Is it better to cook lobster dead or alive?

I bought this lobster from the grocery store the other day that I plan to cook this afternoon. Since I don't have any water container big enough for the lobster, I put it in the toilet (don't worry I made sure nobody accidentally flushed it).





Anyway, I'm trying to figure out how I should kill my lobster friend. Should I kill it and then dump it in the boilin hot water, or should i just plop it in the boiling hot water alive?





If you think I should kill it then plop it in, please give me ideas on how to inhumanely kill it. I want to have fun with this. Be creative. Like, maybe I should attach it to one of my fireworks (I've got a shed filled with them in my back yard), or maybe I should drown it... Even better, maybe I should electrocute it! Hahaha! What are your ideas??Is it better to cook lobster dead or alive?
It's really cruel to plonk a live lobster in boiling water. Did you know they remain conscious and sentient for two minutes?





If you must eat lobster, then the most humane (!) way to do so is to put it in the freezer for two or three hours before cooking, then remove it from the freezer and put it straight into boiling water. It's said that it's cooked before regaining consciousness.





DO NOT put it in cold water and bring it gradually to the boil. It is a total myth that this lulls them to sleep or whatever the ridiculous reason is supposed to be.Is it better to cook lobster dead or alive?
Finding a 'fun' way to 'kill' your lobster might well land YOU in the hot water instead of the lobster!





Traditionally, lobsters are boiled or steamed alive. You may find your own particular brand of fun in that. If you wish, you can drive a skewer through the lobster's head (straight down) before cooking.





The really fun part of lobsters, though, is the eating. With butter.
Some say that the stress of being dumped into hot water causes hormones to flow, which makes the meat taste bad.





The best way I've hear is to put the lobster in the pot with COLD water, turn on the heat, and bring up the temperature GRADUALLY. The lobster just goes to sleep and never wakes up.
Causing pain to arthropods again, eh? Hurting small animals is the way most serial killers got their start.





The traditional way is to drop them in boiling water. Now that the thing has been in the toilet you should boil it an especially long time.
Well, whatever you do, don't eat it.
LOL @ Tanned
I think it's better if you are alive.
tell him that you want to cook him. so, there's no fight between both of you. be honest. peace
Actually, the boiling water is very quick and humane. I'm not sure I understand how you can have a pot large enough to cook the lobster in, but can't store it in. The toilet is what's cruel. Between however dirty it is to whatever cleaners you clean it with, why are you concerned with how it dies if you're mistreating it in its final hours. Isn't that enough sadistic fun for you for one day?





That said, if you bring the pot to a heavy boil and quickly drop it in head first, the heat instantly reaches the brain and kills it through the eye stalks. People claim that lobsters scream, but they have no vocal cords and no lung with which to draw a breath and make a noise. It's just steam escaping the shell. I sometimes get a similar but softer sound when I hard boil eggs. So try not to get any pleasure out of it.
You drop it, alive, into a large pot of boiling, salted, water. The SCREAMING sound you will hear comes from the air between the shells being forced out, not from it's tiny little lobster lungs, and they don't exactly have lungs, or vocal cords. None the less, this should be a joyful moment for you, and perhaps you could dance a little jig whilst the crustacean is reaching the proper red color, indicting at it is finished.





Cooking a lobster that has been dead long, could kill you, the meat becomes poisoned.