i completely agree with people saying we should eat animals. But come on joking around and laughing at them mocking and saying i think we need to amputate it ( the poor crab hanging on for dear life). How stupid, naive, moronic, and just plain ignorant can you be. 1day these cruel people will see how it feels when their not the alpha predator.
People who disliked this: You gotta kill it to grill it. God put these animals here for us to eat! Not to have a fun little happy lives! Look, im from MD and we got our fair share of crabs! So, its not hurting anything! Plus my father was born and raised on smith island so i know what im talking about!
They don't feel pain as we do - so this doesn't HURT them per-se, but it doesn't help them either.
If you're REALLY worried about killing before cooking (goofy, add they don't suffer, but whatever) then the PROPER way is to simply rip off their top shell. Instant death.
My guess it's this "method" was invented to shut up a squeamish woman/kid & is carried on for "generations" out of ignorance.
The worse thing in the world you can do is stab them with a knife as they are airtight until you do so. They don't cook correctly when pierced and they get waterlogged while cooking. This must be some idiot practice for those who like watery crabs
Dumbass Americans talk about killing living creatures like it's a joke. "MAYBE WE HAVE TO CHOP OFF ITS ARM! HURR DURR! :D" No wonder your country starts so many wars. You're all blood thirsty barbarians.
wow what a bunch of fuckin pussies crying over people cooking dinner, this is NOTHING compared to what happens to most lobsters and crabs in restaurants all over the world that you people go to and eat. Get the fuck over it, if you see an otter bashing a crab against a rock for its dinner are you gonna go yell at it and tell it how cruel that is?
I don't think theyre less fresh because theyre killed a few minutes before being cooked. I really doubt there would be a difference in just those few minutes, or that it would taste better from being boiled alive, as the only difference there is more pain.
Even the best chefs in the country will kill a lobster or crab right before cooking. Seems unnecessarily cruel to not do so just for some illusion of "extra freshness".
oh my god ppl with the whole you should be ashamed of that- there eating it! stfu! and dont look this shit up if ur not interested in HOW TO COOK AND KILL CRAB note the fucking title!!!
hahah i think it's funny how many people come to videos like this just to complain about them. like their opinion is going to matter one bit. I usually just throw them in the pot and start steaming them.
Wouldnt it be funny if someone did this to one of your family members? You dont have to be a vegan to have an appreciation for taking a life, even an animals.
@GeekTracker LOL -to the movie- I say, if you're going to click it and watch it and then bitch about it...why did you click it? (not you tracker, i mean tony AKA Chris Crocker)
This is how it is done, It is called euthanizing and is a technique that has been passed down for generations. It is necessary and teaching our children how to do these things is what families do. If you dont like it, then just go home and work your nine to five, and rely on the rest of us to feed you. OKAY? --- Okay... You dont complain about eating beef do you?
This video makes me so hungry! The way you guys give them the 'lights out' seems really efficient! The one at 1:10 was out cold after the poke. Must have been a great dinner!
Um, it doesn't look so much like killing... by all the movement... awesome. Kids think it amuzing to kill small animals. OOH! Let me try! That looks fun! What a fantastic lesson.
I always clean mine before i cook. Killing them before you cook them will stop them from losing their claws. Try cooking them alive and see how many lose there claws.
What's the point of the ice pick dude? I have never seen this before, just cool them down, makes it a lot easier as they are dormant and you will get no fight off them!
going to jump on the band wagon here, why are you stabbing them and trying to kill them before cooking them?, The whole point of getting live blue crabs is to cook them, when they are still alive, as fresh as possible
@cardanger That's supposed to be the acceptable "humane" method of killing them, because apparently boiling them is inhumane. I usually just take them while they're alive, break them in half over a rock, shake the gooey bits into the water and then boil the legs.
why are they killing them before they cook them? Steam or boil them alive. And why are they putting them in a pot with crabs that are already cooked? If they cook the ones again the meat will be gone from overcooking!
"there`s no blood comming out" You definetely dont show some respect taking life, it`s not fun, but i doubt you can understand this so hopefully those eated crabs made u sick as hell ;)
What you need to do is boil them like we do in Louisiana. Sprinkling that stuff on the shell does absolutley nothing to season the meat inside. We boil our crabs like we do our crawfish, in seasoned water for an awesome flavor. Try it, and you'll never steam a crab again. Plus when you drop the crabs in boiling, cayenne infused water, they die pretty much instantly. Now I got to go get me some crabs tomorrow.
