Thanks for the info we have been vacationing in Annapolis for the last 6 years. My uncle is in the Navy and works at the academy some great restaurants in that neighborhood to get crab!!! Im from Michigan always thought Red lobster was the place to eat seafood until i visited Maryland. Im pretty sure ive been missing a lot of meat old bay has replaced my salt shaker. We leave in a week love driving through Pennsylvania 😊!
Gotta say, most everything you said was spot on, until the most important part: after the step to remove the organs, you should use a serrated knife to CUT the crab along side of its width. When you do that, you expose all the cavities at once. Much faster!!
You should add a small rolling pin to your tool box-- u can use it to roll out the meat from the smaller legs so much easier than trying to pull at the joint-- then u waste no meat!
I remember watching big stainless baskets running on 0verhead rails dumping loads of steamed crabs onto long tables and all the women picking the crabs into small metal cans. That was in the early 60s on the eastern shore.
@Brody Brady Yeah... calling bullshit on that one. My grandparents were the proprietors of Captain Earls Crabhouse on West Street in Annapolis, (my grandfather WAS Captain Earl, an Eastern Shore crabber), they used mallets, my mother who when she was of age, got a business degree and helped them manage it used mallets, I was raised to use mallets. My aunts and uncles used mallets, all of us are "true Marylanders".
ok off of docks toward where the land is, theres sometimes crabs there, depending on where you are ofcourse, but we go out there all the time and catch about 8in stone crabs, and eat them there exelent to eat, you just throw them in boiling water for about 10-15 mins, crack off the claws, break them and eat the meat inside its REALLY GOOD!!!!
why would you take some of the most wholesome and finest natural foods known to man and dip it in a tub of seasoning made in a factory? eat it as it is!
@@dylanlandry4996 Butter is for lobsters and pancakes, apple cider vinegar is natural. Then touch the the meat to remaining seasoning on the top shell for maximum flavors. Never break the legs off, lollypop all 10 legs. Break the picker's fingers if they yank the legs out of the body.
Another picking style: ruclips.net/video/2s3S745m1AA/видео.html Save the most encrusted seasoning top shell, retain the mustard if desired (Yum). Occasionally dip a morsel into apple cider vinegar then touch the encrusted seasoning for a blend of sweet flavors.😢
what do you mean? they are cooked obviously before he started picking and eating. so when (and why) would he need to clean them? not being funny, I'm genuinely curious what other people do... there are so many personal ways that people have; tips, tricks, tales and theories. I want to hear them all 😅
Contrary to popular belief, the "mustard" (or the "green gland" or "tomalley") is not fat, it's actually the crab's hepatopancreas, a main component of the crab's digestive system. The hepatopancreas is a gland made up of very small branched tubes (ramified tubules) located on both sides of the mid-gut in the main body cavity directly under the top shell and functions as both liver and pancreas. It is involved in producing digestive enzymes and is responsible for filtering impurities from the crab's blood. The "mustard" has a strong taste and is eaten by many people who consider it a delicacy. Research shows that chemical contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, mercury, and poison-inhalation hazards (PIHs) accumulate in the crab's fatty tissues and concentrate in the hepatopancreas. The contaminants, which are colorless, odorless and tasteless, and can increase one's chance of developing cancer, neurological impairments and miscarriage. Women of child-bearing age and children under the age of 5 are at particular risk. Crabs caught in advisory areas may contain high levels of these contaminants. If you catch crabs in these areas, it is highly recommended that you eat no more than six blue crabs per week and do not consume the "mustard" or cooking liquid.
First this you should do is get the guts and gills out before you boil them. But that’s personal preference I don’t like cooking the guts and everything with the meat.
Wow did you really use a mallet wth that's way off and a butter knife ? Really ? Tell this guys from cross the bridge .. yeah its a eastern shore thing
so much handiwork, i think its just like one hand and mouth for me. the guts are mad tasty. how do you guys wait for all the meat to be out before eating it? If i was in the video, I would have already eat most of the meat.
People are saying mustard is good but not everyone has to eat it and I think it’s disgusting cause it’s the crab guts for god sake and u wouldn’t eat some pig or sheep guts would u?
He don't know , he might be from North Dakota . My family is from Virginia and I'm from Maryland we definitely know a little something about eating crabs 😊😊😊😊
Oh no no no no. You did not use a hack hammer. And never pull the legs off. They can be used to get meat out. The rest ok. Nice job. However where is the cider vinegar? The only tool you need is a butter knife.
