Gumbo with Frozen Cleaned Blue Crabs Question

[BrianGSDTexoma]

I was thinking of making gumbo with Frozen Cleaned Blue Crabs. I never had blue crabs before. Are the crabs hard to eat coming from the gumbo? I can tear up some snow crab but not sure about these or if its worth it to use them?

 

[thirdeye]

You can literally put anything in gumbo. Since your crab is "ready to cook", it's only going to take a few minutes at the end. The backs might take a little work. One of your biggest decisions is going to be how dark of a roux do you want.

 

[normanaj]

I've only had blue crabs steamed live and they're damn good but I know that doesn't really help you.

 

[indaswamp]

Yes, you can make a gumbo with frozen crabs. They call them 'gumbo crabs' here...

 

[BrianGSDTexoma]

Yes, you can make a gumbo with frozen crabs. They call them 'gumbo crabs' here...

They look like they would be hard to eat but I guess they would give good flavor to the gumbo.