Just look at this video as a reminder to what a bunch of monkey's F*#@ing a football looks like. Ice Pick? WTF Don't bring that down south. We don't roll like that. You can still boil the crab and taste the sweet meat. I guess the only thing we can agree on is that blue crabs are awesome and we can eat them everyday. We just eat them a little differently.
wtf!!.. stabbing the crabs?? u need to stab urself u stupid peices of shit!!! u keep them live and on ice until u need to cook them u sorry cocksuckin bastards.!!!
These people don't know what the hell they're doing. This isn't how you clean a crab. "Grab and Stab". Either boil 'em or put 'em in the fridge. What a binch of losers.
Amature who has no clue what he is doing putting a "how to kill a crab" video on Youtube, pure winner here folks.
When yo udon't know what you are doing, some of the animals are not dying quickly BECAUSE you don't know what you are doing, maybe you should NOT be posting a "How to kill crabs" video on youtube so that 100's of other people can do it wrong and torture animals to death as well since they learned from someone who has not a clue how to do it in a humane or correct fashion.
Many times crabs spit their claws when they are steamed, that's why they are icepicking them, so they will come out with claws and also so it's easier to get them into a pot without a fight. Many restaraunts do this, check for holes in the shell next time you go to a crabhouse.
in 2006, the bushel of Maryland blue crabs was only like $70. I'm sure it is a lot more now. The number of the waterman I bought them from in Chance, Maryland is 4107842657.
This is so silly its angering. Do you not know how to properly dispatch a crab? Obviously not. A stab through the gut is pointless. Either steam alive, or chill and quickly clean. It's like unorganized chaos watching this video.
if you fill the pot with water first you can dump the crabs in the pot live then put the lid on, and they wont be able to climb out, which would be less time consuming.
When you drop them in boiling water they die in seconds. When you steam them they die in seconds. If you want to make it more humane, ice will put them to sleep (making them safer to handle) When you drop an iced crab into boiling water, it dies before it even wakes up. Gradually heating cold water to boiling- like some posters suggest WOULD be torture.
U ALL SUCK AT DOING THAT I BEEN LIVVING UP IN EASTON MD all MY LIFE AND i steam and go crabbing all the time u scared, come on jeez
ive been hert my crabs all the time i pick em up all the time you need 2 stop Killing before u eat them and put them in between 32F To 45F degrees in water for A While
This is totally unnecessary. Just clean them and put them in cold water. They're cold blooded, so the cold slows down their nervous system. Coat them in seasoning, covering their eyes, which will prevent them from attacking because they get no sensory input once their eyes are covered. Then put them on a rack in a pot of cold water/beer, and then turn on the burner. The temperature will slowly rise in the pot. The crabs will slowly warm and then drift off into a coma before dying painlessly.
The cold will put them to sleep, but slowly heating it to boiling would torture the crabs. Drop your sleeping, iced crabs into rapidly boiling water and they will die before they even wake up.
I drop them into a cooler of ice when I catch them. It guarantees that they will survive the trip home (rather than die and rot), makes them MUCH safer to handle, and makes the kill more humane.
This is NOT the way to kill crabs. Just stabbing them in the center and pulling the pick back out DOES NOT KILL THEM. You have to move the tip of the pick forward after stabbing them to hit the brain. These crabs are just stressing and dropping limbs left and right, you can see that. They aren't being killed until they're steamed. Icing them will stop them from dropping limbs, then stab them. Come see my crab vid for an easier way to kill them and clean them BEFORE cooking.
I have grown up around the chesapeake bay for +40 years. This guy has knowledge.He's wasting time!!! You can clean them BEFORE you steam them.We have done that before. I get my crabs from some commercial friends at knotts island.
Crabs will sometimes drop a claw or legs to try to escape when being boiled. They don;t die instantly like some people believe. By stabbing them, you not only kill them much faster but are much more likely to have a whole crab when done instead of crab parts.
Dude... it's how you dispatch a crab as quick as possible (a.k.a. most "humane" way) by ramming a screwdriver through the crab and cranking it back to destroy the brain. Think of it as a mercy killing... much better than being boiled alive, just more sensational.
I was born at Anne Arundel General Hospital, about 100 yards from where you could catch these crabs in Spa Creek. I grew up in a house on the South River, off of the Chesapeake Bay, where all we had to do was throw a piece of chicken, tied to string, in the water, to catch these crabs. I never have heard of anyone killing the crabs before steaming them.
That's beacuse normal people just cook 'em. Who cares, right? It's a forkin' giant ocean spider! We spray RAID on spiders everyday in this country, but we can't kill a crab?! I'm with YOUR method... chicken on a string, and STRAIGHT into the pot.
