Boiling water, 5-10 minutes, exact time not critical.

If you can get the bodies, do - lots of meat, though messier to clean out (after boiling, pull bottom shell from top shell, discard top shell, take bottom shell and cut off the face/mouth, rinse out all the yellowish guck, pull off and discard the lungs (spongy bits), what's left is all white delicious crab meat, cut/break bottom shell in half lengthwise for easier access).

Excellent!

that yellow stuff is actually fat..same as in the heads of crawfish. some of us..umm..actually like it! lots of flavor in it..ask any coonass. SmileWavy
ryan

Boiling SALT water if you're a gourmet. Back in my SCUBA days, the 1960's, no limit on crabs in Oregon, but had to be male over a certain size..so, we'd cruise along the bottom in Newport bay, equipped with a measuring spanner & a feed sack. Flip the crab over, if male, measure him. Big enough, in the sack he'd go. A tank of air usually resulted in a sack full of crabs. The kicker here? I'm allergic to sea food, but my parents and their friends sure enjoyed my diving trips. Rockfish were also plentiful for spearfishing. No limit, no license back then. 4th finger of the Newport South Jetty would yield a cooler chest stuffed with filets
of Ling Cod. The days before the Northwest became Californicated were golden...

scuba-trolling for crab...reminds me of same, but for lobster in miami back in the early 90's. good times..and i got to eat what i harvested, paul! ;)
ryan

Ryan, something for you guys to smile over...a food allegy to anything that lives in water isn't fun. :(

true enough, paul..and in many cases it can be deadly. i love sushi, but not about to take a chance on blowfish.. :eek:
ryan

What's the old joke? The bravest man ever was the first man to eat an oyster? My allergy was discovered early...trout. I was a sick puppy for quite a while. Cindy loves Salmon, but I have to leave the house when she cooks it...even the smell of cooking fish
bothers me....psycologically, I'm sure. Yeah...stay away from the blowfish! I like reading your posts.

thanks, paul..not something i read very often 'round here! SmileWavy
ryan

I just ate some crawfish..trust me that yellow stuff tastes GREAT!

i'm right there with ya, br! SmileWavy
ryan