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Old 09-07-2018, 10:24 PM
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I have grilled all kinds of seafood but never a lobster--I have always steamed them.

Do you steam the lobsters first, split them and then grill them or do you split them live and grill them for the full cooking time, and how long is that?
From Meathead Goldwyn’s “Meathead”

“3 tablespoons unsalted butter (see Note)
½ tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 teaspoon chopped fresh tarragon or ½*teaspoon dried
1 teaspoon chopped fresh chives
¼ teaspoon kosher salt (see Note)
Freshly cracked black pepper
2 live Maine lobsters, each about 1½ pounds
2 lemon wedges (optional)
1. Prep. In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the olive oil, parsley, tarragon, chives, salt, and pepper to taste. Let the flavors blend for a bit over low heat but be careful not to let the butter turn brown. Remove from the heat and cover to keep warm.
2. Kill the lobsters quickly and painlessly: Put a lobster in a baking pan or sheet pan facing you. Place the tip of a sharp, heavy chef’s knife between the lobster’s eyes about ½ inch behind them, with the sharp edge of the knife facing you. Plunge the knife all the way through the lobster’s head and slice down, cutting the head right between the eyes, severing all major nerves. The lobster may twitch afterward, but it is dead, and because you’ve cut the nerves, it feels no pain. “Flip it over with its legs in the air and cut the lobster in half along the midsection. Hold the lobster firmly so it doesn’t slip on the work surface. Save any juices that emerge in the pan and mix them into the basting sauce. Repeat with the second lobster.
3. Remove the rubber bands from the claws. Scoop out any roe and tomalley from the head area. Roe, sometimes called coral, is a sac of eggs in female lobsters. It is dark green or black when fresh and turns reddish or orange when cooked. You may even find some in the tail if the female was laying. You can add them to the butter. The pale green tomalley is part of the digestive system. In 2008 the USDA issued a warning against eating it because it filters pollutants, including bacteria, from the water in which the lobster lived. Until our waters are cleaner, you should discard*it.
4. Fire up. Preheat the grill for two-zone cooking with the direct-heat side on warp 10 (maximum). You’ll be cooking with direct heat, and the indirect zone is your safe zone.
“5. Cook. Place the lobsters, shell sides down, over direct heat. Position the shells between two rungs in the cooking grate to prevent the lobsters from rolling. You may have to manipulate the large claw or place two halves side by side “to keep them from rolling. Some folks start them meat side down for a few minutes to get a bit more smoke flavor and some grill marks, but that tends to dry them out. Baste the meat with the butter sauce, close the lid, and baste once again after 3 to 4 minutes. When the meat in the thickest part of the tails is a minimum of 145°F and has changed from translucent to pearly white, perhaps 6 to 10 minutes, the lobsters are done. Baste one last time and remove them.
6. Serve. Crack open the claws with a wooden mallet, rolling pin, meat tenderizer, hammer, or kitchen shears. Serve them with any leftover butter for dunking, and squeeze the lemon wedges on the meat, if you wish. You can suck on the feathery gills and the small legs, or freeze them for making lobster bisque.
NOTE: If you use salted butter, cut the amount of salt in half. Remember, you can always add salt, but you can’t take it away.”

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/mea...15960173?mt=11
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