It's a fresh live crab that I bought at a mart
Two hermit crabs, two hermit crabs!

First, I'll teach you how to distinguish between males and females before preparing crabs
On the left is a hermit crab, and on the right is a hermit crab
The female crab has a large triangular belly, and the male crab has a sharp and narrow distribution. It is said that sea urchin full of eggs is delicious in spring, and sea urchin is more delicious in autumn ^^;

A live crab is a little scary, right?
There are three ways to stun a live crab.
1. Leave it in the freezer for more than 2 hours and quickly clean it.
2. Soak sea crabs in tap water for at least 15 minutes. The blue crab loses its strength as time goes by.
3. He knocks the shell of a crab with the back of a knife and faints it.

When you buy blue crabs, the first thing you need to check is the claws! If you have tongs, there is a chance that you will get bitten if you are alive, so you have to ask them to cut them when you buy them, or you have to buy them and start cutting them at home!

It's time to clean up the live crabs. Wipe the stomach cleanly with a cooking brush or a clean toothbrush.

Wash the back with a clean brush.

cleanly washed blue crabs
The crab glows, right?

First, pull the bellies down and open them. Please rip it off with your hands and organize it more neatly with scissors.

This is what happens when you open the shell.

Grab both legs and peel off the back. If you put your hand in the middle of the stomach and take off the back of your back, the front abdomen can be crushed, so if you pull both ends, it will make a sound and open.

If you take off the shell, it's separated like this.

Cut the brown gills on both sides of the body with scissors.

Cut off the mouth of the crab in the upper middle of the body.
If you cut it with scissors, it will be neatly cut.

Cut the body in half for easy eating, and remove the claws.

Remove the sharp part of the leg with scissors.

There's a sand house hidden in the shell with the intestines. You must remove the sand house.

This is a sand house. If it's not on the shell, it could be on the body

If you do this, you're done with preparing the crab!!