Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Step one: lay the butcherig ground with newspaper because killing live crabs tend to get pretty messy. make sure you have a very sharp knife as well as a non slip chopping block. place the crab onto the block with the soft side up because if you don't it'll scuttle away (like duh). Then position the knife like so. So that with one swift chop, the crab is cleanly severed. saves you the trouble of hacking away at the poor thing as well as the crab from an excrutiatingly slow death.
Step two: Get ready for the massacre. Count till three and CHOP! well you can count till five or ten but i like three.cos i think the crab kinda knows its gonna die so at three, it'll stay peacefully still. which is strange. counting till five or ten is too long and you'll give the crab an element of surprise which i think is a very cruel way to die. there it is lying upside down on a wooden block and just waiting waiting. just when it thinks it's safe, WHAM the chopper comes down. the poor thing won't know what hit it.
Step three: there you go, the chopper plunges in. notice the newspaper is already wet with the blood/ juice of the other crabs. oh yes. it's a must to wear an apron. if not you'll be smelling like the latest crabby perfume. harhar
Step Four: place the crab in it's plastic coffin it's last resting place. even though the crab's severed it tends to kinda move about. i guess it's like the after-shock or something. so you might wanna out a lid on the container cos they tend to wriggle their way out. and the thing that baffles me is the fact that these creatures still want to escape even if they are near death. well they're practically dying. These buggers just wont give up. Kinda reminds me of a saying. 'NEVER SAY DIE' ironic eh.