Just chill them on ice first, they're cold-blooded so that will slow them down. Then stick them in seasoning. When the Old Bay hits their eyes they slow down considerably.
My grandfather taught me to clean crabs alive. We do it outside with a hose. Use tongs to break off the claws, turn it over and start to grab the tab (narrow on the male and v-shaped on the female). Pull it away from the body then tackle the top shell by pulling one side at the points. It will give way exposing the inside. Use the pressure of the hose to clean the dark matter. You may have to rip the feathery gills. The laws say nothing about how to clean them so stop the comments on cruelty.
i really have a problem with thouse make comments about the inhumanity of crabbing. If an animal is not self perceptive, such as a crab, pain is irrelevant, for it had nothing to base it on. Enjoy your crabs
however i do not understand why they are putting uncoked with cooked? Anyone know the answer for this. or why that guy is so fumbly with those tongs. Is he scared of the poor little blue carb.
what an idiot...therealfartacus...they aren't trying to be humane you ass. You kill them before putting them in the pot because when they start steaming them they will fight and pull eachothers claws off. This way they stay fresh until right before you cook them and you dont have a pot full off crabs with no claws. Just a MD thing i guess. oh and for your uneducated ass Maryland was a southern sympathizing state and below the mason dixon line but I guess you already knew that.
These folks are retards. You don't kill them before cooking them. Dumb-ass yankees.
If you feel the need, for some reason, to be more humane to the crabs, put them in cold salt water, then bring it to a boil and add the crab-boil or whatever seasonings you're going to use.
I aint no tree hugger, but ya'll don't know what you're doin. Dont kill it before you throw em in. Next time have us marylanders cook for ya, yall go back north.
Why are they putting the uncooked ones in with the cooked ones.... stupid.... And, when you kill the crabs prior to cooking, the meat turns to goo... and it's like eating crab past.
What a bunch of knuckle heads. You drop all the crabs in Ice water. They curl up and won't move when there cold. Then you just season and steam. Killing everyone with a ice pick is just retarded.
My dads friends always brgs back those crabs back from maryland wit that red salty ass seasoning..it's so good..I always get a cut in my mouth from eating those
Um, yeah... it takes long enough getting them into the pot nevermind taking the time to stab each and every one of them... I steamed two bushels this past weekend. It took long enough to catch the little buggers that got loose from the bucket.
Two bushels? Man, that is lot of crabs! Stabbing them with an icepick while filling up the crab pot keeps them for crawling out while you are chasing the other ones.
Silly....just thow a bag of ice on them...Or soak in ice water...They shut down....but dont die...Stabbing them is just dumb.
TheSemperFish 2 weeks ago
i completely agree with people saying we should eat animals. But come on joking around and laughing at them mocking and saying i think we need to amputate it ( the poor crab hanging on for dear life). How stupid, naive, moronic, and just plain ignorant can you be. 1day these cruel people will see how it feels when their not the alpha predator.
bluexremorse 3 weeks ago
new jersey fuckers
inthestorm23 2 months ago
hes 3 inch 7 waht i can ssee
inthestorm23 2 months ago
let that litter off starabard
inthestorm23 2 months ago
There all mother fucking crabs all up in this place!
coreyfmiller 2 months ago
god is real. feelings and compassion are not :[ according to A LOT of ppl.. least in dumbass america
Liiahmichelle8680 3 months ago
People who disliked this: You gotta kill it to grill it. God put these animals here for us to eat! Not to have a fun little happy lives! Look, im from MD and we got our fair share of crabs! So, its not hurting anything! Plus my father was born and raised on smith island so i know what im talking about!
lampsofachair 3 months ago
@lampsofachair way to make you GOD look like a heartless bafoon
Liiahmichelle8680 3 months ago
ARE YOU HAVING A CRAB PARTY??
RazaAli33 3 months ago
time wasting nonsense
Jurewski 3 months ago
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I will do the same with you =)
onecheman 4 months ago
They die quickly when you boil them. I wouldn't waste time doing it like this.
manatarms79 4 months ago
These crabs are so small. Why bother killing them one by one?
ngathant88 4 months ago
Drop them into boiling water with Bay seasoning. They die quick enough. Stabbing them is a waste of time.
bluemountaindrivepae 5 months ago
Sorry, but this isn't killing them.
They don't feel pain as we do - so this doesn't HURT them per-se, but it doesn't help them either.
If you're REALLY worried about killing before cooking (goofy, add they don't suffer, but whatever) then the PROPER way is to simply rip off their top shell. Instant death.
