How to dismantle a crab and how to dissect a crab?

1. Cut off the eight legs of the hairy crab, including two large tongs, and the meat in it will automatically separate from the crab shell after cooling, which is easy to poke out or even be sucked out, so it should be left for the last to eat.

2. Remove the crab cover (that is, a small piece of cover of the navel part of the crab, the shape of the male and female crabs is different), and uncover the crab cover.

3. Eat the crab cover first, scoop out the middle crab stomach with a small spoon, and gently suck the crab roe wrapped outside. Be careful not to suck the triangular cone-shaped crab stomach in the middle, it should be discarded.

4. After eating the crab cover, it is the turn of the crab body, first use scissors to cut off the excess crab legs, crab mouth and crab lungs.

5. Use the handle of a spoon to pick out a hexagonal sheet in the middle of the crab body, which is the crab heart, and discard.

6. Use a small spoon to scoop some vinegar and pour it on the crab body, and then eat the crab roe and crab paste on the crab body.

7. Break the crab body in half, and the filamentous crab meat can be seen at this time. As long as you tear along the crab legs, you can remove the crab meat. When eaten clean, the shell is intact and translucent.

8. Use scissors to cut the crab leg into three sections, and the last section of the crab toe can be used as a tool. First, use the thin end of the crab toe to poke out the meat of the middle of the crab leg, and then use the thick end of the crab toe to poke out the meat of the front of the crab leg.

9. Divide the crab claws into three sections, the first two sections can be directly cut into the crab shell, and the meat can be scooped out with a spoon. For the last pliers, the technique is to cut both sides, and then break the two pliers feet in the opposite direction with your hand, and the pliers shells are completely separated.

10. Although the crab shell eaten in this way may not be able to completely put together the shape of a crab, it is also laid out in an orderly manner, and there is no silk meat left. After eating the crab shell, wash your hands, and drink a cup of warm ginger tea, you can eat a hairy crab in one meal, and you also feel full of wine and food.

Huainan autumn is prosperous, and the rice ripe crab is fat. Autumn has arrived, and so have the crabs covered with yellow fat. Soft and glutinous crab roe, crystal crab paste ......It makes your mouth water just thinking about it.

However, although crabs are delicious, do you know how to pick out crabs with tender and delicious meat? What should I pay attention to when eating crabs? Let's talk about how to eat crabs today.

When buying crabs, you need to look for live crabs.

If you want to eat crabs that are tender and fatty, and have a delicate taste, selection is an important link. Recently, the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau issued a crab consumption reminder saying that to buy crabs, you must look for live crabs. To distinguish whether a crab is a live crab or a dead crab, you can use the method of "pinching, teasing, looking, and trying".

Specifically, "pinching" refers to pinching the back of a crab with your thumb and forefinger and shaking it gently, the crab claws droop and shake with it are dead crabs, and the crab claws are firm and swing on their own. "Tease" refers to teasing the crab's eye or flipping the crab with his hands, and if there is a reaction, it means that it is full of vitality; "Look" refers to look at the back of the crab shell, if it is black-green and shiny, it means that the crab meat is thick and strong, and then look at the tail end, if the crab navel is protruding, and the crab navel on both sides will reveal red (commonly known as "red mark"), such crabs are generally full of fat, and finally look at the crab feet, if the crab feet are covered with hairs, it means that the crab has a strong physique; "Try" means that you can put a crab in the water, and the one that foams at the water is a live crab.

Crabs should be eaten cooked.

The delicacy of crabs is loved by people, but it also has a "dangerous" side, and data show that there may be a variety of pathogenic bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Vibrio cholerae, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Listeronia monocytogenes, as well as a variety of parasites such as strongyloides, lung flukes, and schistosomiasis. Therefore, crabs must be eaten cooked. When steaming crabs, it is recommended to steam them at high temperature for at least 30 minutes, and only when they are cooked thoroughly can they reduce the threat to health such as bacteria.

In addition, you should pay attention to the method of eating crabs, and you can't eat the four parts of crab gills, crab stomach, crab intestines, and crab heart. Fan Zhihong, associate professor of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety of the College of Food Science of China Agricultural University and doctor of food science, pointed out in an interview that the digestion and excretion system of crabs is easy to accumulate pollutants in the environment, and the four parts of crab stomach, crab gills, crab heart and crab intestine should be avoided when eating. It is worth noting that crab is a high-protein, high-purine, high-cholesterol food.

According to the recommendation of the Chinese Nutrition Society's 2016 Chinese Residents' Dietary Pagoda, the appropriate amount of aquatic products to be eaten at one time is 40 grams and 75 grams (not counting shells, spines, etc.), which is equivalent to the consumption of 1 2 crabs. Therefore, the consumption tip recommends that each person should not eat more than four taels of crabs each time.

