Lobster Tails on the BGE

bwalek · February 2012

Any suggestions for 2 - 1 lb tails...... I'm pretty new at the egg and want to make some nice tails on Valentines day !

Direct or Indirect ??? Time and Temp.

Thank you

IrishDevl · February 2012

I have always been a boiled water and lobster tail kind of guy. Don't know if the egg adds anything here.

travisstrick · February 2012

I have grilled many hundred lobster tail. None on the egg but enough to know how.

Cut out the bottom part of the carapace (in a U shape)

Put Tails Shell down

Grill indirect till the meat starts to separate from the remaining carapace.

Thats it. The rest is up to you. I like to season with cilantro and lime.

bwalek · February 2012

Grill tails are awesome, i definitely suggest trying them grilled if you have not.

IrishDevl · February 2012

I have eaten grilled lobster before, just think boiled is always my favorite.

Hillbilly-Hightech · February 2012

Here's a suggestion w/ some good tips:

http://eggheadforum.com/discussion/1136069/lobster#Item_1

HTH,
Rob

Hillbilly-Hightech · February 2012

...and piggybacking off of Travis' suggestion for cutting out the membrane on the belly - I do that as well - I take a pair of kitchen shears or tough scissors & cut up one side, then the other, then across the middle, giving access to the meat.

BTW, never knew there was a name for that area till Travis said it: "carapace" - learn something new every day!! :-)

smokesniffer · February 2012

What a cool picture, that would keep somebody busy cooking for a while. Check out the "Dwell in the Shell" method. I tried this along with some steaks and WOW it was better than any high end restaurant. Cut the carapace (thanks Travis) and cook @ 400 for 5 minutes and then turn over onto the shell and then pour some garlic butter into the dip of the shell and cook another 5 and then pull and enjoy.

travisstrick · February 2012

Just to brag a little, that was one days worth of bugging. I was there for a month that year. We had to buy a chest freezer to keep them all in till we drove home. I thi k we drive home with 600 or so. That was after 8 of us ate all we could.

smokesniffer · February 2012

Oh man that would be one humungous feast

BOWHUNR · February 2012

Damn Travis, that's impressive!! I can tell by the lobster type you were somewhere South, Mexico?

Mike
Omaha, NE

travisstrick · February 2012

Good eye mike,
That was in key west. 09

Squeezy · February 2012

The carapace on a lobster is it's back if you will, not it's tail.

travisstrick · February 2012

I think you're right. In school, I heard it called a cephalothorax.

muskyjohn · December 2012

Egged lobster,insane!! You will never want it any other way! It is atta this world!

henapple · December 2012

I drizzle with evo, s&p

TFols · December 2012

Did a week up in RI for vacation this past July, bought my XL with me and egged plenty of lobsters. They kick butt on the egg.

SouthernSmoke · January 15

How did you do them @TFols?

Eggcelsior · January 15

BOWHUNR said:
Damn Travis, that's impressive!! I can tell by the lobster type you were somewhere South, Mexico?

Mike
Omaha, NE

Travis rocked those lobsters like the b-52s

Tjcoley · January 15

Does this thread really have 9k views with so little comments? That's 3K views more than man grates.

Stoater · January 15

travisstrick said:

I have grilled many hundred lobster tail. None on the egg but enough to know how.

Cut out the bottom part of the carapace (in a U shape)
Put Tails Shell down
Grill indirect till the meat starts to separate from the remaining carapace.

Thats it. The rest is up to you. I like to season with cilantro and lime.

Is it just me or is there something on that chaps shorts in the photo, just wondering.

nolaegghead · January 15

Can't tell if it's a twig or berry....

TFols · January 15

@SouthernSmoke I split them length wise and grilled them direct at 500 for 8-10mins she'll side down.

SouthernSmoke · January 15

He found Captain Winkie!!!! *In my best Ace Ventura voice*

@TFols Thanks!

Chubbs · January 15

Stoater said:

travisstrick said:

I have grilled many hundred lobster tail. None on the egg but enough to know how.

Cut out the bottom part of the carapace (in a U shape)

Put Tails Shell down

Grill indirect till the meat starts to separate from the remaining carapace.

Thats it. The rest is up to you. I like to season with cilantro and lime.
Is it just me or is there something on that chaps shorts in the photo, just wondering.

Think it is a head of some sort.... LMAO...
:)) I just spit coffee on my monitor at work...

burr_baby33 · January 15

oh, so that's how they catch the lobsters.

Eggcelsior · January 15

burr_baby33 said:

oh, so that's how they catch the lobsters.

Quite literally. Lobsters mate for life, so that thing will be hooked on until it hits the pot.

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