How to clean sea crabs

Normally when we go out to eat crabs, they are already cooked. If you buy them yourself, you need to clean them thoroughly. When cleaning crabs, you can prepare clean water and an old toothbrush, put the crabs in the clean water, and add a little salt, so that the crabs can spit out the dirt. Then use a toothbrush to scrub the crab's surface again.

Crab cleaning

1. First, prepare half a basin of clean water and an old toothbrush.

2. Put the crabs to be cleaned in. Don't worry about the crabs running around, as they may dive into the water. Some crabs will run out. Just catch them or drive them into the water and they will be quiet after a while. Soak for about ten minutes and then wash.

3. Grab the crab by its sides and use a toothbrush to vigorously clean its back, abdomen and mouth.

4. Then clean both sides of the crab and the base of its feet and claws.

5. This is the most critical step, and you can’t be timid. Grab the claws (use the handle of a toothbrush to lift the joint of the claws from the bottom up, and use the thumb and index finger of the crab catching device to grab the claws upward along the base of the claws. For some ferocious crabs, you can press down the claws or knock them a few times first), open the abdominal cover, and squeeze out the excrement from the inside to the outside in the middle.

6. Clean the dirt inside the crab's belly cover and the crab claws. The crab is now cleaned.

7. Put the cleaned crabs into a pot with half a pot of clean water. (If you don't add water, the crabs will run around.) After washing them all, fill the pot with clean water and soak for about ten minutes before rinsing. The purpose is to wash away the dirty water brought in when washing the crabs.

8. If you are afraid of being pinched by crabs, first prepare a basin of hot water at about 45 degrees, that is, the water should not feel hot enough for you to put your hand in (if it is too hot, the crab's legs will fall off). Put the crabs one by one into the water with their bellies facing up. By the time they turn over, they have already choked on the hot water and passed out. The advantage of doing this is that the crab will just faint and will not pinch your fingers when you manipulate it, and it will not affect the deliciousness of the crab. Then follow the cleaning steps.

Crab recipe

1. If you are steaming the crabs, you don’t need to tie them up. Simply place the crabs belly up in the steamer. But I personally think that the steamed crab meat is dry, not fresh and has a fishy smell.

2. If you cook the crab, you don’t have to worry about the crab sticking to the lid of the pot. When cooking crabs, add some salt (you can add more), onions, and ginger. After it boils, add some cooking wine. The cooking wine and onions can remove the fishy smell and enhance the fragrance, the ginger can detoxify and enhance the freshness, and the salt can make the crab meat tasty. The crab soup can be used to make noodles or soup.

3. If you are going to cook the crab, you can chop it directly on the chopping board. Then place the cut part of the crab on a mixture of 2:1 starch and dry flour to prevent the crab juice from being lost, then fry it in a pan with oil, and then add seasonings and spices to cook. But I personally think that this way of eating hairy crabs (such as spicy crabs) loses the freshness of the crabs and may not be suitable for the taste of people in the south of the Yangtze River.

In short, no matter how you cook or eat it, as long as it suits your taste, it's fine. Eating crabs is all about the atmosphere and mood, not just eating them to fill your stomach. I wish you all eat crabs in a healthy and hygienic way and in a happy mood!

By the way, please be careful when washing crabs:

1. Clean up the dead crabs in advance, otherwise after all the crabs become unconscious you won’t be able to tell which are the dead crabs and which are the unconscious crabs.

2. It is best to start cooking crabs within an hour to avoid affecting the freshness of the crabs.