Additional Crab Cleaning Pictures

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The Previous Page gave you most of the details necessary to clean your crabs properly. The photographs I've taken here show the complete process other than washing out the viscera after removing the gills. The crab pictures which show the back being opened I removed the claws first in hopes of better showing you how to clean the insides. Normally you would leave the claws on and your fully cleaned crab would look like picture number two. Everything left in that photo is edible other than the shell.

Many people overlook all of the meat which is contained within the back and as you can see from the photos that's a considerable amount of waste. You will notice the inside meat has a very white texture while the claw meat is much browner. It all tastes the same to me and the photos showing the meat on the plates is taken from only 2 large dungeness crabs. I added a photo of the redrock crab just to help you see the difference. They taste good too but are a bit harder to clean as their shells are especially hard. I'll very seldom keep a redrock unless it's a large male crab. There is surely no reason ever to keep a female of any species. The crabs are very plentiful this year provided you know just when and where to go.

I hope that my Understanding Tides page will be of some greater assistance to you. All the crab photographs on this page merely reinforce my other pages and again I am providing them to you to help you better understand the crab cleaning and catching processes.