Lowcountry Boil Help

[duckcrazed]

Leave the potatoes out...but if you have to have them, cook'em separate. Otherwise they starch everything up.

[Wolf]

if he's putting mussels in it he is well on his way

My thoughts exactly. Tell them it is called a Low Country Boil not a yankee boil. You are the one from the Low Country so it will be done your way. But like was said above. SCREW IT UP

[Shotunderit]

Taters and anything else beside corn, sausage, onion and shrimp is an insult to "FROGMORE STEW" and it's history. Damn them all!

Damn skippy, and "Lowcountry Boil" is what yankees call it.

[SaltMuck]

Damn skippy, and "Lowcountry Boil" is what yankees call it.

My in-laws call it that and it drives me insane. When I say "frogmore" around them they look at me funny. Its all regional I suppose.

[Rooster1554]

Well, to be fair, I'm actually from the upstate, so my friends called it a lowcountry boil. I've always done them with small red potatoes, but I've seen and eaten them all kinds of ways. I'm up here visiting my sister and mother. My BIL is military, and stationed up here. They really aren't yanks, and will hopefully come back home soon.
The boil was great. Thanks for all the good advice.

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[Rebelyeller]

Something else to whine about.

[Rubberhead*]

Leave the potatoes out...but if you have to have them, cook'em separate. Otherwise they starch everything up.

If you use small newt potatoes, leave the skin on and don't cook them until they fall apart it won't "starch everything up" nearly as bad.

[Stumpknocker]

Tell them to go jump in the lake. Don't freakin do it. Boil shrimp and put a lot of ole bay and Texas Pete on them Whe they are done. Not a little but a lot. There is nothing worse than boring boiled shrimp. Thank me later

GETS IT,,, I have to have a unopened box of old bay when i do a boil it will be empty when im done

[willk]

Do the boil. Dump the boil. Drain some water and then steam the mussels.

[Wolf]

Well, to be fair, I'm actually from the upstate, so my friends called it a lowcountry boil. I've always done them with small red potatoes, but I've seen and eaten them all kinds of ways. I'm up here visiting my sister and mother. My BIL is military, and stationed up here. They really aren't yanks, and will hopefully come back home soon.
The boil was great. Thanks for all the good advice.

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If this is the case then he knows better than to muscles in it.


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[duckcrazed]

If you use small newt potatoes, leave the skin on and don't cook them until they fall apart it won't "starch everything up" nearly as bad.

Always do, but you always seem to get a few that bust. I've found best practice is to just avoid them altogether...

[Fish]

I hate old bay.

[willk]

I hate old bay.

Liar.

[KRT]

Willk, I love me some Texas Pete but I'm finding this to be my go to sauce lately.

[willk]

It has it's applications.

[Swamp Rat]

I may be alone, but the idea of mussels in my low country boil actually doesn't sound that bad. I've had it with partially cleaned blue crabs (lower halves) and it was spot the hell on.

[dmatheny21]

I hunt with some guys that will having the sausage at a roaring boil before we make the first drive, it's damn near a sponge by lunch. It drives me crazy and I refuse to cook it on my cook day. They make a 1/2 hour meal into a half day. They are southern as one can get, but skipped that day on how to cook FMS.

[willk]

Are you there to eat shrimp and sausage or some damn bullshit food you can eat anytime?

I can eat shrimp and sausage anytime.

[dmatheny21]

3/4 of them want there steaks well done cooked on a hog cooker too. I don't cook steaks either on my cook days.

[Moonlight Hunter]

I may be alone, but the idea of mussels in my low country boil actually doesn't sound that bad. I've had it with partially cleaned blue crabs (lower halves) and it was spot the hell on.

The mussel's "liquor" has it's place, but it's over high heat with butter and chopped shallots, minced garlic, freshly chopped parsley and poured over bread. Not in a big pot of boiling spiced water. No way the protein survived that.