I recently went crabbing and was unsure how to cook them. My mom says you have to keep them alive and then drop them into boiling water. This seems crazy. Why do you have to cook them like that? How can you buy them in the store frozen if you have to do it this way?
2007-10-25 05:40:32 · 3 answers · asked by jodi w 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
With live crabs you know they're fresh.
With dead crabs, you don't know how long they've been dead and shellfish rot very quickly.
The frozen crab are pre-cooked at the plant.
2007-10-25 05:50:39 · answer #1 · answered by Dave C 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Boiling Crabs Alive
2016-11-10 12:14:09 · answer #2 · answered by maglio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noone should never cook anything alive..that is sin..who ever cooking live thing alive they are collecting very bad karma..today some humans are cooking lobsters and crabs alive..and when humans goona become crabs or lobsters then they gonna get cooked alive too..it calls karma..because what goes around comes back around..so don't do bad...don't collect bad
2015-05-02 07:53:15 · answer #3 · answered by mini 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The ones in the store are cooked, THEN frozen. Dead crabs will start to rot immediately.
2007-10-25 05:44:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
how much time it take to cook the crabs.
2014-02-03 03:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by Donna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to my research, they said to avoid getting rotten dead crabs. live crabs also tastiers in nature.
2007-10-25 05:55:11 · answer #6 · answered by poorguy 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Boiling them alive prevent them from releasing a poison in their meat. And the ones in the store are boiled then frozen, just like frozen vegetables.
2007-10-25 05:58:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anne 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
because if you kill them days before you cook them they wont be freash crabs and if you try to kill them they may lose their shape
2007-10-25 05:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by krittiangel 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Unfortunately, it's necessary in order to have the meat taste the way we all expect.
The best way to keep them from suffering is to put them in the freezer first. It slows down their metabolism so much that they're dead before they realize you just dropped them in boiling water.
2007-10-25 05:47:59 · answer #9 · answered by Greywolf 5 · 3⤊ 5⤋
If you want fresh crabs & lobster you have to boil them live & hear them scream.
2007-10-25 05:48:31 · answer #10 · answered by EM 6 · 1⤊ 7⤋