blue crabs - do you pick out the meat, or make sauce

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by spence

Fresh dungeness crabs are the only ones worth picking yourself in my opinion. Not sure about CT but up here picked jonah crab is pretty available and worth the money if it's fresh...even if it's not as good as blue.

That being said, I don't even like eating whole lobster...what a mess. There should be people to do this for you.

I've never had Dungeness, heard it's awesome.

I'd eat lobster all day long. Use heavy duty kitchen shears, cuts through claws and tails like nothing, makes it a snap and less messy.