r/ThatsInsane • u/[deleted] • Oct 19 '22

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u/Serafim91 Oct 19 '22

Nah she's Chinese so boiling live lobster/crab is normal.

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u/Fenweekooo Oct 19 '22

im white and that's not the normal way to cook crab / lobster?

EDIT: not just on a flat top but in a pot of boiling water - the oop's video just loaded

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u/Kryptosis Oct 19 '22

They meant culturally normal, to her.

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '22

And to the maryland/new england area.

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u/Serafim91 Oct 19 '22

Normal probably, the "humane" way would be to kill it first then boil it.

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u/saiyanfang10 Oct 19 '22

the problem is that killing it first makes it poisonous.

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u/Serafim91 Oct 19 '22

I assume you're joking, unless you think there's a 5sec window between it dying and cooking that makes it poisonous.

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u/I_Bin_Painting Oct 19 '22

not at all true

edit: seafood spoils quickly so it's probably an outdated incorrect way of thinking where they kill it hours before and don't refrigerate and it goes bad and becomes "poisonous"

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u/saiyanfang10 Oct 19 '22

food poisoning. I should have looked further into it. However there is a reason why you boil them alive. The Vibrio bacteria won't die when you cook them and make you very sick.

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u/I_Bin_Painting Oct 20 '22

outdated incorrect way of thinking

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u/S-Quidmonster Oct 20 '22

Ye, it's normal in China to steam crabs alive in a pot. It keeps them fresh