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Broiled Live Lobster

A live lobster is broiled and served with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Lobster and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,609 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Broiled Live Lobster

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and broil

  1. Clean the lobster and place it in a buttered wire broiler.

  2. Broil the lobster for 8 minutes on the flesh side.

  3. Turn the lobster and broil for 6 minutes on the shell side.

Serve

  1. Serve with melted butter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lobster + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lobster
Its flesh is the main dish, cooked through by direct heat from the broiler.
Butter
Melted butter adds richness and moisture to the lobster meat when served.

The step that matters

Turning the lobster. Broiling the flesh side first and then the shell side lets the meat cook through evenly, while the heat keeps the shell from drying out too quickly. Turning it at the right time helps avoid overcooked or underdone meat.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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