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Maryland steamed crabs
Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:05 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:05 pm
Just took my first trip up there and was treated to a Maryland crab steam. As you may know, they are pretty much using the blue crabs from here...but I thought the preparation and taste were incredible. They use beer, vinegar, and old bay to create steam and cook them that way. Then they cake them in more old bay.
The only labor intensive part is that you have to assassinate each crab with a knife before you cook them.
Question for the board: has anyone tried to prepare them this way?
Also, I have a large crawfish pot...what can I do to create a superficial bottom within the basket so that the crabs rest above the water?
The only labor intensive part is that you have to assassinate each crab with a knife before you cook them.
Question for the board: has anyone tried to prepare them this way?
Also, I have a large crawfish pot...what can I do to create a superficial bottom within the basket so that the crabs rest above the water?
This post was edited on 6/9/16 at 1:07 pm
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Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:07 pm to Pastalaya
Use a brick. I prefer steamed over boiled.
This post was edited on 6/9/16 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:08 pm to Rize
That would push the basket higher than the lid and I'm trying to capture the steam
Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:48 pm to Pastalaya
You mash em with a hammer to eat them?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 1:59 pm to Gaston
Loved doing it so much I bought two mallets to bring home
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:01 pm to Pastalaya
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The only labor intensive part is that you have to assassinate each crab with a knife before you cook them.
Why?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:03 pm to Pastalaya
3 bricks and a grill from a weber.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:08 pm to upgrayedd
They aren't immersed in boiling water so I guess the thought is to go ahead and kill them so you don't have a frenzy in there while they steam
This post was edited on 6/9/16 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:17 pm to Pastalaya
I wouldn't bring those along if yet invited to a crab boil down here. My folks would shite if you started smashing crabs. I've never seen it done, but most people down here are way more deliberate in their technique than that.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:36 pm to Pastalaya
Then use some crumpled aluminum foil to get the basket where you want. Stupid.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:38 pm to Gaston
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My folks would shite if you started smashing crabs. I've never seen it done, but most people down here are way more deliberate in their technique than that.
Growing up I thought these things were made for cracking crabs instead of pecans..
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:45 pm to Vdrine
That's legit for getting out perfect claw meat. When you eat crabs up the coast they bring out claw crackers and a mallet to smash the crab. I'm not sure how those yankees eat crabs that way.
Another strange fact, they don't eat the females. They think they're gross for some reason.
Another strange fact, they don't eat the females. They think they're gross for some reason.
This post was edited on 6/9/16 at 2:46 pm
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:52 pm to Gaston
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Another strange fact, they don't eat the females. They think they're gross for some reason.
So you never had she-crab soup? Granted I had it in Baltimore, but that's yankee to me.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:53 pm to Gaston
Those frickers in MD are the reason it is so hard to get big full crabs down here these days. 
Posted on 6/9/16 at 2:54 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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Those frickers at BP are the reason it is so hard to get big full crabs down here these days.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:16 pm to Vdrine
That's a pecan cracker?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:19 pm to Artie Rome
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Then use some crumpled aluminum foil to get the basket where you want. Stupid.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:34 pm to Pastalaya
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That would push the basket higher than the lid
Get a smaller basket.
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The only labor intensive part is that you have to assassinate each crab with a knife before you cook them.
No you don't. Stack them in the basket alive.
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I bought two mallets to bring home
Want a cookie??
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Pastalaya
Is an abomination.
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:38 pm to Trout Bandit
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The only labor intensive part is that you have to assassinate each crab with a knife before you cook them.
No you don't. Stack them in the basket alive.
I didn't understand that anyway. Wouldn't the 212F steam kill them just as quickly (humanely??? is this the point here???) as 212F boiling water?
Posted on 6/9/16 at 3:39 pm to Trout Bandit
Your own little Mein Kampf in one post. Nice.
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