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i steam.

my stepdad told me it preserves the flavor by not washing any of it into the water. i have a basket that elevates them about 3 inches up.

dont know about the flavor, but the steam is hot as heck, and the cold crab does very little to bring down the temps..right or wrong, i kinda like how fast they go.

downside. you pull out the crab and they can look kinda messy with all that crab-leakage. in a water bath it gets washed about. cleaner.