Steaming crabs usually takes about 15 minutes to cook. But also need to be differentiated according to the size of the crab and the weather, the day is cold, then you need to wait for the water to boil and then time:

①: generally more than 4 two crabs can be steamed in about 15 minutes to steam, the day is cold, the water is difficult to open the water needs to wait for the water to boil to continue to steam for 12 minutes to steam;

②: 3-4 two or so of the crabs steamed in about 12 minutes can be steamed, the day is cold, the water is difficult to open the water needs to wait for the water to boil to continue to steam 10 minutes to steam;

③: 3 two or less than 3 two crabs can be steamed for 12 minutes to steam, the day is cold continue to steam for 10 minutes to steam;

③: 3 two crabs can be steamed for about 10 minutes to steam, the day cold water is difficult to open the water need to wait for the water to boil and continue to steam for 8 minutes to steam.

Extended information

Crab should be cold water or hot water in the pot:

Steaming crab generally need to be cold water in the pot steam. However, if the crab is frozen frozen crab can be steamed in hot water.

Because the fresh crab meat is delicious and easy to cook, if the hot water in the pot is easy to destroy the meat of the crab, easy to lose too much water and loss of nutrients and taste, so the steamed crab must be cold water in the pot to steam as appropriate.

Of course, if you buy frozen crabs frozen crabs, in the absence of thawing, you can also recommend hot water in the pot steam, so that the crab can naturally faster steamed through, but in the steaming time needs to be extended in the base time of about 5 minutes.

Steaming crab tips:

(1) Steaming crab should be tied with a rope to the crab's feet, to avoid its messy steaming bad flow yellow.

(2) Steam crabs belly up, undershirt down steam, to avoid the crab flow yellow broken feet.

(3) steamed crabs can not be greedy time short, in order to seek fresh and beautiful and steamed too short it is likely to steam not dead crabs within the bacterial parasites, eaten rashly is likely to cause diarrhea and diarrhea and so on, so try to steam full of the standard time I wrote.

(4) Steaming crabs should not be steamed too much at a time, not to mention the stacked steam, or else the crab is difficult to steam all the way through, but also easy to leave dietary hazards.