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How to avoid losing legs when cooking crabs

How to avoid losing legs when cooking crabs

4hw.org: it's another year when chrysanthemum, yellow and crab are fattening. Many people can't wait to have delicious and fat hairy crabs. However, when making crabs, many people often encounter the trouble that crabs lose their legs. What's the matter? How to cook crabs without losing their legs?

Why do boiled crabs lose their legs

1. When cooking crabs, it has something to do with their tenderness. Crabs that are too tender are more likely to lose their feet.

2. When cooking, open a big fire, and the crabs struggle violently, so as to drop their feet. In fact, as long as it's a live crab, you will lose your feet no matter when you take it to boil or steam it in a pressure cooker, because once it's hot, the crab will shake and fall naturally. If you eat by yourself, it doesn't matter. If you invite guests, it's a bit ugly.

How to cook crabs without losing their legs

1. Bind the crabs and cook them, and steam them on the back. In this way, the legs of crabs will not fall and the yellow will not flow out. That's why we can find that many people boil crabs and tie them with ropes.

2. The crab is alive. It will move its legs naturally in the process of cooking, so on the other hand, we can choose to maim or kill the crab before cooking, so that it can't move.

(1) catch the crab before cooking. Take a long thin metal needle in the middle of the crab's foam, and put it in the pot about 1 centimeters. Then the crab's legs will not fall off.

(2) you can also make a knife at the tip of the crab's navel before cooking, and make a strong stab with the tip of the knife, so that the crab's legs will not fall off and the yellow will not flow out.

Note: the crab after killing should not be put for a long time. It should be killed before it is put into the pot. If it is killed, it should be put into the pot immediately. In addition, crabs are better to eat alive ones. The cooked ones taste more delicious. Don't kill the crabs and cook them again. It's better to take the first one and tie it with a rope. Or not completely killed, just mutilated, so that it can not move.