Cooking with Daveyboy - Live Crab

Chimerical said:
What was you're original point? Sorry, I must have missed your post.
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This:

glitch said:
Pathetic.

If you're going to cook a live crab, show some respect for the creature rather than tormenting it. You're acting as if it's your plaything.

If you absolutely have to kill a live creature in order to eat it, make it quick. Pratting around tapping it on a kitchen counter and then dunking it in boiling water so it's agony is prolonged is completely irresponsible.
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Chimerical said:
They should have killed the crab better though, but its done now, so whatever.
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No, I'm sorry, but it's not a case of 'whatever'. People can do whatever stupid things they like in the privacy of their own home but to take a video of it and show it off on the internet was, in my opinion, totally irresponsible.

Rainmaker said:
I don't any more. I had to get rid once we moved here as there's just no room :( Once we've moved and got a place with a bit more land I'll start keeping them again. We had black rocks, hisex rangers and light Sussex (a great dual purpose bird).
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Shame about the space issues but that's a nice selection you had there.

Do you think you'll go for the same mix or try some different breeds?
 
Crizzy said:
"crab boiling" - you make it sound like a hobby lol
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Hello. I am Simon Quinlank, I have a new hobby which is a great hobby. It is the crab boiling hobby. You will need for your hobby, a crab, a pan slightly smaller than the crab, a flask of weak lemon drink, and a girlfriend to witness your crab boiling. It is important that the girlfriend be small, so that the crab appears large. Almost immediately after starting your hobby, you will often find your crab will appear as though it does not want to be forcibly inserted into a pan of boiling water. You must resolve this. It is up to you how this is done, but it must be done, and done it be must. The preffered method is by hypnosis, but a table top and gravity will do in an emergency. You may drink your weak lemon drink now, or save it for later. Once you have established that the crab is unable to sense its surroundings, or not, place the crab in the pan. If the pan is of the correct size the crab will not fit in the pan. It will appear at first as though this is a major flaw in the hobby. And you would be right, it is. But not to worry. This flaw will be quickly masked by the second flaw. The flaw of not boiling the boiling water flaw. Eventually the crab will die. If you wish you may eat the crab, though it is not an essential element of the crab boiling hobby. Next week, the hobby of the rat crucifixion hobby.
 
glitch said:
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Oh okay. Fair play.


No, I'm sorry, but it's not a case of 'whatever'. People can do whatever stupid things they like in the privacy of their own home but to take a video of it and show it off on the internet was, in my opinion, totally irresponsible.[/QUOTE]

I'd prefer they did put it on the internet though, then people could criticise them. I'd rather they didn't do the stupid thing in the first place as opposed to doing it and posting a video.
 
glitch said:
Shame about the space issues but that's a nice selection you had there.

Do you think you'll go for the same mix or try some different breeds?
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More or less than same but maybe more emphasis on dual purpose next time. As you may know the black rocks and hisex rangers are commercially bred as layers, whereas the light Sussex is a more traditional dual purpose bird. I don't mind because we only keep them for our own consumption. Slower growing, naturally maturing birds kept 'free range' and fed organically are the order of the day for us.
 
Chimerical said:
I'd prefer they did put it on the internet though, then people could criticise them. I'd rather they didn't do the stupid thing in the first place as opposed to doing it and posting a video.
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To be honest I'd prefer they didn't do it in the first place.

Yes, it's a crab. And granted, the crab's probably got very little awareness of what's going on. But what the video showed was a total lack of respect for the animal. Hell, some people even thought it was light entertainment.

By all means go out there, buy a fresh crab, kill it humanely, cook it, eat it and enjoy it. I'd applaud anyone who did that. I'm just not going to sit by and watch someone pratting around making a joke of it and tormenting the poor animal.

As I've said in this thread, I'm more than happy to kill, cook and eat an animal, but I'll be sure to show it as much respect as I can and kill it quickly and humanely. And I wish a lot more people either did that for themselves or knew the processes behind it so they were more aware about food and where it comes from.

Rainmaker said:
More or less than same but maybe more emphasis on dual purpose next time. As you may know the black rocks and hisex rangers are commercially bred as layers, whereas the light Sussex is a more traditional dual purpose bird. I don't mind because we only keep them for our own consumption. Slower growing, naturally maturing birds kept 'free range' and fed organically are the order of the day for us.
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Fantastic stuff. Were I wearing a hat, sir, I'd take it off to you.
 
glitch said:
To be honest I'd prefer they didn't do it in the first place.

Yes, it's a crab. And granted, the crab's probably got very little awareness of what's going on. But what the video showed was a total lack of respect for the animal. Hell, some people even thought it was light entertainment.

By all means go out there, buy a fresh crab, kill it humanely, cook it, eat it and enjoy it. I'd applaud anyone who did that. I'm just not going to sit by and watch someone pratting around making a joke of it and tormenting the poor animal.

As I've said in this thread, I'm more than happy to kill, cook and eat an animal, but I'll be sure to show it as much respect as I can and kill it quickly and humanely. And I wish a lot more people either did that for themselves or knew the processes behind it so they were more aware about food and where it comes from.
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I agree with all of that, but I'm personally, more aggrieved at humans overfishing the ocean currently (click the link in my sig).

I've just become apathetic/cynical about animal cruelty because humans are doing it all the time and theres nothing we can do to stop it. I don't like seeing abandoned cats in animal rescue centres in cages or crabs getting improperly killed, but I cannot do anything about it because I have no control over what individuals do. I just have to accept that a lot of people are clumsy or worse, malicious idiots. But hey, welcome to humanity.

I do think however that our treatment of animal species in general can be changed and that endangered ones can be saved, peoples attitudes changed and all the rest of it. But I tend to look at that side of animal welfare above the domestic stuff.
 
I think you acted completely irresponsibly, you could have killed the poor creature in a much more humane way. Why is it that you failed to use the 9mm to the back of the head procedure which I thought to be the norm...?

Disgusting.

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I found two dried out crabs stuck on some rocks in Mexico, managed to get 2 home unscathed :D
 
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