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The Machine that Shucks Lobsters Alive

Posted November 12, 2010 7:17 PM

From Gizmodo:

Left: Live lobster with its shell on. Right: Same lobster all clean and ready to be cooked after being dropped alive into a machine that blasts water at 40,000 PSI. They call it the Big Mother Shucker.

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11/12/2010 8:32 PM

And a side benefit is that they reveal crustacean terrorist plots while the water is hitting them.

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11/15/2010 4:19 PM

Introducing "Fleshy", Here to sing his #1 hit "I fell in to a great big mother shucker".

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11/16/2010 10:01 AM

What !?!? No bib? No nut crackers? No picks?

You might as well wait until McD's offers it's lobster roll sandwich again. (At least for those in the Northeast).
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11/16/2010 12:18 PM

An improvement would be heated high pressure butter sauce.

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