Ybor City Style Deviled Crab: The Perfect Portable Crab Cake!

[@ewingfabrications]

I'm from Tampa and remember waiting in line at the Seabreeze window with my dad for a box of deviled crabs. MMM good times

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

That's amazing! Glad this recipe struck a cord with you too.

[@softbutchharley]

I too am tampa native. Chamberlain high. As well as the dude with the bicycle and box of those crabs, we used to get smoked mullet wrapped in newspaper down the way from beach. The blue crab bar :) was at Raymond James early 2023 to watch the packers steal our joy!! Thanks for the nostalgia.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Right on! Wharton high over here. Im about due to make these again. One of my coworkers was also from tampa and i made them for him. Thanks for finding the channel. If you have any other ideas for tampa foods let me know.

[@williamm.494]

I've been in Tampa since 1959. This video is by far the best how-to video around. Back in the day it wasn't Siracha sauce but that's a nice touch.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks for that, I really appreciate it!

[@user-ss7qy2pq2m]

From 58 thru the 60's we bought these after grocery shopping at the Winn Dixie in Ybor City. There was an old man out front with a cart. He had it filled with deviled crabs. He put a little hot sauce on it for you. They are still my favorite thing to eat. Back then he only had Louisiana Hot Sauce. Delicious. Later they began to sell them all around at the restaurants.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Love this, it definitely brings back good memories for me

[@johnmason9708]

Back in the 70's there was a Cuban man riding around Tampa on a bicycle selling them for 0.25 each. I absolutely love them...I now live around 75 miles north of Tamps and boy do I miss all of the Cuban food on Tampa.Been eating them my entire life...

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I used to go to school in Ybor and everyday for lunch we had the most amazing cuban food, so i feel ya!

[@willezell3584]

I remember that guy! His Deviled Crabs were terrific!

[@melzeller]

I make these every year for my family at Christmas..it is a true labor of love…I always get the phone calls to make extra so ‘they” can take a few home! Had to say no this year …getting older and the cost of crab is pricey! I buy la segunda Cuban bread from Tampa and make my own bread crumbs too…that’s the secret for sure! Picked up a few good tips from your video…thank you and merry christmas

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks for the comment. I miss la segunda! Glad the video helped a bit, I love that u make these every year, make a few extra for me. Merry Christmas

[@carolynjones2583]

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[@sewingmishaps]

❤❤❤😂😂😂😂 wow, people are asking for extra with no money in their hands 😮😅😢

[@jizzi28]

thanks for this I moved up north but lived in Tampa most my life, and I sure miss Deviled crabs and Cuban sandwiches

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Absolutely, thanks for the comment! It was a lot of fun making this video

[@willezell3584]

I used to watch the older guys at the Silver Ring Cafe in Ybor make the deviled crab. There was no such thing as Siracha back then. They gave us Crystal Hot Sauce to spritz on the deviled crabs. The Silver Ring is long gone, but fortunately the deviled crabs live on and are available many places here in Tampa - a great accompaniment to your Cuban Sandwich!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I've looked at getting them shipped, but they are crazy expensive! One of the best hidden gem foods of tampa

[@michaelbyrd2962]

Your killing me! I love the devil crabs at Carmin"s in Ybor City!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks! Carmin's is great, I miss that place.

[@willezell3584]

Carmine's are the BEST! And - the most expensive.

[@monggose1]

I’m born an raised here in the Tampa Bay Area and all my family is too we’ve been eating and making these all my life and I just gotta say you don’t take short cuts and try to change the real true recipe for them it takes a few days to get everything together and ready to make and our recipe makes around 30 rolls. If you want to make them find the copy cat recipe for the Columbia restaurant or the old 1920s Ybor city recipe I have my granny’s recipe which is about the same as those. And follow the steps and times No Short Cuts!!!! We always freeze some for later and since everything as went sky high to buy these in the restaurants here now they are around 7 to $8.00 dollars Each!!! And side note We have never SHOT THEM full of hot sauce

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks for watching!

[@PHOENIXSOLUTIONS512]

I have put hot sauce on them, but never Sriracha. But they are amazing. Can’t wait to make this weekend.