1. Take chopsticks and poke them directly between the crab's eyes, and turn them out slightly to make the crab fake death, but the meat is still fresh and delicious.

2. The edges on the left and right sides of the crab are its most fragile and soft parts, and you can rely on the edge of the table to peel off the shell of the crab.

3. After peeling off the shell, clean up the gallbladder that adheres to the shell.

If you want to split it in half from the middle, you can split it directly with a knife, and if you want to separate it from the top and bottom, you need to insert it with a knife at the boundary between the upper and lower shells of the crab's tail, and you can open it with a prie!

Special crab eating tools, with tongs, stainless steel.

With a strong lift from the crab's tail, the crab's body and the crab lid are separated.

It's too wordy, insert the scissors horizontally into the crab's mouth, stretch the scissors a little wider, and then put the scissors up and you're done.

Cut it in the middle while it helps.

1. When removing the shell of raw crabs, blanch them with boiling water for 3 minutes, so that the crab meat is easy to remove and not wasted.

2. If it is a boiled crab, cut off the eight legs of the hairy crab, including two large tongs, and the meat will automatically be separated from the crab shell after cooling, and it is easy to be poked out or even sucked out, so it should be left for the last to eat.

The best way to eat crabs is to eat tongs and claws first, when the crab cover is not lifted, and the heat will not go away. After eating the claws and tongs, lift the crab cover, enjoy the crab paste, and eat all the crab meat, without wasting at all.

The correct way to eat it is to first open the round lid on the crab's body, if it is a female, you will see the yellow crab roe on the belly——— which is the best thing to eat on the crab. You'll also see some white bristles on both sides near your thighs, which are inedible. After eating the crab roe, you can eat the crab meat.

Crab meat is a white thing that looks like fish meat. It is best to break the crab in half, so that the white flesh of the crab can be exposed.

Most people eat crab legs at the end because eating crab legs is time-consuming, and there is not much meat in the legs. But people still try to eat their legs as much as possible, some people think that the meat in the legs is delicious, and some people don't want to waste it. You have to find a way to get the meat out of the crab legs, you can use the crab tongs to crush the hard shell of the legs, or you can use a toothpick or fork to get the crab meat out.

Because, the crab shell is very hard, and the crab's legs are also very pointed, and it is easy to bite out the teeth.

1. Lift the crab shell.

According to your taste and preference, select the male and female crabs, take out the cooked crabs, and after drying, break the shells of the crabs by hand.

Second, remove the crab navel.

Turn the crab over and break the crab's crab navel, because the crab intestines in the crab navel are dirty and inedible, even if there is some yellow in the crab navel of the female crab, if the technique is improper, it is not recommended to eat it for fear of being contaminated by the crab intestines.

3. Eat crab roe paste.

Female crabs eat yellow, male crabs eat cream; After the crab shell is opened, first remove the crab stomach in the crab cover, and then use a spoon to take the crab roe paste in the crab cover, dip it in vinegar and ginger shreds. Of course, if you have good eating skills, you can suck a layer of crab roe paste wrapped around the crab stomach.

Fourth, eat crab body.

Break the crab body with both hands, suck the crab roe paste on the cross-section of the crab body, and then grab the root of the crab leg with your fingers and tear off the crab body along the texture of the crab body, dip it in vinegar and ginger to eat, or use a toothpick to pick the crab body meat and eat it.

5. Crab-eating legs.

After eating the crab body, you can eat the crab legs, and the crab legs mainly eat its thighs. You can break off the crab legs, bite off both ends, and suck them skillfully to suck out the whole crab thigh. If you don't have enough work, you can use scissors to cut the crab leg shell at one time and pick the crab leg meat to eat.

6. Eat crab scissors.

The most powerful thing about crabs is the crab horn scissors, so save it for the last one to eat it. Crab scissors are broken into three sections by hand according to their joints, the largest part of which has a crab scissors that can be moved, and then use scissors to cut the crab shell and pick the meat to eat, and then pick out the meat in the rest of the joints in turn.

As for the most convenient way to eat climbing shrimp, it is to cut it with small scissors, one scissors to cut the head, one scissors to subtract the tail to get two hard wings, and then from the end on both sides (note, the upper and lower parts should be cut) each to cut a scissor until the head.

Rotate to pull out the legs and crows, and pull out a lump of meat with force and direction.

Then the shell of the abdomen is torn off, the upper and lower shells are separated from the small holes, the gills and intestines are removed, and the crab meat and crab paste are eaten.

It's as simple as that.