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5858791 No.5858791 [Reply] [Original]

Crab or lobster?

Which do you think is better? I personally think lobster is overrated. Crab is much sweeter , and much more tender, not to mention way more forgiving when it comes to accidentally overcooking. Lobster to me just tastes like oversized shrimp. I think lobster is held up as being the pinnacle of shellfish just because it's more expensive.

Also, post any good recipes you know using either crab or lobster.

>> No.5858797

>>5858791
depends on what kind of crab

>> No.5858799

>>5858791
Crab is much better, although I've never had butter poached lobster

>> No.5858808

>>5858791
Lobster is cheap as hell now. Also, it has more meat and is easier to eat that crab.

>> No.5858833

Crawfish masterrace

>> No.5858837

>>5858833
>mud bugs

i snibbity snab

>> No.5858840

>grow up in New Orleans
>crab so often, I should be sick of it
>live life without know how blessed I was with moms cooking and dad's fishing hobbies
>move to Connecticut when I was 18 for school
>friend and I go out abs I decide to try lobster since new englanders like it and rave about it.
>bland, chewy, only tastes like garlic butter and hot water
>homesick for good seafood

I really think it's just "wow look how big! Look at that price! They sell it in fancy restaurants, that means it's good!

>> No.5858846

>>5858791
dungeness crab, nyuggah

>> No.5858848

>>5858840
That's the problem with growing up in New Orleans. No matter where you go, the food just doesn't compare with the food you grew up with.

>> No.5858880

Robster tair and robster craw. Rearry, rearry good.

>> No.5858881

crayfish > crab > lobster

>> No.5858886

Crawdads are my favorite. But lobster can vary, but when its good, its much better than any shrimp. I live in Maryland, so you know I have to hit up on bushels of blue crab. No old bay, nasty shit.

>> No.5858888

>>5858886
way to answer everything but the OP

>> No.5858893
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>>5858888
Way to go with quads but nothing else.

>> No.5858918
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>>5858833
Oh yeah bruh. From Hot N Juicy crawfish in las vegas.

>> No.5858923

>>5858840
youre full of shit
lobster is not chewy or bland

>> No.5859461

>>5858923
except it is. That's why crab is better. Es[ecially the body meat. Flaky and tender, and so sweet. Lobster is just not anywhere near as good.

>> No.5859469

>>5858791
>oversized shrimp
Nothing wrong with that in my book. Tough choice though. Lobster is good but, gun to my head, I'd go with crab because flavor

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>>5858833
Crawfish ettouffee

>> No.5859950

My favorite is spider crab but nobody commercially fishes for them due to the impracticality of such a venture. I'm always trawling the harbor to see if any of my friends got one as bycatch. Shell is tough as granite but it's some tasty shit, believe you me.

I'd rank my waterbugs as Crab>Lobster>Prawn>Crawdad>Shrimp.

And I still love some good shrimp.

>> No.5859991

>>5858791
>Crab or lobster?

Hard to say since there's so many different kinds of crabs out there. In my area the availablity of crab is pretty bad. The only stuff I can get regularly is the pre-cooked "snow crab clusters", crabmeat already cooked & packaged in a tub, and sometimes live blue crabs, which I don't really care for. So give that I'd greatly prefer lobster since I can get those live, and it doesn't get any fresher than that.

On the other hand if I make the drive to a bigger market and I can get live stone crabs, dungeness, or any of the really tasty asian varieties, then I'll take the crab.

>> No.5859992

This is a hard one, but I'm going with Crab. I'm not even sure why entirely. Would miss fried softshells too much maybe.

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>>5858886
We have blue crab in the gulf south, too. Zatarains is exponentially better than Old Bay

>> No.5861275

>>5858791

>The truth about lobster is this: It is less flavorful, less sweet, more bland and chickenlike than virtually any of the other edible crustaceans. It is also a lot more expensive than most of them, and if you're cooking it at home, it is furthermore easier to fuck up. The primary selling point of the lobster—and one hell of a selling point it must be, since it sells so many lobsters at such high prices—is that its meat comes in larger, more easily extracted hunks than can be found in, for example, Chesapeake blue crabs, which, factually, are the most delicious things the world has produced or will ever produce, but which are approximately as onerous to consume as a large box full of live ferrets.