My guess it's this "method" was invented to shut up a squeamish woman/kid & is carried on for "generations" out of ignorance.
Total waste of time...
dedicateddad 5 months ago
how much do you need to pay for that much crabs?
sifeiliu 6 months ago
The worse thing in the world you can do is stab them with a knife as they are airtight until you do so. They don't cook correctly when pierced and they get waterlogged while cooking. This must be some idiot practice for those who like watery crabs
alwaysopen 6 months ago
Dumbass Americans talk about killing living creatures like it's a joke. "MAYBE WE HAVE TO CHOP OFF ITS ARM! HURR DURR! :D" No wonder your country starts so many wars. You're all blood thirsty barbarians.
SoloWing808 6 months ago
@SoloWing808
You mispelled afghanistan mang
fruitytuttiluigi 6 months ago
that is a shit load of crabs
CoOlGuY4791 6 months ago
these crabs are FAST! O_O
levaithan666 6 months ago
Another reason i miss living in baltimore...
racehonda9 6 months ago
wow what a bunch of fuckin pussies crying over people cooking dinner, this is NOTHING compared to what happens to most lobsters and crabs in restaurants all over the world that you people go to and eat. Get the fuck over it, if you see an otter bashing a crab against a rock for its dinner are you gonna go yell at it and tell it how cruel that is?
Okitsin 6 months ago
@Okitsin you're right!
harkrum 6 months ago
i would have took the galiger approach...
goldensun38 7 months ago
Instead stabbing the crabs drop them hot boiling water and you kill them faster
blee2021 7 months ago
@blee2021 right!!..just boil 'em, and then add them to crab spaghetti sauce..., if you want...
harkrum 6 months ago
I don't think theyre less fresh because theyre killed a few minutes before being cooked. I really doubt there would be a difference in just those few minutes, or that it would taste better from being boiled alive, as the only difference there is more pain.
Even the best chefs in the country will kill a lobster or crab right before cooking. Seems unnecessarily cruel to not do so just for some illusion of "extra freshness".
noodlesnstuff 8 months ago 3
@noodlesnstuff that was in response to cardanger's comment
noodlesnstuff 8 months ago
oh my god ppl with the whole you should be ashamed of that- there eating it! stfu! and dont look this shit up if ur not interested in HOW TO COOK AND KILL CRAB note the fucking title!!!
luvmebambi 9 months ago 2
hahah i think it's funny how many people come to videos like this just to complain about them. like their opinion is going to matter one bit. I usually just throw them in the pot and start steaming them.
wayniac917 9 months ago
i totally agree with you MRTONYTONYM you guys in the film...you think its fun killing!??! CAN'T YOU SEE THE CRABS ARE SUFFERING!?!?
TheLugiaSong 9 months ago
If you pour ice over them, and let it sit for 30-60 mins, the crabs wont be so aggressive prior to cooking, and much easier to put into the pot.
jimhack3 9 months ago
fucking americans..
alextehwiz 10 months ago
@alextehwiz And you so special?
TheBMCshow 9 months ago
i hate it when food fights back. i hate it even more when it nearly wins.
antirapmissle 10 months ago
no clue! you put them in the pot live nimrod!
bigedz80 10 months ago
Who kills em 1st? Waste of time.
KevinIgnasiak 10 months ago
Wouldnt it be funny if someone did this to one of your family members? You dont have to be a vegan to have an appreciation for taking a life, even an animals.
FireVoa 10 months ago
you people are a whole bunch of fucking hippies excuse me I need to go field dress a cat.
blazedbl 11 months ago
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What kind of beast would regard killing as fun? Aren't you ashamed of killing lives? Imagine when those crabs do the same thing to you!
MrTONYTONYM 11 months ago
@MrTONYTONYM YOu mean like in the old Sc-Fi from the 50s, Teenagers from Outer Space?
GeekTracker 11 months ago 8
@GeekTracker LOL -to the movie- I say, if you're going to click it and watch it and then bitch about it...why did you click it? (not you tracker, i mean tony AKA Chris Crocker)
FoxD89 5 months ago
@MrTONYTONYM sorry bitch did you know everything you eat was alive once do the world a favor and kill yourself
omenofluck 6 months ago
@MrTONYTONYM imagine when they wont!
codey1337 5 months ago
This is how it is done, It is called euthanizing and is a technique that has been passed down for generations. It is necessary and teaching our children how to do these things is what families do. If you dont like it, then just go home and work your nine to five, and rely on the rest of us to feed you. OKAY? --- Okay... You dont complain about eating beef do you?
krwoe 1 year ago
Jesus Christ, this is how Michael Myers got started....sick family
southpaw7890 1 year ago
It's amazing how fresh they are!!!
mctravish107 1 year ago
DAMN TRIFLING ASS PEOPLE
2kut3ashley 1 year ago
this is sick. that clattering noise makes me cringe. i really dont understand some people...
