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Cleaning and Picking Meat from a Crab: How to Pick Crabs

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Starting on the Claws
Getting at the claw meat

Getting at the claw meat

Holly A. Heyser

I always start with the legs and claws by pulling the lower part of each claw off. This often pulls all the inner claw meat with it, but it'll be attached to a hard, cartilaginous fin-shaped thing in the center.

You just pinch the meat at the base of the claw and pull it away from the cartilage.

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