How to Cut Lobster | Tips from a Chinese cook! | The Woks of Life

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Published 2024-01-19

Learn how to cut lobster for your favorite dishes, from Chinese Ginger Scallion Lobster to a Lobster Fra Diavolo! Bill takes you through everything you need to know!

For anyone sensitive to live seafood processing, please skip 1:40 to 3:50 or avoid watching this video entirely.

With the year of the Dragon coming up for Lunar New Year, we wanted to make sure everyone is well prepared to cook lobster. It's our banner dish this year as "lobster" in Chinese translates to "dragon shrimp" and Chinese New Year revolves around a good play on words to ensure a prosperous and happy new year.

0:00 Intro
0:21 Put the lobster in the freezer for 5 min.
0:32 Checking your lobster for freshness
1:39 What knives to use to cut lobster
1:48 Humane dispatch (Trigger warning)
3:50 How to cut lobster
9:24 What to do with lobster legs
9:39 Cleaning out the lobster sand track
10:19 Rinse the lobster to get rid of shell fragments
11:25 Outro

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All Comments (11)

@Thewoksoflife1 6 months ago

We understand that a video like this isn't for everyone, so if you're sensitive to live seafood processing, please skip 1:40 to 3:50 or avoid watching this video entirely. ♥
@MarkAlbert 6 months ago

I surely appreciate how you explain and demonstrate it! Any meat or seafood we eat once was a live animal. I am not afraid to learn!
@jaye212 6 months ago

Best Processing of a live lobster I’ve seen on YouTube. Thanks Chef.
@kennethwu115 6 months ago

Thank you Chef 😊
@warriorwoman25 6 months ago

this was very good. now I feel I can cut a lobster properly. Thank you
@hankr1084 6 months ago

Thank you Bill. Excellent explanations with reasons and easy to follow. This recipe will have a test run tonight and will get a full presentation next month. Happy New Year.
@cheflynne1359 4 months ago

Thank you well explained!
@DonaldoSchmid 5 months ago

chef,,ido remember after doing so many lobsters in the restaurants and clubs that the females have an extra set of "flipper/feelers at the top just behind the body to hold the eggs externally,,,some folks requested a female for what i dont know,,anyways also the green "tomalley" the liver inside the body is a delicacy. my personal record was slaughtering 110 live cold water maine lobsters one afternoon for a big party....i do remember when i lived/worked in san francisco at "fisherman's wharf" seeing the cooked atlantic lobsters witth customers thinking they were ohh so fresh from the pacific...so much more awesome pacific seafoods to enjoy !!!
@fohstick 5 months ago

fascinating to see how a live lobster is cut
@skyton658 3 months ago

Chef, I've seen some other Chinese chef that would run a stick through the lobster to remove its "pee" Is it true?