Crabs are delicious, but the smell of crabs is still heavy. When steaming, you need to add some cooking wine to remove the smell and enhance its fragrance. Yellow rice wine is usually chosen as cooking wine, but many people like to add beer when steaming crabs. Do you know why steamed crabs use beer? Now let's talk about the reason.

1. Why do steamed crabs use beer?

In fact, there are two main reasons for steaming crabs with beer. The first is to remove the fishy smell and refresh your mind. Beer itself is also a kind of wine, and its alcohol content is relatively low, so there is no fear that alcohol will remain on food. Moreover, beer is brewed from wheat, so it is fragrant, which will make crabs more delicious and remove the fishy smell. The second reason is to make crab meat taste tender, because many people can't accurately grasp the time of steaming crabs. If the time is too long, the crab meat may get old, but if a proper amount of beer is added, even if it is steamed for a little longer, it will not change the taste of the meat, so beer will be added when the crab is steamed.

Second, what should I pay attention to when steaming crabs?

1. Bundle with straw

When steaming crabs, it is recommended to tie them with straw or hemp rope specially used for tying crabs. The first operation is to prevent crabs from crawling around in the pot, and the second operation is to tie them up and look beautiful one by one, so that crabs will not become incomplete because they accidentally touch them.

Pay attention to the temperature

Crabs must be steamed, tied and placed on a steamer rack or special steamer. If it is a steaming rack, add a proper amount of water to the bottom of the pot, first turn on a big fire and then turn on a small fire to steam slowly, and be careful not to dry the water. If it is a steamer, just adjust the time directly.

Step 3 add more onions, ginger and garlic

Crabs have a strong fishy smell, so you must add some onions, ginger and garlic when steaming. You can add more, cover it, and then remove the fishy smell after steaming, so that there will be no smell of onions, ginger and garlic, which can be used to remove the fishy smell.

Now we all know why you steam crabs with beer, so if you are used to steaming crabs with cooking wine from ordinary cooking, you can change your habit through today's introduction and buy a can of beer to steam crabs to see if crabs steamed with beer are more delicious than crabs steamed with ordinary cooking wine.