MegaAlfies 1 year ago
Interesting, I've never seen this ice pick method. Old Bay settles feisty crabs down as you layer them into a pot for steaming.
mimicry88 1 year ago
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That was so inhumane, So fuck yourself : )
YTviewer118 1 year ago
Poking a hole in them doesn't kill them at all.
RealmEternal 1 year ago
Woot! MD ftw.
DANNYteehee 1 year ago
This video makes me so hungry! The way you guys give them the 'lights out' seems really efficient! The one at 1:10 was out cold after the poke. Must have been a great dinner!
Wonton118 1 year ago
you attacked its weakpoint for massive damage
syneticon 1 year ago
You watch like chefs do it and they're like doing it nice and slowly, here you have crabs flying around the kitchen. :P
GoneGuru99 1 year ago 4
@GoneGuru99 lol
GeekTracker 1 year ago
I'm very curious. Did you learn this ice-pick technique from someone on the Western Shore?
SarahNathanielOber 1 year ago
Um, it doesn't look so much like killing... by all the movement... awesome. Kids think it amuzing to kill small animals. OOH! Let me try! That looks fun! What a fantastic lesson.
nicolehambleton 1 year ago
Ive lived on the chesapeake bay all my life. Why kill them before you cook them?
filipinofantasy 1 year ago
LOL when you put them in the pot and turn ont he heat they clang around help help clan gclang let me out.
websuspect 1 year ago
For those seeing this video. There is no need to kill the crab before steaming them.Thats just overkill!
SEEPHUS1 1 year ago
listening to them clang around in the pot is 1/2 the fun of cooking them.
wayniac917 1 year ago
I always clean mine before i cook. Killing them before you cook them will stop them from losing their claws. Try cooking them alive and see how many lose there claws.
kimsmm11 1 year ago
What's the point of the ice pick dude? I have never seen this before, just cool them down, makes it a lot easier as they are dormant and you will get no fight off them!
LosYiyosEnNewYork 1 year ago
poor crabs yummy in my belly :)
Silky2dope 1 year ago
assholes fuck u ur gonna go to hell god didnt put crabs on earth to get cooked alive i hope u go to hell then u will fell the pain
zack05111 1 year ago
Why kill them before you cook them? Seems like a waste of time? Thanks
craziefro 1 year ago
My mom just rips their damn head shells off.
LastXdeth 1 year ago
Part of why I LOVE living in MD :DD
Kari166 1 year ago
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vengeanceclothingltd 1 year ago
going to jump on the band wagon here, why are you stabbing them and trying to kill them before cooking them?, The whole point of getting live blue crabs is to cook them, when they are still alive, as fresh as possible
cardanger 1 year ago 7
@cardanger That's supposed to be the acceptable "humane" method of killing them, because apparently boiling them is inhumane. I usually just take them while they're alive, break them in half over a rock, shake the gooey bits into the water and then boil the legs.
gerowen 6 months ago
your not suppopse to kill them before cooking them.
tigers23333 1 year ago
your not suppose to kill them before cooking them. they immediatly start to decompose right after death.
tigers23333 1 year ago
why are they killing them before they cook them? Steam or boil them alive. And why are they putting them in a pot with crabs that are already cooked? If they cook the ones again the meat will be gone from overcooking!
drewmitch44 2 years ago
Crabs feel pain - this is horrible.
dmustard11 2 years ago
u just wasted time..all u had to do was steam them..smh..
MizzFlint2011 2 years ago
thats so wrong idiot killing crabs for no piticlar reson that stupid
kaleighfoley 2 years ago
what a waste, you could of ate all of them
BlackMDragon97 2 years ago
2:20 Asesina xD
Yobelcito 2 years ago
"there`s no blood comming out" You definetely dont show some respect taking life, it`s not fun, but i doubt you can understand this so hopefully those eated crabs made u sick as hell ;)
jmtm00 2 years ago
What you need to do is boil them like we do in Louisiana. Sprinkling that stuff on the shell does absolutley nothing to season the meat inside. We boil our crabs like we do our crawfish, in seasoned water for an awesome flavor. Try it, and you'll never steam a crab again. Plus when you drop the crabs in boiling, cayenne infused water, they die pretty much instantly. Now I got to go get me some crabs tomorrow.
