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Whether you are dealing with hard or soft-shelled crabs, the meat can be delicious but hard to handle. Learn how to get to the tasty crab meat without making a mess.
You Will NeedA dull knife
A wooden mallet
Newspaper (optional)
Kraft paper (optional)
Step 1: Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs 把硬殼的螃蟹煮或蒸成粉色
Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs. Cook until the crab’s shell turns pink.
Step 2: Remove the front and back legs 把前腿和后腿去掉
Remove the front and back legs by snapping them away from the crab’s body with your hands.
Place a layer of newspaper or Kraft paper over your table before opening the crabs to catch bits of shell and juice.
Step 3: Remove the apron on the underside 把圍繞在下邊的部位去掉
Use your fingers to open the heart-shaped apron on the underside of a hard or soft-shelled crab’s body. Pull the sides of the apron back and snap it off.
Ask your seafood dealer to clean soft-shelled crabs for you. They will remove the head, the apron, and the inedible meats.
Step 4: Twist the top shell off and remove inedible parts 把上邊的殼和不能食用部位去掉
Twist the top shell off of the hard-shelled crab using a knife or your hands. Use a knife to clean out the yellowish parts inside the hard or soft-shelled crab that are inedible.
Step 5: Break the crab in half to expose meat 把蟹肉外露
Hold the hard-shelled crab with both hands and break the body in half down the center to expose a lump of crab meat.
Step 6: Crack open the legs and remove meat] 把腿上的肉取出
Use a small wooden mallet to crack open each of the legs. Remove the meat with your fingers or a cocktail fork.
You will get only a small amount of meat from each hard-shelled crab. The weight of the edible meat is only about 15 percent of the weight of the crab in its shell.
Step 7: Cook meat 烹飪蟹肉
Cook the meat. Bread and fry the whole soft-shelled crab, or use boiled meat from a hard-shelled crab in a salad or crab cake.
The record for the world’s largest crab cake was set in 2008 by a Baltimore company. It weighed 235 pounds and took nine hours to cook.
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steam
vt.蒸煮
She is steaming fish for supper.
她在蒸魚(yú)準(zhǔn)備吃晚飯。
crab
n.1.蟹
All the shops on the seafront had crab for sale.
海濱地區(qū)的全部商店都出售蟹。
2. 陰虱寄生病
3.蟹肉
apron
n.1.圍裙
Many people like to wear aprons while they are cooking.
許多人做飯時(shí)喜歡系一條圍裙。
2.停機(jī)坪;臺(tái)口(舞臺(tái)幕前的部份)
inedible
adj.1.不能吃的,不適合食用的
inedible food
不能吃的食物
The food was totally inedible.
食物完全無(wú)法下咽。
These chemicals make the fruit inedible.
這些化學(xué)品使這種水果不宜食用。
expose
vt.1.暴露;顯露;露出
2.使面臨,使遭受(危險(xiǎn)或不快)
3.使接觸;使體驗(yàn)
4.曝光