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Originally Posted by Loree

Our friends from Chicago are coming home on the 4th of July and we are planning on a clam bake and inviting a bunch of people, but we have never done one.
Have any of you?
If you have, how do you do it?
We have read in one book to dig a big hole, put rocks in it, build a fire on that.
Let the fire burn down, add rockweed to the red hot coals and layer the food you want in it with rockweed in between.
Is this right?
We also read that rockweed is hard to come by. Do any of you know where to buy that variety of seaweed?
How long do you cook it?
What sorts of things have you cooked in your clam bake?
Any helpful hints or any thing I should not do?
This event will not be happening at the beach, but in Pittsburgh.
Any advice is appreciated.

This process sounds right and is what I remember as kid going to clambakes on the MDI. Not real sure about the cooking time, boiling lobstahs is usually 20 minutes - clambake I think is about 40 minutes. Might also consider clambakes to go http://www.fostersclambake.com/ or http://www.clambakeco.com