How To Kill a Massive King Crab?

I recently went to a local oriental market that sells live king crab, as i walked to the back of the store where the crabs were, i noticed the largest crab i've ever seen; that wasn't on t.v.


It is larger than any pot's we own, but thats not the issue, how do we more or less humanily kill it if i were to buy it to eat it?


Also, It is to large to drop in a pan of water, unless we bought a hot tub.|||I honestly don't see what use it would be to purchase such a thing for home use. A crab like that is usually saved for commercial kitchens.|||cut it into pieces until it fits|||saga say ugh|||throw them into the freezer for 15-20 minutes to lull them into thinking that they are in the deep sea and they may not feel as much pain as you murder them. acra4Usually, the claws are bound with string and this is a good thing as a large angry crab can easily sever your pinky. Turn the crab over so that its stomach is facing the ceiling or sky. Hold or restrain it with some kitchen tongs if you have them. Then take a nice sturdy knife and plunge it into the center of the underbelly and cut towards the face of the crab (look for the shift eyes…). You have effectively delivered the blow that “kills” the unfortunate being. However, it will continue to writhe and jerk for up to an hour later. Do this crab sepuko (Japanese term for knife based suicide) with conviction; quickly and cleanly. Wait a few seconds if you want to avoid the most active of spasms, then lift the flap clearly visible on the underbelly and rip off the top of the crab…the equivalent of your skull if you were a crab





http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/cle…|||you could buy a large metal tub from a gardening center, then build a fire and put this tub on it to boil. But the larger crabs are not as tender as the smaller ones, unless you are doing this for the WOW factor, you will be dissapointed in the meat.