Cooking Maryland Blue Crabs

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS (everyone is a critic) ;-)

Step by step how to get from bushel to table. Everyone has a variation, this is just one way.
A few notables:
1) The spice I am putting on is a mixture of JO spice #1 and Old Bay
2) These crabs were bought from a commercial crabber in Havre de Grace MD
3) **** My dad called these guys blue claws for years....but nobody else I know calls them that...they're simply known as "blue crabs" ****
4) There is no right or wrong way to cook them...as long as you paid for them, cook them any way you want :-)
5) The ice thing has kept them for quite a long time for me. Almost a good 12hours. However.... clearly the fresher you get them in the pot the better (less cooking of already dead crabs).

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[billysquiresong]

Tom one question.. Are you from Maryland ?? I lived there for many years and your way of cookingthem was dead on.. But i have never heard anyone from Md refer to them as Blue Claws.. Normally its just crabs or blue crabs... Just wondering... THanks

[tomomatic]

Not from MD....but have many friends who gave me the education on how 'properly' cook up a mess of crabs ;-) The blue claw thing I guess is just me....that is what my father used to call them (he's grew up in NYC). Thanks for watching though...I'm limit myself to one batch of crabs a month (have to watch the cholesterol right?)

[XtremeInkz]

Where do people who live in Texas get Ma Crabs? We have them her but you can't buy them live anywhere that i know of. I'm looking to serve them at my Seafood Grill and the way people do it in Ma is the right way for sure. I have been to many Crab Feeds all you can eat for 15.00 many years ago though.

[BROOL23]

@tallpaulsta50 you can twat!!!

[techdeckdrummer49]

Do they scream I heard they scream

[BP5224]

@agat0r Old bay??? If you were a true marylander, you would know it's J.O. SPICE! My family and I have caught crabs and always use J.O. Most of maryland uses J.O. if you ask me.

[CallMeVina81]

Can I travel about an hour to an hour and a half distance the way you had the crabs sitting w/ the ice and layer of newpaper at the beginning of your video?

[ponmike]

Hey paul, just type in the search bar "how to grill crabs" or google it. Now everyone will see who the real ass is. YOU! And dont get smart over the internet, it dosent make you tough. And while your at it, research indirect grilling. You can almost do anything on a grill, if you know what your doing. -STA21!

[tallpaulsta50]

its call a maryland blue crab not blue claw. .an im telling you right now them crabs where not cooked all the way they still had a greenish color to them

[tallpaulsta50]

u cant grill crabs u ass

[ponmike]

hey steamed crabs is always good. Maybe next you can show us how to throw them on the grill. Id like to see that!