Crabs can be washed clean in the following ways:
1, soaking in lightly salted water
After the crabs are bought home, first rinse the surface of the body of the dirt, and then put it into lightly salted water for a period of time, and the concentration of the salted water is suitable for a slightly salty taste. The purpose of soaking hairy crabs in lightly salted water is to let them spit out the dirt in their stomachs, so the water should be changed several times during the soaking period until the water spat out by the crabs becomes clear.
2. Brush the hairy crabs
When the water spat out by the hairy crabs is no longer cloudy, you can start brushing them. This step requires guts and a certain degree of skill, and you should pay attention to preventing your fingers from being pinched by the pincers of the hairy crabs. You can use your thumb and middle finger to pinch the left and right sides of the hairy crab with force and hold the crab shell towards the top. This method of grasping has been proven to be the safest and will never get pinched.
3, warm water crab method
The hairy crab belly up into about 45 degrees of warm water, and so it turned over when the warm water has been scalded, you can rest assured that boldly under the hands of scrubbing, will not be pinched to the hand will not affect the fresh flavor of the hairy crab.
Crab Selection Methods
1, look at the lower legs of the crab. The first thing to do is to look at the crab's bottom two calves. If its calves look particularly round and pinch up the meat and feel very full, then it is a fat crab, and vice versa is a thin crab.
2. Look at the two corners of the crab's shell. The crab stomach side up, rushed to the place where there is light to see, if it is transparent color, pinch up soft, is thin crab, if the color is darker, and pinch up meat, so the crab is more fat.
3, look at the crab's back cover and navel bottom of the middle position. If the middle position is very thick, it is "top cover fat", if it looks flat, it is thin crab, do not buy.