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Whether you are dealing with hard or soft-shelled crabs, the meat can be delicious but hard to handle. Learn how to get to the tasty crab meat without making a mess.

You Will Need

A dull knife
A wooden mallet
Newspaper (optional)
Kraft paper (optional)

Step 1: Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs（可以煮或者蒸硬壳的蟹）
Boil or steam hard-shelled crabs. Cook until the crab’s shell turns pink.

Step 2: Remove the front and back legs（去掉前后脚）
Remove the front and back legs by snapping them away from the crab’s body with your hands.

Place a layer of newspaper or Kraft paper over your table before opening the crabs to catch bits of shell and juice.

Step 3: Remove the apron on the underside（去掉底部的心形的壳）
Use your fingers to open the heart-shaped apron on the underside of a hard or soft-shelled crab’s body. Pull the sides of the apron back and snap it off.

Ask your seafood dealer to clean soft-shelled crabs for you. They will remove the head, the apron, and the inedible meats.

Step 4: Twist the top shell off and remove inedible parts（将顶部的壳用线缠一下，去掉不能吃的部分）
Twist the top shell off of the hard-shelled crab using a knife or your hands. Use a knife to clean out the yellowish parts inside the hard or soft-shelled crab that are inedible.

Step 5: Break the crab in half to expose meat（对半切开，拿出中间的肉）
Hold the hard-shelled crab with both hands and break the body in half down the center to expose a lump of crab meat.

Step 6: Crack open the legs and remove meat（掰开腿部的壳，拿出里面的肉）
Use a small wooden mallet to crack open each of the legs. Remove the meat with your fingers or a cocktail fork.

You will get only a small amount of meat from each hard-shelled crab. The weight of the edible meat is only about 15 percent of the weight of the crab in its shell.

Step 7: Cook meat（炒掰出来的蟹肉）
Cook the meat. Bread and fry the whole soft-shelled crab, or use boiled meat from a hard-shelled crab in a salad or crab cake.

The record for the world’s largest crab cake was set in 2008 by a Baltimore company. It weighed 235 pounds and took nine hours to cook.

词汇讲解

【词汇讲解】

1.hard-shelled adj. 有硬壳的，僵硬的

如：hard boiled egg n 煮熟的蛋.
hard shelled egg 硬壳蛋

2.mallet n. 木槌，[体]球棍，[音]小音槌

如：The drummer was worried because his mallet was missing one minute before the concert.
鼓手很著急，因为他的小音槌在音乐会开始前一分钟不见了。

A small mallet used by auctioneers.
拍卖锤拍卖者所用的小锤

3.snap v. 猛咬，谩骂，砰然关上，拍摄，崩塌，劈啪作响

如：I'm sorry I snapped at you just now.
对不起，我刚才不该对你嚷嚷。

I snapped you sunbathing on the beach.
我给你拍了一张海滩日光浴的照片。

4.heart-shaped adj. 心形的

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