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Default Cooking: Dungeness Crab - fresh in season - live vs supermarket cooked

In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2011-06-02, Doug Freyburger > wrote:
>
>
> > My wife was born in Seattle and grew up in Portland so she had fresh
> > dungeness all the time growing up. She always orders it cleaned first
> > so that's the way to have that type of crab.

>
> Excuse me!? I've been eating D-crabs fer 60 yrs and have never ever
> heard of cooking cleaned fresh D-crab. Ya don't even wash the ocean
> water off! Ya cook 'em whole, then clean 'em.
>
> nb


That's the only way I've ever seen it done here too. Cooked whole then
cleaned.


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