How to clean a soft-shell crab:
Buy your soft shell crabs live, as close to when you plan to cook them as possible. “Once they die, they go off really fast,” Cusey explains. If you aren’t prepping and cooking immediately, she recommends packing them on ice until you do.Photography by Belle Morizio; Food Styling by Ryan McCarthy
Place the crab on the board and hold it down with one hand, keeping the face pointing at your other hand. Using your culinary shears, cut off the front-most part of the crab, starting just behind any of the facial features. This kills the crab instantly, and gets rid of the beak. It’s not harmful, Cusey explains, it’s just the only part of the crab that won’t soften when fried, which leaves a weird texture.
Using your hands, lift up the back of the crab’s top shell. The lungs are the spiky-shaped and off-white pieces with a visibly stringy texture. Once you find them, they should be easy to grab and pull or snip right out. The lungs won’t make you sick or anything, Causey advises, but they just are not pleasant to eat, in flavor or feel. The orange glob nearby, on the other hand, is fat, and she recommends leaving that.
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