How to make great crab legs!!!

Have you walked by the seafood case at the grocery store and wish you could make crab, but think it's really hard? Well it's not! Just follow the easy steps and you will be impressing people in no time.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Crab Legs
• Large stock pot
• Bread loaf pan (optional)
• Metal Collinder
• Butter
• Salt
• 10-15 minutes
• Crab Cracker or Pliers

1. Watch for specials. I don't know about you, but I get adds in the mail from my local grocery store all the time and used to not pay any attention. Usually the butcher has a sale on meat every other week. Wait for crab to go on sale and get to the store. You can buy some out of the case for your dinner tonight. Then ask the butcher for some still frozen legs so you can keep them in the freezer and still get the low price. Make sure to ask the butcher to throw in some claws. They have a ton of meat in them, and unless you ask it seems they don't include them.
2. Once you get your crab home it's smooth sailing. Get a large stock pot and fill between 1/4 and 1/2 the way full of water.
3. Throw in some salt. There is no set amount but I would say about 4 tbls. This may vary depending on how big your pot and how much water you used.
4. You also need to add butter to the pot. Again there is not a set amount, I usually use country crock butter and just give two or three large scoops. If you use a stick of butter about half a stick should be great.
5. Now you need to put all your crab legs and claws into a metal collinder.
6. You will need to put something in the bottom of the pot so the collinder can rest on it. You want your crab to steam but not be resting in the water. In a moment of desperation I grabbed a spare metal bread pan I had laying around. It wouldn't sink to the bottom though because an air bubble was caught under it. So I grabbed a hammer and a screw driver and punched a hole in it to release the trapped air. This then allowed the pan to rest at the bottom of the stock pot. If you have something better though than great.
7. Let the water come to a boil. Place your collinder on top of your bread pan inside the pot. Put the lid on. Let the legs steam inside the pot for about 10-15 minutes.
8. A crab cracker and crab fork will help to get into those hard to reach places. If you don't have access to these, a pair of clean pliers and a normal fork will work, just not as good.
9. You can melt butter in the microwave or they make special butter melters that are heated from below with a tea candle. Either way butter gives the crab meat the best flavor ever!!!

Tips & Warnings

• Crab is delicous so make at least 2lbs at a time.