How to Cook a Crab

How to cook a crab.

Steps

1. Get a crab. Live is best.
2. Boil water. Depending on the amount of crab, you may need a 5 gallon pot. This takes a while to heat unless you have a propane cooker.
3. Clean the crab. Some people like to cook crab live, which superheats all the guts you will have to clean out. Some clean their crabs on the boat by cracking them in half and removing the shells and guts.
4. Some people choose to add salt to the water.
5. Ventilate! Cooking crab is smelly work, use your hood to ventilate. Better yet is having a propane cooker and doing this outside.
6. Put crab in pot. Should take about 8 minutes for a medium size crab. King crab may take longer.
7. While the crab is cooking melt some butter and add garlic to it.
8. When the crab is done, let it cool. Be careful because some of the juices inside the crab are boiling as well.
9. You have to crack the crab. If you don't have a crab cracker, pliers work. With king crab, watch out for the spikes.
10. Dip generously in the garlic butter and enjoy.

Tips

• Ventilate! The smell will stick around for a few days if you don't.
• Have enough crab to make it worth while. Invite friends.

Warnings

• King Crab spikes hurt.
• Live crabs can pinch. Grab them from the backside.

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