1, with salt water to soak the crab for half an hour, so that, you can spit out some of the dirt in the body of the crab, and so that the steamed crab meat is more tender, more fresh flavor.

2, after soaking also have to rub a bath, with a used small toothbrush to the crab cover, crab legs around the brush clean, so eat more hygienic some.

3, lying steam. Put the crab belly up, so steamed, crab belly full contact with steam, can sterilize, crab cooked fast. This steamed out of the crab is not easy to drop claws, crab body intact, color red and bright, so on the table to have appetite.

Expanded Information:

Precautions:

1. Avoid eating dead crabs and unsteamed crabs

Do not eat dead crabs and crabs that have not been steamed and boiled through. Eating live crabs should be steamed and cooked through. Live crabs can expel bacteria from their bodies through metabolism. Once the crab is dead, the bacteria in the body will multiply and decompose the crab meat, and some bacteria also produce toxins, causing food poisoning.

2. It is best to steam the crabs.

While eating crabs can add some ginger to flavor, can go to its fishy, but also can neutralize its cold nature, so that the nutrients are more easily absorbed. Chinese medicine believes that the crab cold, usually afraid of cold, easy to headache people, eating crab can put more ginger.

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