![]() Seafood scissors – these look like scissors with narrow, curved blades used to cut through the tough shells on seafood.It is used to slide the meat out of the legs or pick out the meat from the body. Seafood pick – this is a thin tool that has a sharp, 2 prong fork on one end and a flat edge paddle on the other.It looks and operates much like a nutcracker. Crab cracker – this is used to crack open the hard shell. ![]() If you want to ‘hang with the big boys” and use the right tools to get every last bit of sweet and tender meat, then here is my list of the essential tools to help you get it all out! Each pocket has a little pearl of meat that you can dig out with a seafood pick. The cluster has very thin cartilage that creates “pockets”.Peel back the rest of the shell until you can use a seafood pick to retrieve the meat. It should pull out easily with an oval piece of opaque cartilage. Open up the claw (as if to pinch something) and pull out the smaller part. For the claws, use a crab cracker to gently crack the shell.You can also use a fork or a seafood pick to split the shell down the middle. The meat should easily slide from the shell. For each leg part, gently bend the leg in the middle to break the shell.Break each leg into two parts by snapping it at the largest joint. Each leg will have 3 sections, each getting progressively smaller.Remove each individual leg from the cluster by snapping it off at the cluster.Once you buy the crab and refrigerate it, it’s best to consume it within 1 or 2 days for the best flavor. Sometimes, the leg with the claw is separate or attached to the cluster with two of the spidery legs. They come in clusters with 3 or 4 legs and a claw on one leg- depending on how they cut the cluster from the crab body. Snow crab legs are sold already cooked and usually frozen or ‘thawed from frozen’. The best part is that if you want a ‘one-pot meal’, toss some corn on the cob and baby potatoes into the pot to steam with the crab. Pretty much if you can boil water, you can make Easy Steamed Snow Crab Legs. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Īs far as easy recipes go, this is right about at the top of that list. ![]() Why pay restaurant prices for a ‘crab pot’ when these easy steamed snow crab legs are so simple to make and ready in about 30 minutes. ![]()
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