[Sca-cooks] immersion blenders

[chirhart_1 at att.net]

      Now whos weired!
> > Ok, now that my original post was authenticated, yes.. Blue crabs are
> > soft-shelled, and eaten whole, AND if I remember correctly, no longer
> reach
> > a hardshelled stage.  This is partially due to natural selection, when
> they
> > were originally <and still to a certain extent I believe> crab fishing,
> they
> > threw back all the ones with soft shells, hence, the soft shelled ones
> were
> > surviving, created a breed of crabs with constantly soft shells.
>
> Sorry, not correct. Soft-shell crabs are regular crabs which have just
> molted. Crabs have exoskeletons and have to shed their shells to grow; once
> they do, the new tissues immediately swell with water, and the outer layer
> starts to harden. Within about six hours of shedding, the new shell is hard
> enough to break rather than bend, and within 24 hours, it's as hard as the
> original shell.
>
> Avraham
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sca-cooks mailing list
> Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks