Steaming crabs with cold water.

Don't wait for the water to boil before steaming the crabs. Boiling water will steam the crabs, which will be hot, and when the crabs are scalded by the heat, they will keep struggling, and it is easy for them to break their legs. Cold water on the pot steaming, to give the crab a gradual process of adaptation to the water temperature, will not be due to violent struggle and lead to broken legs. Moreover, you can't add too much water to steam the crabs, and the crabs will be more delicious if you steam them through the water and rely on the water vapor.

When steaming crabs, you should add an appropriate amount of cooking wine, which evaporates with heating and takes away the fishy flavor of the crab, making the steamed crab fresh and fragrant without being fishy. Steaming crabs should be placed on the crab stomach upward to steam, which can prevent the crab in the crab yolk out, the old man on the beach know that "the crab is steamed will be thin".

Selection of crab tips:

1, to ensure that the crab is alive

Buy hairy crabs is the most important point is to ensure that hairy crabs are alive, you can look at the eyes of the crab, the crab's eyes are exposed to the outside of the eye, poke your hand in the eyes of the hairy crabs, the eyes can be quickly bounced back, the hairy crabs are alive, if the eyes will not move half a day, the eyes will not move back, the eyes will not move, the eyes will be able to quickly rebound, the hairy crabs are alive, if the eyes of the hairy crabs are alive, the eyes of the hairy crabs will not move back. If the crab's eyes won't move for half a day, it means the state is not good and the activity is not strong.

2, look at the appearance

Describing the appearance of hairy crabs there is a very famous proverb: "green back, white belly, yellow hair", in line with the three words of the hairy crab is basically the fat hairy crabs, the green back refers to the hairy crab's crab shell is black-green with a bright light, so that the crabs are usually, meat thick and strong. The green back refers to the black-green color of the crab's shell, with a bright light. "White belly" refers to the color of the hairy crab stomach, white belly indicates that the hairy crab stomach color is white, but its stomach is not pure white, white in yellow is normal.

"Yellow hair" refers to the hair on the crab's pincers, yellow is the color yellow, the professional will be called "chelipeds", to observe the chelipeds on the amount of hair and color, the main thing is that the chelipeds on the hair to be more. In addition, but also look at the navel, the navel protrudes, so the crab is generally fat fat fat, on the contrary, if it is concave, most is not fat.

3, pinch the crab feet

generally pinch the penultimate leg of the hairy crab, the crab's feet pinch to go is full, will not be concave, no elasticity, indicating that the crab's maturity is high, the meat is fuller, if the crab feet pinch up is hollow, indicating that such a crab steamed crab meat will shrink, crab meat is not full;

4, weighing

two Almost the size of the hairy crabs, pick up on the hand weighing weighing, picking the heavier this one, light means that the crab has no meat, yellow is not enough.

5, look at the tail

Finally observe the tail of the hairy crabs, the tail is the connection between the crab shell and the crab belly, that is, often referred to as the ass of the hairy crabs, this place is burst open, the thicker it is, the more the yellow hairy crabs, but also through the tail here this gap to see, if you can see the yellow, that is, the hairy crabs are full of yellow, male crabs is recommended to look at the mouth here, the mouth here! If you can see the yellow color, it means that the hairy crab is full of yellow, and the male crab is recommended to look at the mouth here.