ok i wanna know how do you cook blue crabs i wanna make them just right?

Question

i like them hot with some ol bay yah feel me

Answer 1

The Chesapeake Bay way, Steamed.

Place the live crabs in an ice water bath before cooking. This icing process numbs the crabs, making them easier to handle, keeps the crabs from losing their claws during the steaming process, and helps the seasonings stick to the shells.

2 cans (12 ounces each) flat beer (see below)
2 cups distilled white vinegar
Ice water (optional)
24 live large male blue crabs(jimmies)
3/4 cup Chesapeake seasoning (Ol' Bay will do)
6 tablespoons kosher salt

Pour the beer and vinegar into a steamer pot or a large heavy pot with a tight-fitting lid. Put a round raised rack that is tall enough to clear the liquid into the pot. Bring the liquid to a boil.
While the pot is coming to a boil, fill a tub with ice water, if desired, and put the crabs in it for 3 minutes or so.
Mix the Chesapeake seasoning and salt together in a small bowl. Place a layer of crabs on the rack in the pot. Sprinkle with a generous coating of the seasoning. Working quickly, continue layering and seasoning the crabs until all the blues are in the pot and you have used up all the seasoning. Put on the lid and steam over medium-high heat until the crabs are bright red, about 25 to 30 minutes. Remove the crabs with tongs.
Serve hot. Leftover crabs may be refrigerated and either eaten cold the next day or picked for crabmeat to use in your favorite recipe.

Flat Beer
Locals insist on flat beer whenever steaming crabs or shrimp. They feel flat beer does not impart the harsh, almost metallic taste that fresh beer does. To flatten beer, simply pour it into a bowl and leave it at room temperature for an hour or two. Another trick to use to hasten the flattening process is to sprinkle a little salt into the beer-- it flattens the beer quicker

Answer 2

BOILED? Are you loopy? i'm from Maryland and that's no longer a thank you to consume crabs. Your extremely lacking out. %. your self up some crab seasoning and steam them with some vinegar. the beef is so deliciously candy and gentle. you will by no ability boil them lower back. they're going to final no better than 2 days in the refrigerator. it is seafood so it won't be in a position to sit down down too long. yet heavily, steam your crabs! With old bay!!!!

Answer 3

Okay I'm from New jersey and the crabs are good there, but now I like in Florida and the crabs down here are soo good. They use old bay and their favorite beer to boil the crabs... NO WATER just beer. And when the crabs are done soaking up all the beer and old bay it is sooo good. Try it and lemme know how you like it.

Answer 4

I feel yah.. I put mine in a big pot with beer(a must), and old bay season..use one large beer or two just to fill up the bottom of the pot real good, then put the top on and let them bad boys steam til there red.. i always put some corn of cob in the pot with them... you talking about something good... oh and don't forget the strawberry daiquiri's.