We do as Double B >< we have a small crawfish pot, with basket, we get the water up to boiling, then drop in the basket of peas, the basket will be about 1/2 full of peas, when the time is up we pull the basket and drop it into a large crawfish pot that has lots of ice and ice water, that chills the peas down real quick, them we bag them up and place in the freezer
on of our freezers has the coils in each shelf, that's where we place the peas first, it freezes them real fast, them we move them to a chest freezer
I guess the small crawfish pot is about 5 gal. maybe a little bigger, the basket from it fits down inside the big crawfish easy with room to spare
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