anybody eat this stuff?

Only the good parts!!! ;o))

yep

Nope...

HELL YEAH!!!

Had blue crab in South Korea once. My brother and I went to a nice place, ordered off the pictures. The waitress asked us if we were sure. It looked like a crab, so we told her we were sure. She came back 3 minutes later and told us we didn't want it. Oh ho ho- we're 'Mericans; don't tell us what we want! So we doubled our order. We learned they were raw when they hit the table, which is why she was so unsure. Most Westerners want cooked food. But we ate 'em up like the locals. Pretty good, too.

So, yeah, I'd try the butter.

Whenever we get a good amount of live crabs, I clean them before cooking. While they are alive I remove the shell, the remaining eyes and mouth section. Then with a toothbrush under a running faucet, I remove all the internal organs. Then we either steam them in old bay or cook them in spaghetti sauce. The crab sauce is SO GOOD. Whenever people try it for the first time it’s always the same… they say I ruined the crabs because I got rid of all the “good stuff.” Then they eat them and say I’ve spoiled them because they’ll never eat it unless they are cleaned. I think I like them better cleaned because the old bay can get to the crab meat instead of to the outer shell.

I've eaten it in Blue Crabs........but it was much "firmer" than pictured here.

That crab must have been eating prunes.

how's this stuff supposed to be eaten?

I mean, take the lungs out and throw them away, but the rest...?

Chief, that looks like a Dungeness, no? If so, clean out everything that isn't edible (in other words, anything that isn't soft and white or white-red combo, in the case of the claws and legs). There is enough meat in one legal size Dungeness to make a meal for at least one person. Just break the body in half, rinse out each side, and leave the halves to drain meat side down on towels or paper towels. If you want them to stay cold, let them drain onto towels in the fridge.

Then when the water has drained off (takes just a 10-15 minutes, provided you didn't get crazy and submerge it or blast it--doesn't take much water pressure to clean it out), you can start breaking the legs and claws off. Set those aside.

Now pick the meat out of the body. The chambers are thin enough that you should be able to gently break them all and pick the meat out. As for the legs, some folks crush them, using a mallet or tenderizer. I find it's much easier to simply snap the legs and claws with my fingers, and use one of the pointed ends of a leg to help scoop out the leg and claw meat.

Enjoy with some melted butter that has a bit of crushed garlic, serve with french bread. Have a cold beer or three with them, too.

Dungeness crab...one of the best natural foods on the planet, and very simple to clean and eat. Glad I live in a place where they grow wild.

Pacman eats like a caveman.

RE #9

You serious? As long as you've lived on the West coast and you have to ask about how to eat dungeness crab?

My cousin just covered it.

BTW, get the live crabs drunk before you throw them in the boiling water next time, you'll notice the meat is much sweeter since the crab doesn't produce much of any adrenaline as it hits the hot water, it just settles in thinking it's a nice comfy jacuzzi. Get an eye dropper and fill it with Crown Royal (they love Canadian whiskey for some reason) and hold the crab body vertical, head pointing straight up and just stick the eye dropper in it's gullet and slowly squeeze the bulb. It'll drink it all up and within a minute or so it'll stop fighting with you and you can give it a second dropper full (or part of one) and you'll have one happy drunk crab.

#11 When it comes to Dungeness crab, everyone eats like a caveman or cavewoman. There is not delicate way to go about it, unless you want to sit there all night.

I haven't gone to Anthony's Homeport restaurants in a while, but they used to serve an all-you-can-eat Dungeness crab dinner on Sundays. I could eat 3-4 crabs in one sitting, depending on how hungry I was. Gives me the **** to eat that many at once, but I can buy Immodium. Totally worth it. They'd bring you half at a time, serve some bread, keep the melted butter coming, etc. Dayum...come to think of it, if I'm ever given a choice to pick my last meal, that'd prolly be it.

#12 LOL...I'm getting a visual on this. I usually just tell them it's global warming, and they'd better get used to it. Then in they go. BTW, steaming works better than boiling. Less water in the meat that way.

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Right, but boiling kills them faster. So have a big stock pot with a short basket in it full of boiling water, get the crabs drunk, toss them in the boiling water for about 30 seconds to a minute, raise the basket up to steaming position and put the lid on.

^That'll work. Probably cut back on the number of appeals filed as well as requests for clemency, too.

I had to use crab butter after spending half an hour with a $20 hooker

We had a place on the TX coast for years on the San Luis Pass.I'd take the boat out early in the morning and set 3 crab Pots..

I'd go back late in the afternoon and collect the traps.

I 'd go back to the Beach house and we'd steam several dozen blue Crabs.

Great food and good times...

wheel,

Crab season here is December-May. In season, we eat the things 1-2 times a month. The one in the pic is a tad over 2 lbs and cost me about $6 off one of the boats in the Brookings harbor.

Pac, you can eat 4 crab? I'm impressed. When the kids visit during the season, I'll get some crab just for the fun of watching them eat crabs and sourdough--but I've never seen one of them eat 4!

And I never thought about steaming crab rather than boiling. Good idea.

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If my cousin says he can eat 4 large dungeness crabs, he can eat 4 large dungeness crabs.

Stone crab.