[@tpfastback]

I grew up in that area of Florida. I HATE seafood, but I remember I always loved the deviled crab cakes. I should try making these.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Please do!

[@EmorettaRobinson]

I was born and raised in Tampa, FL. Deviled crabs and Cuban sandwiches are some of the things that I miss the most from that area. Being able to see dolphins playing in the ocean was great as well. I'm so glad that I found this video though. I've been craving deviled crabs but I've never made them. You did a great job explaining them as well.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thank you so much, that really means a lot! I'm glad that I could bring back some memories. When you make them you'll have to let me know how they come out.

[@EmorettaRobinson]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice I'm wanting to see if they can be baked and made in an air fryer. So I plan on trying different options to see if they are delicious in each one.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

@@EmorettaRobinson that is a great idea. I bet they would be really good in an air fryer, and a little healthier.

[@EmorettaRobinson]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice I'm hoping that it won't change the flavor at all. And it being healthier is always a good thing.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

@@EmorettaRobinson I kind of want to give it a try next time, I bet it would be good

[@jerryseip3127]

I used to live in drew park and the Cuban store had these. I haven’t had one since I was a kid.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

It has been so long since I had one. I forgot how good they are!

[@ashleypoettker8492]

Yum! You should do potato croquettes to 😋

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

good idea

[@shaunthompson1935]

Yes sir those are gangster. They were like a buck when I was a kid. There was a place by Tampa Bay downs I'd get them from and load it up with some hot sauce

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I appreciate ya, thanks for checking out the channel.

[@paulehd]

Iv seen a few of the same video's now and I have to try I grew up in Tampa and have been dying for them for 20 years. I looked up buying them by mail $4.99 each and $4.990 each shipping

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Woah! $10 each? That's wild, if you make them, let me know how they turn out.

[@dylanharrell7326]

I am from Tampa and always use Crystal hot sauce dude. Never heard of using Siracha!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Siracha always beats crystal

[@IanManuelOfficial]

Great job Jim!! I'm going to get my special girl to watch this video,and learn how to do this for my home cooking!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks! It's definitely worth a try!

[@carolvassey1247]

I'm a Tampa native and you've got this 100% correct. I grew up on these and my last trip to visit family, my nice hooked me up with a dozen, frozen. I've kept them frozen and transported back to my home in NC. I'd really like to try my air fryer on a couple. Thaw first? Any suggestions? P.S. - I also brought back 6 loaves of Cuban bread because you can only get the good stuff in Tampa!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thank you, I love to hear that! Ooo that's a tough one, I would probably say that first so it heats all the way through. But if it was low enough, maybe 325 degrees it may work from frozen. I do miss that good Tampa cuban bread, you really can only get the good stuff there. Let me know how they turn out!

[@carolvassey1247]

So I did it with 2 thawed deviled crabs. Heated the air fryer to 390° and lightly sprayed the deviled crabs with olive oil. Kept in the air fryer for 20 mins. but turned them every 5 minutes or so. Not bad, but I'll probably deep fry the others. Of course I did add Sriracha.

[@cristinacanezo8075]

Whoop whoop...from Tampa/Clearwater FL here....yessss....I make them empanadas......❤️✨

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks! I appreciate you watching

[@covidfake1573]

My pops what shut up about these. We moved from Tampa and now we can't find them anywhere so here I am.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I've never seen them anywhere. Glad you found the channel, let me know if you make them!

[@cristinacanezo8075]

Next time if you can find use "Hace Dulce" little pepper but the sweet not the hot one or you could use the hot one but there really hot..lol . When making your Sofrito...

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thank you, I will look for it! Thanks for watching.

[@GLITTERandSKULLZ]

Born and raised in Florida and you're wrong lol. Those deviled crab are all over Florida. Sysco foods delivers to many restaurants and blue crab is still abundant,.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks for watching

[@danmarley2886]

Sysco? No thanks.

