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17004177 No.17004177 [Reply] [Original]

What to do with crab? How do you clean it? Do you kill it before cooking? Many recipes say to boil it first. Can I just cook it in butter without boiling?

>> No.17004214
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17004214

Buy any fucking basic fish or seafood cookbook and it will tell you what to do.

>> No.17004239

No need to clean or kill beforehand. Just drop it in violently boiling water and cook until done (sorry don't remember how long, depends on weight).

Crack open the legs/claws and dip in lemon butter sauce if desired. The body too, more succulent but a bit strong. Don't eat the gills though, very dirty.

>> No.17004241

>>17004177
Implying you will ever buy a fucking live crab if you have to make this thread

>> No.17004266

>>17004241
I plan to. I live near the ocean. Why wouldn't I?

>> No.17004268

>>17004177
>Do you kill it before cooking?
No, I eat it alive.

>> No.17004274

>>17004266
>I live near the ocean.
the majority of the world does

>> No.17005251
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>>17004214
>Why don't you spend money instead of getting the knowledge from your fellow peers
>Inb4 >fellow peers

>> No.17005556

>>17004177
You can put a whole Dungeness crab in a paper bag and microwave it on high for 6 minutes.

>> No.17005577

>>17004177
I've caught and eaten a b7nch of dungeness andnblue crabs. Boiled, steamed, live or cleaned before cooking. My favorite method is to kill and clean the crab first and then steam. Try different methods and see what you like.

>> No.17005653

>>17004177
Throw crab directly on grill.
Crabs are courteous enough to come with their own cooking vessel.

>> No.17005781

Steamed dungeness crab over beer heavily sprinkled with Old Bay

>> No.17005813

>>17004177
>Do you kill it before cooking?
If you don't want the legs fall off then yeah, kill it before you steam it.

>> No.17005903

>>17005813
Fuck no you don't. Yeet the fuckers in live.

>> No.17005905

>>17005556
Jesus christ that sounds insane. Could you imagine the live crab just exploding inside a microwave?

>> No.17005911

>>17004177
thats a funny looking sandwich

>> No.17005920

>>17004177
Only cook crabs alive. Being boiled alive is actually the most humane way for them to die. Their brains explode very quickly and they die within 30 seconds, whereas if you try to stab them with a knife you're not going to dispatch them at all, you're only going to hurt them unecessarily. Also crab blood spoils insanely quickly, like within 20 minutes after death the crab will take on bad flavors and could become dangerous.

>> No.17006051

>>17005905
The little flap that hides their sexual organs always turns into a steam vent.

>> No.17007761

Bump

>> No.17009157

>>17004214
>wasting money on worthless bundles of papers and ink in 20-fucking-21

>> No.17009162

>>17005556
>imagining putting a crab in a microwave alive
I don't really care about animal cruelty n all that shit but I'm def stabbing it in between the eye stalks before doing that. Seems a bit fucked up to kill it via cooking it inside out.

>> No.17009170

>>17005920
If you stab them in the mouth with a skewer and wiggle it around they die in under 2 seconds. Then you can drop them in the water immediately saving them from 28 seconds of suffering. But what would you care, you'
re a psychopath.

>> No.17009482

>>17009162
It's not. They kill rats and mice in the microwave for feeders for pet snakes

>> No.17009485

>>17009170
Yeah I'm sure when you work in a seafood restaurant and cook 1,000 of the things in a night you take the time to stab each and every single one.

>> No.17009551

>>17009485
What kind of "seafood restaurant" has 1000 live crabs sitting around dipshit. They get them frozen. And I mean a real restaurant not a wooden shack on Bali that you went on a google maps adventure to.

>> No.17009559

>>17009551
Well for starters you can try my favorite place, Blue ridge seafood in Herndon Virginia...