Neat way to cook Alaska King Crab Legs (Thanks Alton Brown)
Bruce K.
These babies cost up to $20.00 a lb.
On food TV last week Brown had a greaat way to prepare them:
1. Take 3 legs and cut them in half (using scissors).
2. Wrap them in 2 wet layers of paper towels.
3. Wrap package in plastic wrap.
4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
Hope this helps someone.
Bruce
jmcquown
OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to put them
in a large pot of boiling water?
Jill
kilikini
"jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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Jill, I was thinking the same thing! How funny. Microwave? No, uh uh.
kili
jmcquown
Kili, apparently we can "thank" Alton Brown. Okay Alton: No, but thanks! :)
Jill
John D. Misrahi
>>
>> OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to put
>them
>> in a large pot of boiling water?
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
>
>Jill, I was thinking the same thing! How funny. Microwave? No, uh uh.
>
>kili
>
>
As comedian Jon Pinet would say, "nay nay!"
Default User
> OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to put them
> in a large pot of boiling water?
Ummmm, the fact that you have to boil a big pot of water just to do a
few crab legs?
Wrapped in wet paper towels, that's a very convenient way to steam your
crab legs. Sounds like an excellent idea to me. What's your objection to
it? You understand that the wet towels will absorb virtually all the
microwave energy.
Brian Rodenborn
Default User
> Kili, apparently we can "thank" Alton Brown. Okay Alton: No, but thanks! :)
I'll take Alton's opinion over yours almost any day.
Brian Rodenborn
StocksRus®
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Ummm...if you know anything about the process of paper making, I would NOT
do it that way.
Ever been to Jacksonville Fla? Caustic chems and all. Know what I mean?
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Carryon
natural paper towels from the health food store.
Doing them this way doesn't waste water.
Crab question:
Do these huge legs have any kind of body? Something like a real crab?
I just can't imagine seeing one whole. They look a bit like spiders
don't they.
John D. Misrahi
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"Bruce K." <brucea...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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I did not hear this! LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!
Microwave king crab? Whoever would do this deserves to be drowned in melted
butter.
Paul
jmcquown
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to
>> put them in a large pot of boiling water?
>
>
> Ummmm, the fact that you have to boil a big pot of water just to do a
> few crab legs?
>
crab and not Snow crab being sold as "king".
> Wrapped in wet paper towels, that's a very convenient way to steam
> your
> crab legs. Sounds like an excellent idea to me. What's your objection
> to
> it?
Microwaved food simply doesn't taste the same to me. I use the microwave
for reheating leftovers, occasionally for steaming veggies. If I'm going to
pay $20+ for King crab legs, I surely hope I can afford to boil a big pot of
salted water to toss them in.
Carryon
Default User
>
> > I'll take Alton's opinion over yours almost any day.
>
> Ummm...if you know anything about the process of paper making, I would NOT
> do it that way.
> Ever been to Jacksonville Fla? Caustic chems and all. Know what I mean?
Bullshit. While paper-making produces caustic chemicals, paper itself is
perfectly safe.
Brian Rodenborn
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"Carryon" <kilt...@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
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Microwaving changes the texture of food. Something about steaming it from
within by erupting the cell structure like popcorn. It just does not taste
the same and a delicate, expensive meat like king crab deserves much better
treatment than you would employ to reheat a hot dog or a frozen burrito.
Paul
Peter Aitken
King crab legs are already cooked when you buy them - at least I have never
seen them raw. If they are red, they are cooked. So you *are* reheating
leftovers. But I think steaming is better than MW or boiling.
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Default User
> Microwaved food simply doesn't taste the same to me. I use the microwave
> for reheating leftovers, occasionally for steaming veggies. If I'm going to
> pay $20+ for King crab legs, I surely hope I can afford to boil a big pot of
> salted water to toss them in.
You don't microwave the food. You microwave the water in the towels,
which steams the food.
Brian Rodenborn
Default User
> Microwave king crab? Whoever would do this deserves to be drowned in melted
> butter.
Again, you aren't microwaving the food. Read what it said. You are
steaming it.
Brian Rodenborn
StocksRus®
Ever been to a paper mill? I've been in the business for 25 years and
would not ever try to STEAM anything with a paper towel.
