Fresh Maine lobster

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A fresh Maine lobster can be delivered to your door, alive and kicking. Lobsters are best kept alive to ensure freshness and avoid food poisoning. Less costly frozen lobster tails are also available. The prospect of cooking a live lobster is disturbing to some, while others wouldn’t have their lobster any other way.

Fresh Maine lobster is available in hardshell and softshell varieties and may be either boiled or steamed alive. A lobster is done cooking when the shell turns bright red and the flesh is all white. The hardness of the shell depends on the amount of time that has past since the animals’ last molt. Nut crackers or scissors are most often used to extract the flesh from a lobster.

If you procure a fresh lobster, inside you’ll find a greenish brown organ called a tomalley. It is edible as long as it’s cooked thoroughly. Some consider the tomalley a delicacy, others find it repugnant. It performs a similar function to the human liver, so many think of it as toxic. Fresh Maine lobster is very low in saturated fat but rather high in sodium.

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