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    Crab Legs..............

    How the heck do you prepare these things? Boil? How long? Anyone know their nutrient value/gi index? Someone said the soidum is sky high

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    Boil them. If you wanna reduce the sodium content change the water half way through boiling

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    ugh....not enough meat in those little bastards to elicit such work

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    is the sodium that high? Would rinsing do? How long to boil? Protein seems good.....how is the gi or other nut. value...calorieking sucks!

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    Anyone?

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    I steam them. Couldn't tell you nutritional value but they are yummy

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    I buy crab legs at Publix all the time. The length that I cook them depends upon whether they are frozen or previously frozen (thawed, in other words.) If they're frozen, I'll fill a pot of water, place them in, and wait for the water to boil. Once it boils, another 5-7 minutes will do. If they're previously frozen, maybe 2-3 minutes after a nice boil. It's really hard to screw them up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Columbus
    How the heck do you prepare these things? Boil? How long? Anyone know their nutrient value/gi index? Someone said the soidum is sky high

    King crab or snow crab? Just had some last weekend actually with a huge sirloin. One of my favourite meals.
    I normally put king crab on a baking sheet with about 1/4 inch of water and bake at 350f for 9-10 minutes. This is a good way to have them stay moist.
    King crab tends to have a lot more meat then snow crab making it a little more worthwhile.
    As far as eating, use seafood crackers (nut crackers) on snow crab and use a single tine of a fork to pierce through the edge of the shell since it's a lot softer and tear apart.

    As far as nutritional breakdown of king crab:
    There's zero carbs, so no G.I.
    3.5 oz or 100g provides you with 96calories, 2g fat, 19g protein, 0g carbs, 53mg cholesterol and 1064mg sodium.
    So yes, there is a lot of sodium.

    Snow Crab:
    5oz. gives you 60 calories, 1g fat, 16g protein, 0carbs. 53mg cholesterol and 970mg sodium.
    Last edited by Ejuicer; 10-21-2006 at 12:15 PM.

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    mmmmm a big bucket of crab legs, lobster, salmon, and steak sounds so good right now!!

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    this is what you want to do. fill up a pot of water doesint matter how much just as long it covers all the legs. then bring the water to were it just starts to boil were you can see some bubbles keep at that temp. then put your legs in for about 7-9 min then you can munch. what happens if you boil the water the meat tends to stick the outer shell and there a pain to eat. this is how a chef at a 4* resturant taught me. then you want make sure you have a melted stick of butter for better tasting. (lol)

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    I love crab....you just made me hungry. ****er.

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    Quote Originally Posted by audis4
    mmmmm a big bucket of crab legs, lobster, salmon, and steak sounds so good right now!!
    oohhh man that sounds good I'm getting hungry again

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    crab legs

    I work on the ocean, i eat alot of crab.

    sure you can boil them, 10 mins is usually enough time. then serve... but if you want a lil more outta it, i take them in a skillet wiht black bean sauce, grack the legs well so they get cooked buy the steam, and cook that for 10 mins, the legs will soak up the sauce, and you will find a new tastey way to cook crab.

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    is there a way to reduce the sodium???

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