crab mallet
Seafood dining tool
A crab mallet is a small wooden hammer used to crack open crab shells at the table, typically while eating steamed crabs.
The mallet is lighter than a regular hammer, sized for one-handed use alongside a picking knife: The table was covered in newspaper, with a crab mallet at each place setting.
- shellHard outer covering
- hard shellRigid outer protective layer
- crackingBreaking without separating completely
- seafoodMarine creatures as cuisine
- seafood boilCommunal shellfish cookout
feast · claws · hammer · wooden · legs · butter · messy · newspaper · brown paper · picnic · picnic table · beach · Old Bay · melted butter · seaside · crustacean · boil · juice
- Chesapeake BayChesapeake Bay, watermen, oyster, Old Bay, Old Bay seasoning
- Chesapeake seafoodOld Bay, Old Bay seasoning, softshell, jimmies, bushel
- mallets
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