BATTLE OF THE BAYS: Blue Crab vs. Dungeness Crab

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BATTLE OF THE BAYS: Blue Crab vs. Dungeness Crab 2016-01-31 01:26:13 Post No. 7326068
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BATTLE OF THE BAYS: Blue Crab vs. Dungeness Crab Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:26:13 Post No. 7326068 [Report]

I moved to California from the DC area, and I just can't come to prefer Dungeness over Chesapeake Bay blue crabs. Texture and flavor-wise, they just seem to knock the Dungeness out of the ring.

>"You just drown them in Old Bay."

Yeah, and Old Bay paired with sweet blue crab meat is a divinely intended combination.

>"It takes longer to pick out the meat."

It's a fucking crustacean. You can take a little extra time.

Not to mention fried soft-shell blue crab.

I'm not gonna touch Alaskan King or Snow Crab cause that's a whole other tier. Summer just isn't the same without a brown paper tablecloth, a bushel of blue crab, and cold beer. It's iconic.

Explain if you prefer Dungeness.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:36:32 Post No.7326088
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:36:32 Post No.7326088 [Report]

>eating sea bugs

Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:38:01 Post No.7326089
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:38:01 Post No.7326089 [Report]

>>7326088
Lobster is GOAT

Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:42:01 Post No.7326098
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>>7326089

Holy fuck I miss Down East Maine. Stayed in a cabin with some family friends once. They fed us a fucking cooler of over a dozen lobster. Price? $100.

I can't imagine getting that price anywhere else.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:48:31 Post No.7326124
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:48:31 Post No.7326124 [Report]

>>7326068
Needs more seasoning.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:56:28 Post No.7326168
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 01:56:28 Post No.7326168 [Report]

>>7326098
Yeah I've heard it's pretty cheap there.

I have family who lives in Hawaii and we went out and set a trap for lobsters with a fishhead for bait. When we checked back about a weak later there were 3 or 4 in there. We took em back home and cooked them that night. Pretty much free lobster straight from the sea. It was delicious.

Fresh seafood is the best no matter what it is

Anonymous 2016-01-31 02:09:16 Post No.7326208
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>>7326068
Baltimorean reporting in. Blue crabs are a shit. I'll take dungeness crab legs any day. Literally every local news story is about the price of crabs during the summer.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 02:20:03 Post No.7326236
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>>7326208
Frequent Baltimore traveler reporting in, can confirm. Oysters are better, both raw and fried.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 02:42:35 Post No.7326300
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 02:42:35 Post No.7326300 [Report]

oregonfag reporting in, yeah blue might be better but i can get dungeness off the pier an hour away

honestly red rock crabs are tastier but theyre so damn small its actually a pain to get all then meat out, & i dont mind either blue or dungies

Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:20:46 Post No.7326659
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blue

Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:32:45 Post No.7326709
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:32:45 Post No.7326709 [Report]

Blue all the way!

Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:35:59 Post No.7326721
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>>7326124

OP here. I agree. I just thought it was an aesthetically pleasing photo.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:52:30 Post No.7326777
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 04:52:30 Post No.7326777 [Report]

soft shell blues are amazing but picking steamed blue crabs is just too much work for me

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:03:32 Post No.7326800
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:03:32 Post No.7326800 [Report]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovalipes_ocellatus

better than either of those taste wise,but suck because so little meat

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:04:20 Post No.7326804
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:04:20 Post No.7326804 [Report]

Blue crabs are 90% shell. You get a piece about the size of a toothpick out of a leg. You need a bushel just to get a mouthful. Dungeness are superior.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:30:16 Post No.7326873
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:30:16 Post No.7326873 [Report]

yknow i like crab or lobster now and then, but i just get sick of the taste after a short amount of time. I had a steak served with dungeness on top with some bernaise or hollendaise on it and it was great, because i get a few bites of crab and then get to enjoy a nice steak. i just can't eat a shit ton of that kind of seafood. crab/lobster cakes excluded, i'll eat that shit all day.

i chalk it up to being raised in the midwest.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:41:08 Post No.7326900
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:41:08 Post No.7326900 [Report]

>>7326873
>i chalk it up to being raised in the midwest.
Don't
If I could eat crab/lobster every day, I would, and I'm from the midwest

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:48:32 Post No.7326911
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:48:32 Post No.7326911 [Report]

>>7326873

If the Mid Atlantic has blue crab feeds, y'all in the Midwest have walleye and perch fish fries.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:53:14 Post No.7326920
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:53:14 Post No.7326920 [Report]

>not fucking eating as much garlic roasted Dungeness crab as you can get your hands on

OP a shit.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:53:28 Post No.7326922
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 05:53:28 Post No.7326922 [Report]

>>7326804
>Blue crabs are 90% shell
>You need a bushel just to get a mouthful

Stop being poor and buy better crabs. I got some back in October that were so big and full I could only eat four of them before I had to stop.

Anonymous 2016-01-31 06:02:01 Post No.7326940
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Anonymous 2016-01-31 06:02:01 Post No.7326940 [Report]

>>7326911
i live in montana now, but there were places we could get some pretty tasty seafood, because i lived in a sorta suburb of chicago. this place specfically. http://www.chinnsfishery.com/dinner

to get really good food in montana is tough, you have to find the right places and they're usually expensive as shit, but they exist.

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