Steaming crabs usually takes about 15 minutes to cook. However, there is a difference according to the size of the crab and the weather. If the weather is cold, you need to wait for the water to boil before timing it.

1, generally more than 4 two crabs can be steamed for about 15 minutes to steam, the day cold water is difficult to open the need to wait for the water to boil and then continue to steam for 12 minutes can be steamed;

2, 3-4 two crabs can be steamed for about 12 minutes to steam, the day cold water is difficult to open the need to wait for the water to boil and then continue to steam for 10 minutes can be steamed;

3, 3 two below The crabs under 3 taels can be steamed for about 10 minutes, and if the water is hard to open in cold days, you need to wait for the water to boil and continue steaming for 8 minutes to steam.

Steaming crabs in cold water is recommended

Steaming crabs in cold water is generally recommended. However, if the crab is frozen, it can be steamed in hot water. Because fresh crab meat is delicious and easy to cook, if the hot water in the pot is easy to destroy the meat of the crab, easy to lose too much water and lose nutrition and taste, so steaming crabs must be cold water in the pot to steam as appropriate.

Of course, if you buy frozen crabs frozen crabs, in the absence of thawing, you can also recommend hot water under the pot steam, so that the crab can naturally faster steamed through, but in the steaming time need to be in the base time and then extend the 5 minutes or so.