/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Difference is that they actually taste good. Go try some fried crickets and tell me they're anywhere near as good as fried shellfish.

>>17641480
When you fry crabs like this do you eat the breading off the shell before cracking it open?

>>17641491
Seems to be a soft shell crab

>>17641519
Can you just eat the shell?

>>17641527
You'd have to eat the breading first.

>>17641480
theres something so good about seafood when you're just eating the whole fucking animal

>>17641491
>>17641527
You just eat the whole bug.

They're pretty soft but i think they get pretreated with lye or some acid/base hydrolysis to break down the shells.

>>17641527
>Can you just eat the shell?
Sometimes I forget there are people who never had good shellfish. You eat literally everything but the gills

>>17641480
Crustaceans aren't insects
Try eating locust or snails - they taste nothing like crabs, lobster or prawns

>>17641544
Yep, I'm an inlandlet

>>17641542
No, they are called soft shell for a reason. I never heard of them being acid washed or whatever.

>>17641544
Oh, and I thing they pull out the gut too.

>>17641491
It's soft-shell. You eat it whole. Texture-wise it's no different from a chicken tender.

>>17641557
>>17641552

Well ya, but they didn't evolve without a shell.

The crab is "soft-shelled" because they soak them. Notice the caustic taste of the crab itself next time and don't just slather in dipping sauce.

>>17641546
>Crustaceans aren't insects
Cope. You're eating bugs.

>>17641571
Nigga, what?
They are soft shell because they harvest them the moment they molt off the old shell before it hardens.

>>17641579

That's what the "genuine" producers do.

Most of them are from china and are acid/base washed/soaked, diluted, and then frozen with extra water weight.

They aren't magic animals with soft shells.

>>17641480
>>17641486
They aren't bugs though. I will never understand faggots who say this. It's like if anytime someone ate beef some know-it-all loser had to butt in and say "ACHTUALLLY YOU'RE EATING A HUMAN BECAUSE TECHNICALLY WE ARE BOTH MAMMALS!"

Go and fry up some cockroaches and see if you get the succulent, juicy white meat that you get from crabs and lobsters. You won't.

>>17641592
Prove it. Show me any evidence of this practice being used at scale

>>17641573
>zoomer education
This is what happens when you replace biology with pronoun-studies.

>>17641601
He's full of shit. Crabs molt like ten+ times a year. Why the fuck would they need to do some stupid shit like that?

>>17641527
Yes. Soft shell is chewable

>>17641618
>>17641579

LOL you think they're out there "timing the crabs"?

You got a lot to learn about this world, kiddo.

>>17641480
Is that crab going to be ok? It looks hurt

>>17641480
is a shark a bird?

>>17641542
Nope they are caught between molting I believe.

>>17641613
>i-it's not a bug okay just because it looks like a bug and walks like a bug and strindulates like a bug and reproduces like a bug and senses like a bug and molts like a bug and... STOP LAUGHING ITS PRONOUNS ARE CRUSTACEAN/CRUSTAXIR!

>>17641704
It's over for the crab.

>>17641810
This is the right answer. The shell is like limp leather at that phase. You peel it up part way from the sides to pull out the gills with your fingers from both sides, then you cut the face off with kitchen shears..

>>17641480
>thing that tastes good is good
That's usually how it works OP.
>>17641595
Half tempted to make a bait thread on /an/ about this. But pretending to be retarded has just never been fun for me.

>>17641595
Crabs are literally bugs you retard

>>17641848
>gets called a zoomer
>goes full zoomer
Zoom for the stars, I guess.

>>17642149
>But pretending to be retarded has just never been fun for me.
Why would it be? It's not very fun pretending to be yourself.

>>17641694
>dude trust me
Dude, meds.

>>17642168
>pretending to be yourself
Isn't that just lying on purpose?

>>17641595
Insects and crustaceans are literally the same thing, tho. Insect wings are specialized gills. Have you not read a book since middle school?

>>17641542
>>17641810
They catch them and keep them in tanks until they moult.

>>17641848
>>17641573
This is like saying humans and baboons are the same

>>17641573
>frogposter
>retarded

many such cases!