He did it wrong still looking for the video i watched last year. I remember they peeled the bottom of the shell off before pulling off any legs and all the meat came out with all the legs. This guy did it the way i was taught which is wrong
It’s a tutorial video for a reason. Why on earth would someone try to explain something to someone going a million miles a minute. He’s showing how to do it so that way when you get good at it you can slow down or speed up to your own discretion
First off, you threw away the mustard! Second you’re usually a mallet ain’t no body got time fo dat. I cringed a little bit everyone does crabs different
Seeing all these critical armchair quarterbacks makes me laugh. If y'all know so much better, why are you watching HIS video & not making a better one? Yeah, I thought so.
+Kenneth Barnes I was just about to say that... Either Maryland or Virginia . The only people I have seen pick crabs correctly are from either one of those two places.... Tools are optional but truly not needed if you know what your doing.
My Grandmother was a crab picker on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She would of given you hell for using a hammer. Alot of wasted time doing it this way. I would of gone thru 3 or 4 crabs by the time you had one done.
Me my bf crackin up to dis shit lol . Me: Why he not eating it , lmao He said cause it aint got no seasoning I said but its rite there. This fool gone say thats just for show an tell ..
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Every time he put all that good meat to the side I got so anxious. I wanted to jump through the screen of my phone!!!🤣😅🤣😅
Yeah I couldn’t have been him I would’ve been eating the whole video 😆
😂😂 right I just knew he was gone dip something in this imaginary sauce he was talking about ! I would have had to eat all that meat !
kinda some trauma there, but he'll eat it....I hope
Me too
I’m such a dork! I watch all these while waiting for crabs to steam. I know how to pick but this is satisfying to me for I don’t know reasons!
There is no way I could have cracked all that open and not eat it. You killing me here.😂😂😂😂😂
this
Thank you..finally someone who knows how to pick a crab and doesn't waste..thank you
Thanks for your video. Very thorough. I’ve never had crab before and I’m eating it tomorrow. I didn’t want to look like too much of a noob 😂
That was a good job, but what about the meat in the "elbow knuckle" and the backfin knuckles?
Thanks for the info we have been vacationing in Annapolis for the last 6 years. My uncle is in the Navy and works at the academy some great restaurants in that neighborhood to get crab!!! Im from Michigan always thought Red lobster was the place to eat seafood until i visited Maryland. Im pretty sure ive been missing a lot of meat old bay has replaced my salt shaker. We leave in a week love driving through Pennsylvania 😊!
Gotta say, most everything you said was spot on, until the most important part: after the step to remove the organs, you should use a serrated knife to CUT the crab along side of its width. When you do that, you expose all the cavities at once. Much faster!!
היינו במסעדה בתאילנד וקיבלנו סרטנים. לא ידענו איך אוכלים אותם.כתבנו בגוגל והסרטון הזה עלה.בזכותו אכלנו כמו אלופים. תודה.
yum! I love crab and dip it in Old Bay until my lips swell up. Delicious!
I pick crabs with my hands and a butter knife.
Did you put the salt please.thank you.
You should add a small rolling pin to your tool box-- u can use it to roll out the meat from the smaller legs so much easier than trying to pull at the joint-- then u waste no meat!
Probably one of the best tutorials relating to this subject. Good job
What's the use of the butter knife?
I scrolled thru the comments just for this one lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Mustard Is The Good Part, You Ain't A True Md Crab Eater
How are you not eating as you go?
alot of Md crab eaters like myself only use a good crab knife. And no dipping sauce unless its more Old Bay❤
Ihave been a crabber my whole life, thanks for teaching people to eat crabs right, 2:14
Thanks for sharing
I remember watching big stainless baskets running on 0verhead rails dumping loads of steamed crabs onto long tables and all the women picking the crabs into small metal cans. That was in the early 60s on the eastern shore.
I'd probably have to rinse the thing after pulling the guts out. Lol!
"So We Now Have A Little Hole In The Crab Backside"
Never wash a crab. You want your hands covered with the cooking spices. And using a dipping sauce is criminal. Just have a good beer nearby.....
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Its however you like to do it simple!!!
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When is the best time to buy crabs?
Don't buy crabs or crab meat. Go catch your own. Put the commercial crabbers out of business. They are ruining the bay systems.
If you were to bring a mallet to my house to eat crabs I would ask you to leave and never come back.
