How to clean crabs more cleanly

Crab is a food that many people like to eat. There are many ways to cook crabs, such as stir-frying, boiling, steaming or making porridge. No matter how it is cooked, it tastes particularly delicious. Although crabs are delicious, people with allergies should eat less, otherwise it is easy to cause allergies. Crabs are cold in nature and should not be eaten with some cold foods. After buying crabs, be sure to clean them thoroughly before cooking.

The first method of washing crabs:

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 to grab the claws along the base of the claws. For some ferocious crabs, press down or knock the claws a few times first), open the abdominal cover, and squeeze out the excrement from the inside to the outside.

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 it 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.

How about it? It’s quite easy to eat clean crabs.

The second method of washing crabs:

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 when you put your hand in it (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.

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 and 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.