Autumn winds, crab feet itch, chrysanthemums bloom, smell crabs come. Although crabs can be eaten all year round, autumn crabs are the fattest and most fragrant, so autumn is the best crab eating season of the year, and once this season has passed, the taste is greatly reduced. As the saying goes, "September full navel October tip", September female crabs are full, crab yellow and delicate, October male crabs have paste, crab paste is plump and round, so the crabs of these two months have always been the "treasures" that food lovers around the world are seeking.
Seawater has pike crabs, freshwater has hairy crabs, every season to eat crabs, there are many crabs on the market, crab selection is not too easy for many people, eat crabs not only in the right season to eat the taste is the best, when buying crabs, but also to ensure that good crabs are picked, in order to eat crabs with excellent taste, but many people do not know how to choose fresh and fat crabs, share the 4 methods of selecting crabs when vendors buy goods, each fat and yellow, strong and vigorous.
When selecting crabs, the first thing you see is the shell of the crab, the shell is blue and transparent relatively hard, looks shiny and bright, such crab meat is more and fat and tender, and some crab shells look yellow, there is no luster to touch and not thick, such crabs try not to choose.
Crab in turn we will see its snow-white "belly", if you want to see this crab when plump, we can use our hands to press its belly, if the feel is thicker and harder, it looks like the stomach is also a convex state, then such a crab crab yellow more, more fat and plump, and with a light press with the hand, the crab's belly will be concave, that means that the stomach "inventory" is less, naturally there is nothing delicious.
Crab legs will have some fluff, some more and dense, some less and sparse, in fact, these crab legs on the hair is the key to distinguish whether the crab is healthy and fat, like some crab legs on the hair is more vigorous and hard crabs, most of them are physically strong adult crabs, this crab meat is plump, more fat, on the contrary, less fluffy and soft crabs, poor vitality, less meat quality.
The leg is the more sensitive part of the crab, when picking, you can also "tease" it, pull the crab's leg, if you gently move the leg to fall or the reaction is not too big, indicating that the crab is not a dead crab or a crab that is not fresh, on the contrary, it is a strong and energetic crab that can react quickly.
The same price to see the quality, the same quality to carry the weight, a factor that determines the crab is fat is the weight of the crab, you can pick two crabs of similar size to weigh in the hand, if you obviously feel that one looks relatively large, but it is lighter to pick up, especially there is a "top-heavy" feeling, then the amount of crab meat, crab yellow or crab paste is generally not too much.
When eating crabs, the biggest taboo is to eat dead crabs, crabs will quickly multiply a large number of bacteria after they die, not only the taste is very different from fresh crabs, and eating dead crabs will also cause diarrhea and other adverse reactions. Frozen crabs are also not recommended to buy, many will become empty shells, tasteless and discarded pity.
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