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Culinary Reserve Crab Meat offers premium, responsibly sourced crab with unparalleled flavor and freshness. Perfect for a range of dishes, it's available in six types, each tailored to specific recipes. Enjoy top-quality seafood and sustainable practices with North Coast Seafoods.
Crab lovers rejoice! Our Culinary Reserve crab meat is the product to satisfy all your crab desires. Whether you’re dreaming of cheesy crab dip or have classy Crab Imperial on the brain, we have the fresh ingredients you need.
You can leave subpar, disappointing crab meat behind. Once you experience the superior quality and flavor, you will have found your new go-to brand
Crab lovers will enjoy Culinary Reserve Crab Meat for its fantastic flavor, freshness, and texture. Meanwhile, foodservice operators benefit from North Coast’s three generations of experience as suppliers to some of the finest restaurants across the United States.
At North Coast Seafoods, we offer six different varieties of pasteurized crab meat. Each variety is available in 1 lb. cans. The trick to mastering your favorite dish is choosing the correct type of crab meat for your recipe.
If you’re new to buying crab, this guide will help you learn the basics. Continue reading to learn the different crab meat sizes and the best culinary application for each.
For 65 years, North Coast Seafoods has been distributing quality, sustainable seafood to food service and retail customers across the country. Send us an email at customerservice@northcoastseafoods.com to learn more about wholesale fresh & frozen seafood.
Our premium line of pasteurized Blue Swimming Crab meat was created to meet the highest standards of seafood excellence. Our customers prefer Culinary Reserve for its sweet, clean, buttery flavor and delicate, flaky texture.
Our crabs are responsibly wild-caught from the Indonesian Spice Islands. Live crabs are steamed immediately, which is the key to our premium quality. The crab meat is then 100% hand-picked, immediately chilled, and pasteurized under the strictest quality control standards.
In addition, we regularly micro-test our crab meat to guarantee food safety.
Our high-quality packaging protects product integrity and increases shelf life. Shelf life for culinary reserve crab meat is 12 months under proper refrigeration.
All of these quality commitments make a difference to maximizing the flavor, freshness, and texture. While we can list reasons all day long, we encourage you to taste the difference for yourself. It’s a tender, buttery flavor experience that most other brands can’t replicate. Plus, our dedication to long-term sustainability ensures you can enjoy your crab meat with confidence and a clean conscience.
Check out the video below to learn more about what makes the Indonesian Blue Swimming Crab unique.
We offer six different sizes of crab meat, each with unique characteristics and culinary applications. Each type comes from a different part of the crab and has a distinct appearance.
As a result, each meat variety is uniquely suited for different types of recipes. Our goal is to help you choose the right one so you can knock your next seafood dish out of the park!
Our crab meat varieties include:
Take a look at the chart below to see which part of the crab each variety of meat is being picked from. Then, keep reading to learn more about each type, including how to use them to whip up a delicious dish.
Lump Crab Meat consists of: The remaining body meat with lump and some flake meat.
Best Used For: Crab cakes, dips, salads, and casseroles. Lump crab meat also makes for a beautiful presentation as a stuffing for fish, chicken, vegetables, or seafood.
Lump Crab Meat Recipe Suggestion: Warm Crab and Artichoke Dip (view here). This is a classic, delicious baked crab dip. It’s loaded with sweet lump crab meat and plenty of creamy cheese. Consider serving with soft baked German pretzels for the ultimate indulgence!
Super Lump Crab Meat consists of: Smaller and broken pieces of jumbo lump, with large flakes included.
Best Used For: Super lump is best when going “high end” is the goal! Super Lump crab meat is excellent in crab cakes, dips, salads, and casseroles. Also, it makes for a beautiful presentation as a stuffing for fish, chicken, vegetables, or seafood.
Super Lump Crab Meat Recipe Suggestion: Baked Crab Cake Bites (view here). These 1 oz. mini crab cakes are absolutely perfect for a delectable party hors d'oeuvres. Serve with a small dollop of Sriracha Mayo aioli and plenty of toothpicks!
Jumbo Lump Crab Meat consists of: The large unbroken muscles connected to the swimming legs of the crab.
Best Used For: Upscale recipes like crab imperial and crab cocktails. Use jumbo lump in any recipe where the size of the lumps can really shine.
Jumbo Lump Crab Recipe Recommendation: Baked Crab Imperial (view here). Crab Imperial is a simple, classic Maryland seafood recipe that allows the fantastic flavor of crab to shine through. The rich, creamy sauce is combined with the crab meat and then baked to golden perfection.
Colossal Crab Meat consists of: The two largest, unbroken muscles connected to the swimming legs of the crab.
Best Used For: Upscale cocktail presentations. Allow the impressive size and supremely sweet flavor of the meat to really shine.
Colossal Lump Crab Recipe Recommendation: Colossal Crab Cocktail (view here). Indulge in the sensational flavor of the colossal lumps with a unique and bold dipping sauce and lemon on the side.
Special Crab Meat consists of: Shredded pieces of lump and flake meat from the body of the crab.
Best Used For: Crab cakes, salads, spreads, soups, and crab balls. This would be considered a “value” crab meat while still bringing that delicious flavor!
Claw Crab Meat consists of: Crimson-colored shredded meat from the claws and legs with some unbroken claw meat
Best Used For: Dips, soups, and stuffings. Claw meat has a stronger, more intense crab flavor. It’s also excellent to use in combination with lump crab meat to cost-average your recipe.
We suggest storing between 32-38 degrees Fahrenheit for the freshest crab meat. Culinary Reserve crab meat should be eaten within 12 months of the manufacturing date. Please keep crab meat refrigerated at all times until you’re ready to eat.
You can purchase select varieties of our Culinary Reserve Crab meat directly from our website and enjoy nationwide next-day home delivery.
You can also find Culinary Reserve at some of our retail partners, including Shoprite, Shaw’s Supermarket, Big Y, and Stew Leonard’s.
For over 65 years, North Coast Seafoods has been sourcing, processing, and distributing the highest quality, sustainable seafood. We proudly serve foodservice and retail customers across the United States. We’re proud, experienced purveyors to some of the nation’s finest restaurants, hotels, and more. We’re eager to work with you to provide wholesale culinary reserve crab meat to your establishment.
In search of more seafood? We can help with that, too. We also offer a comprehensive line of fresh and frozen finfish, shellfish, and value-added seafood.
Not only are we the first receivers and processors of all our seafood, but we also offer direct delivery. We adhere to industry-leading quality assurance practices to maximize shelf life and food safety.
Ready to give Culinary Reserve Crab Meat a try? Drop us a line right here. You can also shoot us an email at customerservice@northcoastseafoods.com if you’re interested in opening a wholesale account with North Coast Seafoods.
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Brenda Veal
November 15, 2024
OMG, this is the ABSOLUTE BEST CRAB Meat in a can EVER. It’s affordable, fresh, delicious, and a full can of greatness. I made the Best Crab Rangoon ever. Thank you soooooo much for this product. I’m about to stock up on these cans of crab because I LOVE CRAB. ❤️❤️❤️