>> No.5861295

>>5859950
wait you mean ive thrown away thousands of those fuckers for nothing

actually i dont believe you.

>> No.5861301

>>5858799

One of my favorite crab dishes is stuffed crab.

I could probably eat it two or three times a week and not get tired ot it.

>> No.5861304

From what I've read, lobster used to be considered second rate food good for little more than to feed the poor, prisoners, and household servants.

>> No.5861306

>>5858791
They both smell like shit, so who cares?

>> No.5861328

>>5858791
I haven't had either in years due to an intolerance I developed at 10. I don't even remember what it tastes like.

What am I missing out on?

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5861370

Neither, I'm not a bottom feeder.

>> No.5861380

>>5858791
I prefer crab over lobster but I have this allergic reaction towards them so yeah

>> No.5861505
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5861505

Eurofag here.The one in the picture is the REAL lobster,not the Canadian lobster (Hornarus Arnericanus) you're talking about.

>> No.5861880

that's a Spiny lobsters, also known as langouste, crayfish orrock lobsters

>> No.5861947

Flavour isn't the only thing to consider when comparing foods. Fuck crabs. Five minutes fiddling and picking and cracking for a few morsels of food.

>> No.5861959

>>5861505
Ausfag here we call those crayfish you poofter cunt

>> No.5862165

crab

>> No.5862179

>>5861505
That's a spiny lobster, also known as a rock lobster, and they're not even A) a real lobster B) related to any clawed lobsters.

You would've been much safer going with the European lobster/common lobster, which is both a real lobster, and thus related to other real lobsters. Otherwise, the REAL lobster found in Maine and Canada, around Prince Edward Island and other provinces is delicious, and also a real lobster.

The false information you find on a Cambodian animation subforum about cookery for adolescents is outrageous.

>> No.5862195

>>5861295
What, you think spider crab is poisonous or something? Or you don't think it's delicious? Are you incapable of using the internet to discover that they are eaten regularly when caught? Nobody fishes for them directly because they don't live in groups so you can't just get a whole bunch of them in traps or nets.

They are super tasty, just hard to get at all the meat. The shell is thick and the body itself has most of the meat sheathed in these tubular structures that feel kind of like membranous paper only they snap apart easily. Worth the work if you ask me.

>> No.5862196

The richest lobster I ever had was a dish called the Dublin Lawyer.

Why was it called the Dublin Lawyer, you may ask?

Because it was rich (cream sauce), drunk (sauce was made with irish whiskey), and red in the face (lobster).

Fantastic, still.

>> No.5862198

>>5858848
I find south-asian/middle eastern foods often measure up to New Orleans cuisine. But I don't mean that smelly curry shit

>> No.5862201
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5862201

Definitely crab. Have the first crab related image I found in celebration of my fantastic taste.

>> No.5862204

>>5858791

Never had lobster but I've had moreton bay bugs which I will take any day over crab.

Crab has too little meat for too much effort.

>> No.5862205

>>5862201
dat gif

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5862208

>>5862204

edit: pic related

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5862224

>>5862201

here have another crab gif

I eat neither crab nor lobster

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>>5861959
I think this is crayfish ..no?

>> No.5862250

>>5862224
I wanted it to die so hard.

>> No.5862257

>>5862250
they cross the land in a huge swarm, thousands of them die on the roads every year.
it's such a hassle cleaning them up that newer roads are built with tunnels running under them for the crabs.

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>>5862179
Are you uninformed or simply and idiot?

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>>5861275
>approximately as onerous to consume as a large box full of live ferrets

holy fuck my sides

>> No.5862290

>>5862257

Is that christmas island?

Or does it happen everywhere they are?

>> No.5862333

>>5862264
The Norwegian Lobster has more in common with the American and the European Lobster than that little dinky bit of waste you posted. Spiny Lobsters aren't true lobsters. They have more in common with American crawdads/crayfish than anything else.

I understand you're terribly uninformed and a simpleton.