How to Clean Blue Crabs

Cleaning of crabs could be challenging to some people. They may not know how to clean crabs or are too scared to even try. I will be showing you a very easy and safe way to clean crabs. And in case you do not like the way crabs look in soup because they remind you of spiders, I will show you a method that will crabs look appealing in your food. I will also show you how to identify the gender of crabs in the video.

Directions

With a hard brush scrub the outer part of the crabs.
Remove the hard shell and the gills and anything you don't like. When cleaning a female crab the is loaded with eggs, try as much as possible to save the eggs The eggs are orange in color and a clustered together.
Break off the legs and claws. Break off both ends of the claws and legs, this will let the soup have an access to flavor the crab legs.
Split the crab into two from the middle.
Rinse and cook crabs

Ingredient

Blue crabs