You also need to wash the tied hairy crabs.

The tied crabs can be untied and cleaned, or left untied, depending on personal needs. The tied crabs can prevent the crabs from moving and pinching randomly. They are more convenient to clean. You don’t have to worry about being accidentally injured. You only need to use a brush to carefully scrub away the dust, impurities and other substances in the shell.

If you feel that the rope tying the crab is dirty or blocks the cleaning of some parts, you can choose to untie the rope and clean it. After the treatment is completed, you can cook it directly in the pot.

How to select tied crabs

1. Look: the color of the shell is generally related to the living environment. The uniform color of the cyan carapace means good water quality. Turn over and check, the crab belly is porcelain white and shiny. It means crawling on the sand instead of the mud bottom, and living in a place with lots of water and grass. Secondly, look at the gap between the end of the cephalothorax and the belly navel. The wider it is, the higher the fatness, that is, there will be a lot of crab paste.

2. Touch: Hairy crabs are almost always sold tied up, but you can touch its eye sockets to determine whether it is still alive. In addition, living crabs often spit bubbles all the time.

3. Weigh: Weigh the human meat manually. Looking at the crabs of similar sizes, the heavier they are, the plumper they are. The more crab meat, the more affordable it is to eat.

4. Pinch: Gently pinch the crab legs. If they are full and firm, it means they have grown. Otherwise, they have not grown yet and there is empty meat.

5. Turning: Untie the rope and turn the crab so that its white belly is upward. If it can turn over quickly and crawl, it means it is energetic and healthy.