The Easy Way to Eat Md Blue Crabs

No guts, all meat

Take the hammer and lightly smack it around on the bottom shell between the legs and apron. Do not remove the apron or the hard top shell.

Using your thumb as a pivot point, lever the legs toward you one by one and pull out the meat. If you have broken up the shell with the hammer, it should slip out easily.

Same as last step, different leg.

Use the same technique to pull out the lump meat attached to the largest claws.

If the legs are too flimsy and break off without the meat coming out, just peel off the broken shell to get at the meat.

See, you've eaten all of the body meat without having once touched any guts or lungs/gills (whatever those gross feathery things are).