Lobster Tails on the BGE

bwalek

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

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

travisstrick

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

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

IrishDevl

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

Hillbilly-Hightech

Here's a suggestion w/ some good tips:

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

HTH,
Rob

Hillbilly-Hightech

...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

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

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

Oh man that would be one humungous feast

BOWHUNR

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

Mike
Omaha, NE

travisstrick

Good eye mike,
That was in key west. 09

Squeezy

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

travisstrick

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

muskyjohn

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

 

 

henapple

I drizzle with evo, s&p

TFols

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

How did you do them @TFols?

Eggcelsior

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

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

Stoater

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

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

TFols

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

SouthernSmoke

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

@TFols Thanks!

Chubbs

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

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

Eggcelsior

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.