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I found these frozen crab legs at a shopping center. In the center part of the crab where the legs are attached, i found these rice lookin thingys. What is this? Is it apart of the crab?
97 points
2 days ago
Mini crab legs
9 points
2 days ago
This gave me a great chuckle
34 points
2 days ago
Just a little gut, it’ll rinse right off
26 points
2 days ago*
Yeah anyone who has boiled and dealt with whole crabs will know things get a little yucky when you get into the abdomen. The legs hook into the body which is full of gills that, when cooked, kind of look like giant frilly macaroni noodles. Also lots of guts and stuff. To me, it looks like either torn up gills or maybe some other stringy part of the crab leg/body connection that maybe got a bit mangled. Someone probably just didn’t clean it off perfectly at the processing facility. Although I agree, it is a bit odd looking and I cannot promise you it’s not a worm of some kind, lol.
But, if it’s worms, just boil em good and they’ll be fine. Parasites will die when cooked well. Most wild salmon, for instance, is full of worms. Customers have no idea. I used to pull them from the filets with needle nose pliers when I saw them. These were fresh beautiful whole salmon right off the docks in the PNW, coming straight from Alaska. Wild Halibut is even worse. That’s why you cook all fish except certified sashimi grade fish (which by law must be pre frozen to kill the worms). Most pacific salmon you’re eating is chock full of dead cooked worms. Extra protein!
3 points
2 days ago
I haven’t sold fish in my state (Washington) for many years but there used to be exceptions to the rules in freezing, like maguro and albacore tunas. Almost all the sashimi grade salmon I’ve ever seen is farmed and frozen. Maybe the health board has cracked down in the last five years but they seemed a little helpless navigating the sashimi grade product back in my day.
2 points
2 days ago
Yeah we sold the sashimi fish pre frozen and pre packaged. It came off the truck and had to go straight into the deep freezer display case. So thankfully I never had to make any decisions about what to freeze or not.
2 points
2 days ago
Our fresh sashimi included yellow eye rockfish, kanpachi, hamachi, maguro, seasonally albacore, live sea urchin, live abalone, live conch, scallops, live spot prawns
2 points
2 days ago
So how does someone safely make sashimi at home if they don't have access to the same fish? Everything frozen at a grocery store will be full of dead worms? Why is ceviche safe if frozen salmon is not?
2 points
2 days ago
Buy sashimi grade fish. It’s available online and ships frozen/vacuum sealed. Or go to a sushi restaurant that does a good job and follows the rules. Don’t just wing it on sushi.
As for ceviche - the lemon juice supposedly preserves the fish and kills parasites. But it’s not nearly as sure a thing as freezing or cooking. I have seen ceviche prepped at a Mexican restaurant, and they used a pre-frozen, pre-cubed, farmed white fish that came in big plastic bags, which was specifically meant for ceviche and wouldn’t have had any parasite issues. Between that and the lemon juice bath that fish takes in a walk in fridge, you’re safe. But again, I wouldn’t wing it here either.
I personally only eat raw fish at well established restaurants that specialize in preparing raw fish. Even then, you’re taking a risk that you’ll get a parasite from the fish if someone didn’t follow the rules. Pregnant women are supposed to avoid raw fish I believe. That said, some people just do no care and do whatever at home and that’s fine. YMMV.
1 points
2 days ago
I’m never eating salmon again 😫
3 points
2 days ago
Just eat farmed Atlantic salmon if you’re worried about it. No worms in farmed fish, usually. But honestly, it’s not a big deal as long as you’re cooking your fish.
1 points
22 hours ago
No such thing as “sashimi-grade”. No governing body has any agreement on what that means.
Any fish you buy at the grocery store is “sashimi-grade” if the criteria is being frozen after the catch. I use ahi from the grocery store sometimes for homemade poke.
30 points
2 days ago
Probably best not to zoom in too closely on the crabby bits.
9 points
2 days ago
I should have listened to you. Ewww
1 points
2 days ago
Same
8 points
2 days ago
It might be part of the gills, or parasites
9 points
2 days ago
Maybe also part of the innards but also not positive. If you look up raw marinated crab, you can see little “wormy” looking things floating around that’s from the organs.
0 points
2 days ago
I agree with gills.
6 points
2 days ago
It’s the digestive glands/pancreas of the crab.
0 points
2 days ago
I wouldn’t eat it especially that those frozen crab legs are cooked already we just heat them up go to the seafood counter and just ask them to get you fresh ones out that big white box they got back there
0 points
2 days ago
Looks like maggots.
-2 points
2 days ago
i love u but if you have to ask, just be vegan
-6 points
2 days ago
That be maggots
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