1, before steaming crabs, first use a small brush to clean the crab shells and legs, and put into the water to raise half a day, so that it is drained of dirt in the abdomen.

2. Before steaming, use a rope to tie the crab's chelipeds together to prevent the chelipeds from falling off and the crab oil from flowing out during the steaming process.

3, the bottom of the pot put the right amount of water, put on the steamer drawer to steam for 15-20 minutes. Steaming process should not open the lid, to steam through a one-time, otherwise affect the taste of the crab Tip: in the process of steaming, you can pat the ginger diced into the vinegar, and so on after steaming, it can be dipped in vinegar to eat.

Steps to eat crabs:

1, lift your red head cover

Select male/female crabs according to your own preference, take out the boiled crabs, and leave them to dry (so as not to burn your hands), and then break the head cover of the crabs with your hands.

Tip: Note that in order to make it easier to break the crab head cover, start breaking the crab shell with your thumb and index finger from the bottom of the shell, in the position shown in the picture below.

2, go to the crab umbilicus

Turn the crab over, the crab umbilicus break away, because the crab umbilicus in the crab intestines are dirty, can not be eaten, even if the crab umbilicus of the female crabs in the crab have some yellow, if the technique is not appropriate, for fear of being contaminated by the crab intestines, so it is not recommended to eat.

3, eat crab yolk/paste

Mother crabs eat yellow, male crabs eat yellow; crab cover lifted, first remove the crab stomach in the crab cover, and then take the crab yolk/paste in the crab cover with a spoon, dipped in vinegar, ginger food. Of course if you are a better eater, you can suck the layer of crab yolk/paste wrapped around the outside of the crab stomach.

Tips: Do not eat the black crab shell in the crab cap for those who are cold.

4. Eat the crab body

Break the crab body with both hands and suck the crab yolk/paste on the cross-section of the crab body, then grab the root of the crab leg with your fingers and tear off the crab body along the crab texture, dip it in vinegar and ginger and eat it, or use a toothpick to pick up the flesh of the crab body and eat it.

5, eating crab legs

After eating the crab body, you can eat crab legs, crab legs mainly eat its thighs. You can break down the crab legs, bite off the ends, and suck the crab thighs out. If you do not eat enough, you can use scissors to cut open the shell of the crab legs once, and pick the meat of the crab legs to eat.

6, eat crab cut

The most powerful crab is the crab horn cut, so stay for the last one to eat it. Crab clippers according to its joints by hand broken into three sections, the largest part of which, there is a crab clipper can be active can force to break open and then use scissors to cut open the crab shell to pick the meat to eat, and then in turn, the rest of the joints in the meat to pick out of the food.?