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Cooking With Live Crab, Part I (Cleaning)
I love crab, and I like to cook it as fresh as possible. This first part demonstrates how to clean a live crab. For more recipes, go to my blog: ht...
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How to clean crab
a simple way to clean crab , some other variety of crabs need different methods
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Hit it with the back edge of a heavy knife on the bottom (not the top!) along the center line and between the claws.
Clean before cooking removes the internal organs and fat which is where most of any industrial contaminants will concentrate. Crab are bottom feeders and do concentrate those nas...
Cleaning a Dungeness Crab
You bought a Dungeness Crab at the market for dinner, now what do you do with it. Detailed instructions from someone who has been catching, cleani...
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Agree with you. Also, crab are bottom feeders and exposed to industrial waste in many areas where they are harvested commercially. Removal of innards, particularly before cooking, reduces the potential that we are consuming those toxins.
Dungeness Crabs...How to clean them befor
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capnpf2: Apparently you like the flavor of crab innards (crab butter). Personally, I boil the cleaned halves with a crab boil (Zatarins). Cleaning before cooking reduces the amount of toxins (industrial wastes) in the crab meat I consume. Guess that makes us smart asses, huh?
I also like my f...
Gloves make this a lot safer and please don't use a knife like that to pull off the back unless you enjoy doctors and stitches! Just hold down the legs on one side and lift the shell from the one side. Guts and fat accumulate industrial toxins - the food chain thing. Remove them before further...