Don’t want your teeth lol
@Brody Brady Yeah... calling bullshit on that one. My grandparents were the proprietors of Captain Earls Crabhouse on West Street in Annapolis, (my grandfather WAS Captain Earl, an Eastern Shore crabber), they used mallets, my mother who when she was of age, got a business degree and helped them manage it used mallets, I was raised to use mallets. My aunts and uncles used mallets, all of us are "true Marylanders".
Literal gatekeeping
ooh! yum! yum! wish I was there to eat it!
You do not hit the claws with the mallet. If you absolutely need the mallet, and rarely will, you hit the back of the crab knife with it.
ok off of docks toward where the land is, theres sometimes crabs there, depending on where you are ofcourse, but we go out there all the time and catch about 8in stone crabs, and eat them there exelent to eat, you just throw them in boiling water for about 10-15 mins, crack off the claws, break them and eat the meat inside its REALLY GOOD!!!!
Right now, on the dark side of the Moon, there are aliens with ten legs doing this to human beings.
Thnx
you need to make another video in 4k
taking the slow boat to China cleaning that crab dude. nice tutorial but everyone knows eat'n crabs is a marathon sport
can it be eaten raw or do i have to cook it?
Do you have nail polish?
why would you take some of the most wholesome and finest natural foods known to man and dip it in a tub of seasoning made in a factory? eat it as it is!
Because that is how Marylanders do it.
Thats why i dip mine in butter
@@dylanlandry4996 Butter is for lobsters and pancakes, apple cider vinegar is natural. Then touch the the meat to remaining seasoning on the top shell for maximum flavors.
Never break the legs off, lollypop all 10 legs. Break the picker's fingers if they yank the legs out of the body.
Another picking style:
ruclips.net/video/2s3S745m1AA/видео.html
Save the most encrusted seasoning top shell, retain the mustard if desired (Yum). Occasionally dip a morsel into apple cider vinegar then touch the encrusted seasoning for a blend of sweet flavors.😢
I wish I saw this video tears ago😅 love crab, but didn’t know how to open it properly
3:22 we call that '' a** hole of crab'' :)))
Awesome Tutorial 👍🏾👍🏾
as a southern Marylander where the hell is your apple cider vinegar God damn it.... 😆
How come you don’t clean yours first?does it taste better this way?
what do you mean? they are cooked obviously before he started picking and eating. so when (and why) would he need to clean them? not being funny, I'm genuinely curious what other people do... there are so many personal ways that people have; tips, tricks, tales and theories. I want to hear them all 😅
He threw away the Mustard.
Lmbo right that one guy that eats crabs like a mf pro eats the mustard
Fairy Lady Here in Jersey we don’t eat the guts, crabs are cleaned prior to cooking in beer, olive oil, old bay and tons of garlic.
Contrary to popular belief, the "mustard" (or the "green gland" or "tomalley") is not fat, it's actually the crab's hepatopancreas, a main component of the crab's digestive system.
The hepatopancreas is a gland made up of very small branched tubes (ramified tubules) located on both sides of the mid-gut in the main body cavity directly under the top shell and functions as both liver and pancreas. It is involved in producing digestive enzymes and is responsible for filtering impurities from the crab's blood.
The "mustard" has a strong taste and is eaten by many people who consider it a delicacy.
Research shows that chemical contaminants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dioxin, mercury, and poison-inhalation hazards (PIHs) accumulate in the crab's fatty tissues and concentrate in the hepatopancreas. The contaminants, which are colorless, odorless and tasteless, and can increase one's chance of developing cancer, neurological impairments and miscarriage. Women of child-bearing age and children under the age of 5 are at particular risk.
Crabs caught in advisory areas may contain high levels of these contaminants. If you catch crabs in these areas, it is highly recommended that you eat no more than six blue crabs per week and do not consume the "mustard" or cooking liquid.
@@keithenr who really gives a fuck.
I don't like the mustard or the squiggly internal organs. I tried them once and it was totally disagreeable to me.
All that work for 1/2 once of crap meat .and that little bit of meat cost how much .
Wise Chesapeake / Maryland thermodynamic "culture" 101: How to expend more calories dissecting the thing than you're gonna get back from eating it.
First this you should do is get the guts and gills out before you boil them. But that’s personal preference I don’t like cooking the guts and everything with the meat.
Great video
Wow did you really use a mallet wth that's way off and a butter knife ? Really ? Tell this guys from cross the bridge .. yeah its a eastern shore thing
Not sure this was properly.
Best crab picking video I’ve tracked down.
so much handiwork, i think its just like one hand and mouth for me. the guts are mad tasty.
how do you guys wait for all the meat to be out before eating it? If i was in the video, I would have already eat most of the meat.
