Cooking and Cleaning your Dungeness Crab

Dungeness crab range betweeen 1.5 to 4 pounds each. Our package weights average in the customers favor. Expect 25% of whole crab to be meat. More than twice the recovery of whole lobster.

Cooking: Place live crab in boiling, salted water(preferably sea salt.) When the water begins to reboil, cook for 18-20 minutes. Immerse crab in cold water to cool before cleaning.
	Cleaning: Refrigerate your whole-cooked crab until ready to eat. Then follow these simple steps: 1. To remove back, hold base of crab in one hand, place thumb under shell at mid-point, and pull off the shell.
2. The leaf-like gills are now exposed. Gently scrape them away with your thumb or a spoon edge.
	3. Wash away the "crab butter" (viscera) under a heavy stream of cold water. Thats it! Time to eat.

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