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jmcquown
You just keep talking yourself into that notion, Brian. It's okay :)
Paul M. Cook┊
"Default User" <first...@boeing.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook┊" wrote:
>
> > Microwave king crab? Whoever would do this deserves to be drowned in
melted
> > butter.
>
>
> Again, you aren't microwaving the food. Read what it said. You are
> steaming it.
The microwave energy penetrates the cells. It then causes the internal
water to vaporize which ruptures the cell. This is not steaming.
Microwaving is a unique form of cooking. I have never eaten any microwave
food that I cannot immediately detect as such due to its rubbery texture.
Paul
Siobhan Perricone
wrote:
>Do these huge legs have any kind of body? Something like a real crab?
>I just can't imagine seeing one whole. They look a bit like spiders
>don't they.
My grampa caught one when he went to Alaska and had it mounted over his
fireplace at the lake house. It was freekin' huge and scary looking. :)
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Peter Aitken
Do you think the wet towels stop all the MW energy? Of course not.
jmcquown
> "Default User" <first...@boeing.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:40FED369...@boeing.com.invalid...
>> jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> Microwaved food simply doesn't taste the same to me. I use the
>>> microwave for reheating leftovers, occasionally for steaming
>>> veggies. If I'm going to pay $20+ for King crab legs, I surely
>>> hope I can afford to boil a big pot of salted water to toss them in.
>>
>>
>> You don't microwave the food. You microwave the water in the towels,
>> which steams the food.
>>
>>
>> Brian Rodenborn
>
> Do you think the wet towels stop all the MW energy? Of course not.
Everyone seems to have missed the fact that after they are wrapped in paper
towels they are wrapped in plastic wrap. I just adore food cooked in
plastic wrap.
Jill
StocksRus®
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You're kidding right?
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Peter Aitken
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This is almost surely a myth. It sunds like one of those things that "makes
sense" to someone with a high school education, and therefore it gets spread
around. Do you have any credible references for it? In any case, even if it
is true it would be easily avoided by using a lower power that would allow
the heat to diffuse through the food before any water turns to steam. Your
statement about always being able to detect microwaved food indicates only
that you have never had anything but badly prepared microwave food or food
that does not take well to the MW. Used properly on the right foods the MW
can equal or exceed other cooking methods. Used improperly or on the wrong
foods the results are terrible. Do not blame the technology for the
incompetence of the cook.
Default User
> Ever been to a paper mill? I've been in the business for 25 years and
> would not ever try to STEAM anything with a paper towel.
You're going to have a lot less exposure to that oh-so-deadly paper than
if you ate a typical cookout meal from paper plates. Show me some
documentation that says exposure to paper is dangerous.
Brian Rodenborn
Default User
> You just keep talking yourself into that notion, Brian. It's okay :)
Like I said, I trust Alton over you.
Brian Rodenborn
jmcquown
Of course!
Default User
> The microwave energy penetrates the cells. It then causes the internal
> water to vaporize which ruptures the cell. This is not steaming.
> Microwaving is a unique form of cooking. I have never eaten any microwave
> food that I cannot immediately detect as such due to its rubbery texture.
Wrapped in wet paper towels? I doubt there's much penetration at all.
Most of the microwave energy will go into heating that water. If you
just plunk the legs in, then sure, but that's not what's happening.
Brian Rodenborn
Peter Aitken
It's well established that MWs penetrate about 1" into food. I may have the
exact value wrong but it is close. Unless you have a 1" thick layer of paper
towels, a lot of the energy will get thru to be absorbed by the food. I'm
not saying this is bad for the crab legs - I do not know. But your claim
that you are "not microwaving" the crab legs is bunk.
Peter Aitken
MW-safe plastic wrap is designed to not give off any odors or chemicals in
the MW. I still would not use it in direct contact with the food, but if
just used to seal, as in this example, it works fine and is undetectable.
Anyone who claims that they can detect this kind of use of plastic wrap is
deluding themselves.
Default User
>
> "Default User" <first...@boeing.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:40FED369...@boeing.com.invalid...
> > You don't microwave the food. You microwave the water in the towels,
> > which steams the food.
>
> Do you think the wet towels stop all the MW energy? Of course not.
