Lobster Grilled with Seafood Butter

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
Mastering the Grill: The Owner's Manual for Outdoor Cooking

By Andrew Schloss and David Joachim

Published 2007

  • About

It isn’t easy to kill. Yet most of us do it one way or the other every time we cook. Few of us have pangs about taking a life when opening a can of tuna, but when it comes to grilling lobster it’s a little harder to feign innocence. Lobsters must be cooked within minutes of dying (shellfish decompose quickly after death), so you have to either buy them cooked or do the deed yourself. It’s easiest to boil them, but that leaves them with a steamed flavor that is antithetical to the intensity