If you have too much water, ladle out excess and discard.

Purging crabs. Set a steamer basket in the pot and the crabs in the basket or, if you have a lot of crabs, simply. Rinse the crabs off well. While waiting for the water to boil fix the first 4 vegetables.

Add 1 cup of kosher salt and 1/3 cup of cornmeal to the water, then stir it around a bit. If they have come from the beach (sandy area) purge them by soaking in water for about 15 minutes. In the crawfish thread that want die, several posters have proclaimed the merits of crab purging.for the love of god explain why.

Drain all of the water off of the. Fill up the tub with water and let the crawfish sit for 5 to 10 minutes without adding salt. How long do you boil whole crab?

To loosen dirt and grime, you can give them a stir occasionally. Bring an inch of salted water to a boil in a large pot. Put the crabs in a steamer basket or insert or simply pile them into the pot and let the bottom crabs boil slightly.

And your purge may have had too much salt or the crabs may be sensitive to the chlorine or cloramine in your water. Bring about an inch of salted water to boil in the bottom of a large pot. One at a time, grasp crabs as described above and plunge them headfirst into the boiling water;

Blanch in boiling water for 60 seconds; Remove anything that’s not meat. Add the clams to the water and place the container in a refrigerator.