/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>5616165
Yes alot of people in Florida eat blue crab. When i go there to visit one of my family members they normally have blue crab with old bay seasoning with red potatoes and corn.

>>5616165
ya, its pretty popular in new england as well. I see blue crabbers a lot when fishing.

>>5616165

Texas coast here, very popular in this area.

ya we got monsters in New England

I'm in south west Florida and at certain times of the year (maybe just one, I don't know) they show up en masse at certain beaches in only a couple feet of water. I remember getting into a van with a bunch of people and going down to the beach as a kid and they were very easy to catch with just a net. They obviously have the typical crab traps too.

My dad's friend has a huge tank where he keeps the crabs he catches until they molt and he sells them to local restaurants as soft shells. They are extremely popular.

>>5616170
yeah but you guys boil them down there instead of properly steaming them. get on my level

>>5616165
Blue Crab are the most common and best tasting crabs down in Louisiana as well.

>>5616430
Is that the same as soft shell crab?

>>5616457
It's the same kind of crab typically, but soft shells just recently molted

>>5616466
Thanks. Sometimes I wish I didn't live in the frozen north.

They have those in NY as well. But we mostly have the orange ones. Back when you were allowed to eat 1lb of food out of the Hudson we would trap those fuckers. Breddy Good.
BTW, you aren't even supposed to swim in the Hudson. it's fucking filthy

>>5616597
Hows the oyster farm project coming along?

rarely due to the price

I fucking love them though, as I love all crab

>>5616603
I'm not sure what that is. But if they are growing them out of the Hudson stay the fuck away.

I like eating anything crab.
My favorite way of cooking crab is putting white wine, oil, and tons of garlic

>>5616165
California here. I have never seen a blue crab in my life.

>>5616165
See them alot around the asian shopping centers in straya. And since this country is 50% Chinese, I guess you could say it is a common food

>>5616165
I live in Ohio and I know a place where I can get fresh blue crabs. One time I got some and fried them up and made a little sandwich with some tomatoes and greens. It was pretty good but honesty cleaning out the crabs really disgusted me. Enough that I've never bought more.

Maybe if they'd clean them for me at the market...

>>5616817

Since you fried them I'm assuming you mean soft shells. All you have to do is cut the face off and cut the lungs out, it's hardly disgusting and only takes a second with kitchen shears.

>>5616779
What country is 50% Chinese?

>>5616841
>straya

>>5616840
where are the lungs? with soft shell ive always just cut the face off and fry

also OP I love Stone Crab but thing beats a good fried soft shell blue IMO

>>5616851
you can just lift up the top shell on either side they come off without problem.
I usually take off the tail as well since it's mostly shell.

>>5616851

If you look at the pic in the OP, you lift up the shell where it comes to a point on each side and the lungs are right underneath. Most people remove them because of their unpleasant texture, but if you don't mind them they are perfectly edible

>>5616840

I'm not the guy you're replying to, but I stir-fry crab Chinese style. That's normal crab, shell on--not soft shells. Yeah you have to peel it as you eat, but the shell adds a lot of flavor.

soft shell in tempura batter is god-tier as well

Mudcrab is amazing. Just steam that shit and you're good to go

>>5616165
Asian store across the street from me gets fresh shipments when they are in season. So I buy as many as possible. From SoCal.
I like to steam boil and grill them, but my fav is gumbo. Fucking love them in gumbo.
Oh as for them being popular. I really don't know.

>>5616867

Yeah I'm familiar with that, but he said fry and also make a sandwich out of them, so it seemed like a soft shell thing

unless he picked cooked crabs to make a sandwich, to which I would have suggested buying picked crab meat if he's that disgusted by the process

I really want some chili crab right now

>>5616165
Asians in the GTA love them. They also only stock female ones which is good news for me.

>>5616888
looks like terrible slop, but I bet it taste fucking great.

>>5617137
Exactly. if you dip the bread in the sauce it's fucking delicious

Yeah I'm in Virginia.
I own a river house and I take my family out fishing and crabbing regularly.
My mother fries them in some special way, it's how they cook them in Southeast Asia.

>>5616840
>cut the face off

>>5617198

>>5617226
kek

>>5616165
D-Delabro?

>>5616165

There are blue crabs? Shit. What makes em taste so different from red crabs?

>>5617226
Could you imagine how awful this would be if you reincarnated as a crab?

Not saying I wouldn't do it, but GOD, the thought of being decapitated with a pair of scissors makes me shudder.

>>5617331
it'll be horrifying if you reincarnated as anything else other than human, honestly.

Crab-bros I have a question.

I understand that some crabs, like alaskan king crab, you cook the legs like a lobster and then crack it to eat the meat.

I've never had a soft-shelled crab.

Is it literally the whole crab that has been cooked in some way so you can just slap it between some buns and eat it?

How do I cook crabs that I find in the supermarket next to the fish? They look too small to actually get any leg meat, so I'm wondering what exactly you do with them.

No. We have dungeness crabs here. They don't require seasoning to be rendered palatable, either.

>>5616888
I loooove dishes like this. They look kinda gross, but taste absolutely amazing.

>>5616165
Very popular in the Carolinas, She-crab soup is made from their meat and roe

We cook them in a chili-y, garlic-y tomato sauce in Italy. They're good.

>>5617198
>>5617226

South Carolina here, we use blue crab in a lot of our seafood recipes, as well as other crabs. She-crab soup is one that comes to mind immediately.

Hello, I am from balkan region state of Albania. Many do not know of that Ablania has rigorous seafood. Many of crabs and lobster we catch in trap is of blue colors. Very popular we found these blue crabs for many year in Albania.

>>5619652
Borat?

Korean spicy raw crab commonly made with blue crab. If you haven't had them raw, you're missing out.

Blue crab is eaten all over the eastern seaboard. Fuck, i can still remember ordering my first blue crab sandwich. Fucking horrifying, I had no idea what I was ordering.

>>5619731
It said "blue crab" on the menu - what the fuck did you expect? A pate, Marie?

SNOW CRAB MASTER RACE REPORTING

i live in baltimore and the blue crab is a 5/10.

>>5617240
lmao yeah, newark, where you at

NJ here, there is a korean supermarket near me that sells live female blue crabs. The best part of the females is the eggs if you get lucky. Fucking great. I'm not even sure its legal but damn they taste good.

I usually boil but I will steam next time.

>>5616888
As a proud dweller of the chesepeake bay this fills me with so much hate. We catch those motherfuckers and blind them with old bay and steam them and eat them. Soft shell is bullshit that only sissies would eat

>>5621453

More like ignorance, not hate.
Chili crab isn't made with soft shell. That's full-on whole shell crabs in there. And the spices in that stuff make old bay taste like water in comparison.

>>5616165
Popular in australia

>>5620223
Same.