Techniques: How to prepare a crab

Now for the crab. All I want to do now to prepare it is just take the claws off. They come off quite easily. And this bit is the tail of the crab, so we just snap that bit off, because it's not very tasty, there is no meat there. In case the juices of the crab splatter everywhere, I've got a tea towel. So just place this over, like that.

And then I just want to chop it down the middle in half. And then we've got bits of the body, like so, and the other half. All I want to do now is just get rid of this bit. This has got the gills and lungs of the crab. And there's a bit of the brown meat as well because that's the brains. And so this is what we want to discard.

And then the other bit you need to make sure you get rid of is this, what's called the 'dead man's fingers'. And that's not edible. And on this one as well. Crack the crab claws, but leave the meat in the claws.