Steamed up 2 lbs of legs tonight.

They were on sale at the grocery store, so my wife and I got 2 lbs.

Exquisite dining.

Turns out my cat likes crab more than she likes fish. She loves tuna and salmon. I gave her a piece of the steamed crab and she went friggin' ballistic meowing, crying, begging and being a general nuisance until I gave her another piece. Then it got worse.

Spoiled little ****.

If I had a gun to my head and forced to name my favorite food in the world, king crab would be it. There are so many things that would come close but there is nothing like a giant crab leg, split and broiled, dipped in a little clarified butter, a squeeze of lemon. Wow.

Natures most delicious gift.

And, yeah, my cats love the stuff too. One of the few things we agree on.

FUG FUG FUG.

2 years ago after 34years of enjoying King Crab I became Allergic to Selfish for no apparent reason.

FUG FUG FUG

well more for you all to enjoy. Damn i miss crab and Lobster. LOL!!!

ms

Mmmmmm...could never decide whether I like that better or Dungeness. Probably Dungeness...since they grow right down the hill from me in the good ol' Puget Sound. I've had some caught within an hour of cooking. Can't get much fresher than that.

I'd never turn down either, but a local restaurant used to board up the place, turn the Open/Closed sign around, etc., when they saw me coming on All You Can Eat Dungeness Crab Sundays.

that's cool, it's better to be unselfish.

umm....5 for 4.

I have to admit, pac, I haven't had the pleasure of trying Dungeness yet but I'm eager to learn. There are a few crabs in the far east I've heard are even better than anything we have here. Could be. I think the consensus overall is: crab is king.

Dungeness crab...yet another reason to visit Seattle, something I've been wanting to do....

Native Rhode Islander, sir.

If it comes from the ocean... I'll eat it. Crab, lobster, fish, clams, squid, shrimp, mussels, oysters, shark...

I rarely indulge, though. Way too rich and full of cholesterol to eat it on a regular basis.

My cat was licking my hand, like a dog, saying thank you, I guess.

I agree with pac. Dungeness crabs are just a little bit better than King crabs, not much, just a little.

Not sure if either of you have had Maryland Blue Crab... but hell if it ain't better'n Dungeness.

Not too much taste difference in most crabs, IMO, but my wife has taught me to add a little salt, pepper and spice to the 1/2 inch of water in the steam pot. Makes a little difference.

Seafood rocks. The End.

MACS,

I used to drive to NJ from VA to vist relatives. We'd stop at an All You Can Eat joint on 13 in MD.

Blue crabs are delicious, just too much work involved to eat 'em.

^Tru dat, boo. But the meat is delicious.

It's work getting any meat out of a crab, but the reward is fantabulous.

There's a reason God made seafood so good. (yet so bad for you, if you eat too much)

When we go fishin' in Norfolk, we always bring along a crab trap or two.

11. Author: MACS

"It’s work getting any meat out of a crab".

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There is truly no work to ***stone crab*** served in a restaurant. You can get claws the size of your hand!

Robert, what's that place in Miami you liked a lot?

JOE'S STONE CRAB!!!!!!!!!

I'm w/Macs, if it comes out of sea, I'll eat it.

Barnacles, even...

We get dungeness live so it is always fresh. The only King I've had has to come all the way from Alaska, so it's been cooked, par-frozen, then shipped to market. Under these conditions, I really prefer the dungeness.

Yeah, agreed. All seafood rocks. I was born, and spent my first 9 years, in Florida and was crabbing for blue crabs as soon as I was able to pull a string in. Just a chicken neck attached to a string and we'd fill our buckets with the critters. One of my favorite, and earliest, culinary memories involves one of those days in St. Pete, crabbing with my dad and grandfather, watching my grandfather "putting the crabs to sleep" by stroking their bellies before sliding them into the pot. An absolutely epic lunch on a sunny Florida Saturday in the '60's.

Doesn't get much better than that.

Seafood sucks. The End.

(there I fixed it for you MACS)

King crab... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! That and blue crabs fresh from Lake Ponchatrain.

I like dungeness better.

I remember meeting this guy in Alaska who was a photographer on some sort of Nat Geo expedition in the middle of nowhere.

Anyway..........wherever they were was thick with king crabs and they went nuts eating them.........but the butter ration only lasted a week or two and after that, nobody wanted any. Imagine having all the crab you could eat, but no butter.