Crab Crew Crab Feast Showdown 🦀 Steamed WHOLE Crabs VS CLEANED Crabs

[@Lumber_Jack]

Great video, and it was interesting that you noticed a difference between shell-on and cleaned. I process all my own crabs for crab cakes (make a few hundred each year from Aug-Oct), and pre-cleaning the crabs makes my job a lot easier later on when I pick all the meat. The only time I leave the shells on is if we're having people over to pick the crabs for eating (let them do all the work). One tip, when pre-cleaning the crabs, I pull off the top shells, lungs, guts, and the apron. Throw it in a bucket and it makes some of the best chum around for big saltwater fish. I've even put it in mesh sacks to re-bait my crab pots and it works great for that too.

[@FVMissPaula]

Never heard of using Crab parts to catch crabs. Interesting.

[@rockerneck]

The best crabs I’ve ever had were the ones I caught on a dock in Edgewater on the south river cooked up by my grandmother. I have no idea what magic she used but I haven’t tasted that since.

[@FVMissPaula]

I feel ya there. Grandmoms got the magic.

[@davidbondurant8859]

Grew up on the Chesapeake down the bay in Gloucester Va. Like them steamed uncleaned then seasoned with cold beer, season gets on your hands when picking, nothing better!

[@rennyray11]

Around the corner in Hampton.

[@jeffknapp7094]

WATCHING YOU GUYS EAT SOME GIANT CRABS IS ONE OF THE MOST PAINFUL EXPERIENCES IN MY LIFE!!!

[@brankohodzic]

haha... try editing the crab eating videos. 😂

[@bluedogron]

Love them both ways, I am from Delaware and have been cooking them mostly cleaned before cook for the last 20 years but still do them whole also. The cleaned ones get mushy when they are over cooked. They don't take as long to cook as the uncleaned crab. They are done as soon as the claws are bright red. Also it is always J.O. #2 on uncleaned and J.O. #1 on the cleaned ones. #2 is to salty for the cleaned ones.

[@deanwilliams93]

A really long time ago. Here is Salisbury. My wife worked for a large national food broker. Dealing with companies in Canada, USA and Mexico. To entertain a company from Canada the broker invited a very affluent couple to come for an Eastern Shore feast. Now, we were steaming, corn, frying tomatoes and cooking crabs in the big pot. They showed up in a formal gown and tuxedo. You should have seen that dinner!.

[@jeffreypinder9398]

Raised in Kent County and have lived in Q.A. County for the past 26 after being away for 10 years in between. Never thought much of cleaning the crab of all the goodness before cooking. Good job, Cap for treating the mates to a snack.

[@gonzalomanriquezjr864]

I know in Florida a lot of people clean them too. Also boiling crab in old bay is a lot more common there too. With some sausage, potatoes and corn. Never had steamed until I moved to Maryland.

[@FVMissPaula]

Which do you like better steamed or boiled?

[@robertdinicola9225]

When i was a kid in the 60s and 70s i remember catching lots od big crabs out of colonial beach in Monroe bay . my cousins were crabbers as little kids. Sold em on the side of the road nd later in life one stuck with it.

[@nickawilliams5175]

Man, I want some Blue Crabs 🦀 😩

[@gradybrowning3976]

I’m a Florida boy who has been with a Baltimore girl for 17 years, down here we boil them but she always steams hers. Both are delicious but I gotta go for the boiled ones.

[@FVMissPaula]

We are stuck in our ways but to each his own. As long as your eating them I don't care.

[@dtrain1476]

JO Spice and Steamed Crabs for me Captain! “ GET TO WORK!”😂😂🥸

[@carynllewellyn3112]

I Love the Mustard...cleaning 1st wouldn't be good for me...but I get that some people don't like all the Yummy messy picking. Thanks for the info tho. BLESSINGS to You and Yours ❤

[@littlebigman6957]

I really wish that we had these where i live. All we get here is brown edible crabs and the odd snow crab legs. I live in east Yorkshire England by the coast.

[@kendooley4028]

Love catching deer hat .

[@kentbaio4457]

In Louisiana we get the yellow and orange we love him of course we boil crabs like the onions and garlic and sausage in the boil we also have corn and mushrooms celery little potatoes of course we do that with crabs crawfish and shrimp sometimes I'll take a good roast put it in the ball after the seafood talk about hot and spicy make some awesome sandwiches

[@SaltyReflections]

No comparison between the 2, doing all the work to clean them all is what makes the crabs better. Why would people want to eat crabs that have their innards boiled or stemed in them.🤔 You guys can keep the mustard.😂 Still love the video.

