From box
to butter.
Your guide to choosing, caring for, cooking and cracking lobster. Find the right help for your dinner, then enjoy every sweet bite.
What’s on your menu?
Choose your lobster below. Your care checklist and recommended cooking guide will follow along.
Weight check: Whole lobster and tail weights include shell. Picked meat is easier to portion by recipe weight.
Explore the buying guide ↗Cool. Damp.
Air. Cook today.
Open your box promptly, check the order and confirm your lobsters are alive. Keep them cool and moist until cooking.
Read the live lobster care guide ↗Refrigerate promptly. Follow the care instructions included with your delivery.
Use the supplied seaweed or a damp covering. Keep them out of standing water.
Use a ventilated container. Keep claw bands on while handling.
Plan to cook on arrival day. Refrigeration does not guarantee overnight survival.
Let’s get cooking.
Use the guide that matches your lobster. Size, product condition and cooking method all matter.
Whole live lobster
Boiling, steaming and other preparation methods, with size-specific timing and cooking videos.
How to cook live lobster ↗Lobster tails
Choose your method, check the tail size and follow the cooking instructions for the product you have.
How to cook lobster tails ↗Already cooked?
Use as directed in a chilled recipe, or warm gently. For hot dishes, add cooked meat near the end to protect its texture.
Using cooked lobster meat ↗Butterflying opens a raw tail for cooking and presentation. Cracking opens a cooked lobster for eating.
Butterfly a tail ↗Meet the
good parts.
Claws, knuckles and tail each give you a different bite. Select a part to see where to find it.
Crack it.
Pick it. Enjoy it.
Pull up a chair with Julian. His hard-shell lobster demonstration takes you from the first knuckle to a beautiful, whole piece of tail meat.
Ready to start? Use a fully cooked lobster that’s cool enough to handle. Work slowly around sharp shell edges.
Open the full cracking guide ↗How to crack a hard-shell lobster
From shell to sweet meat
Follow every step in the full photo guide.
Make it a lobster night.
A few good sides, a favorite drink and a little extra butter go a long way.
The supporting cast.
Find sides that fit a whole-lobster feast, a tail dinner or a casual lobster roll spread.
Explore lobster sides ↗A perfect pairing.
Cocktails, wine and beer ideas to match buttery lobster, briny seafood and your menu.
Find a drink pairing ↗More ways to lobster.
Turn cooked lobster meat into rolls, salads, pasta and other meals worth gathering for.
Browse lobster recipes ↗
Good questions.
Simple answers.
Should I cook live lobster the day it arrives?
Yes. Plan delivery for your cooking day. Keep lobsters cool, damp and ventilated until cooking; refrigeration does not guarantee they will survive overnight.
Is frozen lobster meat always cooked?
No. Frozen describes its storage condition. Check the label: fully cooked meat and raw meat, including raw HPP meat, need different preparation. Follow the directions for the exact product you ordered.
Are butterflying and cracking the same thing?
Butterflying opens a raw tail before cooking. Cracking opens a cooked lobster to remove meat for eating. Use the guide for the task you are doing.
What is the green stuff inside a lobster?
It is tomalley, a digestive organ. Maine DMR advises against eating it because contaminants and naturally occurring toxins can accumulate there. This advice concerns tomalley, rather than the tail and claw meat.
Your next lobster night starts here.
Choose the format that fits your table.
