Poll: Clean before cooking vs. Steaming them live

[Crab Shack]

I don't trade assumed better taste for factual health risks.   

[crabbywaters]

I've grilled them,they're great,key is low heat,tin foil doubled on grill,baste them with garlic and butter.Of course they're CBCed,I know thats a felony in Md.Dan,you gotta hang with me at the Wye party,we're gonna CBC some crabs,grill them,saute them in butter and garlic,use them in pasta sauce,then I want you to go back to Md and start converting them folks to eat crabs properly.I mean do you cook cow before or after it's butchered ? Do you cook a chicken with the feathers on and the guts inside,ITS WRONG I TELL YOU WRONG !!

I'm cool with that. I'll try the ol grilled crab . I know this may sound nasty to you CBC guys (brace yourselves). I like the mustard and I eat the mustard . It may not be very good for you, I know. I'm very choosy of the crabs I do this with. My favorite mustard crabs come from the eastern bay/ tributaries. Western shore doublers usually pass also. It has to be the mustard from a buster clean crab.

[rapp414]

I'm cool with that. I'll try the ol grilled crab . I know this may sound nasty to you CBC guys (brace yourselves). I like the mustard and I eat the mustard . It may not be very good for you, I know. I'm very choosy of the crabs I do this with. My favorite mustard crabs come from the eastern bay/ tributaries. Western shore doublers usually pass also. It has to be the mustard from a buster clean crab.

I can still remember when I was a kid and we were eating crabs and my Mom told me her Dad made her eat the mustard so it wasn't wasted and I thought that was one of the cruelest things I ever heard

[Crabbyd]

I've grilled them,they're great,key is low heat,tin foil doubled on grill,baste them with garlic and butter.Of course they're CBCed,I know thats a felony in Md.Dan,you gotta hang with me at the Wye party,we're gonna CBC some crabs,grill them,saute them in butter and garlic,use them in pasta sauce,then I want you to go back to Md and start converting them folks to eat crabs properly.I mean do you cook cow before or after it's butchered ? Do you cook a chicken with the feathers on and the guts inside,ITS WRONG I TELL YOU WRONG !!

Frank

Do you CBC your lobsters?  How about crawfish?  Something are meant to be cooked whole......   

[Luna Sea 3]

If that mercury is a problem.. Id be dead already..  Seriously...

[flounderpounder]

If I told you how i make them, you will never eat them any other way again.. trues me, not dry at all unless you overcook them, but thats with anything.  Crack the claw and juice just poors out.

The juice only pours out if its a light crab.

[KALknowsRAE]

The shell also keeps in the toxins......no thank you...

Too bad you can't open up the borders of New Jersey to let out the toxins.

[KALknowsRAE]

Seriously though, these are the same toxins that are in every breath of air you take.
People need to stop reading all these soccer-mom magazines that say how everything is either dangerous or poisonous.
Who the eff wants to live to be 100 anyway?

[flounderpounder]

Seriously though, these are the same toxins that are in every breath of air you take.
People need to stop reading all these soccer-mom magazines that say how everything is either dangerous or poisonous.
Who the eff wants to live to be 100 anyway?

Someone thats 99 

[Crab Shack]

'"What we've got here is........failure, to communicate.  Some men you just can't reach."   

[KALknowsRAE]

Hey Crab Shack. You better throw out your cell phone. They say them things cause brain cancer or somethin.

Hey FP. What happened to your last avatar? I was gonna call the New Jersey chamber of commerce. They coulda used your avatar for the official New Jersey state mutation. "The Glowing DuPont Crab" Have it on their license plates and such.

[flounderpounder]

Hey Crab Shack. You better throw out your cell phone. They say them things cause brain cancer or somethin.

Hey FP. What happened to your last avatar? I was gonna call the New Jersey chamber of commerce. They coulda used your avatar for the official New Jersey state mutation. "The Glowing DuPont Crab" Have it on their license plates and such.

I replaced it with a REAL bushel of crabs.. Gettin ready to change it again

[waterman4911]

It' against the law to clean your crabs first in Maryland unless you are making a soup. If you had a crab feast and dumped a pile of cleaned crabs in front of people. I think your life would not be worth much.

[shedking]

Someone thats 99 

;D;D;D;D;D;D;D

[Topperss]

Steamed live and whole.  Always have but I'd be willing to try CBC, just not gonna try doing it myself.

[halstead]

We usually steam live.

[Jazzcrazy5299]

Live. I love the flavor of the mustard. And it seals in the juices. If you cook them open and cleaned, you're just washing the flavor away!

[kmk]

I grew up eating crabs my whole life a few years ago a friend turned me on to cleaning before cooking and I never went back this makes the whole family happy they don't have to mess with them and you get more spice in the meat the bad part is breaking the backs off the live crabs you get bit now and then

[saltysenior]

Live. I love the flavor of the mustard. And it seals in the juices. If you cook them open and cleaned, you're just washing the flavor away!

when you C B C ,after you remove the top shell , one can take a small spoon and scoop out the mustard and place it in a cooking container to be steamed w/ the crabs.then one could eat or drink it like a warm slurpy.

[Dreampixels]

Not guts, no glory..................steam em live.