What is the best approach when eating at Cape May Cafe?

[Tangled Pink]

Ok so this is a strange question and haven't seen anyone ask this before! Please don't laugh but I want to have confidence eating at my beloved buffet next time we visit. What is the best way to eat crab legs? Last time I tried cracking them wherever and couldn't get any meat off the shells. I realized at the very end when I was extremely full, that you had to crack them in the middle. I was also unsuccessful cracking the crab claws. Is that what the little hammers are for? How do you get the meat off of them? What about the pails? Do you put the legs in the pails at the buffet and carry to the table or do you throw the empties in them when you are finished eating them? My husband still teases me about our meal there and said that he was thinking about hosing me down afterwards since I made such a mess!

 

[MelissaBee]

Lol! Crab legs are always a gloriously messy meal! Crack ‘em hot—it’s a buffet and you can go back for more, so don’t get a huge plate at once. Like you said, snap in the middle of the legs and use the cracker to get into the claw. if I have a piece of meat that gets stuck when it snap the leg in half, I like to hook a tine of my fork into the shell and use that to zip it open to extract the meat. Happy crab eating!

 

[ZZBane]

This is such a pure post and I love it

 

[Cloudy]

Youtube is your friend:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how...e&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_NIEeXua8BO2E9PwPx8qX6A439
The buckets are for the empty shells. Do not take the bucket up to the buffet.

 

[Tangled Pink]

This is such a pure post and I love it

I want to keep things light and refreshing. Let's have some conversations about the more serious stuff like this!

 

[Tangled Pink]

Youtube is your friend:

https://www.google.com/search?q=how...e&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_NIEeXua8BO2E9PwPx8qX6A439
The buckets are for the empty shells. Do not take the bucket up to the buffet.

I'm "cracking" up! I would have never guessed there was a tutorial on this. Duly noted...don't reuse the same bucket.