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Good Eats: Crustacean Nation III: Feeling Crabby
When Alton's live crab escapes before it can meet its fate, he's forced to turn to frozen alternatives. But live or frozen, stone, blue, or Dungeness - however you, um, pick it, crab is Good Eats. Alton shows how to get the most from crab - how to select it, what the terms mean, and how to prepare it, with examples like Steamed Alaskan King Crab Claws, a clarified butter called Ghee, Crab Cakes (or Fritters) and finally a Marinated Crab Salad.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 7x1 Production Number: EA1G01 Airdate: Sunday May 25th, 2003 Writer: Alton Brown
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Recap
Alton starts in the Food Gallery - that darkened hall of culinary horror he’s visited a time or two in the past. Past the oysters and the Roquefort cheese to… what the? The crab is gone from its tank! Alton summons the crab wrangler to recover the beast. While the man looks, Alton muses on whether he really needs a live crab. He concludes that live or frozen, crabs are…Good Eats...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
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- Once thawed, cooked crab should be consumed within 24 hours.
- According to Greek mythology, Hercules was attacked by a giant crab during his labors.
- The Japanese spider crab can measure up to 26 feet when its legs are fully extended.
- Crabs have a 360º field of vision and see twice as well as humans.
- Referring to certain tumors with spidery arms, the word “cancer” comes from karkinos, the Greek word for crab.
Cultural References
Alton starts this episode as he has others - in the Food Gallery. This eclectic museum of culinary horror is an homage to Rod Serling's television series Night Gallery. Each episode of Night Gallery began in a museum, and one of the exhibits framed the episode.
Calling himself a culinary Quincy, Alton compares his crab dissection technique to that of Jack Klugman's Dr. R. Quincy, the central character of NBC's Quincy, M.E., a popular forensic procedural that is the spiritual ancestor of the CSI franchise and many similar shows.
As Alton displays the hooked probe he uses to remove meat from crabs, he reminds us of Dr. Christian Szell, the sinister Nazi dentist from the film Marathon Man who used dental instruments to torture the hapless Thomas Levy, asking him repeatedly, "Is it safe?" This quote has appeared in at least one other Good Eats episode.
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