Packing 5 fresh lobsters for 3hrs nonstop fly LAX-SEA
Apr 15, 2019, 7:38 am
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Apr 15, 2019, 8:25 am
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The Logan Lobster run...always a fun trip to make. And with 3 daily flights between Seattle and Boston you can show up in the morning, enjoy the day, and bring fresh lobster home to the family. All thanks to Alaska Airlines.
Apr 15, 2019, 8:28 am
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If we're talking about 'Maine' lobsters - Homarus americanus - you don't know far enough. 
If the OP gets reasonably fresh lobster, a little moisture - salt-water-soaked newspaper - and cool from a gel pack/blue block should have lobsters fine for 24 hours from packing to consumption.
If the OP gets reasonably fresh lobster, a little moisture - salt-water-soaked newspaper - and cool from a gel pack/blue block should have lobsters fine for 24 hours from packing to consumption.
You need to keep them cold (gel pack). You need to provide a small amount of moisture (damp paper towels or newspaper). They will keep for a day under these conditions, maybe two. If they die before you are ready to cook them, don’t eat them.
I can’t speak authoritatively about the clawless imitation that west coasters refer to as lobster.
Apr 15, 2019, 11:42 am
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Apr 15, 2019, 12:04 pm
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Whatever they are, they are not "fresh" if OP is picking them up in Los Angeles, schlepping them to LAX, checking them in, picking them up and schlepping them to a pot of boiling water. The question to OP is, how long have those lobsters been out of a tank of sea water at the time you obtain them and how many more hours is it to the pot of water in which they boil?
As others note, the one certain thing is that if they are dead when unpacked, toss them.
As others note, the one certain thing is that if they are dead when unpacked, toss them.
Apr 15, 2019, 12:27 pm
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I am not saying there is no reliable way to do this. The problem is if OP can pack the lobsters well enough to preserve it.
Apr 15, 2019, 2:07 pm
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Until recently, lobsters could be transported as emotional support animals but no longer on AS, DL, UA, AA, WN and a number of other airlines. It would be abusive to the policy to claim they are emotional support animals even though people could say "if my lobster is out of my sight, I get anxiety", "where's my lobster dinner?"
Lobsters..... how did we let it get that bad....
Apr 15, 2019, 5:43 pm
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I want to know where the OP is getting these lobsters in LA - a restaurant? A fish store? He certainly is not getting them fresh out of traps so they have already had a transcontinental journey.
And everyone just fluffed over my caveats about how to cook them - Five 3-lb. lobsters is a LOT of lobster, and I truly hope he is not surprising whoever it is in Seattle with this gift! I know I don't have pots big enough!
And I also hope he heeds the warnings of NOT cooking/eating them if they are DOA.
And everyone just fluffed over my caveats about how to cook them - Five 3-lb. lobsters is a LOT of lobster, and I truly hope he is not surprising whoever it is in Seattle with this gift! I know I don't have pots big enough!
And I also hope he heeds the warnings of NOT cooking/eating them if they are DOA.
Apr 15, 2019, 6:13 pm
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