How to cook fresh crab

Once you see how easy it is to clean fresh crab, you may opt to do it yourself. Even though fishmongers will do it for you, if you ask.

This crab recipe is a tried and true best and easiest way to cook crab, from our ocean living to your kitchen! I'm working with Dungeness, but you can use rock crab, sections, or crab legs. They'll come out perfectly cooked and ready to enjoy with a side of garlic butter!

Cleaning Blue Crab can get intimidating if not done properly. First, immerse them in hot running water or boiling water. Once they are not moving, cleaning them is easier.

How to Cook and Clean a Fresh Dungeness Crab: If you live on the Pacific coast, this is necessary information! Dungeness crabs are a fantastically tasty treat, as well as a lean, healthy, delicious holiday tradition. This Instructable will teach you how to cook and clean your own fresh Dungene…

Easy instructions for how to cook and how to clean Dungeness crabs at home.

Learn how to open crab legs, how to crack a crab, and how to clean a crab like a pro from our very own life on the coast.

How to Clean and Cook Fresh Crab

How to Cook and Clean a Dungeness Crab. Alternative: buy pre-cooked Dungeness from Whole Foods and pop in the microwave for a few mins.

Fresh crabs and other shellfish are among the most perishable of all foods. They die quickly once they've left the water, and spoil just as quickly once they've died. For that reason, crabs are often cooked and blast-frozen on large shipping boats immediately after the catch, in the interest of freshness.

This Maryland Crab Dip is a staple in Maryland that's made at every holiday and get-together! It's unbelievably easy and impossible to fail!