving lobster to more than 6 people at home, I would go with broiling rock lobster tails, easier to do, though they are not the sublimest of lobster, the maine lobster.

Naturally, had I been invited I might have had a very different impression but as I wasn’t…

Hold on. Amazon’s pitching me “The Mr. & Mrs. Happy Handbook” by Steve Doocy. Does it include advice from Mr. Penis and Mrs. Vagina?