I want some crabs..

[HipChick]

However, I just can't bear to put something in boiling water that was moving one min ago..

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. freshness

[Locut0s]

2. Why my parents are Vegetarian...

I still live with my parents so as a result I don't eat a lot of meat myself but I can't totally give it up. Both my parents switched to vegetarianism due to a combination of humanitarian and health reasons. My mother was Buddhist and decided that if she needed to switch to be more true to the religion. My father is atheist but has always felt bad about that side of eating meat and switched some 20+ years ago.

If you are really worried about it, what I would is ask the fishmonger to kill it for you. At least that way it dies quickly. Just make sure you cook it real fast after getting it home.

I've never liked Crab or any type of selfish. I'd like to get into seafood and change that actually.

[RebelOne]

6. I am a vegetarian, but not totally.

I love lobster and crab though I have not had either for a few years.

[GoneOffShore]

3. A chef told me one time:

A crab's stomach is almost directly behind its eyes. Not a lot going on there.

Plunge them into the water. But add beer or vermouth. That way they die drunk.

[pipi_k]

4. After hearing a story

From an ex boyfriend's mom about what happened when she tried to cook a lobster, I can never eat it ever again. Which is no great loss since I don't really care for it anyway.

Crab is OK but only if it's already cooked and cut up.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Humane dungeness crab kill:

[love_katz]

8. Thanks for the info, pinboy3niner.

I hate to cause pain to any living thing, but being vegetarian doesn't work for all of us.

And, I sincerely believe that all things want to live...we have just lost the ability to hear plants cries of pain.

[AsahinaKimi]

7. The only way to eat them...unless..

They came in a frozen plastic bag.

[jmowreader]

9. How are you feeling today?

[pinboy3niner]

10. Apparently...

...crabby.

Can't say I blame her. Hope crabs aren't prohibited on the new diet, now that we've tantalized her. No crab spice, though, I'm sure. It's way too salty.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. ahahaha! Punny

I feel okay..I got a million things to do including renew my meds today. Bleh.. and its the first of the month. Bills come due!

[Tom Kitten]

11. the thing is, it might still be moving after you put in boiling water...

trying to get out! This happened one time when my Dad brought home some live crabs that had broader claw span than the largest pot we had...It was traumatic (I mean no one wants to see other living creatures boiled alive!) and that was the last time we did that.

A couple of years ago I found a book at a yard sale by this writer David Foster Wallace titled "Consider the Lobster"...One of his essays goes quite into detail about the history of cooking and eating lobsters and crabs...It was originally published for Gourmet magazine and it is online here...http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster It's lengthy but good reading!

[pinboy3niner]

13. I've used a humane method for killing lobster before boiling

So I figured there must also be a humane method for crab and googled to find the video I posted above. There are ways to enjoy seafood that don't involve torture--and all it takes is a simple search to find them.

[HipChick]

12. I went to the CrabHouse - All you can eat Crabs

It's ok if someone else cooked them...

Man I am stuffed though..

[pinboy3niner]

14. Yeah, I'm guessing they don't put them out of their misery individually before the pot

But I LOVE crabhouses. Especially for Chesapeake Blue Crabs. The Spice! The Spice!

[EdwardSmith74]

16. It's called "Old Bay" and it's GREAT in egg salad (or as a replacement for paprika on deviled eggs).

I also use it along with Tabasco to make a killer bloody mary. It's great on home fries (or french fries), popcorn, and it really puts a kick into a quiche.

[Xyzse]

17. LOL, Very cute

Those are awesome blues.

[RebelOne]

18. I watched an Iron Chef episode where the crabs

were not dropped into boiling water, but were butchered alive.

[olddots]

19. No jokes about crabs

you people have so much taste and restraint .

[panader0]

20. I killed my crabs with some blue oinment.

The boiling water was just too much.