[@FVMissPaula]

We love our innards. Haha. Everyone Definitely has a way they like to eat em. I always say I don't care how you eat em just so your eating em. Keeps me in business.

[@Elios0000]

OH you guys should try dungeness crab first had it when i moved out west and its pretty close to blue crab love to know what you guys think.

[@rennyray11]

Blue crabs are definitely sweeter but I love Dungeness too!

[@brucemaurer1926]

AS kids we would suck on the legs for that tastey juice. also, you can roll the legs with a rolling pin to get all the leg meat. Good stuff. Thank you , Buffalo Bruce

[@kurtkornosky3524]

50 years ago I camped near Cheriton. I was taught to clean them then steam them and have been doing so since. When I order them now to be sent to MO they are steamed whole but I clean them out and re-steam them. That has always been my preference but everyone has their own

[@FVMissPaula]

To each there own. There isn't a right way.

[@liamlad1]

I pay that when I have then shipped to Massachusetts! Once a year I need to get my fix...

[@kentbaio4457]

I'm jealous I was able to get blue crabs everyday that's all I need that's my favorite

[@MrEW-rk3dp]

entertaining as always!

[@JK-qg6eo]

That was some crab feast, 4 whole crabs. The crew probably has to take a nap now. Lol

[@FVMissPaula]

They were really big crabs. Haha.

[@Elios0000]

be fair i can only eat like 6-7 larges soo 4 of this Jumbo+ monsters is about right

[@Jiggs2u2]

Monsters

[@twisterdavemd1]

It's not even 10:30 am and I'm jealous and hungry!

[@captainchad8933]

Your lucky to get $10 to $15 for a dozen of crabs down here in Louisiana, it’s mind blowing how different the market it is from the northern states.

[@FVMissPaula]

You'd starve to death selling them that cheap.

[@captainchad8933]

@@FVMissPaula Well the thing is a lot people run traps by themselves or with one other person In Louisiana , a lot of commercial fisherman down here make enough just to get by. You should really plan a trip to come to Louisiana and see how we do it down here and you would be amazed.

[@rebellionpointfarms6140]

I fully agree with ya on the whole fresh snow crab...oh man..thats living. but ches bay crabs have a flavor of their own and are sweeter than snow crabs..at least the twice cooked ones..

[@Mikesacco1B]

I love them both ways but if we do cleaned crabs we do a beer, garlic, butter brine. It’s an Italiano brine. Definitely prefer the meat texture in steamed Chesapeake style I prefer them steamed seasoned with JO #2.

[@FVMissPaula]

Garlic Crabs are good.

[@MrNick-]

If people didn’t buy them for $130 per dozen, then they’d be called the $100 per dozen crabs. Always thankful for those who don’t mind paying more than others for something better than others

[@freshstart5804]

how hot is jo same heat as old bay thank you for any help

[@gradybrowning3976]

I have eaten them both ways but I love the mustard and the eggs in the females. So I usually leave em whole.🦀

[@FVMissPaula]

I've never fooled much with the eggs but love mustard. My kids claim the eyeballs taste good.

[@JDski]

Glad to see you eat the legs. Especially on those monsters. I pick everything myself. Even the knuckles. I use a JO picking knife and a set of nut crackers though to make sure to get every bit. The dentist has already gotten enough of my money from me to use my teeth.

[@FVMissPaula]

Yeah. Should of had a don't try this at home disclaimer. Haha

[@OutdoorsInMaryland]

yep, steamed whole is the way to go. wish i can get paid to eat crabs😆

[@ToobzuzerTWU]

King crab “tails” are the best part about eating them off the boat. They are by far the best steamed crab you can have, when fresh. Once they get shipped over here to the east coast they lose all the flavor. As well as the texture just being trash.

[@FVMissPaula]

I would love to try Fresh Snow or King Crab.

[@DatSavannahLife]

What brand are the blue gloves?

[@FVMissPaula]

Atlas

[@gilowens5785]

For whatever reason, I would tend to clean the Sooks and leave the Jimmy’s whole.

[@FVMissPaula]

Lot more insides in a female

[@rennyray11]

Definitely an old bay man here but I have to try J.O.

[@FVMissPaula]

JO #2 you won't be disappointed.

