How do you tell whether a lobster is cooked?
"When boiling lobster, how do you tell when it's done? Is there a rough estimate of cooking time (eg: time/ounce, etc...)?
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roughly 9-11 minutes for pound should be ok
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How can you tell if lobster is undercooked?
When lobster is undercooked, the color of the outer shell will still contain some green or black pigments, so the color is closer to that of a live, uncooked lobster. "Uncooked lobster will appear translucent toward the center and light pink closest to the shell," Levey says. "It will be soft to the touch."What does properly cooked lobster look like?
The lobsters should be a bright vivid red color when done. Note that larger lobsters will turn bright red before they are completely finished cooking, so you do want to time your cooking, and not just go on color alone.What happens if you eat undercooked lobster?
You can get sick after eating raw or undercooked shellfish (such as oysters, clams, mussels, lobster or crab) or by exposing a wound or broken skin to seawater. Vibrio infection is more common during summer months. Any person can get vibriosis.Do lobsters know they are being cooked?
A new animal protection law in Switzerland requires that lobsters be stunned before being cooked. Animal rights activists and some scientists argue that lobsters' central nervous systems are complex enough that they can feel pain. There is no conclusive evidence about whether lobsters can feel pain.Lobster Cooking and Eating
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In my comment, I referred to the CookingIssues write-up on Giant Lobsters. The site went down, so it was impossible to get the 'conclusions'. The site is back up again, in a way, so here it is:
“Do you normally get 20 pound lobsters?” I asked him. “Yep,” he replied, “we sell ‘em all the time.”
I decided that the lobster shouldn’t be cooked whole.
I convinced the shop owner to cook the lobster for 8 minutes in his steamer and then plunge the lobster into ice water to halt the cooking.
The body meat didn’t seem set enough to remove, so I cut the body in half.
I bagged [ziploc] everything in butter. I cooked the body for 12 minutes, the knuckle meat for nine, the tail and claw meat for eight, and the leg meat for five.
Note that only the whole lobster weight is given and that the body was cooked together with the shell.
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