Searching for the Perfect Lobster Roll

Other lobster roll makers delight in using just the right amount of mayonnaise to make lobster salad. "Just enough to hold it together," says Mitch Weiss of The Lobster Dock in Boothbay Harbor. "When you're drinking lemonade, you want to taste lemon, not water. When you eat a lobster roll, you want to taste the lobster." He vaguely refers to chopping the meat to the right size, but stops short of elaborating. "I don't want to give all my secrets away!"

Mitch claims to serve one of the state's only hot lobster rolls, featuring meat "gently warmed" in a small amount of butter before it goes into the bun. He frowns on those who add anything besides butter or mayonnaise.

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