"Fresh Dungeness Crab - How To"
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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
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