/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9172038
As I said, you fucking DRENCH the suckers in it.

As the crab steams, the moisture circulates in the pot. This washes off some of the seasoning and causes it to mix with the water, beer, and vinegar at the bottom. This cooks the crab meat inside the shell and imparts a seasoned, vinegary flavor to the sweet crab meat without overpowering it's natural flavor. Then you dump them out onto some old news paper and crack them open, either with a mallet or your bare hands. You eat the claw and leg meats, scoop out the gills and crack open the shell to get at the 'breast meat' so to speak. Some people also like the mustard, aka the intestines, but i'm not a fan.

It's a lot of work for not much meat so you need a shitload of them, like ~a dozen crabs a person if you aren't eating anything else. People further south replace this process with a boil in which they boil crabs, shrimp, potatoes, corn, and sausage in seasoned water to get a fuller meal. But this is bullshit, do not boil crab you fucking mong. It makes the meat soggy.

The other acceptable way to eat crab is to let it molt and fry it while it's softshell, and then just literally eat the whole fucking thing, undershell and all.