My family has cooked lobsters at home for generations, and I've never heard one "scream." They don't even have vocal chords.

My family has cooked lobsters at home for generations, and I've never heard one "scream." They don't even have vocal chords.
My step mother said the loud noise came from the lobster screaming, I don't believe my mother would lie to me like that or take advantage of my deafness either...
I've heard some people told me that they could hear the lobsters' screamin' when boilin' in hot water. I am glad I am deaf - don't wanna to experience their screamin' otherwise I won't eat lobsters.
Really Maria? I'm glad you said this cause I'm starting to feel as if she had lied to me....All I could hear was a loud noise but I didn't know where the sounds were coming from until she told me...
Thanks I feel a bit better now...
Yes, you & Maria are not alone, me and my hubby, too.
I grow up at aboarding school which only 10 minutes away walk to seaside. I often withnessed how and what they did with alive lobsters and crabs. I has my feeling. My supersivor/teachers said that they heard noise near fish resturants when we walked pass the fish resturant.
When my hubby & I visited my school to reunion with my old school mates in 1992. We went to seafood resturant afterward. My hubby was likewhen he saw alive crabs and lobsters walk around with water with several shells, weeds at large glass at their resturant - it's really pretty view. My hubby were shock when he saw the waiter picked 2 crabs up and show customers which one they want to pick... Poor crabs don't know why the waiter hold their legs and then put one of crabs back and other one to boil hot water... crab tried to fight to be survive but he can't made it... I can see crab's impression face...
My hubby asked why? I told him that boil alive crabs and lobsters fresh taste. It does the same with alive trouts in several resturant here in Germany as well... oh well...
Oh dear ... haha ... speaking of lobsters ... Yeah ... my ex used to cook 100 lobsters in our kitchen yearly!!! Those lobsters were from Maine. An old friend of ours flew over to Florida with 100 alive lobsters in freeze boxes. We invited about 25 people as we used to have "lobster party" every winters. While cooking them, they sure did sound screaming and I hate it!
If they have no vocal chords, how can they scream?I was at the restaurant working when my step mom dropped the live lobsters in the hot boiling water, and I even heard the high pitch sounds and I asked her what was that noises she said it was the lobsters.
I guess it depends on how you put those lobsters in boil water, some people kills the lobsters first before putting them in boiling water.
If they have no vocal chords, how can they scream?
The sound is the steam hissing, not screaming.
Me, too.... I'm just stating the facts.![]()
The sound is the steam hissing, not screaming.
It could. Think about a tea kettle whistling; it's the same principle.What would an air whistling sound like? screaming? If so this is what I heard, I heard a sound of a high pitch noise.