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

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by zimmy

I don't know that I will ever have such a surplus of crabs that I will be willing to sacrifice some to sauce, but maybe if it only takes 3 or so. To me nothing beats sitting around with a couple of pilsners picking and eating or a crab cake with fresh picked crab. Gonna have to put in some extra time for a bigger pile I guess.

how do you get them, chicken wings on a string?

I don't really know where to get them around here, so when I want to make sauce, there's a seafood market in my town that sells them frozen, and the sauce is still great. but I started with live crabs when I was in NC, and the sauce was noticeably better.