How do you kill land crabs?

Answer 1

Put the crab in the freezer for 15-20 minutes. This does not freeze the crab or kill it, or affect the quality, but it does put it in a sleep state, so that there is no kicking when you put it in the boiling water.

If you want to dispatch them before boiling, you can cut the ventral nerve cord on crabs or lobsters. Take a knife and stab them in the middle of their "belly", that being where the flap beneath them (actually their abdomen folded up beneath them) ends. The abdomen ends in a triangle-like shape, so just stab them right at its tip, or on either side of it, with a knife, and they will stop moving in seconds. The deeper you stab the better. Its the same basic deal with lobster, except there abdomen isn't folded up beneath them, so just stab the knife right in the center of where their legs meet.

Answer 2

you put them in a container get a pot of boiling water and put the crab in the boiling water, but they squeal and scream because there flesh is burning

Answer 3

Assuming you mean to cook, they are traditionally placed into the boiling water while still alive.