How to kill crabs before steaming 1 poke them with a knife?
Scratch with a knife under the navel tip and poke with the tip of the knife, and the crab will soon die. You can also insert a needle, a long bamboo pole or chopsticks into the crab's mouth. After a while, the crab died. At this time, put the crab into the steamer, how to steam it so as not to fall off.
Step 2 poke with chopsticks
Before steaming, insert a knife in the middle of your eyes, or insert a thick metal needle into the center of the crab to spit out bubbles of about 1 cm, and then stir it left and right, so that the crab will die and you won't lose your legs when steaming.
Do crabs need to be scalded before steaming? Generally, steamed crabs should not be scalded to death with boiling water, but they can be soaked in warm water before washing, so that crabs will not struggle, and cleaning and cooking are more convenient.
Put the crab belly in warm water of about 45 degrees. Turn it over and you'll be scalded by warm water. Don't worry, you can wash it by hand, it won't get caught, and it won't affect the delicacy of crabs. The most important thing in this method is to control the water temperature. The water temperature is too low to achieve the effect of peeling crabs. If the water temperature is too high, the crab feet will fall off.
When steaming crabs, the water in the pot can be cold water or hot water, but it is necessary to control the time when crabs enter the pot and boil the water before putting it in, because steaming crabs with boiling water will make them die quickly. In order to ensure the rapid maturity of meat, crab meat tastes soft and firm, and when steamed, crabs die quickly and struggle for a short time, so the fishy smell will be lighter and crab eggs and crabs will not appear easily. The phenomenon of ointment flowing out.
What are the skills of steaming crabs? 1, white wine deodorizes
When steaming crabs, if the fishy smell is too strong, you can put a little white wine to remove the fishy smell, or before steaming crabs, wash them, put them on a plate, and then marinate them with four spoonfuls of white wine and two spoonfuls of cooking wine, which can better remove the fishy smell.
2, tied or stabbed to death before steaming
If you put all the live steamed crabs in the pot, it's just like a cat steaming badly on a hot pot. Moreover, when steaming crabs, nutrients will be lost due to heating, such as crab seeds and crab paste, which will become a waste of steamed water. Therefore, it is necessary to use needles to damage the brain before steaming, which can make the abdomen bulge and the yellow paste will not fall off when steaming.
More water instead of less.
Steam crabs with as much water as possible to avoid scalding the pot with boiling water and lack of water in the middle. You need to open the pot cover and add more water, so that the steamed crabs are delicious. But don't let the water overflow the plate. That's boiled crab.