1, the first surface of the crab rinsed clean of dirt, and then put the crab into the salt water soak for a period of time, to disinfect the crab, soaked in salt water can make the crab to the stomach of the dirt spit out, and so that the crab spit out the water is no longer turbid when it is ready.

2. Prepare a new toothbrush, and then rub the crab to clean the feet and stomach. In order to prevent your fingers from being caught by the crab's pincers, pinch the left and right sides of the crab's shell hard with your thumb and middle finger and turn the crab's stomach toward the top. Once the crab is firmly grasped, take it under the faucet and, using a thin stream of water, scrub the crab with a toothbrush, rinsing as you go. Brush hard, especially the hair part of the crab, because the hair is the dirtiest part of the crab.

3, open the crab abdominal cover, abdominal cover has a lot of dirt and crab feces, first remove the crab intestine squeeze out, cut with scissors. Then brush and wash away the dirt in the abdominal cover.

4, crab belly cover after washing, if you plan to steam if you can steam. If you are doing crab boil, then it is best to remove these three parts. Then take a spoon to open the crab cover and use scissors to remove the crab stomach, which is the triangular bag hiding in the crab yolk. Crab stomach is also very dirty and not easy to eat.

5, and then use scissors to cut off the crab gills, crab gills is to open the crab shell, crab body on both sides of the gray soft little fan is the crab gills, crab gills is the crab's respiratory system, can also be eaten.

6, remove the crab heart, because the crab heart it is particularly cold, so can not eat. Crab heart is a white hexagonal shape, located in the center of the crab. Clean it up and it's ready to cook.

Warm Tips

1, beforehand, the dead crab first cleaned off, otherwise the crab all fainted after the fainted crab can not distinguish which is the dead crab which is fainted crab.

2, it is best to start cooking the crabs within an hour so as not to affect the freshness of the crabs.

3, before washing, put a bucket of water with less salt, put the crab in, let it soak in salt water for 5-6 hours, it will spit out the dirty things in its stomach in the salt water.

If you are steaming it you don't need to tie the crab. Just place the crab belly up in the steamer.

How to Catch a Crab Without Getting Pinched

1 Grab its little legs from behind with your hands.

2. Squeeze the crab's upper and lower shells with your hand behind it, and its pincers can't bend that area, so be careful to take it from its back.

3, catch big crabs with chopsticks, a good, let his pincers clamp chopsticks caught.

4, one hand will do, thumb press the crab mouth long crab cover, middle finger press navel.

5, thumb and middle finger press the crab cover on the left and right sides.

6, tie its pincers before grabbing.

7, open your palm and pinch it from both sides, because its pincers are in the front, you can't get both sides.