Your live Welsh lobster has been carefully packed in Tenby for its journey from the Pembrokeshire coast to your door. Follow this live lobster care guide to keep your lobster cool, damp and in the best possible condition before cooking.
Open your delivery box as soon as possible. Keep your lobster cool, damp and away from direct sunlight or heat.
If you are not cooking it straight away, keep it refrigerated in suitable ventilated packaging. Keep the gills from drying out with clean damp material such as seaweed, cloth or paper.
Keep the lobster cool and maintain humidity with clean damp material. It should be damp rather than soaking wet.
Avoid direct contact with ice or frozen gel packs and never leave the lobster sitting in melted ice or pooled water.
Do not place a live lobster in fresh water. Lobsters are marine animals and should not be submerged in tap water.
Keep handling to a minimum and keep the lobster somewhere quiet, cool and away from bright light.
Have your cooking equipment and ingredients ready before removing your lobster from cool storage. Keep the claw bands in place while handling and minimise unnecessary handling.
Use an appropriate humane stunning and killing method before cooking. Chilling can reduce activity, but it should not be relied upon as the killing method.
Exceptional seafood deserves careful preparation. Humane stunning and killing should take place before boiling, baking or further preparation.
Specialist electrical crustacean stunning equipment, used correctly, can rapidly render a lobster insensible. If you are not confident carrying out humane preparation yourself, seek help from an experienced fishmonger or seafood professional.
Mechanical methods require skill and must rapidly destroy the relevant nerve centres. The lobster should be insensible before cooking begins.
Food safety: Cooking time varies with size. Check doneness rather than relying only on a fixed cooking time.
Keep it simple and let the lobster do the talking. Serve with melted garlic butter, fresh lemon, crusty bread, fries or new potatoes and a crisp green salad.
Twist the claws away from the body and carefully crack the shell with lobster crackers or a nutcracker. Remove the tail from the body, gently open the shell and remove the tail meat. Take care with broken shell edges as they can be sharp.
Looking for more advice? Read our guide to storing live lobster before cooking, explore our lobster guides and recipes, or order live Welsh lobster online from Tenby Lobster Co.
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