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How to kill live blue crabs? How to deal with blue crabs?

Blue crab is a very famous crab. Everyone knows that crabs are delicious, but they are particularly difficult to handle. It's really hard for non-professionals. Is the Mid-Autumn Festival coming soon? Eating crabs is also a custom in many places. Then the question is, how to kill live blue crabs? How to deal with it? Let's introduce it together!

How to kill live blue crabs? Killing them yourself is really not that simple. Who said that? In fact, the blue crab is still very easy to coax. As long as you give it a little wine or water, you can get it drunk and it will be obedient! Let's watch together!

If you are afraid that crabs will pinch your hands, first prepare a pot of hot water of about 45 degrees, that is, just put your hands in the water, and don't feel hot; Then, be sure to put on gloves. Put the crab bellies into the water one by one, turn over and have fainted after drinking hot water. The advantage of doing this is that the crab fainted and was at your mercy, but it was good and won't pinch your fingers again!

When you kill the blue crab, you must be brave. To catch the pliers of the blue crab, you can first press the pliers down a few times or knock them a few times, open the belly cover and squeeze out the shit from the inside out. Then take a chopstick through the concave hole in the sharp corner, and that's it. Cut off the crab's feet, cut off its claws, and then cut it into four pieces. It's so simple and easy to get it done, you don't have to fight with the blue crab for 300 rounds.

General treatment methods for live crabs:

1: Put a little water into the pool and add a big bowl of white wine. At this time, crabs will spit bubbles and spit out all the dirty things. After ten minutes, its vitality will drop a lot, and it will not be cheerful. If the concentration of wine is higher, the crab will be drunk.

2. Put on gloves, lift the crab legs from the pool, put a crab belly up on the chopping board, hold the crab with chopsticks or a kitchen knife in one hand, and lift the bell-shaped cover up a little from the belly with a long sharp knife in the other hand, and tie it down vertically with force, even if it is a live crab, the inclined room will not move.

3: Take kitchen scissors and insert them into the crab mouth, slightly deeper.

4: Pull up and down scissors.

5. The cover is naturally separated from the body, and you can see that the yellow one is a lot of crab paste.

6. Remove the sand sac from the crab shell and trim it. Figure 6 shows unprocessed on the left and processed on the right. Compare it. Then remove the crab pliers and gently crack the crab shell with scissors or the back of a knife.

7: Cut the crab's mouth flat, and then tear off the crab's gills, which is something darker in gray. Figure 7 shows that the top is unprocessed and the bottom is processed. Then cut off the tip of the leg end with scissors, because there is no meat.

8: Tear off the cover of the abdomen (crab navel) and brush the abdomen and other parts with running water, being careful not to brush off the yellow crab paste. Cut the crab in half with a knife.

The selection method of blue crab depends on crab shell. All shells are dark green with light, thick and strong; The back of the shell is yellow, mostly thin;

Second, look at the navel. The navel is prominent, generally full of fat and fat; Most dents lack fat;

Third, look at the crab feet. Where hairy crab feet are clustered, crab feet are old and healthy; Crab feet are soft and weak, without fluff;

Fourth, look at vitality. When the crab's abdomen is turned upside down, its legs can be turned back quickly, with strong vitality and can be preserved; Those that cannot be turned back have poor vitality and cannot be preserved for a long time;

Fifth, look at men and women. Female crabs are picked in August and September in the lunar calendar, and male crabs are selected after September, because the gonads of male crabs and female crabs mature at these two times respectively, and their taste and nutrition are the best.