Not all, but enough that the primary cooking mechanism is going to be
steaming, not internal heat from the water in the crab legs.
I guess it's really silly to argue about it. What we need are a big
bunch of crab legs, a microwave and pot of boiling water.
Brian Rodenborn
BOB
> "jmcquown" <jmcq...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:LOuLc.13328$Yw3....@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
>> Bruce K. wrote:
>>> I've always been wary of trying to cook Alaskan King Crab Legs.
>>>
>>> These babies cost up to $20.00 a lb.
>>>
>>> On food TV last week Brown had a greaat way to prepare them:
>>>
>>> 1. Take 3 legs and cut them in half (using scissors).
>>>
>>> 2. Wrap them in 2 wet layers of paper towels.
>>>
>>> 3. Wrap package in plastic wrap.
>>>
>>> 4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope this helps someone.
>>>
>>
>> OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to put them
>> in a large pot of boiling water?
>>
>>
>>
>
> Jill, I was thinking the same thing! How funny. Microwave? No, uh uh.
>
> kili
Grilled?
BOB
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Microwave's cook by exciting water molecules in the food using a form of
radiation, in this case electromagnetic. Where are the water molecules?
They are in the cells. When the water turns to vapor, it ruptures the cells
because the vapor expands. It's simple physics and it even says so in my
microwave oven manual under "How does a microwave oven work." If you like
MW food, fine. I've simply never like the results no matter who makes it.
Is that a crime? And I adore seafood and think microwaving it would not do
it any justice.
Paul
Donna Rose
jmcq...@bellsouth.net says...
> Bruce K. wrote:
> > I've always been wary of trying to cook Alaskan King Crab Legs.
> >
> > These babies cost up to $20.00 a lb.
> >
> > On food TV last week Brown had a greaat way to prepare them:
> >
> > 1. Take 3 legs and cut them in half (using scissors).
> >
> > 2. Wrap them in 2 wet layers of paper towels.
> >
> > 3. Wrap package in plastic wrap.
> >
> > 4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps someone.
> >
> > Bruce
>
> OMG, microwaved crab legs??? Bruce, exactly how difficult is it to put them
> in a large pot of boiling water?
>
> Jill
>
>
>
legs, which most Alaskan King Crab Legs are when they are available
locally.
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Carryon
So do I. It makes the clean up so very easy. It also doesn't dirty up
the micro.
Bruce K.
As the original poster I neglected to say that the crab legs came out
as perfect as I have ever had.
The key here is "controlled" steaming.
My initial reluctance to cooking these babies was that I was afraid
that by boiling or steaming in the tradional way I could easily
overcook them.
Browns method lets me control the time, temperature AND the amount of
moisture that is absorbed by the legs.
By the way if you can get ahold of Barbara Kafka's Microwave Gourmet
cookbook, you will find many excellent recipies for steamed fish.
Best to all,
Bruce
Peter Aitken
I understand perfectly well how MW works. You are making the unwarranted
assumptions that the water is always heated enough to turn to steam, that
all the water is in the cells (which is certainly not true), and that even
if it did turn to steam it would rupture the cells. If you dislike MW food
you won't get any argument from me, but if you spread pseudo-scientific
claptrap you will. As for seafood, one of things MW do best, as acknowledged
by many chefs, is cooking fish.
Paul M. Cook┊
Yeah, you got me dude. My mission in life is to disparage microwave ovens
by posing as an oven physicist. Tell me, just how does one "steam" crab in
a MW oven without turning the internal water into steam? That is what we
are talking about, cooking a food item with steam. And if you've ever taken
a biology course you'll know that water doesn't have a whole lot of places
to hide except within cells.
Paul
Peter Aitken
>
>
> Yeah, you got me dude. My mission in life is to disparage microwave ovens
> by posing as an oven physicist. Tell me, just how does one "steam" crab
in
> a MW oven without turning the internal water into steam? That is what we
> are talking about, cooking a food item with steam. And if you've ever
taken
> a biology course you'll know that water doesn't have a whole lot of places
> to hide except within cells.
