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l prefer to put them to sleep in an ice slurry whilst fishing. when i arrive home, i clean them by putting my thumb under the tail on the underside of the buck and lift it towards the rear taking the carapice off completely. i then house the guts etc out with fresh water. Whilst i clean the catch i have a pot of salt water that i collected well out into the bay (or you can make your own by adding a heap of kitchen salt) on my three ring burner cooking away until it boils. i then add the crabs minus guts carapice etc to the boiling water for 5-8 mins depending on the size. i then place then into a clean fresh water ice slurry to firm the flesh and cool them down. they are now ready to eat. all this of course needs to be done whilst sucking on a cool beverage og your choice
hi alimo88 , congrats firstly for being the position of having caught some sandies , i have never failed with my method of cooking crabs , so here goesby the time you get back from crabbing the sandies are normally dead. i get a suitable pot & boil up water & add heaps of salt get it rapidly boiling again & then place crabs blue side upside down dont overload pot this is something you will have to judge yourself ,then once the water comes back to boil ,boil for exactly 8 minutes then take then out & put in some cold water or icy water if like ,take them out after a couple of minutes & lay them now red side face down for about 15 minutes ,this must drain excess water out of flesh. fridge them or eat them .good luck shubeej.
Try adding a little sugar as well, also try adding rough chopped carrot, onion and bay leaves to the water when cold for a slightly different flavour.
Or search for chilli crab recipes on here. Yum!
The best way to chill the crabs rapidly is put them into a salt water ice slurry as it retains the salty taste and doesn't was it away as a fresh water slurry would.
Shubeej is right on the money with eight minutes.
Congrats on the catch.
I will be getting a few on Friday / Saturday morning hopefully.
Dont forget to take out a large bucket of around 20 litres which has a lid on it so you can cook the crabs in the water from which you caught them. You cant beat it.
still prefer to cook the after cleaning. i reckon they taste sweeter as you not boiling their guts etc through theflesh whilst cooking. each to their own though
Cook for 12 minutes in salty water for me, and then ice down in more salty water for about 30 minutes to make sure there is a bit of salt around the meat when you eat them. I find them a bit insipid if they are cooled in fresh water. An alternative is to eat them hot, straight out of the salty cooking water - a different taste altogether. Love em both ways!
Cheers Freeeedom
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