Living in the gulf and being in the industry for 30 years i can say this guy cant pick crab
I have shot them pieces away. This was very informative
🤔 “Each of the four claws? …… 😵💫
That's what I was screaming
If you have high blood pressure, AVOID crab legs 😎🤪
True crab pickers don't use tools...
Kenneth Barnes ...I use only my bare hands to rip off the shell, break the claws in half...and I 'm a girl.
I'm sure your from Pennsylvania or west va.....
as a commercial you are full of shit. you probably waste as much meat as you get out.... you should just buy a bag of claws and be done with it!
@@cr3atur356 n
I do use a heavy butter knife for the legs only .
A Mallet? What a hack.
So close to skipping when I heard ‘Remove all FOUR claws’ lol
MD BLUE CRABS
you don't remove the claws first
NO NOT THE MR. KRABS! 😫
He doing the most..black people don’t needs tools we get right to that shit
Never use anmallet
3:22
thats almost dirty, fella
stuck his thumb right in its asshole.
People are saying mustard is good but not everyone has to eat it and I think it’s disgusting cause it’s the crab guts for god sake and u wouldn’t eat some pig or sheep guts would u?
Electricity Isgreat how you go from a small crab to a full size animal?
Sausage is cased in hog intestines.
I’m cleaning mine first I guess
vanesa
All of that cracking/picking w no eating.
Normal human beings eat as they demonstrate. Very dissatisfying video.
He don't know , he might be from North Dakota . My family is from Virginia and I'm from Maryland we definitely know a little something about eating crabs 😊😊😊😊
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Lighten up, Frances.
Oh no no no no. You did not use a hack hammer. And never pull the legs off. They can be used to get meat out. The rest ok. Nice job. However where is the cider vinegar? The only tool you need is a butter knife.
nice start dude, but once you showed your tools, made everyone laugh.
You forgot every now and then sucking the juice out of each piece
cant believe people cook the crab without cleaning it first.
doogyjay1 cleaninging it how??? The inside juices are what people want. The flavor
Can't believe anyone would kill a crab before cooking
He did it wrong still looking for the video i watched last year. I remember they peeled the bottom of the shell off before pulling off any legs and all the meat came out with all the legs. This guy did it the way i was taught which is wrong
It took you over 6 minutes to do 1 crab
It's a marathon not a sprint. Savor the flavor.
It’s a tutorial video for a reason. Why on earth would someone try to explain something to someone going a million miles a minute. He’s showing how to do it so that way when you get good at it you can slow down or speed up to your own discretion
only a baltimore person uses a mallet
this video is 6 mins long for one crab just turn away now
U
thats a small crab.
First off, you threw away the mustard! Second you’re usually a mallet ain’t no body got time fo dat. I cringed a little bit everyone does crabs different
Seeing all these critical armchair quarterbacks makes me laugh. If y'all know so much better, why are you watching HIS video & not making a better one? Yeah, I thought so.
thus the reason your eating them outside. crab splatter everywhere. come to Virginia, I will so you how to with no tools.
+Kenneth Barnes I was just about to say that... Either Maryland or Virginia . The only people I have seen pick crabs correctly are from either one of those two places.... Tools are optional but truly not needed if you know what your doing.
back in 1930 my dad picked a crab in a 30 knt SWer with a 4ft swell with a coors lite in one hand!! salt life as hell if you ask me.....
thought this video was going to tell me how to pick a good crab... not how to open a crab...
He’s saving the meat for his husband to make him crab cakes
Dipping?! Hell no!
Gotta remove all the knuckles from the claws before you go inside.
Yall marylanders don't own blue crabs lol every video i seen yall on here causin a ruckus
minta kakat
Please don't use a mallet guys.
Im out after the first minute, cause its picked on a piece of newspaper.
This is NOT the way I do it. This is Wrong
How can this guy do a how to video when he doesn't even know how to cook them. Not a speck of seasoning on them buggers
My Grandmother was a crab picker on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She would of given you hell for using a hammer. Alot of wasted time doing it this way. I would of gone thru 3 or 4 crabs by the time you had one done.
man, ... you are cute !!! 😉 ... but why are your fingers shaking ? although that's cute too !!!!
You are so far off. Never do it this way.
You fucked up 💯
yesus
Me my bf crackin up to dis shit lol . Me: Why he not eating it , lmao
He said cause it aint got no seasoning
I said but its rite there.
This fool gone say thats just for show an tell ..
Lmfaoo Lmfaoo
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