According to the query Jiuzhou Drunk.com shows that pike crabs boiled in water for 10-15 minutes is the best. You need to cook pike crabs belly up, cover the pot with a lid when the water boils, turn into a small fire to cook for 5 to 10 minutes, the specific time depends on the size of the pike crabs, smaller pike crabs can be appropriate to shorten the time, larger pike crabs can be boiled for 10 minutes.

The pike crab, commonly known as the "white crab" in some places. Because the cephalothorax is in the shape of a pike, so the name pike. There are three protrusions in the center of the carapace, so it is also known as the "three warts pike crab", belonging to the arthropods. Male umbilicus pointed and smooth, chela grows, shell surface with green; female umbilicus round with downy, shell surface ochre, or spots. Pike crab meat is fat and tasty, has high nutritional value and economic value, and is suitable for seawater fattening temporarily. The cephalothorax is pike-shaped, almost twice as wide as long; the surface of the cephalothorax is covered with fine granules, with 2 granules transversely ronding and 3 warty protuberances; the frontal has 2 sharp teeth; the anterior lateral margin has 9 sharp teeth, and the final teeth are long and spiny, protruding outward. Chelicerae stout, length longer than width of cephalothoracic armor; long segments prismatic, male long segments more slender, anterior margin with 4 sharp spines.