Autumn wind, crab feet itch; chrysanthemum blossom, smell crab. October Golden Autumn, Mid-Autumn Festival eleven long holiday, it is a good time to eat crabs, crabs are delicious but not easy to peel, next I will teach you with six steps to eat crabs perfectly.
First of all, we will introduce the skills of selecting crabs.
Autumn wind up crab feet itchy, September round umbilical October tip." This phrase "round umbilical October tip. The phrase "round" and "pointed" refers to the bottom of the crab umbilicus, the female crab umbilicus appears round and have horizontal lines between, September to eat female crabs, when female crabs full of yellow meat; October to eat male crabs, when the male crab umbilicus is pointed, creamy meat firm.
As shown in the picture below, the left female and the right male.
Then we teach you the steps of peeling crabs:
One, lift the crab shell
According to their own tastes and preferences, select male/female crabs, take out the cooked crabs, and when they are dry, break the crab shells with your hands.
Tip: Note that in order to make it easier to break the crab shells, start breaking the shells with your thumb and forefinger from the bottom of the shell.
Second, go to the crab umbilicus
Turn the crab over, the crab umbilicus break off, because the crab umbilicus in the crab intestine are dirty, can not be eaten, even if the crab umbilicus of the female crabs in the crab umbilicus have some yellow, if the technique is not appropriate, for fear of being contaminated by the crab intestine, so it is not recommended to eat.
Three, eat crab yolk/paste
Mother crabs eat yellow, male crabs eat yellow; crab shell lifted, first remove the crab stomach in the crab cover, and then use a spoon to take the crab yolk/paste in the crab cover, dipped in vinegar, ginger food. Of course if you are a better eater, you can suck the layer of crab yolk/paste wrapped around the outside of the crab stomach.
Tips: Do not eat the black crab shell in the crab cap if you have a cold body.
Four, eat crab body
Break the crab body with both hands, and suck the crab yolk/paste on the cross-section of the crab body, then grab the root of the crab leg with your fingers and tear off the section of the crab body along the texture of the crab body, dip in vinegar and ginger to eat, or use a toothpick to pick up the flesh of the body of the crab to eat.
Fifth, eat crab legs
After eating the crab body, you can eat crab legs, crab legs mainly eat its thighs. You can break down the crab legs, bite off the ends, and suck the crab thighs out. If you do not eat enough, you can use scissors to cut the crab leg shell once, pick the crab leg meat to eat.
Six, eat crab cut
The most powerful crab is the crab horn cut, so stay for the last one to eat it. Crab clippers according to its joints by hand broken into three sections, the largest part, there is a crab clippers can be active can force to break open and then use scissors to cut open the crab shell to pick the meat to eat, and then in turn, the rest of the joints in the meat to pick out of the food.