Always use fresh sea water, and some rock salt, old bay seasoning galic pilcking spices u name it, throw it all to gether let it boil, throw crabs in for 20 minutes. All these things i do makes crabs way more flavor. Then i cool the crabs in ice cold water to make the meat not stick to the shell. Then put crab in cooler with rack to keep crabs out of the ice water. Then add massive amount of ice and keep cooler tilted up so water runs out of cooler. They are so good after they are ice cold, that now u have to start eatting them. This was all i do just to get them ready to eat, what i do next will have to wait for another time, secrets are had to give out, well only a few at a time anyways.