Shell Out, Serving Lobster

Did you do the surgery yourself?

I don't know where to begin ? .............it's beyond amazing. How long did it take you if I might ask to cut those lines so perfectly ? I did a lobster last week (soup) and cutting the claws was just a pain. Not hard to do, but a pain.

You can come and serve my boss one these any day. He refuses to use a knife for alot of things. (why ?)

At home though, its all the lobster utensils and garlic butter fingers, a bib, a few oyster shooters , an expected shell flying somewhere

across the table, a squirt of juice.....its the joy of biting into the shell and getting that sweet meat between your teeth....does it for me.

The scallions serving as antennae.....great idea.

Now how the heck did you do that?

Makes more work for the kitchen, but I bet the customer is happy.

In Japan, it's very common to do something sort of similar to crab legs. You use a smallish deba knife, a very heavy, stiff, single-beveled Japanese knife used for just about anything seafood that involves bones. And basically you shave a fat strip of shell right off along the leg, exposing the meat to chopsticks. The claws can be shaved or cracked with the same knife. But it would take a heck of a steady hand to do it anything like as neatly as you've done this lobster.

Nifty technique but...

When you use a saw, you get sawdust.  Or shell dust, in this case.  How do you dispose of it? I would not think it is very good to eat.

Mike 

Could the "shell-dust" be rinsed off without losing too much flavour?

That is immaculate.  Thank you for sharing.

+D.

"...make sure you plug your electric tool in a GFP outlet, or use a cordless tool."

Yeah... God forbid you would electrocute the lobster! 

Mike