>
> Paul
>
I have not only taken biology courses but taught them for many years at
university, so don't pull your "science" BS on me. You had a chance to learn
something here but you ran away as quickly as possible, prefering to hang
onto your incorrect beliefs. Congratulations.
Paul M. Cook┊
And I was a bio major in college. So tell me where in a crab leg is all
this moisture assuming of course it has not been vacuum packed in water?
OK, that is my big assumption here, that we're dealing with fresh crab. I'm
not sure what you mean by running away, I'm here.
And you didn't answer my question on the steam. Pardon me also for assuming
you understood the context of the subject at hand, i.e. steaming food in a
MW oven as opposed to say warming it up.
Paul
Larry Smith
> Yeah, you got me dude. My mission in life is to disparage microwave ovens
> by posing as an oven physicist. Tell me, just how does one "steam" crab in
> a MW oven without turning the internal water into steam?
That's easy, you just wrap the crab in wet paper towels.
The keyword here is "wet". Microwaves will penetrate food
but only to the depth set by the food's water content. A
few layers of wet - not damp, wet - paper towels will stop
most incoming microwaves. The water in the paper towels
will heat up and steam the contents. Variations on this
technique are common in most receipes that have been adapted
to the microwave.
Also, water is not simply "turned to steam". It has to be
heated, like any other method, starting out at whatever the
temp was and rising as more microwaves rattle the molecules.
If the towels are still wet when you take them out, then
obviously most of the water is still present - as water. Not
as steam, even if some steam is rising from the wrapping.
Likewise if the crab is not dry then most of the water in
it is still there. Maybe even a bit more from the steaming.
And if the water in the towels isn't rising in massive clouds
of steam then it didn't reach the boiling point, therefore
the crab did not reach the boiling point, therefore the
water in the crab never turns to steam.
Really, Paul. Apply a little logic.
And, by the way, even though I haven't seen the episode in
question I have seen enough of his shows to be pretty certain
that he included an explanation of all the above with his
little styrofoam puppets. Unlike most chefs, he really
understands why food does what it does when we cook it.
We're probably lucky he doesn't go into pi-muon-neutrino
interactions (complete with styrofoam puppets).
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> Yeah, you got me dude. My mission in life is to disparage microwave ovens
> by posing as an oven physicist. Tell me, just how does one "steam" crab
> in a MW oven without turning the internal water into steam? That is what
> we are talking about, cooking a food item with steam. And if you've ever
> taken a biology course you'll know that water doesn't have a whole lot of
> places to hide except within cells.
In the method under discussion, the crab legs are wrapped in damp paper
towels.
In all this debate, the one person I agree with is Brian, who wrote, "What
we need are a big bunch of crab legs, a microwave and pot of boiling water."
Instead of endless keyboard-flapping, TRY the two methods side-by-side, and
see which works better. I'm inclined to side with AB, but until I try it for
myself, I'm not going to take a fervent stand (like some people are doing
here) either way.
Bob
Paul M. Cook┊
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Nobody dissed anybody. If people want to get testy in replies they can
expect the same in return. Frankly I don't care how anybody cooks their
crab legs. Me, I'll stick to the old fashioned way as I just don't like
what a MW oven does to the texture of food. Hell I don't even like
reheating my leftovers with it and if it were not for the fact that my two
cats like their food warmed up then I'd toss the bloody thing altogether.
Paul
kilikini
Your cats like their food warmed up too? God, and I thought I had the only
feline royalty in the world! God forbid I get one of those large cans and
stick it in the fridge. Even if I heat that up, after it's been opened
once, they won't touch it. It's like they *know*.
kili
Nancy Young
> Your cats like their food warmed up too? God, and I thought I had the only
> feline royalty in the world! God forbid I get one of those large cans and
> stick it in the fridge. Even if I heat that up, after it's been opened
> once, they won't touch it. It's like they *know*.
You just made me want to throw up. As I have trouble keeping food
down as it is, please cease and desist about heating up cat foot.
Cats do not like cold (dead) food. Reheated canned cat food would
leave me nauseated for days. Buy small cans. Better, good quality
dry food.
nancy
Paul M. Cook┊
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Mine get both. But in the winter even room temp is too cold for them.
Paul
kilikini
I didn't meant to offend you, Nancy, I'm sorry!
kili
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Bewarned! Know ahead of time the state of everyone's mind or suffer the
consequences.
