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Whether you are dealing with hard or soft-shelled crabs, the meat can be delicious but hard to handle. Learn how to get to the tasty crab meat without making a mess.
Whether you are dealing with hard or soft-shelled crabs, the meat can be delicious but hard to handle. Learn how to get to the tasty crab meat without making a mess.
You Will NeedA dull knife
A wooden mallet
Newspaper (optional)
Kraft paper (optional)
A wooden mallet
Newspaper (optional)
Kraft paper (optional)
Step 1: Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs 把硬壳的螃蟹煮或蒸成粉色
Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs. Cook until the crab’s shell turns pink.
Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs. Cook until the crab’s shell turns pink.
Step 2: Remove the front and back legs 把前腿和后腿去掉
Remove the front and back legs by snapping them away from the crab’s body with your hands.
Remove the front and back legs by snapping them away from the crab’s body with your hands.
Place a layer of newspaper or Kraft paper over your table before opening the crabs to catch bits of shell and juice.
Step 3: Remove the apron on the underside 把围绕在下边的部位去掉
Use your fingers to open the heart-shaped apron on the underside of a hard or soft-shelled crab’s body. Pull the sides of the apron back and snap it off.
Use your fingers to open the heart-shaped apron on the underside of a hard or soft-shelled crab’s body. Pull the sides of the apron back and snap it off.
Ask your seafood dealer to clean soft-shelled crabs for you. They will remove the head, the apron, and the inedible meats.
Step 4: Twist the top shell off and remove inedible parts 把上边的壳和不能食用部位去掉
Twist the top shell off of the hard-shelled crab using a knife or your hands. Use a knife to clean out the yellowish parts inside the hard or soft-shelled crab that are inedible.
Twist the top shell off of the hard-shelled crab using a knife or your hands. Use a knife to clean out the yellowish parts inside the hard or soft-shelled crab that are inedible.
Step 5: Break the crab in half to expose meat 把蟹肉外露
Hold the hard-shelled crab with both hands and break the body in half down the center to expose a lump of crab meat.
Hold the hard-shelled crab with both hands and break the body in half down the center to expose a lump of crab meat.
Step 6: Crack open the legs and remove meat] 把腿上的肉取出
Use a small wooden mallet to crack open each of the legs. Remove the meat with your fingers or a cocktail fork.
You will get only a small amount of meat from each hard-shelled crab. The weight of the edible meat is only about 15 percent of the weight of the crab in its shell.
Step 7: Cook meat 烹饪蟹肉
Cook the meat. Bread and fry the whole soft-shelled crab, or use boiled meat from a hard-shelled crab in a salad or crab cake.
The record for the world’s largest crab cake was set in 2008 by a Baltimore company. It weighed 235 pounds and took nine hours to cook.
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steam
vt.蒸煮
She is steaming fish for supper.
她在蒸鱼准备吃晚饭。
She is steaming fish for supper.
她在蒸鱼准备吃晚饭。
crab
n.1.蟹
All the shops on the seafront had crab for sale.
海滨地区的全部商店都出售蟹。
2. 阴虱寄生病
3.蟹肉
apron
n.1.蟹
All the shops on the seafront had crab for sale.
海滨地区的全部商店都出售蟹。
2. 阴虱寄生病
3.蟹肉
apron
n.1.围裙
Many people like to wear aprons while they are cooking.
许多人做饭时喜欢系一条围裙。
2.停机坪；台口（舞台幕前的部份）
Many people like to wear aprons while they are cooking.
许多人做饭时喜欢系一条围裙。
2.停机坪；台口（舞台幕前的部份）
inedible
adj.1.不能吃的,不适合食用的
inedible food
不能吃的食物
The food was totally inedible.
食物完全无法下咽。
These chemicals make the fruit inedible.
这些化学品使这种水果不宜食用。
expose
inedible food
不能吃的食物
The food was totally inedible.
食物完全无法下咽。
These chemicals make the fruit inedible.
这些化学品使这种水果不宜食用。
expose
vt.1.暴露；显露；露出
2.使面临，使遭受（危险或不快）
3.使接触；使体验
4.曝光
2.使面临，使遭受（危险或不快）
3.使接触；使体验
4.曝光