[@GLITTERandSKULLZ]

@@danmarley2886 same deviled crab

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

@@danmarley2886 agreed! Home made is the way to go

[@FATDADDYSOUTDOORCOOKING]

I am definitely making this ON THE GRILL BABY

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Let me know how it turns out! I bet it would be good on the grill

[@FATDADDYSOUTDOORCOOKING]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice will do that thanks did they taste the same as ybor city

[@SilverPortal]

Why is not being in Florida a win?

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I had to get somewhere colder lol

[@paulehd]

OMG it is alot easyer if some made them near me, Haa ha

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Trust me, I wouldn't have had to make a video lol. Wish I could just run to the store whenever I had a craving

[@brianludwigjr487]

We have herkys in in pittsburgh the makes deviled cards

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Ill have to check them out next time i'm in town

[@Batmandabomb]

no way do they compare

[@qtsuz2]

Grew up in Tampa off Lincoln Ave. I miss deviled crams so much. All the food not the same as Mexican food.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Hell ya! I appreciate the comment.

[@MNasty187]

Whoa whoa whoa how you gonna kiss us and diss us like that?!

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Haha, first of all love that saying. I guess it's a love-hate thing with tampa

[@suebarto3282]

Can I make these in advance and just fry them the next day. I want to do at a Tampa Bay tailgate.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

You can! That's what I did for half the batch and they came out great.

[@suebarto3282]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice did you freeze them, or just keep them refrigerated? I was hoping to make them and just have to fry them at the tailgate, get's messy if i still have to dip them in the egg and flour and breadcrumbs.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

@@suebarto3282 I just refrigerated them. You could bread them and freeze them, just fry them at a lower temp for longer so they heat all the way through.

[@suebarto3282]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice One other question....can you bake these instead of frying?

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

@@suebarto3282 you absolutely could. Or even air fry them.

[@2ndError]

I'm from the Tampa area and i feel like I'm going to jail for watching your AWESOME VIDEO! My wife and i favorite place is #CocosSandwich. Best place for a Papa rena. And a devil crab. Wait can you make a how to make Papa Rellena? Where's my deep fryer

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Haha Love it! I love the papa rellena idea, ill get started on it. Thanks for watching.

[@greghouse4000]

Family get your story straight you can deviled crabs all over tampa not just in Ybor city come on son

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Ybor is where they originated. I haven't lived there in years, hopefully you can get them around the city now

[@Batmandabomb]

Siraccacha was not even invented back in the day.... it was and is red hot sauce... lets not even get started on the cuban.... but Crab Chilau is another story

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

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[@user-vq8wq4wt6o]

WTF is wrong with Florida?

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Do u live in Florida?

[@pineapplepam5392]

No no and no. Not actampanian recipe sorry

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Why don't you think so?

[@pineapplepam5392]

@@DoesntPayFullPrice all of it, Look up Seabeeze recipe it’s authentic. Born and raised in Tampa, you take too many liberties with the recipe.

[@RawHeat100]

This recipe should not be called devil crab call it what you want but not devil crab, can crab LOL big fail my dude I'm some what offended

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I didn't make the name, this is the traditional name from Tampa.

[@Batmandabomb]

Ray Ray ... you dont get out of your county do you...... you might add that Bay Seasoning crap ... wrong not a Ybor Devil Crab ... so sorry

[@cookieez4u2]

Um, my friend, that is not a crab cake. That looks like wet seasoned sand. Try again.

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

Thanks cookie.

[@johnmason9708]

Just a question, But what is wrong with Florida that you don't like?

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I dont like that there is so much good food, and i dont live there anymore lol!

[@Batmandabomb]

Too many Yankees

[@asiamainevent9076]

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Tampa Native😂😂 I just ate at the "Colombia Restaurant".. Tampa oldest restaurant in FL... I ate some devil crabs😂😂 Let's just say.. I'm craving them... Even though Ybor City down the road from me.😂😂😂😂(But, I like to make things)

[@DoesntPayFullPrice]

I haven't been to the Columbia in so long, what a classic! These were pretty fun to make, let me know how they come out

[@willezell3584]

Skip The Colombia's deviled crabs, but DON'T MISS THE BEST SALAD IN THE USA - the Colombia's "1905 Salad!!!"

[@asiamainevent9076]

@@willezell3584 Yessse... I love their salad