Blue Crabs for the Grill

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oompappy

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If you've ever tried to cook live crabs on the grill you know it can be
a pain to keep them where you want them. It can also be messy at
the table having to deal with the gills and guts especially for folks
that don't eat crabs often.
I clean them just before cooking. It takes a little practice to do without
getting pinched but it's worth it.
To clean, you first tear off the "tail". Then make a tiny cut in the shell
just above both backfin flippers being careful not to cut into the meat.
Pull the shell off the body, pull off the mouth parts, pick off the gills and rinse out the guts with
the hose, Lightly.
I just spinkle with a little Old Bay and set them on the covered grill
indirect for a couple minutes till they just turn red. Don't overcook or you'll dry them right out.
You could probably sprinkle with your favorite shrimp marinade
instead of Old Bay but I havn't tried that yet!
Here's some Pics.....

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs1

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs2

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs3
 
I have the same problem trying to cook a live hog in the smoker. It is horrible listening to em thrash for the first 10 hours!!!! :!: :eek:
 
Man! Been a while since I had Blue Crab! They sure look good!!! :(
 
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oompappy said:
If you've ever tried to cook live crabs on the grill you know it can be
a pain to keep them where you want them. It can also be messy at
the table having to deal with the gills and guts especially for folks
that don't eat crabs often.
I clean them just before cooking. It takes a little practice to do without
getting pinched but it's worth it.
To clean, you first tear off the "tail". Then make a tiny cut in the shell
just above both backfin flippers being careful not to cut into the meat.
Pull the shell off the body, pull off the mouth parts, pick off the gills and rinse out the guts with
the hose, Lightly.
I just spinkle with a little Old Bay and set them on the covered grill
indirect for a couple minutes till they just turn red. Don't overcook or you'll dry them right out.
You could probably sprinkle with your favorite shrimp marinade
instead of Old Bay but I havn't tried that yet!
Here's some Pics.....

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs1

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs2

http://members.aol.com/oompappy/crabs3

I cannot believe anyone would "clean" a blue crab prior to cooking! I am sorry, that's just wrong! 8-[
 
I've never heard of cleaning blue crab before cooking either, butt, they sure do look gooood!!

There's no indicator (suffix??) on the links to indicate what a browser should do with it...Yeah, AOL hates the world!!

Here's one of the pics:



Hope you don't mind pappy.. :(
 
The site is using some lamo CSS that defines the http protocol to be some stupid "htdirp" class. Yeah...that's W3 compliant. NOT!

Not your fault ... It just ticks Geeks/Nerds ... like me ... Off!
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OK. I've never seen a blue crab in my life. Are they really that color? What's the problem with cleaning them before cooking?

Griff
 
Pappy,
I'm sure the crabs turned out great. I was just busting your chops about cleaning them prior to cooking. When I lived in NC, alot of people did them the way you do them, as well as boiling them.

Here's how we eat them up here!



Griff,
Here's a pick of the blue crab. IMO, cleaning the crab prior to cooking just takes somethng away from the sweetness of the crab. And the experience of sitting down and picking a picnic table full of hot steamed crabs, covered with Old Bay and a cold beer.

 
ScottyDaQ said:
The site is using some lamo CSS that defines the http protocol to be some stupid "htdirp" class. Yeah...that's W3 compliant. NOT!
Not your fault ... It just ticks Geeks/Nerds ... like me ... Off!
[-X [-X [-X [-X

Are these words from the English language?
 
Nick Prochilo said:
ScottyDaQ said:
The site is using some lamo CSS that defines the http protocol to be some stupid "htdirp" class. Yeah...that's W3 compliant. NOT!
Not your fault ... It just ticks Geeks/Nerds ... like me ... Off!
[-X [-X [-X [-X

Are these words from the English language?
LOL! I got everything except "htdirp"
 
Larry,
I like them steamed in a pot the way you do them too!! (see Larry's recipe in the seafood section.) I pretty much only clean them for the grill.
I take the Weber Smokey Joe everywhere I travel and when I go to the Eastern Shore no sea creature is safe. If they are legal size, of course!

Scotty,
Sorry to "tick off" any geek nerds with the links. Do you think if I added the suffix (.jpg) to the file name on the link that would help? Sometimes AOL just acts goofy.
 
oompappy said:
Larry,
I like them steamed in a pot the way you do them too!! (see Larry's recipe in the seafood section.) I pretty much only clean them for the grill.
I take the Weber Smokey Joe everywhere I travel and when I go to the Eastern Shore no sea creature is safe. If they are legal size, of course!

Scotty,
Sorry to "tick off" any geek nerds with the links. Do you think if I added the suffix (.jpg) to the file name on the link that would help? Sometimes AOL just acts goofy.

Pappy,
To be fair, I'll have to give your way a shot one day.
 
oompappy said:
Scotty,
Sorry to "tick off" any geek nerds with the links. Do you think if I added the suffix (.jpg) to the file name on the link that would help? Sometimes AOL just acts goofy.

Nope. It's nothing you did...you didn't tick me off AOL did. It's AOL all the way. They coded in a file called a CSS or Cascaded Style Sheet. It gives them a way of defining the look of a page. Usually CSS's give an author an easy way of making web pages look a certain way. It doesn't appear that they checked this one out before the made it global.
I used to be a "Community Leader" / Staff for AOL. They don't give a shit about the real internet...they just want to make sure everything works when using their software. They know they've cornered the market on simple to use ISP's... and it's really sad.

I didn't mean to insinuate it was your fault.
 

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