How to dress a crab

	Step 1 Place your thumbs against the back of the legs and push up to remove the carapace.
	Step 2 Push out the mouth and discard along with the stomach sack which sits behind it.
	Step 3 Scrape out the brown meat in the shell and set aside.
	Step 4 Remove the "dead mans fingers" from around the carapace.
	Step 5 Snap off the claws and legs taking care to remove the lib sockets also.
	Step 6 Pick the white meat out of the body using a pick or handle of a teaspoon.
	Step 7 Crack the claws and legs with a sharpening steel, claw crackers or the back of a heavy knife and pick out the meat.
	Step 8 You can then crack the shell along the line underneath and place the meat into the shell.