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Steaming - a method of cooking in the steam given off by boiling water. The food is held above the water, not in the water as you'd find in poaching. The steam surrounds the food and and cooks it with an intense, moist heat. Steaming is probably the most popular way to prepare crabs.
Boiling - You can simply throw the crabs in a pot of boiling water to cook them. Depending on the size of the crabs, it will take between 6 and 10 minutes to cook them. If the crab is alive when you start, the amount of cooking time has very little to do with safety — it’s more a question of whether the meat is underdone, overdone, or cooked just right.
While it is possible to eat a crab straight out of the shell, many recipes require you to remove the meat. Crab cakes or various salads feature loose, cooked crabmeat.
To remove cartilage and shell from picked crabmeat, gently squeeze a teaspoonful at a time between fingers. Feel carefully for small bits. The shells may be white or orange and cartilage milky white and thin.
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