How To Clean A Blue Crab In 2 Easy Steps (Quick & Clean Way)

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Want to learn how to clean blue crabs the fast and easy way?

Most people boil them whole, but there’s actually a much better way to cook and clean them that saves you from having to deal with the guts and the gills when you’re eating them.

I’ve enjoyed eating them much more by cleaning them like this, plus I’ll share a secret tip that makes this whole process go very quickly.

If you like eating blue crabs, you’re going to love this video!

How To Clean Blue Crab The Easy Way [VIDEO]

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There are just two easy steps to cleaning blue crabs this way:

  1. Crack off the top of the shell
  2. Clean out the guts and gills (the easiest way to do this is to blast it all out with a hose)

This leaves lots of delicious meat in the corners of the body, in addition to in the claws and legs.

By cleaning crabs before boiling them, you don’t have to deal with the guts and gills on the dinner plate, which makes things much easier and appetizing.

Conclusion

blue crabs cooked whole

Hope you enjoyed this two-step process for cleaning blue crabs!

I’ve also got a blue crab cooking video coming up soon that I can’t wait to share with you.

Have any questions about cleaning blue crabs?

Or have another way that you’ve found to be better?

Let me know in the comments below!

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Fred Frissell
7 months ago

I always chilled my crabs 1st then did it exactly the same way. I also would pull the apron off and crack the crab in half before cooking. Good video.

Larry Burt
1 year ago

Great video very helpful ready to see how to cook

Robert Talbot
2 years ago

Very interesting and helpful. Been years since I went clamming Do you kill them before cleaning them.?

Robert Talbot
2 years ago

If this crab is alive how do you avoid being pinched?

Karen Castoro
3 years ago

Best cooked in marinara sauce and served with the sauce over pasta better when let sit in sauce over night and eaten next day

Last edited 3 years ago by Karen Castoro
Sarahi
3 years ago

After cleaning them can they be left in the refrigerator to cook the next day or should you freeze them?

A.M. Conquest
3 years ago

Do you clean the crab alive Frozen or how?

RHETT
3 years ago

You can open the blue crab easier if you pull the key first ( under the bottom). Pull it back just like opening a beer can. Once you do that, the shell literally separates. Then pull shell apart.

David Eddins
3 years ago
Reply to  Luke Simonds

Cleaning them is my favorite way but I dont wash the mustard and stuff out. Pull the lungs of and rinse leaving the mustard and stuff It is good to eat.

Michael McMillan
4 years ago

Ouch!!!!!!! Just bit my tongue and shed a tear over watching half the taste of a dark roux or fine crab etouffee being washed out for the pin fish to enjoy. I know the clean presentation is more pleasing, but the “mustard” holds a lot of flavor. I have to agree with most…steam whole and savor the whole flavor of the whole crab.

Thomas W German
4 years ago

You just ruined that crab. For one thing, any dead crab gets thrown out. You don’t boil crabs, you steam them, alive and whole. Steamed with a mixture of beer, vinegar and water with lots of Old Bay or JO sprinkled on the live crabs in the steamer.

Anonymous
3 years ago

Thank you!!!!
So glad someone gave the proper instructions on how to steam crabs. I have never heard of cleaning a crab before steaming!
Born and raised in Maryland!!!
Chesapeake Bay strong!!!

Dennis Mirto
4 months ago
Reply to  Anonymous

I was visiting a friend in Delaware and he invited me over for a crab dinner. He caught the crabs himself earlier in the day and prepared the crabs two ways. First was the typical steamed crab method with J.O.Spice sprinkled all over before serving. The second method was where he cleaned them alive (on ice for two hours as stated above and boiled those in garlic oil. Both versions were unbelievable..

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