How to choose crabs, delicious and meaty crabs

Crabs, crabs are the favorite food of many people, also sold a lot. With prices ranging from 200,000 to 300,000 VND / kg, if you choose not, you will probably buy crabs and crabs "not worth the money of rice".

How to choose delicious sea crabs

Sea crabs have many types: crab, crab and water crabs for you to choose according to your taste or processing requirements. Brick crabs and solid crab meat are both delicious and very nutritious.

1. When choosing crabs, look outside, see a gray, crust-shaped crust, using the hand to press the crab bibs to be solid and big, the meat is full of meat.
2. Do not choose crabs to look at the sticks and tomorrow looks slightly green, pressing your hands on soft and soft is a kind of succulent, spongy, meatless crab.
3. You should choose a fresh child, still looking at the oats still clinging to the body, legs and moving more healthy, flexible, spikes on the shell and crab shells are still intact.
4. If you want to eat a lot of crab meat, choose male crab, want to eat crab with bricks, then choose female crab.

How to distinguish male crabs, brick crabs and bibs.

How to distinguish male and female crabs

1. Male crabs are small bibs (triangular areas below the belly), female crabs are big.

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1. See the color of the silk skin (young skin) between the elbow (elbow) on the crab.If the skin is pink or dark pink, the crab is meaty.And you need to look more closely: the new crab catches the skin straight, it's a shark.On the contrary, old crabs will be sick due to long-term swollen, this skin is wrinkled.

Squeeze bibs

1. When you squeeze crabs, if you feel hard, your crabs are strong.Conversely, you hear soft (heaving), the crab is less meat (tangent).

Squeeze the thigh of the swim girder, below the mu:

1. Squeeze your hands, if you see crabs striking the entire stick, the more crabs are stronger (delicious meat).In contrast, crabs are weak - about to die.Because before about 2 hours before death, crab meat gradually faded - more water (butcher).

Should not choose crabs look more and tomorrow in the green, press hands and soft feel is kind of juicy crab, less meat, not delicious. If you buy crabs, you have to go far away or keep them for a long time when the weather is hot and you have to choose a really good baby, look at the crab bibs still stick to the body, legs and move more rhythmically and flexibly. and the crab's shell is in good condition - this crab is healthier and easier to preserve.

The crab has bricks that are slightly yellowish in color, the crab's legs when squeezed very well, not soft.

How to choose crabs

Unlike crabs, crabs have bricks that are slightly yellowish in color, the crab's legs when squeezed are very firm, not soft. But when the crabs eat, when you press your hand close to the bib below the brisket, near the paddle leg if the concave is a crab. If you are afraid to touch the crab and just look, you should choose a crab with red bibs, the fresh crab legs will shrink, not stretch.

Crabs come in many varieties such as red crabs, three-dotted crabs, blue crabs . but the most delicious, meaty and nutritious crabs are still green crabs. The green crab with 3 dots on the shell is the best. This crab is not very big, but the meat is very strong and nutritious.

1. According to the experience of buying good crabs by fishermen, the time to buy crabs depends on the season of water .The last days of the normal month or the beginning of the month are always the time when the crab is fatty and firm.You should not buy in the middle of the month, this time the crabs are peeling, so the crabs are often covered, less meat and not delicious.
2. Should not choose children too big, moderate children will be more meaty and delicious.
3. Choose very strong ones, with adult hands, click on non-subsided bibs.
4. If you like to eat meat crabs, choose the male, you press your hand close to the bib (below the brisket, near the foot of the paddle), if not concave, it is crab meat.
5. If you like to eat crabs with bricks, choose females.These are slightly yellowish, their legs squeeze very well, not soft or slightly concave.
6. Male crabs are small bibs (triangular areas below the belly), small ones are big.

Pay attention to the reproductive parts of the crab: The children are big bibs with a semicircle, if they have a lot of babies, they will eat poorly and give a lot of food. The reason is because the process of carrying eggs many times, it is not enough to tighten and tighten the stomach.

1. Males are smaller than females, when choosing males, they should choose a tight-fitting baby with good quality.

Should choose the moderate crabs, do not choose the ones that are too small or too big are not good.

Tips for you

1. Crabs, crabs that have just finished are hot, you peel off bibs, apricots, bears, stomachs near the head (remember to keep the water in the shell tomorrow because this water is very nutritious and delicious), remove the bricks, apricot shells, crabs slowly On the head down, it is very easy because there is a brick layer, lightly peeled off the bricks will come out, take the foot to break the big joint, break the smaller lower joint, pull the crab meat slowly out.
2. Eat crabs and crabs as well as eat snails, wash your hands with lemongrass water or green tea, add some slices of lemon to clean all the fishy smell.
3. If you want to eat delicious crabs, eat at the beginning or the end of the month, because according to the experience in folk, the shelled cycle to develop will fast during this time so it is thin and often clad (less meat).
4. It is not recommended to buy crabs on the full moon day (15 lunar calendar) because this is the time when peeling and fasting crabs are easy to get tangled (less meat).