Comments on: Crab Cleaning 101 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101 A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:26:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-44409 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:03:49 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-44409 Hi Tom. Not cleaning a fresh crab properly then cooking it will simply result in a more murky tasting crab meat. However, cooking a bad or spoiled crab is a different matter. Crab spoils VERY QUICKLY. It is the reason that I only have crabs if I get them ALIVE. Many fish mongers in the U.S. sell lump crab meat. This is steamed in bulk from presumably, very fresh crabs. The Philippines, where I am located, is a major supplier to freshly steamed crab meat to places like Japan. Steamed crab meat properly packaged and frozen or refrigerated should last for several days. But if at any point in its handling it warms up, I think it spoils fairly quickly. It might be possible that you simply had a BAD batch of crab meat in your crab cakes. It is also possible that you got food poisoning from many other sources of food that day... Some folks in the Philippines, steam whole crabs with fingers and all intact, removing the entrails after cooking and there are no ill-effects. I would more likely believe that the crab meat itself was suspect... but I couldn't be sure at all. Eating bad shellfish, mussels, crabs, shrimp, etc. always results in wicked stomach problems for me...perhaps that is what you experienced... Hi Tom. Not cleaning a fresh crab properly then cooking it will simply result in a more murky tasting crab meat. However, cooking a bad or spoiled crab is a different matter. Crab spoils VERY QUICKLY. It is the reason that I only have crabs if I get them ALIVE. Many fish mongers in the U.S. sell lump crab meat. This is steamed in bulk from presumably, very fresh crabs. The Philippines, where I am located, is a major supplier to freshly steamed crab meat to places like Japan. Steamed crab meat properly packaged and frozen or refrigerated should last for several days. But if at any point in its handling it warms up, I think it spoils fairly quickly. It might be possible that you simply had a BAD batch of crab meat in your crab cakes. It is also possible that you got food poisoning from many other sources of food that day… Some folks in the Philippines, steam whole crabs with fingers and all intact, removing the entrails after cooking and there are no ill-effects. I would more likely believe that the crab meat itself was suspect… but I couldn’t be sure at all. Eating bad shellfish, mussels, crabs, shrimp, etc. always results in wicked stomach problems for me…perhaps that is what you experienced…

]]> by: TOM http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-44407 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:53:50 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-44407 ENJOYED YOUR PIECE ON CLEANING CRABS. HAD WONDERFUL CRABCAKES LAST WEEK AND GOT DEATHLY SICK. NAUSEA, CONSTIPATION,HOT & COLD FLASHES, LOSS OF ENERGY, LATHARGIC,ETC. AM DOING RESEARCH TO FIND OUT IF CRAB COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CLEANED PROPERLY & DEAD MAN LEFT IN? WHAT ARE AFFECTS OF EATING BAD CRAB? DO YOU HAVE AND SOURCES WHERE I COULD FIND OUT? TOM ENJOYED YOUR PIECE ON CLEANING CRABS. HAD WONDERFUL CRABCAKES LAST WEEK AND GOT DEATHLY SICK. NAUSEA, CONSTIPATION,HOT & COLD FLASHES, LOSS OF ENERGY, LATHARGIC,ETC. AM DOING RESEARCH TO FIND OUT IF CRAB COULD NOT HAVE BEEN CLEANED PROPERLY & DEAD MAN LEFT IN? WHAT ARE AFFECTS OF EATING BAD CRAB? DO YOU HAVE AND SOURCES WHERE I COULD FIND OUT? TOM

]]> by: crystal http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-35335 Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:37:20 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-35335 my father and i recently went crabbing in washington state and cought quite a few dungeness crab. we brought them home right away and cooked them in boiling water. one of our crabs however after being cooked was completely black inside not just in its body but in its legs and claws as well. after looking all over the web i still havent been able to find out why? the crab was still alive when it was tossed in the pot and was cooked completely and everything. got any ideas? my father and i recently went crabbing in washington state and cought quite a few dungeness crab. we brought them home right away and cooked them in boiling water. one of our crabs however after being cooked was completely black inside not just in its body but in its legs and claws as well. after looking all over the web i still havent been able to find out why? the crab was still alive when it was tossed in the pot and was cooked completely and everything. got any ideas?

]]> by: J. Francisco Bautista http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-9861 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:44:56 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-9861 here's the link to the entire chinese cooking series: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=75962 here’s the link to the entire chinese cooking series:

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=75962

]]> by: J. Francisco Bautista http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-9860 Tue, 18 Jul 2006 01:43:10 +0000 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cleaning-crabs-101#comment-9860 No problem - the author of the thread really gets into the art of giving away the secrets of authentic resto-style chinese food, very indispensable part of my cooking regimen - did you check out the rest of his cooking pictorial series? btw, your site is chockfull of information too! No problem - the author of the thread really gets into the art of giving away the secrets of authentic resto-style chinese food, very indispensable part of my cooking regimen - did you check out the rest of his cooking pictorial series? btw, your site is chockfull of information too!

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