Some cooks boil sausage with the crustaceans and veggies; others wait until removing the crawfish to cook accompaniments. To learn the art of crawfish ... meat comes off your fingers.” ...

Many people, however, have turned this into an art ... cook, and won't get mushy or overspiced. Nuance: Frozen versus fresh: "If you've got great fresh corn, why are you using it in a crawfish boil?" ...

Have an ice chest handy to clean off the mudbugs—a nickname crawfish acquired for being, well, dirty. It’s not a proper crawfish boil unless the finished product is dumped out for hands to ...