The history of boilCrawfish.com...

I grew up in South Louisiana loving the fresh fish, shrimp, crabs, oysters, crawfish, and the like. Especially the crawfish. I remember waking up on Saturday mornings and inhaling my parents' left-overs from their dinner at a seafood restaurant the night before for breakfast. The seafood was so good and so prevalent that I really took it for granted.

After graduating from LSU, I moved to Dallas where I live now. You would think that living only 3 hours from the Lousiana/Texas border and with all of the people from Louisiana that live here, you would be able to get good crawfish in Dallas. I certainly figured that I would be able to when I moved here anyway. Boy was a I wrong. While there are a few places that do alright when you just have to have some, nothing compares to a day of cooking crawfish with your family and friends.

Several years later, I decided that I needed good crawfish more often than the one or two times I could get home each year during crawfish season. So, I set out to find a pot and burner of my own. There were turkey fryers with boiling baskets everywhere, but the largest one I could find was only 34 Quarts. And that just isn't big enough. I tried calling all of the places I could think of back home, but nobody would ship one to me. Finally, I started searching online. While there were lots of places online selling large "Stock Pots with Boiling Baskets", I was looking for more. I wanted to talk to people that had used what they were selling. People who could say I've used this pot with this burner and it works.

So that is where I hope this site comes in. I have used these products to cook crawfish. I'll tell you what I bought and why I bought it, as well as why some products are better in some situations than in others. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me through the Contact Us page, or email me directly at andrew@boilCrawfish.com.