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10 hours ago, Smithy said:I don't think I've ever seen live Dungeness crab, and if I got it I wouldn't know what to do with it.
You'd boil or steam it, as you would a lobster. Nothing is ever going to taste as good as cooked from live product, but just as I suffer with picked and packed blue crab meat to make crab cakes, the packed product works in a pinch.
10 hours ago, Smithy said:I don't think I've ever seen live Dungeness crab, and if I got it I wouldn't know what to do with it.
You'd boil or steam it, as you would a lobster. Nothing is ever going to taste as good as cooked from live product, but just as I suffer with picked and packed blue crab meat to make cakes, the packed product works in a pinch.