Paul
Mark Reichert
> It's well established that MWs penetrate about 1" into food.
It's well established that the only thing microwaves do to food is
heat the water in them because water is the type of asymetrical
bipolar molecule that will absorb the length of microwaves used. As
long as the towels surrounding the legs have water they will absorb
the microwaves.
> I may have the
> exact value wrong but it is close.
You've got a lot of things wrong.
> Unless you have a 1" thick layer of paper
> towels, a lot of the energy will get thru to be absorbed by the food.
I guarantee you have no idea how much of the microwaves is getting
through to the legs. Food bigots, like any other bigots, work best in
complete ignorance of the subject they find so objectionable.
dale...@gmail.com
> I've always been wary of trying to cook Alaskan King Crab Legs.
>
> These babies cost up to $20.00 a lb.
>
> On food TV last week Brown had a greaat way to prepare them:
>
> 1. Take 3 legs and cut them in half (using scissors).
>
> 2. Wrap them in 2 wet layers of paper towels.
>
> 3. Wrap package in plastic wrap.
>
> 4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
>
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Bruce
Cabrito del Bosque
>> you guys are all idiots.
>
> We're the idiots?
At some point you may approach idiocy, for now you're just vermin.
HTH
John Kuthe
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>We're the idiots? You're the asshole who's responding to an 11
>year
>old posting VIA Google groups.
>Duh.
The poster will never even be able to navigate back to RFC on
Gurgle Groups to see your reply. At least not for 10 years or
so.
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Cabrito del Bosque
> The poster will never even be able to navigate back to RFC on Gurgle
> Groups to see your reply.
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WEBTV!!! ROFL!!!!
Bla bla bla, you're so clever. NOT! ROFL! And the webtv reference....
seriously? *You're* making fun of *me* with webtv? Do you not realize that
you have just validated everyone who has laughed at you for it?
One note... you can't lay off the crossdressing stuff in your lame attempt
at humor. You got caught on it already, and we all know about it, and "I
know you are but what am I" doesn't fix it.
Now fuck off and die, you phony little pussy, and next time you decide to
start flinging shit at people outside your own back yard, try to prepare
your freeble little mind for the fact that you need to be willing to take
what you dish out, because someone may do the same thing back at you. If
you're going to keep being a pussy who wants to give shit but screams like a
sissy baby when you get it back, you'll just spend your sad little life
going through episodes like this where your true nature is revealed to all.
I'm done with you now, shithead. That is, unless you want more.
And unless you decide to resume making personal attacks on people who are
trying to discuss reasonable things. A little good natured banter between
rivals is fine, but you cannot seem to understand why it's offensive to
invade other forums and turn on a tirade of hateful personal attacks on
individuals. So if you go that route again, I'll be back on your ass, with
Goatboy, Ronald, and a bunch more tasty morsels. And go ahead and post all
the stupid shit you want in the Chiefs forums... you're not getting any
action because they are too smart to take your juvenile bait.... and
besides, yuou're just not funny.
Now please refrain from being an asshole and I will do the same.... or not,
your choice.
Besides, I can be a much bigger asshole than you when provoked, so do the
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Nancy2
N.
Cabrito del Bosque
> Y'all better not use Bounty with Dawn paper towels. LOL.
>
> N.
>
Nancy2
you want your food wrapped in that stuff to microwave?
N.
Cabrito del Bosque
Nancy2
ago, but haven't seen it on the shelf yet.
N.
Cabrito del Bosque
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Who knew?
Clearly not me.
lindsa...@gmail.com
> I've always been wary of trying to cook Alaskan King Crab Legs.
>
> These babies cost up to $20.00 a lb.
>
> On food TV last week Brown had a greaat way to prepare them:
>
> 1. Take 3 legs and cut them in half (using scissors).
>
> 2. Wrap them in 2 wet layers of paper towels.
>
> 3. Wrap package in plastic wrap.
>
> 4. Microwave on high for 2 minutes.
>
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Bruce
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jmcquown
> On Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 9:45:58 AM UTC-4, Bruce K. wrote:
>> I've always been wary of trying to cook Alaskan King Crab Legs.
Broce
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