How to eat crabs cleanly

Let’s talk about how to eat crabs first. Some chew the crab with the shell dipped in vinegar, which saves trouble, but often it is not eaten cleanly. There is always crab meat and hard crab shell mixed in the mouth, and one cannot fully appreciate the delicious taste of crab meat with vinegar. Sometimes it also tests your teeth. The second method is to pick all the meat into a bowl filled with vinegar and eat it together. This way of eating is a little more troublesome, but it's a lot of fun. It not only makes up for the shortcomings of eating method 1, but also allows you to enjoy the fun of dissection. There are also those that remove the meat and make crab paste. Crab paste is like a spicy paste soup. You can add kelp, Qianjang, etc. in it and thicken it with starch. Of course, like the second method of eating, you must first remove the meat. If you are the kind of person who likes to save delicious food until your last breath, then of course you should try the second way of eating. You will need a pair of scissors, as long as they are not the art scissors used by Xiaopenyu. And some toothpicks. If you don't have any, you can break off the thin, sharp end of the crab legs instead. You can also spread a newspaper over the table to avoid staining it. When your crabs are steamed, prepare a bowl with vinegar. You can add less vinegar and add more after removing enough. But there must be ginger slices in the vinegar. You can also boil vinegar and add some sugar, which not only has a delicious flavor, but will not be sour to your teeth. Let's start eating the crab. Break off its tail and legs, and take off the shell. The whole shell is filled with edible yellow material, except for the stomach connected to the mouth. After the shell is clean, open the lid of the crab's abdomen and break off the whole thing. Don't throw it away in a hurry, there's still a lot of yellow where the lid connects to the body. Use a toothpick to dig it out gently. Pay attention to the intestines and excrement in the middle of the two yellow pieces. After the yellow is removed, use scissors to cut the cover from the middle. Yes, although there is only a thin layer, there is clean meat inside.

Next is the trunk part without the shell and cover. Pick off the hard yellow remaining in the trunk, and then remove the gills. There are also two pieces of white stuff, I don't know if they are lungs or ointment. You can eat these or not. Then split the trunk from the middle. The soft yellow on both sides cannot be picked clean, so dip it in vinegar and eat it directly.

Now that you have the body of the crab divided into two pieces, take the scissors and cut them horizontally from the middle (be sure to cut horizontally). Each piece of the body is divided into upper and lower parts. The meat of the crab is completely exposed. You can easily pick it out with a toothpick in the direction of muscle growth. It should be noted that the lower part (the part near the abdomen) is easy to pick, but the cut end of the upper part is still closed, which makes it troublesome to pick. At this time, just use scissors to cut open the closed part. .

After picking off, there are still turtles and legs. The meat of the turtle can be removed cleanly by various cuts; the leg has three sections except the one at the end that can be used as a toothpick, and each section, including the joints, has meat. Just use your scissors to cut sideways. There is also a more technically demanding method, which is to remove both ends of the leg and use a smaller leg to push in from one end to poke out the meat completely.

After everything is done, you can happily taste your bowl of crab meat. Looking at the clean empty shells on the table, you will probably feel a little lonely in your heart.