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myLot reputation of 85/100. mimiang (1440)   ranked 24 out of 554 in seafood7 months ago

If we are at home, we simply break the shells of the crabs by hitting it w/ a bottle or by mortar and pestle. However, when we eat outside, we were given a shell remover.I do not know how do they call it but it is use to crack the shells


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1. mithrril (53)   ranked 421 out of 554 in seafood   7 months ago

I don't know what kind of crab you're talking about but I've never heard of needing to hit them with bottles or use a shell cracker. You must have a different species of crab wherever you are. Where I'm from we have blue crabs. You just remove the legs and claws, flip them over, insert your knife under the apron and peel it off. Then you can clean it out and cut the crab in half with a knife. Then you cut each half in half and start picking. Man I want some crabs now...

I don't know much about other types of crabs. What are yours like?


myLot reputation of 85/100. mimiang (1440)   ranked 24 out of 554 in seafood  7 months ago

In my country, we also eat the meat inside the claws so we need it open it up by crunching it.


mithrril (53)   ranked 421 out of 554 in seafood  7 months ago

We eat the meat of our claws too. To open them, I just hit it a couple times with a knife until I can break it in half. Some people use a special mallet for it and just smash it until it breaks.

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2. myLot reputation of 96/100. thea09 (4660)   ranked 8 out of 554 in seafood   7 months ago

The last time I had crab it was an enormous thing which one of the local fisherman gave to me and there was no way I ws going to attempt to cook something so big so asked a local taverna to cook it. They aren't used to serving crab so they had to resort to an ordinary hammer to try and break the shell which caused lots of strange looks from others. The claws were the best bit though.

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3. sun3stars (6)   6 months ago

crab has claw gripper... then my idea so that can eat that delicious, nutritious crabs... i smash it... heheheh

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4. myLot reputation of 91/100. homeshoppers (1136)   5 months ago

im a master in eating crabs lol... its so hard to explain but let me try... heres how.. take off all the feet first one by one.. if u do so the it will create a hole on each side then try to open the side using ur two hands the same way as u open the clams.. it will be easy for u to open it coz of those holes... i really dont know if u get it but i hope u will lol... but its not advisable to do that if ur dining out coz it will lose ur poise... lol

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