Clueless about Crab

by Anne
(Missouri)

I've never cooked a crab before, and someone told me to buy a live one from the store then boil it. I don't know if I can bring myself to put a live crab in boiling water! So it's just going to roll around in the water trying to escape until it dies?? Is that how people really cook them or where they just joking with me??? Don't get me wrong, I'm a meat eater, I just don't know if I could do this myself, if this is really how to cook a crab.

Hello, Anne! No fear about being clueless about crab, and no fear about how to kill them. Your friend was correct about putting the live crabs in boiling water. The "key" is having your water boiling. Please trust us...the crabs die instantly. They do not, do not, do not, crawl around the boiling water struggling for their lives. That would be hard for even me to do! It just don't happen when emerging live crabs into hot, rumbling, boiling water. They die in an instant.
One other alternative is to take a sharp object, pointy knife, and poke the crabs right between the eyes. During this process, too, they will die instantly.
With all this said and done, we, at Crab-O-Licious.com prefer the emerging in hot boiling water! It's your call! You can do it!!! Enjoy that crab!