Are you interested in cooking lobster for yourself? Why only order lobster from a restaurant when you cook one for yourself at home? Here are some questions and answers that will help guide you in your plans of cooking a lobster.

Q: Why must the lobster be alive when you cook it?

A: Technically, you do not have to throw a live lobster into the pot to boil to death. But it is important that the lobster is recently deceased because lobsters decay very quickly after death and can therefore present health risks.

Q: Which is the most humane way to kill a lobster?

A: Many people say that plunging a heavy chef