With the increasing improvement of living conditions, high-grade ingredients like crabs have become a regular guest on the table. However, crabs are so expensive that you need to know how to do it without wasting the ingredients. Steaming crabs is our most common practice. Many people do not know whether to use cold water or hot water to steam crabs. Steaming crabs must be steamed with cold water, because after the cold water is boiled with steam, the crabs are steamed bit by bit with such steam, preferably for 10 to 15 minutes, so that the steamed crab legs are not easy to fall off, and the taste is more delicious.

Steamed crabs are boiled in cold water or hot water?

How to steam crabs

1. First, put the crabs under running water and use a brush to scrub the spoils off the crabs.

2. Then put the cleaned crabs into a large container, pour in cooking wine and beer and soak the crabs for an hour.

3. Add cold water to the pot and put it into a steamer, placing the crab shells belly side down.

4. Cover the pot and steam for almost 13 minutes.