Autumn is the best time to eat crabs. The crabs are big and fat at this time. They are very delicious. The mother crabs are nutritious in crab roe. So, do the male crabs have crab roe? Let's get to know.
Do male crabs have crab roe
No, The one with the crab is the mother crab. Crab roe is the ovary and digestive gland of female hairy crab. It's orange and delicious. Crab roe is formed by the accumulation of egg cells and tissue fluid in the body of adult female crab. The oocytes of female crabs are generally divided into two parts. One part is discharged from the body after fertilization, and then the other part is accumulated in the body to form crab roe. The amount of crabmeat will increase with the maturity of female crab, so the mature female crab is the most plump.
Autumn climate gradually from cold to cold, crabs also gradually grow strong. The digestive glands and ovaries of the mother crab grow into crab roe to prepare for the winter and the next year's reproductive needs (in spring, the crab roe becomes Crab Roe). When you peel the crab shell, you can see that there are many yellow and sticky things in the crab shell and the crab lump, that is, raw crab roe. When cooked, the crab turns red, and the deeper the red, the stronger the crab.
Some male crabs have crab paste
Crab yellow refers to the female crab, and crab cream only in the male crab, there will be no crab yellow in the male crab. Crab paste is the most nutritious part of male crab, and it has no value of losing crab roe. The white sticky crab paste is the crab paste. When cooked, the crab paste becomes translucent. The more crab paste there is, the stronger the male crab is.
Why do male crabs have yellow things
By principle, male crabs have no crabs. The crab roe is yellow, and the crab paste is white. But why do male crabs have yellow things in their stomachs? It's actually the hepatopancreas next to male crabs' testicles. When they are steamed or boiled, they turn yellow.
The hepatopancreas of male and female crabs can be eaten, but when the crabs are not fat or mature enough, after steaming or boiling, the crab yellow of female crabs or the hepatopancreas of male crabs are not easy to coagulate into a block, or even sometimes become a thin yellow liquid, sometimes the taste will be bitter, mainly because the time is not up, the crabs are too tender.
Therefore, the best choice for eating crab is when the crab is the most fat. The best choice is to eat female crab in August and male crab in September.
There is also a reason why the crab yellow of female crab and the hepatopancreas of male crab suffer from bitterness, which is due to insufficient preparation before cooking. Before the crab is bought and put into the pot, it must be kept in clean water for two days. When all the dirty things in the crab's stomach are drained, the liver and pancreas of the crab and the male crab will not suffer.