Dungeness Crabs

[Kodi]

MikeJ,

Man I gotta find some and try them if they're that good fresh.  I have a good Asian store that I use so I'll have to check them.

I have a hard time thinking that anything would replace my thinking of the "blues" as the top of the food chain tho'.

Kodi

[Darrell]

The dungeness crabs are very tasty.but they are not live so they have already been cooked. We just heat them up.  Good eating for sure but nothing beats a bushel that "you the provider"  just caught of blue crabs, steamed (or boiled) with your favorite spices heaped upon a table filled with family and friends with plenty of cold beverages.ice cold brew,ice tea,sodas, ect. and every body cracks crabs and picks picks picks!And talks talks talks!

[spinfreak]

spinfreak,

I (think, but could be wrong) the crabs you saw up in RI were Stone Crabs. We catch them in NJ too, all winter. Dungenous are from the west coast as far as I understand. They do look alike though. In NJ you break one claw off and through the crab back in to grow a new one. I have never eaten the whole crab just claws.

Wow...didn't realize it's been so long since I've been on the site.

Anyway....Ron...they may not be "true" Dungeness crabs, but the ones that I've seen sold in the supermarkets are the same exact crabs that they sell on the boats up in RI. Whether they were stone crabs or dungeness, they are still freaking nuts. About 6-7 dollars a pound, for something they sell right off the boat for about a buck? No thanks.

[cw4340]

I THINK YA,LL BE TALKIN BOUT JONAH CRABS WHEN YEA SAY MAINE RI ECT

[spinfreak]

Well, here are pics of a dungeness crab:(http://www.enn.com/enn-news-archive/1999/06/060199/dungeness.jpg)

A jonah crab: (http://www.glf.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sci-sci/crab-crab/images/ph_crab_jonahcrab.jpg)(http://www.gotosnapshot.com/jonah-crab/cwdata/CRA-01-HS006-002.jpg)

and a stone crab: (http://www.ifcstonecrab.com/images/stonecrab.gif)

I know that the crabs I bought up in RI, and the ones in the supermarket tanks are definately NOT Stone Crabs. They get stone crabs sown here here I'm at in FL, and there's no way that they are the same.

Dungeness and Jonah crabs look pretty much simliar, so I'm not sure which are which. The supermarkets marketed the crabs as Dungeness, so I don't know if they actually were Dungeness, or they were lying. Either way, the crabs were the same ones I bought off the boats, and they are Definatley NUTS for selling them at that high of a mark-up price.  

I just looked for the ranges of the dungeness and the jonah crab, and it appears that they crabs I bought off the boats and what they sell in the supermarkets are actually Jonah Crabs. Their range is from Nove Scotia to Florida. Looks like another case of the supermarkets selling something and calling it by a different name so people will spend tons of money on it.

[Steve]

Stone crabs are not sold whole... only the claws.

A stone crab is caught, its large claw is removed, and the crab is returned to the water so that it can grow a new claw. Only the claws are sold and eaten.