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[buk9tp]

went to md to pick up a car with my cousin and stopped by our fav crab vendor from back when i lived in severn.. couldn't find em so went to some restaurant that sells em cooked or live and got 6 dozen for 120 bucks not bad..

crabs yo!






flip em upside down..


pretty arguable point regarding the best way to kill them.. my mom used to freeze them overnight to kill them.. but i found this method online a while back..
insert knife where the back fin ends.. and push in and up..




heres another one..


easier with a smaller knife.. but you risk having the knife slip and cut you..


in


and up.. its instant death... faster than tossing into boiling water (ive seen em squirm in boiling water..) but with this method its instant death.. you can put your finger in between the claw the second you insert the knife and nothing.. crab doesn't move.. besides.. i don't find the idea of cooking crabs in there own shit and guts appealing..


open up flap..


bend it up and stick your thumb up the crabs ass (kidding) and use your other thumb to hold the bottom shell down..
use your thumbs only to do the pushing.. otherwise you'll break the crab.. the whole point is one thumb push up one thumb to just hold down or with the bigger crabs you have to push down with your other thumb..


your better off working at a slow and steady pace.. i work best sitting down..




life shell off..




idk why some people cut off the head but w/e i did it for shits and giggles in this pic.






you don't need to use a knife to do it.. you can just pull the gills/lungs right off with your hands..








run each crab separately under running water.. careful not to loose the meat..




use thumb to gently scrub the gut cavity..


yellow stuff is ok to leave anything black or red get rid of it..


all cleaned..




then i toss em into a pot.. and run water on em and swirl em around for good measure.. to make sure they are clean..




oven to 500 bake


cut peel garlic


a lot of it..


toss in food processor..


besides salt and pepper.. cumin is the most important spice..


spices dumped on top of garlic..


mix em good..


toss crabs onto tray..






load up garlic/spice mix into the gut cavity of each crab..






sprinkle more cumin on top..


this is what i like doing.. pick up some talapia fillets..



wash em good..


dump spices and garlic on em..


stack em side by side with the crabs.. juices from the crabs make the talapia taste just like crab meat.. a pretty damn good imitation crab meat


some lemon slices on top, add a little water and some vegetable oil and your ready to go into the oven




lame electric oven..


cooking


done!




plated








hands were too dirty by now to take anymore pics.. wanted to show the huge chunks of claw meat.. i love Chesapeake bay crabs..

aftermath lol no i wasn't the only one eating

[spoonfedcrx]

wheres the old bay?

i went crabbing once and we just piled ice on the crabs and they got all lethargic and we ripped their shit apart

[LS1pwNzJ00]

Pull that yellow shit out too.

And its faster/easier to kill them by stabbing them through the tail ting in the rear/back of the crab, there is a soft/thin piece where the tail thing hinges on, stab through that, easier and you dont risk cutting some meat

[nos10racer]

can i eat the crabs in my pubic hair ?

[j.h.christ]

i thought seafood without scales was haram, moe.

[Adam Lofton]

That write up was the BOMB Jay.

[Urban Indian]

excellent durka


now just to invest in a slightly better camera?

[97Econobox]

WTF?  this is not how you cook crabs damn yankees fuck it all up.

You boil it whole and when you pop teh shell off all that deadman and guts n shit comes out a whole lot easier.  not to mention steamed/boiled will taste better than oven baked IMO.

[Adam Lofton]

WTF?  this is not how you cook crabs damn yankees fuck it all up.

You boil it whole and when you pop teh shell off all that deadman and guts n shit comes out a whole lot easier.  not to mention steamed/boiled will taste better than oven baked IMO.

He said he didn't want to boil them in their own intestinal shit. Read Henry.

And damn Yankees? What Henryland are you from?

[RHD DC2]

wheres the old bay?

+1 wtf is crab without old bay?

ive never tasted baked crab.. wouldnt the crab meat shrink up a bit from baking it ?

[97Econobox]

the guts dont make any difference if you cook them in lol.  I grew up in Hampton Roads VA where your crabs are from, also spent a lot of time on the outer banks as well. I can tell you first hand No one, i mean no one who lives near water or has anything to do with seafood cooks crabs that way.  It may be good i mean there are a thousand different ways to skin a cat, jsut ask scott. 

All im sayin is i've never seen anyone cook crabs like that and seafood is a staple where im from.