Martha Stewart Shared A Pretty Dark Lobster Cooking "Hack" And I Feel Weird

    "If you were going to be boiled alive, wouldn’t you like to have a drink first?”

    Jesse Szewczyk
    by Jesse Szewczyk

    BuzzFeed Staff

    Martha Stewart, everyone's favorite cooking mogul, shared what just might be the darkest cooking "tip" I've ever come across.

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    During a Facebook Live video with Jennifer Garner, Stewart revealed her special "tip" for boiling lobsters alive (at about 21:45):

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    “I boil mine for about 15 minutes," Stewart said. "I put them in boiling water with vodka or tequila. I give them a drink."

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    When Garner asked why she would do that, Stewart replied, "Well, if you were going to be boiled alive, wouldn’t you like to have a drink first?"

    She added, "About half a cup of vodka to the pot of water."

    People obviously had opinions about this — and they questioned whether or not this is actually a more humane way of cooking lobsters. Some people (like PETA) were disturbed:

    PETA @peta

    Martha Stewart thinks adding vodka to the pot makes it okay to boil lobsters ALIVE. Why don’t you try it yourself, @MarthaStewart? No compassionate person would boil an animal alive. https://t.co/2pzfIG17tO

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    And others simply laughed at her tip — implying that the logic was faulty at best:

    Will Hildreth @wsh2

    Today's cooking LOL: Martha Stewart suggests adding 1/2 cup of vodka to the water you cook lobsters in: "to relax the lobster"

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    To make things even weirder, it turns out that Stewart has killed other animals after feeding them vodka, too.

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    In an episode of Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party, Stewart, while discussing whether she'd ever killed a chicken before, said, “I fed it some vodka, and then I cut off its head.”

    (I think their reactions speak for all of us...)

    So yeah, I'll just leave this information here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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