![]() This season, crawfish currently averages around $5 per pound, according to Carol Huntsberger, owner of Austin’s Quality Seafood Market. But beware, crawfish prices have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Johnny Horne, who owns the Cajun Tex restaurants in Marshall and Hallsville and is known as Crazy Cajun Johnny on TikTok, recommends purchasing three to five pounds of live crawfish per person, depending on how hungry your guests are. While a lot of crawfish eaten in Texas are shipped in from Louisiana, for the freshest possible crawfish, consider buying directly from a Texas farm, like Bayou Best Crawfish in Sour Lake, Southeast Texas Crawfish Farm in Hamshire, or Texas Crawdaddy’s in Winnie. There are plenty of places to acquire crustaceans, including your local H-E-B or fish market. Courtesy of Bayou Best Crawfish Sourcing Crawfish Since this is a no-silverware, no-plates type of feast, you can never have too many paper towels around to wipe your hands. It might help to put some buckets on the ends of the table for people to discard the shells. It’s not a proper crawfish boil unless the finished product is dumped out for hands to reach out and grab whatever speaks to the stomach, so you are also going to need a long table (six feet or longer, depending on how many guests you are expecting) covered with newspaper, butcher paper, or even a fun tablecloth. Have an ice chest handy to clean off the mudbugs-a nickname crawfish acquired for being, well, dirty. ![]() You’ll also need a gas or propane burner big enough to hold the pot. ![]() You will need a large stock pot with a basket insert (sixty-quart is good), which runs anywhere from around $80 to $180 and can be purchased at Home Depot, Walmart, or Lowe’s.
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