1LSUredneck 2 years ago
in maryland we like the taste of the meat, boil them all you want, but we steam and serve. we have the best blue crabs and we know how to eat them
surrealnumber 2 years ago 2
to surrealnumber
Just look at this video as a reminder to what a bunch of monkey's F*#@ing a football looks like. Ice Pick? WTF Don't bring that down south. We don't roll like that. You can still boil the crab and taste the sweet meat. I guess the only thing we can agree on is that blue crabs are awesome and we can eat them everyday. We just eat them a little differently.
1LSUredneck 2 years ago
i never pre-kill my crabs, these cats are putting in an extra unneeded step
surrealnumber 2 years ago
yeah stab those fuckers
krispyjc 2 years ago
poor crab has to get stabbed
hmoobsoldier95 2 years ago
stupid assholes.....you should be stabbed!!!!! thats not how you do it
w29bum 2 years ago
how dare he kill a bug!
surrealnumber 2 years ago
wow fucking amatures you put in a layer of live crabs not all cut and stabbed up and a layer of old bay and repeat
matt1980 2 years ago
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or you can shock them
BeaselBoss1992 2 years ago
wtf!!.. stabbing the crabs?? u need to stab urself u stupid peices of shit!!! u keep them live and on ice until u need to cook them u sorry cocksuckin bastards.!!!
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WickedG5150 2 years ago
These people don't know what the hell they're doing. This isn't how you clean a crab. "Grab and Stab". Either boil 'em or put 'em in the fridge. What a binch of losers.
jamesopiela 2 years ago
Amature who has no clue what he is doing putting a "how to kill a crab" video on Youtube, pure winner here folks.
When yo udon't know what you are doing, some of the animals are not dying quickly BECAUSE you don't know what you are doing, maybe you should NOT be posting a "How to kill crabs" video on youtube so that 100's of other people can do it wrong and torture animals to death as well since they learned from someone who has not a clue how to do it in a humane or correct fashion.
Stiletos 2 years ago
You're right Icepicking them is wrong
You should clean them alive it keeps them fresher
krispyjc 2 years ago 2
Many times crabs spit their claws when they are steamed, that's why they are icepicking them, so they will come out with claws and also so it's easier to get them into a pot without a fight. Many restaraunts do this, check for holes in the shell next time you go to a crabhouse.
crab2765 3 years ago
bullshit!
jimmyfuckinmusic 2 years ago
It's called a bushel
BurgNGold328 3 years ago
idiot
Feddog82 3 years ago
These things are delicious. Out of curiosity, how much was it for that whole bucket full?
bavspeed 3 years ago
in 2006, the bushel of Maryland blue crabs was only like $70. I'm sure it is a lot more now. The number of the waterman I bought them from in Chance, Maryland is 4107842657.
GeekTracker 3 years ago
This is so silly its angering. Do you not know how to properly dispatch a crab? Obviously not. A stab through the gut is pointless. Either steam alive, or chill and quickly clean. It's like unorganized chaos watching this video.
mikefm4 3 years ago 2
You dont stab them, you ice them down then steam / clean them. Not cool!
DX91001 3 years ago 2
shoot the crabs but don't get 2 much md crabs because they can become extinct
DebraMisse 3 years ago
if you fill the pot with water first you can dump the crabs in the pot live then put the lid on, and they wont be able to climb out, which would be less time consuming.
Marshbillie 3 years ago
The icepic doesn't look like it was killing them.
highgrade1980 3 years ago
When you drop them in boiling water they die in seconds. When you steam them they die in seconds. If you want to make it more humane, ice will put them to sleep (making them safer to handle) When you drop an iced crab into boiling water, it dies before it even wakes up. Gradually heating cold water to boiling- like some posters suggest WOULD be torture.
Still- they are just glorified bugs.
EachHitAndI 3 years ago 2
Wrong... You need to pull the top shell off to "kill them" as you state. You are just maiming them before the hot bath.
Be a fn man and rip it's head off you little woman.
mccarthy29 3 years ago
you sissies
ice them
dont stab them
meluzzi32 3 years ago
WOT A BUNCH OF FAGS!
they aint even killing them!!
imnotsickimjustaboy 3 years ago
That's really fucked up
lepetitmoulin 3 years ago
U ALL SUCK AT DOING THAT I BEEN LIVVING UP IN EASTON MD all MY LIFE AND i steam and go crabbing all the time u scared, come on jeez
ive been hert my crabs all the time i pick em up all the time you need 2 stop Killing before u eat them and put them in between 32F To 45F degrees in water for A While
HurricaneEazySod 3 years ago
you SISSY FAGGOTS - shut the hell up. They are fucking crabs! Who gives a rat's ass about being humane? You bunch of crybaby faggots.
pflueeb 3 years ago
that is not necessary
valcerfabri 3 years ago
What a sick family. Everyone wants a chance to seel what it's like to kill.
fraud66 3 years ago 2
This is totally unnecessary. Just clean them and put them in cold water. They're cold blooded, so the cold slows down their nervous system. Coat them in seasoning, covering their eyes, which will prevent them from attacking because they get no sensory input once their eyes are covered. Then put them on a rack in a pot of cold water/beer, and then turn on the burner. The temperature will slowly rise in the pot. The crabs will slowly warm and then drift off into a coma before dying painlessly.