>>17641527
Yeah

>>17641540
You feel pretty powerful consuming a whole being

>>17641571
You just don't like crab. Faggot

>soft shell crab
Not only delicious but you feel like a badass eating them whole.

>>17642190
They're literally different you nigger. Arthropods aren't all bugs. Spiders aren't bugs either

>>17642661
"Bug" isn't a technical term.

>>17642668
Says the bugman.

>>17642420
It's more like saying humans and manta rays are the same.

Americans are mentally-ill.

>>17642707
This nigga eatin bugs

>>17641486
They're about the same dude, all fried food tastes the same.

I still tell kids when they're eating chicken it's like they're eating a Tyrannosaurus. You guys need to relax.

I cannot understand how somebody dislikes seafood. Just confounds me. There is a reason God made 70% of our Earth an ocean, so we could enjoy every single one of His undersea creatures whenever we please. Imagine shunning such a delicious bounty, it's almost pitiable.

>>17644063
>Fried crickets taste the same as fried shrimp

>>17641546
They are ALL arthropods
Not eating anything with an exoskeleton

>>17644142
Prove me wrong nigger. One is slightly meatier, that's it.

>>17641573
Sea bugs, but its all just semantics. And they are quite tasty when prepared right. I really like dungeoness crab, love it in cocktail form. MD blue crab is ok, crab cakes are neat. I find lobster is best either grilled or as a bisque. Shrimp are just all around great no matter the style: fried, grilled, smoked, in a soup/bisque, in a roll.

The problem with land based bugs is they have no meat on them. Just goop on the inside. Any most are too tiny to do any processing to, you have eat em whole, or cover em with chocolate or some other cope.

this the bug thread?

>>17641480
Based retard.

>>17644160
Crickets taste like fucking dirt, I have my experience to prove it. Fuck you, faggot. People should not eat the bugs.

>>17641480
>YOU CHUD! CRABS ARE BUGS NOW EAT THEM!

aight, you can keep drinking your roach milk and I will enjoy my stuff

I will never eat:

bugs
water bugs
spiders
worms
creepy crawlies
shrimps
crabs
lobsters
snails
crawfish
any other little buggies

Fuck you and goodnight

>>17644300
B A S E D

soft shell crab is the only bug I will eat
they are truly the land bugs of the sea

crab and shrimp taste good

land bugs taste gross

>>17641544
Where the fuck are the gills? How do I accidentally not eat the gills?

>>17645940
They remove them at the processing facility.

>>17642149
That's an awful lot of sauce for four prawns

>>17642833
Fuck that looks good

>>17641486
I've read on numerous occasions that Scorpions, and especially Tarantulas (maybe arachnids in general) taste very similar to freshwater crab. Assuming that's correct, the, presumably, they taste good? I've never tried them myself so that's entirely going on their word. I haven't worked up the courage to drive down to the pet store to buy some bugs that I could eat. Outside of that, escargo is great when prepared well (with lots of butter) and Survivorman made Witchity grubs look very tasty. He said they taste like peanuts, and when he roasted a few, they had a crispy outside and soft inside. It honestly looked pretty good.

>>17645940
In a crab the gills are the finger looking things inside the head/thorax attached sorta towards the arms. They're sometimes called "drowned mans fingers".
To avoid, boil crab, tear off the top of the shell. Rip off the finger things on the side. The head has a lot of good meat in it, but it takes a little work to get out.I mostly know dungeness in my area. Some people eat the guts in the head, YMMV, I don't.

>>17644264
>he fell for it
We got another one boys

>>17644264
Of all the bugs you can eat, why choose one of the most obviously nasty tasting? I've got news for you. Worms probably taste like dirt also, don't eat them unless you're starving.

Next time you're cooking something and need a little vinegar, just toss one of these bad boys in a blender and dump it on in. They shoot vinegar from their buttholes as a defense mechanism.

>>17646048
forgot pic.

>>17646004
>Some people eat the guts in the head, YMMV, I don't.
but that's where all the nutrients are...

>>17641595
Retard

>>17645983
>deep fried spider
Nah man I’m good you do you though

>>17646048
I-I wish I shot vinegar from my butthole that could have helped during my brief jail stay

>>17641531
it would be very crunchy

>>17641480
I'm American but not *that* American