Saving private Cray
Submitted by Sea Hunter on Sat, 2020-11-28 17:34
G'day all. It's been a while since I have visited this place. I tried pickling some Crays last session. It's oookkk but nothing to write home about. I put it in a brine over night and in the morning it was magnificent. I then did a pickle and slowly brought jars up to 85 deg. Waited till all bubbles left the jars and left to cool on the bench.
The final product was a bit flowery. Any suggestions on preserving Crays- ie Saving Private Crays
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timboon
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In my opinion your fucking
In my opinion your fucking around way to much, just chop some different shit up with some different vinegars and see what you enjoy the most.
Its not hard to accumulate a fuckload of pickled cray if you onto em.....
Dont worry about fucking around with bubbles and temps....
Throw the cray in, throw all your shit in, give it a shake, make sure the cray is under the crap you've thrown in....
Walla, just try not to eat too much daily, that is the hard part!
Sea Hunter
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Thanks Timboon
Love it!!
do you know if it will keep in a jar or is that just to be eaten within the week type deal?
Pescatore70
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The secret is getting the
The secret is getting the right brine mix S.H and ensuring you get any air out. The rest of it is pretty simple.
I always use a red wine- grape seed oil mix as it won't congeal in the fridge and doesn't over power the taste of whatever seafood you are pickling
Add sliced chilli, peppercorns and you're on a winner.
scottland
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Mate
Try the French salad dressing mate it goes shit hot no mixtures to worry about delish
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Jackalchub
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Keep it simple.. par boil -
Keep it simple.. par boil - cool. put in jar with diced chilli, garlic, pepper and praise italian dressing.
Tiny drop of grape seed oil on top. job done.
quadfisher
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Pickle me grandmuvva !
I cant see why my pickled occto mix wouldnt work ,,,,,,,,,,,,, boil cray for a few minutes to loosen meat in shell, we use those jars with seal and wire clip,
add to white malt vinegar approx 70%,,,,, grape seed oil max 20% and then 10% of sweet chilli sauce and tablespoon of honey , shake for 1 minute ,
into fridge and enjoy for next few weeks. ( you need to like sweet chilli sauce to enjoy this pickle mix) ......
quadfisher
Pescatore70
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Before i forget and it was a
Before i forget and it was a mistake i made often.
Dont pack the cray meat or occy.
Has a tendency to lock small amounts of air and thats bad. Real bad.
Mike17
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Way to complicated
Keep it simple
Dice up raw cray tails throw in a jar with half cheap italian dressing and half nice malt vinegar. Put in some pepper corns , chilli, onion, capsicum or whatever suits your taste but with just the plain mentioned mix it's still nice.
Leave in the fridge for 2 days and rip the top off and hook in .
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little johnny
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Scottland on the money
But I add 50/50 spicey malt vin /water . Don’t heat up just drop raw cray in there. Smoked cray unreal I only use French salad dressing really good
squalis
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crays
I tail mine removing the intestine and visera. It is now legal to store them use a freezer bag remove as much air as possible. freezing legal quanities . You can barbeque them stir fry or boil once thawed.