FloydofOz 3 years ago 15
The cold will put them to sleep, but slowly heating it to boiling would torture the crabs. Drop your sleeping, iced crabs into rapidly boiling water and they will die before they even wake up.
I drop them into a cooler of ice when I catch them. It guarantees that they will survive the trip home (rather than die and rot), makes them MUCH safer to handle, and makes the kill more humane.
EachHitAndI 3 years ago
These crabs were chilled when I picked them up from the waterman, but they were still very feisty as soon as the lid was popped.
GeekTracker 3 years ago
these are blue crabs people, theyre eaten WHOLE! THE WHOLE THING! NOONE CARES IF THEIR LIMBS FALL OFF OR NOT! THE MEATS IN THE BODIES!
changedworld2008 3 years ago
This is NOT the way to kill crabs. Just stabbing them in the center and pulling the pick back out DOES NOT KILL THEM. You have to move the tip of the pick forward after stabbing them to hit the brain. These crabs are just stressing and dropping limbs left and right, you can see that. They aren't being killed until they're steamed. Icing them will stop them from dropping limbs, then stab them. Come see my crab vid for an easier way to kill them and clean them BEFORE cooking.
Paulzilla 3 years ago
I have NEVER SEEN or heard this done before.
n2striper 3 years ago
I have grown up around the chesapeake bay for +40 years. This guy has knowledge.He's wasting time!!! You can clean them BEFORE you steam them.We have done that before. I get my crabs from some commercial friends at knotts island.
n2striper 3 years ago
using the screwdriver is the most humane way to kill a crab
joshprows 4 years ago
Crabs will sometimes drop a claw or legs to try to escape when being boiled. They don;t die instantly like some people believe. By stabbing them, you not only kill them much faster but are much more likely to have a whole crab when done instead of crab parts.
tntran7904 4 years ago
why dont you just clean it then add some salt allover them then boil they'll die eventually in the hot water
rakion123456789 4 years ago
You don't need to stab them!
CineGraphic 4 years ago
Dude... it's how you dispatch a crab as quick as possible (a.k.a. most "humane" way) by ramming a screwdriver through the crab and cranking it back to destroy the brain. Think of it as a mercy killing... much better than being boiled alive, just more sensational.
WORX4FUDE 4 years ago
where is the brain? it doesn't look right behind the eyes?
aka501z 4 years ago
I've been informed it's between the eyes and slighty posterior.
WORX4FUDE 4 years ago
I was born at Anne Arundel General Hospital, about 100 yards from where you could catch these crabs in Spa Creek. I grew up in a house on the South River, off of the Chesapeake Bay, where all we had to do was throw a piece of chicken, tied to string, in the water, to catch these crabs. I never have heard of anyone killing the crabs before steaming them.
courtneyjayne15 4 years ago
you are wrong. this is how to kill crabs.
aka501z 4 years ago
That's beacuse normal people just cook 'em. Who cares, right? It's a forkin' giant ocean spider! We spray RAID on spiders everyday in this country, but we can't kill a crab?! I'm with YOUR method... chicken on a string, and STRAIGHT into the pot.
WORX4FUDE 4 years ago
Delicious!
saintaureus 4 years ago
it's funny how you guys are just talking casually and killing crabs. Immagine if the mafia did that.
KamikazeSound 4 years ago
Just chill them on ice first, they're cold-blooded so that will slow them down. Then stick them in seasoning. When the Old Bay hits their eyes they slow down considerably.
FloydofOz 4 years ago
ALLAN U BASTARD I WANT SOME
cowtippingwhore 4 years ago
LOL IM EATINGcrab rite now LOL
allan9874 4 years ago
My grandfather taught me to clean crabs alive. We do it outside with a hose. Use tongs to break off the claws, turn it over and start to grab the tab (narrow on the male and v-shaped on the female). Pull it away from the body then tackle the top shell by pulling one side at the points. It will give way exposing the inside. Use the pressure of the hose to clean the dark matter. You may have to rip the feathery gills. The laws say nothing about how to clean them so stop the comments on cruelty.
ptbernard 4 years ago
lol watch them suffer
CHRISDKEIE 4 years ago
complete morons!!! nuff said!!!
litenin36 4 years ago
I always encourage children to participate in the kill.
