[Sca-cooks] eating crabs... was period crab recipes

[Stefan li Rous]

Adamantius replied to Morgana with:
  <<< On Jun 18, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Sharron Albert wrote:
 > And I prefer scissors to any other method, much to the
 > mortification of my mother when they last visited and I pulled the
 > scissors out of my purse at the restaurant. I did, however, get the
 > crab meat out faster than she did with the nutcracker...

I used a pair of sharp Fiskar poultry shears on lobsters a couple
hours ago, and they worked really, really well.>>>

Thank you! Those scissors sound like a wonderful idea. I'll have to  
try to remember to bring along a pair the next time I go to one of  
the Asian buffets that tend to have the seafood in the shells. Not  
really needed for the mussels on the half-shell, though. :-)

I've found the nutcrackers to be only so-so effective, especially on  
the King Crab, and have usually resorted to trying slit open the legs  
or claws with a table knife, fingernail or crab? pick.

Stefan
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