My favorite. I know you enjoyed it.

I don't cook lobsters any more, I can't look them in the eye and throw them in a pot of boiling water. When I'm in Maine, I buy them steamed. When I home we have lobster meat shipped to us, overnight - and make lobster rolls, among other things.

We can get all the fixin's here, and I make the whoopie pies.

We will be cooking lobsters for family visiting from overseas at the end of June, so I was interested in this post. I also dislike the mess of the big pot and how it heats up the kitchen to get it boiling.

My question on your grill technique is if you place live lobsters in the pans?

Yes. I placed the live lobsters in the pan. They were active at first but calmed down once they were covered. I used a double layer on heavy duty foil to cover the pans. Next time I might try a layer of parchment paper then foil to prevent rips. I had to patch a few rips this time.

Make sure you measure your grill. I was able to fit a full size pan and one half pan on mine but it was a tight fit. I also did the corn on the cob in the same size pans, added about 3/4" of water, covered with the aluminum lids and cooked on the grill with the grill cover closed on high for 20 minutes. Roasted baby potatoes with olive oil, roasted garlic, sliced onions & salt & pepper in the same size pans covered with the aluminum lids and cooked on the grill with the grill cover closed on high for 20 minutes. Gave both the corn and the potato pans a shake halfway through the cooking.

Once the corn & potatoes were done, we cooked the lobsters. Covered the resting pans of corn & potatoes with towels to hold in the heat and they were perfectly done and hot when the lobsters were done.

Moosemac, it sounds like an completely delicious meal.

I've never cooked a live lobster, and I doubt I ever will, Michigan isn't exactly close to the ocean, LOL, but I eat them in Maine every time I go there. Seafood of some kind every single day, sometimes more than once a day, I love it.

Happy Birthday.

Annie

Momj47, where do you order your Lobster meat from ?? I would love to be able to get some shipped to us here in Tennessee.. I totally love lobster...

Thanks bunches..

We got our last batch from Maine Lobster Now

They sell just meat, as well as a wide assortment of other packages. I like the claw meat best, and that's what we got. My kids got me the lobster roll kit for Mother's Day. We had a lot of fun and it was very good.

We've also used Maine Lobster Direct when we've ordered a lot of whole lobsters in the past and been very pleased.

I just can't cook them any more (my lobster pots are good for canning), so now we buy the meat. The meat from Maine Lobster Now is not frozen, some of the others ship frozen meat. I find frozen lobster meat to be rubbery and tasteless.

Lobster is such a fragile meat, it needs to be fresh.

I know this probably sounds completely lazy of me but I have a HUGE stockpot that I use probably twice a year to make large batches of stock and I just put it in the dishwasher by itself. It takes up most of the bottom rack with some room left for the cover and maybe a few plates around it. My dishwasher has a 20 minute quick cycle so I don't feel too guilty about wasting water and energy on so few things. I used to wash it by hand but I would always end up with a wet counter, floor, and shirt!

When I spent time in Maine, I realized that I could live on lobster. Love, love, love the stuff.
Annie, did you ever hear of a place called Carl's Bar in Detroit? I ate lobster there as a child.

Thank you so much....I agree...I don't like frozen lobster much...but will eat it if there isn't a choice...I appreciate the links..

Carolyn

I don't feel guilty eating lobsters.

Nasty critters. If you don't eat them, they eat each other.

dcarch

I don't feel the least bit guilty about EATING lobsters, I just can't look them in the eye and cook them, any more, and I don't have to.

They are the scavengers of the ocean bottom, which makes them very important in the food chain.

We don't eat them often, unless we are out to PEI, St. Ann's has a lobster dinner every night except Sunday - and we ate there every night, except Sunday.

Here is a link that might be useful: Link

I don't have any problems at all with eating them, they're basically insects. I do have a problem with causing unnecessary pain to any living creature, including bugs, so I want them to die as quickly and painlessly as possible, even if they are bugs.

KD, are you talking about Carl's Chop House, on Grand River? It was a very fancy Detroit institution. However, like most of Detroit, it's closed now.

Annie

Just a thought, have you tried spraying the pan with Weber grill cooking spray? Might make cleaning easier.

Thanks but it's not that anything sticks to the pot. The lobsters are steamed. It's the smell and the size of the pot that make cleaning them distasteful.

The pot doesn't fit well in the sink so smelly water goes everywhere. I then have to bleach my kitchen to get it clean and smell free.

I see, well I use a bus ban outside for cleaning things like that. No hot water but it works well enough.