Hairy crabs belong to aquatic products, in the lake will be stained with soil or other aquatic weeds and sediment. So whether it is steamed or boiled or other cooking methods need to be washed before. Cleaning method:

1. First, prepare a pot of warm water at about 45℃. Put the hairy crabs into the water one by one with their stomachs facing upwards, and when it turns over it will have choked and fainted from drinking the hot water. The advantage of doing this is that the hairy crabs just fainted, at your mercy will not pinch your fingers again.

2. Take out a toothbrush, grab both sides of the crab, and use the toothbrush to clean the back, belly and mouth.

3. Then clean the sides of the hairy crab and the roots of the feet and pincers.

4, the next is the most critical step, grab the double pincers, use the toothbrush handle to pick up the joints of the double pincers from the bottom upward, and use the thumb and forefinger of the crab grabber to grab the pincers with force along the pincer root and upward. Open the abdominal lid and squeeze out the feces from the inside out in the center.

5. Finally, clean the dirt and pincers inside the abdominal cover of the hairy crab.

Such hairy crabs are cleaned.

If the crab is tied with a rope, it is best to remove it, because there is a lot of dirt in the grass rope.

Steaming crabs must be steamed lying down, because you put in a live crab, it is cooked by the process of raw will have urine out, if lying down, urine just flow out, if you reverse, then urine all flow to the stomach.