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Crack That Shell and Clean Them Gills!

Cleaning Dungeness Crab in a Few Easy Steps.

1 To remove the back, hold the base of the crab with one hand and pull the shell away from the body with the other hand.

2 Turn the crab over and pull on the triangular-shaped section and lift it away. Turn the crab again and gently scrape away the gills on either side with your thumb or a spoon. Also, throw away the intestine, which runs down the center of the back.

3 Most people wash away the “crab butter” (the yellow, mushy stuff in the cavity). But, some consider these organs a delicacy and there are recipes that call for them. So, set them aside if you like.

4 Rinse the rest of the body under cold water and break it in half.

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Learn One Great Way to Cook Dungeness Crab!

Watch as Nikki Shows you a Step by Step Cooking Method.

Nikki the Foodie is cooking more great seafood! Today she shows you how simple it is to prepare roasted Dungeness Crabs with an orange dipping sauce. Learn how to make this and hundreds of other great gourmet feasts from Lobster Gram and Nikki the Foodie at LiveLobRecipes.Blogspot.com!

Dungeness Crab Orange Sauce

• 1/2 stick of butter melted

• table spoon chopped green onions

• 2 cloves of crushed garlic

• table spoon chopped thymes

• table spoon chopped parsley

• cooked dungeness crab legs

• roast in oven at 500 degrees for 12 mins.

• teaspoon orange rind

• 1/4 cup orange olive oil

• table spoon parsley

• table spoon thymes

• 1/4 cup orange juice

Oregon Seafood is located: 1167 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy.  Hillsboro, Oregon   97123    503-693-7222

Discover Some Great Cooking Tips for Your Live Dungeness Crab!

Oregon Seafood Has Live Dungeness Crab in Stock.

Cooking Dungeness Crab

1 Steam or boil your crab for 7 to 8 minutes per pound. Keep the lid on but cocked to allow a bit of venting. If you chose to steam make sure you have a large steamer insert and remember steam decreases the amount of water retained in the body cavity. Boiling will get the job done quite well, though, and more people are likely to have a big pot than a big steamer.

2 If you’re adding a large number of crabs, start your timer when the water comes back to a boil. Base your number of minutes on the average crab weight, not the sum total.

3 Round times down whenever necessary; raw crabs can always be cooked further, while overcooked rubbery crab is unsalvageable. Thankfully there’s a decent margin for error in crab-cooking.

4 If you’re boiling, you can add some seasonings to your water. Add salt (or use sea water), a bay leaf, some celery chunks, a carrot, some pepper corns, and any other whole spices you’ve got sitting around. Pre-mixed crab boil seasonings are available, but not necessary.

Some Notes:
5 Take advantage of their cold-blooded nature! Chilling the crabs in the fridge or freezer just before use will slow their metabolism down enough that you can handle them easily.

6 You can clean your crabs before cooking. This keeps the mess out of the pot and allows for more crabs in the space. Just pre-chill your crab as described above, follow the instructions, then cook according to this step’s directions. However, this approach does require vivisection, which freaks some people out even if the crabs aren’t moving. Take your pick. Also, if you’ve pre-cleaned and halved your crabs, re-weigh the parts to determine cooking time.

7 Rinse and cool
Remove your crab from the pot, and rinse under cool water in the sink. This will stop the cooking process, cool down the shell enough for you to handle, and rinse off any icky crab guts that may have oozed out during cooking.

Flip him over a couple of times to get both sides with the spray. If you prepare your Seafood correctly then eating seafood is a very safe and healthy choice.

Oregon Seafood is located: 1167 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy.  Hillsboro, Oregon   97123    503-693-7222

Learn How to Get Your Own Live Fresh Dungeness Crab!

Discover the Many Ways Crabbing can be accomplished.

Get a fresh crab

There are many options.

1 Go crabbing. Get your fishing license and set out some crab traps! If you’ve got a boat or a friend with a boat, this should be easy. If not, consider getting a renting a boat.

2 Buy a fresh crab. Your local Oregon Seafood Market has live fresh crab tanks; Oregon Seafood keeps live Dungeness Crab year round. Other Seafood shops, yuppie grocers, and Asian grocery stores may also carry fresh crab. Just make sure it’s fresh.

3 Buy a pre-cooked crab. This is sub-optimal, but will certainly do if you really can’t find a live source or don’t want to deal with a live pincher. In any case proceed to clean your crab. Check this link for more information on cleaning live crab.

Note that a happy crab will be active and feisty when disturbed. Pick him up with tongs or carefully with your hands, making sure to grab at the back of the shell. The crab can reach pretty far back under his body to pinch, but your upper fingers are quite safe. You can also grab hold of a couple of back legs on either side to immobilize your crab, but be careful not to break them off.

Oregon Seafood is located: 1167 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy.  Hillsboro, Oregon   97123    503-693-7222

Oregon Coast Dungeness Crab Are The Best Eating

The Pacific Northwest Is Famous For Dungeness

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Catching Dungeness on the Oregon Coast is a year-round sport in the estuaries, coastal rivers and tidal bays. In the ocean, crab season is closed from August 15th through November 30th. The best weather to go in is mild to sunny weather. Sustained rains bring fresh water. They are salt-water creatures and heavy rains force them out to sea because of the sudden lack of salt water.

To stay on the right side of the law, you need to get yourself a license if you are 14 and over. The licenses are not that expensive (call the local chamber of commerce for prices) and they are available for three day or year long. This is for both in-state and out-of-state residents.

Legally, you can only keep the males. The females must be let go. You can determine a male from a female by checking their underside. Males have thin tail-like piece while the females have a round, wide piece. It’s pretty easy to tell them apart once you see them both. The measurement of the crab will also determine a keeper. As long as the male crab measures five and three forth inches across the back of the shell, not including the points, consider him dinner!

Now, the adventure begins! Crabs are usually caught by using crab rings or crab pots. You can have up to three of these devices per person. Lower the baited (use chicken, fish, turkey, etc) rings or pots into the water, wait about 5 – 7 minutes, pull them up and see what you have. If you come up empty handed, move them to a different spot and try again. The ideal spots are ones with very little current. You can leave the crab pots in the water for a bit longer than the rings. The local bait shops in town will be able to hook you up with the gear you need. Once caught, they need to be cooked as soon as possible, preferably within the hour. The catch limit is 12 per day.

Once you taste a juicy, Dungeness crab, you will think you have died and went to heaven! They are a unique treat full of flavor and zest with a hint of Oregon Saltwater flavor. Oregon Seafood keeps Live Dungeness Crab in their live saltwater sea tanks. The kids just love to come in and see the Dungeness Crab and Maine Lobsters that swim around in the saltwater tanks.

Live Long and Healthy – Oregon Seafood

How To Clean Dungeness Crab

Oregon Seafood is located: 1167 SE Tualatin Valley Hwy.  Hillsboro, Oregon   97123    503-693-7222

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