Why do steamed crabs use beer?
Deodorization and sterilization. Crab is a long-lived aquatic creature, which contains a certain amount of bacteria and microorganisms, and beer contains a certain amount of alcohol, which can help crabs remove the fishy smell, play a certain bactericidal role and contribute to human health.
How long does it take to soak crabs in beer?
Depending on the size of the crab. In general, it is better to control the time of steaming crabs with beer at around 15-20. It is basically possible to steam crabs at this time. It takes about 15 minutes for medium-sized crabs to steam after they are put into the pot with cold water, which is relatively large. It takes about 20 minutes to steam if it is more than 4 liang.
How to steam crabs with beer
Ingredients: crab, beer, steamed fish and soy sauce, aged vinegar, ginger and onion.
1, use a small brush for crabs, and clean it for later use.
2. Cut the ginger skin, cut the onion into sections, add steamed fish and soy sauce, stir well with mature vinegar, and make dip.
3. Then put the crab into the container, pour the beer into the hairy crab and soak it for 5 minutes.
4. After that, put the onion ginger skin into the steamer and pour in the beer soaked in crabs.
5. Then put the crab belly up on the steamer. After boiling, put the crab in the steamer and steam until 15-20 minutes.
6, it is best to eat with juice.
What's the harm of eating too many crabs?
1, spleen and stomach damage
Crabs are cold, so crabs have a lot of coldness. Eating too much in the stomach will make you feel uncomfortable, resulting in deficiency and cold of the spleen and stomach, severe decline in gastrointestinal digestive function, and indigestion such as diarrhea, abdominal distension and abdominal pain may also occur. In addition, menstrual women should avoid eating crabs or eat less, otherwise it may lead to palace cold, aggravated dysmenorrhea, decreased menstrual blood, and even menopause.
2. disgust
Crabs are allergic, and allergic people are not allowed to eat crabs. If their immunity is low, even if they used to eat crabs, they can't eat them now, let alone eat more, which may cause allergies. Among them, patients with digestive system diseases have the most allergies, some have diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, and even severe systemic allergic symptoms.
3. It is easy to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Eating crabs is not meat, but crab roe and crab paste are the best. However, although these two things are delicious, they contain a lot of cholesterol. 100g crab paste contains 466mg of cholesterol, and 100g crab meat contains 65mg of cholesterol, which is a typical high cholesterol food. Eating too much will cause excessive cardiovascular and cerebrovascular load and easily lead to hyperlipidemia, hypertension, cerebral thrombosis and other diseases.
4, gout patients may relapse.
Crabs are rich in protein, high in cholesterol and purine. Gout patients should control themselves when eating. Eating too much can easily induce or aggravate gout symptoms.
5. Parasitic infection
Some people prefer to eat raw crabs and drunken crabs rather than cooked crabs. This raw and choking hairy crab is the most delicious, but the parasites and fungi carried in the crab have not been completely killed because it has not been treated with high temperature. A small amount of food is acceptable, and excessive consumption is prone to parasitic diseases, of which paragonimiasis is the most common.