Cooking crabs is the best way to keep the original flavor, you have to master the fire and time, so that the cooked crabs are the most delicious and tender. So how long do you cook crabs? Crab to cook how long the best? This article to share a brief:

Because the crab is grown in the silt, the body often with some toxins, in order to prevent these pathogenic microorganisms invade the human body, in the consumption of crabs must be steamed cooked through. In addition, due to the unique freshness of the green crab, cooking generally do not need to add seasoning, that is, water steamed is also full of freshness, only sometimes accompanied by a fishy taste. Generally in a weight of less than half a catty of crab in the boil after the prevail up to cook for another 15 minutes crab is fully mature. It's important to note that no matter how much time is taken to boil the pot, the crab will be fully cooked.

Next look at how to select the crab, first of all, is to test the degree of connection between the limbs and the body, fresh crab foot and body connection is close, lift the crab body, the foot is not loose sagging. Not fresh crabs in the limbs, the body can be rotated at the joint, will obviously show the phenomenon of relaxation, by hand to lift the crab body, can be seen in the limbs (feet) downward sagging phenomenon.

Then look at the belly button above the "stomach seal", crabs more humus for food bait, after death after a period of time, not fresh crab stomach contents will be corrupted in the crab body ventral umbilicus above the black mark. Also look at the crab "yellow" is solidified, the crab body is called "crab yellow" material, is a variety of internal organs and reproductive organs. When the crab is in the rigor mortis stage, the "crab yolk" is solidified. When the crab is not fresh, it is semi-fluid. When the crab body is spoiled, it becomes even thinner, and when the crab body is turned over, you can feel the flow inside the shell.

In addition to see the gills is also one of the methods of judgment, fresh crab gills clean, gill filaments clear, white or slightly yellowish brown. Not fresh crab gill filaments began to rot and bonding, but must be peeled off the armor to observe. Pick a good on overcooked before, be sure to hairy crabs with a brush to clean, ultimately aquatic products, the shell of the soil to try to remove.