Grandmaandshane 4 years ago
thats the same thing i get at marryland
evilbunnie1029 4 years ago
i really have a problem with thouse make comments about the inhumanity of crabbing. If an animal is not self perceptive, such as a crab, pain is irrelevant, for it had nothing to base it on. Enjoy your crabs
yromemtnatsisrep 4 years ago
however i do not understand why they are putting uncoked with cooked? Anyone know the answer for this. or why that guy is so fumbly with those tongs. Is he scared of the poor little blue carb.
kholmes0 4 years ago
They are all uncookd in the pot. I guess the layer with the seasoning on it makes it look cooked on the video.
GeekTracker 4 years ago
what an idiot...therealfartacus...they aren't trying to be humane you ass. You kill them before putting them in the pot because when they start steaming them they will fight and pull eachothers claws off. This way they stay fresh until right before you cook them and you dont have a pot full off crabs with no claws. Just a MD thing i guess. oh and for your uneducated ass Maryland was a southern sympathizing state and below the mason dixon line but I guess you already knew that.
kholmes0 4 years ago
These folks are retards. You don't kill them before cooking them. Dumb-ass yankees.
If you feel the need, for some reason, to be more humane to the crabs, put them in cold salt water, then bring it to a boil and add the crab-boil or whatever seasonings you're going to use.
therealfartacus 4 years ago
I aint no tree hugger, but ya'll don't know what you're doin. Dont kill it before you throw em in. Next time have us marylanders cook for ya, yall go back north.
sber66 4 years ago
you guys are retarded. i have a few problems with this video
1. whats the purpose of killing the crabs first? if you season with old bay generously enough it'll calm them down.
2. people wearing no shoes are stupid with the crab on the ground
3. that kid who says "like" every 2 words
4. the person who picks the crab up the wrong way, just asking to get pinched.
blwalt17 4 years ago
Why are they putting the uncooked ones in with the cooked ones.... stupid.... And, when you kill the crabs prior to cooking, the meat turns to goo... and it's like eating crab past.
ebayer1000 4 years ago
Retards...
LostProphet1776 4 years ago
What a bunch of knuckle heads. You drop all the crabs in Ice water. They curl up and won't move when there cold. Then you just season and steam. Killing everyone with a ice pick is just retarded.
BOZZY2 4 years ago 2
I thought you just boiled em alive?
poorleno22 4 years ago
cook em alive and grab em by the rear...
no wonder you take so long, you waste time stabbing
and they don't die by the looks of it
Gunslinger18 4 years ago
My dads friends always brgs back those crabs back from maryland wit that red salty ass seasoning..it's so good..I always get a cut in my mouth from eating those
oooaznronnieooo 4 years ago
*That family in the afterlife*
"Uh, where are we?"
*Huge crab walks out, with metal claws*
"Ready for dinner? Bitches."
Zollowhex 4 years ago 2
Um, yeah... it takes long enough getting them into the pot nevermind taking the time to stab each and every one of them... I steamed two bushels this past weekend. It took long enough to catch the little buggers that got loose from the bucket.
woodysix8 4 years ago
Two bushels? Man, that is lot of crabs! Stabbing them with an icepick while filling up the crab pot keeps them for crawling out while you are chasing the other ones.
GeekTracker 4 years ago
You need a bigger pot. We had a pot that will hold slightly more than a bushel....
woodysix8 4 years ago
What the heck?! You don't kill them with ice picks before you cook them! You just cook them alive. Best way to cook them is by steaming.
alerin123 4 years ago
put them in water and they;re dead,no need for all that trouble haha
OldbabyBoy 4 years ago
Ok...whats the deal with the ice pick? You do not stab them before steaming them. You definitely talk to the wrong person.
polartec1 4 years ago
Oh, Hot girls killing crabs!
Theobserver55 4 years ago
we usually just cook them alive
jmoney8744 4 years ago
haha shaking crabs
MBunnyM 4 years ago
poor creatures!!! =(
enigmakpc 4 years ago 2
Holy Crap!
thestampede99 4 years ago
<3 crabs, also <3 reading crybaby comments
screecher 4 years ago
a family that kills together stays together.
Gunfulker27 4 years ago
true...true hahahaha
forferdie 4 years ago