Topic Description
I absolutely love cooking and I love seafood. This was just a random thing that just popped in my mind (probably because I’m hungry while I’m typing this). I remember this one time that my mom tried to cook crab… tried is the key word. Love her to death… hate her crab. I know how to cook it but not how to make it taste edible. Ha. I just need to know what to cook it in and the spices to add and all that good stuff.
Available Tutorials
I found a lot of cooking information as well as preparation information. Usually I would get the crab from the grocery store and it would already be dead but I’ve been crabbing before and it’s a ton more fun if you have fresh live crab.
I thought this site was interesting because it tells you how to make sure the crab suffers less when you’re killing it.
http://www.martins-seafresh.co.uk/Crabs.htm
Then it goes on to say how to cook it and get the meat out. It doesn’t say anything about what spices to add and I found that if you don’t add anything else then the crab is bland. This site also has links to cooking lobster, mussels and oysters. Mmm.
http://www.helpwithcooking.com/seafood-shellfish/how-to-cook-crab.html
This site has cooking information for both live and frozen crab. It also gives you ideas about what to put in with the crab to make it tastier. There are also a ton more cooking recipes on this site.
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/cooking-crabs.htm
This site gives you different recipes that include crab in them. It also gives you advice on how to purchase a good, fresh crab.
Evaluation
I chose this site, http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/cooking-crabs.htm , because the directions sound very easy and I like how they show the different things you can put crab in. I can’t wait to try it; I just have to find a kitchen to do so. I don’t really trust the burners in the dorm kitchen but I’ll probably go to Teri’s apartment and cook over there. I learned a lot about how to prepare a live crab and I’m excited to cook something so fresh.
Using online tutorials
I have looked up recipes online a bunch of times but that’s about it. I’ve never searched for a tutorial for something else.
