Steaming crabs generally suggests that it's best to put them in a pot with cold water, not hot water. Reasons are as follows:

1, hot water pot steaming crabs easy to break legs. Because of the hot water pot crab instant contact temperature is too high, and the crab itself lives in the cold water for many years for the high temperature reaction is naturally violent, even if tied legs and feet will be crazy struggle, resulting in the eventual occurrence of crab legs broken;

2, hot water pot steaming crab easy to flow yellow. Similarly, the temperature is too high crab will struggle violently, in the struggle process, the crab is easy to body flip, resulting in crab yolk from the body gap out of the waste;

3, hot water under the pot steaming crab taste fishy or meat faggot. Because the crab itself with the shell is more heat-resistant, direct hot water in the pot is difficult to quickly steam through, steaming time is too short, the crab yolk part of the steaming is not cooked especially fishy, and steaming time is too long, the crab leg meat will be old and dry firewood, so do not recommend hot water steaming crabs.

Benefits of cold water steaming:

Cold water steaming crab can be safely eaten. Because the cold water pot crab heating time is longer, the crab can be uniformly heated from the outside to the inside, so the steamed crab can do inside and outside the meat are cooked through, there is no live parasites, so eat more at ease, even if you eat more is not easy to diarrhea; cold water pot steamed crab taste just not old. Due to the cold water pot steaming crab can do heat consistent, so even if the outside of the crab legs just steamed, the inside of the crab yolk can be done to eat level, so the cold water pot steaming crab and meat will not be old.