Charbroiled Crabs

[egghead]

Cleaned some crabs from yesterday's crab boil.

Charbroiled with butter, garlic, and parmesan and liberally dusted with Dizzy Pig Jamaica Firewalk.


Basted several times with the garlic butter - drip pan underneath to catch the garlic butter


Potatoes, corn, onion and garlic on the drip pan underneath - all from the crab boil


This is a 6 napkin meal - Man!! This is good.

[OSD]

Looks like some very tasty eatin'!!

[Texas Blues]

You sir have serious psychological problems and need a team of doctors around you 24/7! Only a crazy genius could post pics like that. Those pics are pure sexonaplate!!

[ChileFarmer]

EH, nothing wrong with left overs, when they look like those. CF

[egghead]

Looks like some very tasty eatin'!!

They are good but still not where I'm trying to go with them. Think I need more seasoning - see link below

I first had BBQ crabs when living in the Beaumont area at Sartin's. Sartin's actually fries the crabs but I have been trying to get close with boil and charbroil. If you are ever in the neighborhood its a good stop. Here is a link.

http://www.bluecrab.info/bbqcrabs.html

[tex_toby]

The last time I was in Galveston, I was talking to a guy on the beach catching blue crabs and he showed me how to catch them. Now that I know they are plenty easy to catch, I don't have a clue how to cook them or eat them. We were both camped at the state park and he said he would come let me know when they were cooking them and he would show me how to cook and eat them. Well, long story short, he never came to get me and I didn't want to intrude so I never got the chance to learn.

Since then, I have asked others I know about cooking and eating them and I have gotten mixed reviews. The biggest one being that they were too much work and hassle to deal with. I still would like to learn and give it a try.

tex

[Kenny 13]

Tex, if you can boil crawfish you can boil crabs. The difference is that the mudbugs are definitely easier to eat, as you have to pick through the shells when eating crabs.

[egghead]

What Kenny said

I can roll through some shrimp or bugs but crabs takes a little more effort - maybe that is what started putting potatoes, corn, sausage, hot dogs, and even shrooms in with whatever you are boiling. My bride can eat crabs for hours and so can I.

[Papa Tom]

The first time we had crab was long ago on Tybee Island, GA, sign said All the Blue Crab You Can Eat......so we bit. They brought newspapers and covered the table then two buckets one full of crab and one empty. We sat there looking puzzled and she walking off stopped and looked over her shoulder and said "Y'all haven't eaten crab before have ya?" So she showed us how and we went through an embarrassing number of buckets. Man that's good stuff.