Here is the research from America's Test Kitchen regarding cooking lobsters with rubber bands on: "We cooked lobsters with and without rubber bands in separate pots of boiling water and then tasted both the lobster meat and the cooking water. While a few tasters claimed they noticed a subtle difference in the cooking water taken from the pot in which we cooked the banded lobsters, no one could detect any flavor differences between the lobster meat samples. Our takeaway? We’ll keep our fingers safe and continue to leave the rubber bands in place on the claws until after the lobsters are cooked."
Lobster is one of the few meaty foods I can eat. So I'd like to overcome the fears of cooking a live lobster... Instead, I have been buying the fresh-dead ones and freezing them until I am ready to cook them. On my birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas I have the meat department cook them for me, and then I go pick them up, and I don't freeze them because I get them quite close to these dates. So, it's easier to reheat them and enjoy. But I am celebrating a big deal this evening and I have taken my frozen lobster out of the freezer around 6:30 PM today, then I took it and put him/her on my counter around 7:30 PM. I'm waiting for him/her to finish thawing... What do I do to cook him without over cooking? I don't have that fancy steamer strainer!
Here's how I would Steam a Lobster I 'd Name it Donald Trump and tell him Joe Biden won. Or I can do what I did to Steam my Dad Show him my Report Card (HA I KILL ME) (I'm not Blood related to the Dad I showed my Report card to)