[@kentbaio4457]

The old couple they cleaning claw crabs and obey some garlic powder some onion powder in a little bit of Cajun watch wondering if they're clips when they are doing it with crabs hey dude is a recreationally have about 10 traps

[@LarryTanng]

Does green mustard mean it didn't come from the Chesapeake?

[@FVMissPaula]

Usually means a crab from fresher water or lighter crab. North Carolina and Delaware Bay get alot of green mustard. I see it sometimes in light crabs.

[@brettranatza6817]

90% of our Louisiana crabs are shipped to Maryland which raises our prices so if they have no flavor tell people to stop buying them!

[@douglasdavidson6737]

I pick crabs to stack meat, I also use the scraps to toad pot, that said if I want to sit and just eat em with a cold beer cleans is way more civilized. ✌️

[@rennyray11]

What is toad pot?

[@FVMissPaula]

He's talking about Northern Puffers probably. They use pots to catch em.

[@rennyray11]

@@FVMissPaula oh ok. I call them chicken or the sea if you’re talking about those one that puff up. We catch them in our recreational pots sometimes. Good eaying

[@Elios0000]

i got say i like em whole. all that fat and mustard is amazing

[@bill7164]

I'm a south Jersey guy so i prefer them cleaned but they don't cook at the same rate as whole crabs. They do best at 15 min steam then sit with the lid on and heat off for another 10 min. But the main thing you did wrong was only cooking 6. That's like only eating 1 potatoe chip. Lol. Old Bay is good but needs cayenne pepper also. But JO#2 is the best. Till next season my friend

[@FVMissPaula]

Thanks for the tip. It was definitely more of a taste than a feast.

[@bill7164]

Also the amount of vinegar should be much less because with no shell to penetrate it will make the meat a bit mushy and less sweet

[@ruthlong6876]

Hey capt I've been eating crabs my whole life and never, ever cleaned a crab unless I picked it clean thank you for sharing you ain't lived until you have ate some yellow mustard from a few good crabs lol til next time bye 👍🙏❤️😎🛥️🦀🦃have a great safe and happy Thanksgiving

[@tautog4424]

i thought you hate old bay and only used j o spice? unless you put j o spice in a old bay container and did a switcheroo

[@FVMissPaula]

I was out of JO. I don't hate Old Bay I just don't put it on steamed crabs.

[@Gloria-en4ci]

Crabs that are overcooked are mushy

[@MikeGav1984]

Hey bud please call out stalekracker i love the guy but he keeps calling us out!!!!

[@wormkillerdan6486]

Really hate you guys at the moment! I'm from Long Island, NY. I love fresh crab.....I'm stuck here in SE Missouri. GRRRRRRR~! :) Yeah, don't clean them before you steam them you lose the great flavor!

[@FVMissPaula]

Never knew they fooled much with crabs on Long Island until recently. Atleast ya got fish frys out there.

[@wormkillerdan6486]

@@FVMissPaula I think the prices of crabs caused a lot of clammers to switch over to crabbing on the island. We have lots of great Catfish here in Missouri and we have a gent in a food truck that does really great Cajun snow crab dinners with corn on the cob, Andouille sausage and taters. I have family in Delaware so I get some crab every year. :) Be good enjoy your downtime....

[@davidwelch3459]

Nothing ever came good out of New Jersey

[@bill7164]

I'm originally from Jersey. Most things that come out of Jersey are just fine. It's what decides to stay that we should be worried about. Lol

[@davidwelch3459]

Sorry about that my ex came from eastern Pennsylvania and her family was from there and New Jersey and they used to wash their crabs off and to me they taste like shit I tried them and they really didn’t have much taste I thought they were doing everybody a favor by doing that to me the only thing that came out of New Jersey was Thompson’s ham roll sorry again

[@bill7164]

No need for explanation. If your ex is from there i truly know where your animosity comes from. I left 23 years ago. If it wasn't for the people I would still be there.

[@clarawilliams6222]

Omg they just messed up them crabs smh I ain't gone tell them how to cook them that's devastating thou lmao

[@rebellionpointfarms6140]

meh...cleaned crabs lack flavor.

[@OneOut1]

Problem with serving uncleaned crab to guest is that they have no idea how to clean crab so m9st of it goes to wwazte. I can clean crab with my knife ang get more meat than them.

[@bebobambino7877]

Why would you waste such beautiful crabs with such a suspect cook. No shell? You’ve got to be joking. I understand you need content to post, but I forbid you to do that again. Lol

[@FVMissPaula]

Just do what I'm told. Had alot of people asking. Crazy to say it but they want me to boil some too. Haha