Seafood - Soft Shell Crab

Maryland Blue Crab - Soft-Shell Crab

Our delicious soft shell crabs are harvested at exactly the right time, ensuring superior flavor. These delicate, clean, slightly sweet tasting crabs are enjoyed whole and can be baked, fried or grilled.

Maryland Blue Soft Shell Crabs Online

Crab Place offers the Maryland Soft Shell Crab Online! Maryland blue crab in its soft shell phase is a true culinary delicacy. Soft crab lovers will appreciate that The Crab Place cleans them, freezes them and ships them ready for the frying pan. Perfect for when that salty sweet, tender crispy soft crab craving hits. Order your soft shell crabs now. Maryland Soft Shell Crab Recipes.
 

Soft Shell Crabs One of Americas favorite seafood delicacies. Caught just after shedding their hard outer shell - called molting - our fresh crabs are carefully selected for their superior quality and size. The soft shell crabs are cleaned, frozen and shipped to your kitchen door - ready for the frying pan.

Soft Sell Crab Trivia:

Soft-shell crab, sometimes abbreviated to just soft-shell, is a seafood delicacy with the entire crustacean capable of being eaten, a result of catching and cooking crabs shortly after they molt their hard shell.

As these crabs grow larger, their shells cannot expand, so they molt the exteriors and have a soft covering for a matter of days when they are vulnerable and considered usable. Fishermen often put crabs beginning to molt aside, until the molting process is complete in order to send them to market as soft-shells. Crabs should be kept alive until immediately before cooking so that they are fresh. Usually crabs must be eaten within four days of molting to be useful as soft-shell crabs.

With the blue crab in cold waters this molting is highly seasonal and usually lasts from early May to July. Demand for this delicacy has increased with the use in American and other cuisines, so that the mangrove crab has been used as an alternative source. Because mangrove crabs grow in tropical muddy flats all year round, such swamps provide a continual source of soft shell crabs. In warmer waters such as the Gulf of Mexico, soft shell crabs are available for longer periods. The crabs continue to molt throughout the year, but in smaller numbers.