How to Grill Lobster

If the thought of boiling lobster in the kitchen while cooking your steak on the grill seems likes too much work for you to prepare a surf and turf meal at home, think again. Lobster is easily grilled, so you can prepare both entrees at the same time!

Although not as common a preparation method as boiling or steaming, grilling allows you to cook lobster outdoors without the need to clean a 20 gallon lobster pot, or make unnecessary trips to and from the house

When you want to prepare and cook a lobster, you'll need a few things to get started. Of course you'll need a Live lobster, or even a few, but you'll also need a chef's knife, a Charcoal or gas grill, tongs and melted butter.

When you boil or steam a lobster, you place it into the pot live and it is killed instantly by the hot water or steam. In order to grill a lobster, you need to kill it first.

1. You can kill the lobster by boiling it for two minutes.
2. You can also kill it by taking a sharp chef's knife and slicing through the lobster where the head meets the body, severing the spinal cord.
3. After killing the lobster, lay it on its back, and use a chef's knife to split it down the middle. This will allow the lobster to lay flat while cooking, and, as a result, cook more evenly.

Preheat your gas grill to high, or allow your coals to reach the stage where you can only keep your hand six inches above them for one to two seconds before it's too hot. Cook the lobster for 10 minutes, turning and basting occasionally with melted butter. The shell will turn red, and the meat will turn white as the lobster cooks.