INGREDIENTS
•
Ways to get a live lobster into the cooking pot
•
By Peggy Trowbridge Filippone, About.com Guide
•
How to Boil a Lobster
•
So, do you begin cooking with a live lobster or a dead one? Certainly it should still be alive within a matter of minutes prior to cooking unless it has been previously frozen.
•
While plunging the live lobster into the pot will surely be fatal, the thrashing tail is likely to cause burns from the boiling water or at the least, a mess.