Calm a Lobster Before Boiling by Standing It On Its Head

Whole lobster makes for an amazing meal, but live lobsters can be hard to handle.

This clever trick will help you keep from getting pinched.

As unpleasant as it might sound, cooking a lobster alive is actually the safest way to do it.

Even so, lobsters arent too keen on being manhandled and tossed into boiling water.

Wilbur likens it to a lobster doing a childs pose in yoga.

The position gives the lobster a bit of a head rush and incapacitates it.

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