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Crab Tales with Sand Crab Laurie Suarez

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  Cooked Australian Sand Crab Sand Crab Feast One of my favorite kinds of seafood to eat is a Sand Crab. I'll buy one for lunch, mix up some seafood sauce and just pull the thing to pieces and listen to a podcast... its a delicious treat and a relaxing way to enjoy a meal break. I traded fishing secrets recently with  Laurie Suarez and learned some interesting tricks of the trade... and collaborated on some videos about Sand Crabs. Turns out I know more about cooking crabs than catching them, which works out fine as I tend to buy them anyway. The scientific name for the kind of Sand Crabs, or Blue Swimmer Crabs we get in Australia, for the most part is: Portunus Armatus, which doesn't sound tasty at all. The best way to enjoy sand crabs in my opinion is to buy them cooked and pick the crab meat yourself, here is a video explaining how to clean a sand crab . If you have heard 'soft shell crabs' mentioned in American TV shows, they are referring to sand crabs, or soft sh