@Linkat,
Lincat, you're absolutely right about the spot located between the lobster's eyes. If you apply steady and moderate pressure there, it does sort of parylize them....you can tell it's working because their front claws sort of go limp, and they do not put up a fight. You have a small window of time, to drop them into that boiling pot of water, and if you've succeeded, then they do not react to the boiling water at all. They never knew what happened!
One of the funniest stories I've heard concerning a lobster, involved my friend's 85 year old aunt.....Let me first say that the VISUAL on this is funny, but I'm quite sure that the lobster did not find it humorous!! This lady had lived on a bay in Cape Cod, but had NEVER eaten or cooked a lobster before. One of her new neighbors had pulled some of his lobster traps and had been fortunate enough to have gotten several lobsters. He decided to bring one to his neighbor next door. He left it on her doorstep in a plastic bag. When she got home a few minutes later, she found it, carried the bag in, placed it on her kitchen floor, and turned to hang up her sweater in the hall. When she got back to the kitchen, the lobster was running around on her floor. She got scared, and tried to catch it by using her broom. It came towards her with claws raised, she yelled, grabbed a hammer and hit it on the head (which immediately killed it)!!! She then, put on a pot of water, and dropped it in! When she removed it from the pot, it was, of course, all red, and she was sure it was because she had killed it with the hammer, so she threw the whole thing away!!! She never told her neighbor what she had done, but she thanked him for his generosity, and said she had shared it with a friend, because she wasn't suppose to eat l0bster because of the iron content in it!! She never did eat or cook a lobster again!
