To crack your crab legs, follow these steps: Remove each leg from the body with a confident twist — don’t forget the ones with the claws on the end. Start with the largest legs first.

Once the shell has been cracked open, you can retrieve the meat using a fork or your hands. If you're dining on an entire set ...

2. Prepare your crab. Since king crab legs and other large crab legs are almost always sold frozen and precooked, you just need to warm them through.

Step 2: Add the Crab Legs. Once the water is boiling, ... Learn How to Crack Crab Meat. It may take a bit of cracking to get ...

How to Crack a Crab in Seven Steps. You could sit back and ask a waiter to do it for you. But where’s the fun in that?

There are 4,500 species of true crabs worldwide ranging in size from the pea crab’s 1/16 of an inch across the legs to the Japanese spider crab at 12 feet across. The crab most commonly seen on ...

Chicagoans have been a little slow to latch on to the work-intensive, roll-up-your sleeves dining required at crab feasts (also called crab boils and crab feeds). “I think part of it is lack of ...