Steaming hairy crabs in cold water on the pot for about 18 minutes, boiling water on the pot for about 12 minutes, the specific time should be adjusted appropriately according to the size of the crab. Therefore, we do not have to be obsessed with what water on the pot, as long as you remember the two numbers 12 and 18, steamed hairy crabs taste and flavor is not bad.

The first step in steaming hairy crabs is to clean them. Before cleaning, to prepare a basin of water, water pouring into the appropriate amount of white wine, the hairy crabs put in the soak for ten minutes, one is sterilization, the second is to let the hairy crabs as soon as possible to vomit dirty.

Then prepare an old toothbrush, hairy crabs do not have to be untied, its shell, belly, feet, mouth and other parts of all the scrubbing. Put the brushed hairy crabs into the water, and then wash it twice to clean it thoroughly. Cut the ginger slices and put them on the steamer grate. Ginger is used to deodorize the hairy crabs, and secondly, it can get rid of the cold.

Put the hairy crabs on the ginger slices, shell under, belly up, to prevent the crab yolk in the high temperature steaming process out. Then another slice of ginger on the belly of each hairy crab. I steamed them in cold water in a pot for exactly 18 minutes.

When steaming hairy crabs, make a dipping sauce with grated ginger and crab vinegar, because crabs are cold, so grated ginger in the dipping sauce is indispensable.

Hairy crab selection methods:

A, look at the color

Look at the back and belly color, good quality hairy crabs, the back color appears green, but this green with a little gray. The back looks very clean and smooth, if the back is not glossy, the environment in which the hairy crabs live may not be good.

The next step is to look at the belly color, hairy crab belly is very white, its this white is a very crystal white. If the back of the crab is smooth and clean, and the belly is white, it proves that the hairy crab lives in a very good environment.

Two, look at the claws

If the hairy crab is of good quality, its claws should be very strong. Generally hairy crab's claw grows very big, you choose hairy crab when you look at the hairy crab's claw, the crab claw is bigger hairy crab is generally more fat.

Because the claws of hairy crabs are used to crawl, which also makes the claws of hairy crabs very powerful, you can see whether its claws are powerful, if the sense of power is very strong, then this hairy crab is good. If the claws are weak and powerless, then it is definitely not good.

Three, look at the navel and weight

Turn the hairy crab upside down and look at it, if it is convex under the navel, then it proves that this hairy crab is very full of crab paste. On the contrary, if the belly button of the hairy crab is concave, then it is likely that the hairy crab is underdeveloped and does not have much crab paste.

And you can also judge by the weight, if the hairy crab belly button is prominent, hold in the hand and full weight, then 100 percent of the crab is very fat. If you weigh although the head of the hairy crab is big, but not very heavy words, then generally are not too good.