How to clean and pick a crab to remove the meat (dress a crab)
Whether you have caught or bought a live crab and cooked it or whether you have bought a pre-cooked crab, you will now need to remove the meat from the shell.
If your crab is still alive follow these instructions to cook kit:
Once your crab is cooked, if you are using the claws for a seafood platter or salad simply pull them off and save. The meat from the body will need to be removed before it can be used in a recipe. The video below demonstrates how to do this.
It is necessary to pull the shell off first and remove the parts that are not edible. Full instructions on how to remove the meat from a crab are detailed in our video.
Seafood toolsspecially designed to get in to the awkward areas of the crab make preparing it and eating it a lot easier. We have a full range of seafood utensils in ourcook shopincludingseafood forks,crab and lobster crackersandshellfish tools kits.
