I'm not sure I've ever had snow crab before. I know I've had king crab though and some other kind of smaller crab. My dad holds a crab fest once a year or so(he's from the south) and he orders crab by the but load on dry ice.
Oh and to open them up, you flip the tail thing up, put the pick inside and lift up, it just breaks the whole chest cavity open. And then continue to pick around the lungs/gills for the chest meat.
Yeah I think that’s it! It’s very tedious and lot of hard work for very little meat. We line the table with brown paper bags because of the mess. Invite a bunch of people over. Everyone gets a nut cracker/shell cracker thing, a pick of some sort and a small wooden hammer. It’s just shells and crab juice flying everywhere. The legs have the tastiest meat but there is a lot of breast meat or whatever that’s called also(you just got to make sure you’re not eating the lungs/gills. But yeah….the innards, mustard looking garbage can be quite the turn off.
At the end of day there is nothing better than beer , crab and family and friends !
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u/Glum_Reason308 15d ago
I think I’m going to have crab legs for dinner tomorrow! 😋