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🪂Both Lancaster & Oxford Crab Houses serve piping hot steamed blue crabs for this weekend's festivities. And yes, our signature sides are back! Shrimp & Pasta, Shrimp Salad, Cream of Crab Soup.
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🌼Make Mom Crab Happy!
Give Mom something to talk about! She’ll call everyone on her contact list praising your seafood gift. A Double Dozen of the X-Large certainly gets her all giddy. Mounds of crab spice, hot butter ramekins, and a full evening for family time is what Mom needs. She also bubbles over with excitement with your seafood frugalness in buying the best crabs and getting fresh crab meat. Knowing that your Mom loves to cook, you choose the jumbo lump. Gifting Mom fun in the kitchen is truly what she deserves, but on her day, let her relax with a 6-pack of blue crabs!
🪂What makes a jumbo crab?
Blue crabs spend their lives feasting and molting or growing into larger shells. In fact, crab enthusiasts claim they molt up to 30 times in an average 3 year lifespan. Each time they grow larger. The process is easy to forecast, but quick for the catch, especially if you have a hankering for a soft shell crab. The back swimming legs show a black line that will eventually turn a pinkish, red. This area will stretch and with the help of the crab intaking water, will crack. Then the crab will simply walk out of the old shell and continue intaking water in the soft, pliable new shell. This process will expand the soft shell into a one third growth from the previous shell’s size. With enough molting seasons, the crab will reach the jumbo crab level, 6” on up. As far as the pliable soft shell, a hard coving will develop in a mere 2 hours, and within 2-3 days into a completely hard shell crab.
The eating experience makes a jumbo, likewise. Crab houses grade large {6”-6.5”}, x-large {6.5”-7} into the jumbo category that naturally weighs heavier than other selections. An average crab yields 2 ¼ ounces of meat, so you’ll pick up to almost 3 ounces per larger crab. Nothing beats pulling out a large jumbo chunk from the back swimming legs. Pristine and white, the clean tasting, buttery pieces get “ohhs and aahs” for the size. Cracking the crab in half and picking at the lump will result in flaky white meat. Chefs in the family will eye it for a beautiful crab cake. Picking and laughing with family members as they enjoy a truly bay experience will quickly find themselves fighting over the claws. With a click snap of the pincers and a tap from a mallet, the coveted huge claw chunks will pull from the shells, boasting a darker meat. The experience will take the older adults back to days by the bay, while youngsters will develop pride in getting out every morsel!
🌷What Difference does a Crab Size Make?
Most crab houses like to add creativity to their menu with “genuine” or “authentic” busheling. Trendy crab stickers, showing a bold blue crab just waiting for your feast, decorate the boxes. Blue crabs have feisty qualities as they search for their nourishment, so this feature makes sense. Scavengers by nature, crabs use their antennae to locate snails, bivalves, crustaceans, fish, worms, and any other sustenance that will give it energy. In fact, they will even eat recently perished fish and juvenile blue crabs. With this survival drive, they easily molt in and out of shells to grow into larger sizes. Once caught, their eating journey is over, and the crabber grades them to a scale widely supported by Chesapeake Bay societies. Measurements do matter, along with quantities. Compare and contrast the selections for the best price, most meat, and enough crabs for each person. Bay Crabs measure 5”-6” and include the smallest crab that’s legal for consumption. Consider serving a boil with this size. Sweet corn, andouille sausage, and garden vegetables will certainly complement the bays. Featured as the largest quantity selection, bays fill a half bushel at about 3-4 dozen. Jimmy Crabs, 5.5”-6.5” win favor from families who search for the large crabs for the adults and the smaller ones for children. Everyone feasts in style with the jimmies. Lobster mac-n-cheese and tomato and cucumber salad certainly get this party started right! Get cracking with a half bushel that boasts about 3-3.5 dozen in the jimmy choice. Jumbo Crabs, 6”-7” weigh the heaviest at more than one third pound and yield more than 15% meat, according to crab fans. What does this mean? More jumbo lump will pull from the back-swimming legs, mounds of flaky lump from the body, and impressive robust chunks from the claws. Jumbos serve as an entrée. You may want to start with a Maryland crab soup and serve seafood salad with shrimp as a true taste of the season. These crabs impress with huge sizes and include about 2.5 dozen crabs in a half bushel. Lastly, Female Crabs, 5”-7” include a wide variety from a quick bite in the smaller ones to impressive events with the jumbos. Many crab fans claim females taste sweeter since they stop growing at maturity and the meat grows denser. We challenge you to taste the difference. You have the chance with about 3-4 dozen per half bushel. Crab size does matter, so keep in mind the average crab fan scarfs down between 6-8 crabs, so count the heads and plan the perfect feast!
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