The Cheapest and Easiest Crab Cakes Ever | But Cheaper

oh crab cakes so overpriced 14 to 20 for two cakes of crab so to that i say crab cakes but cheaper [Music] okay so when you order crab you're basically signing up to work for your food we all know this i don't have a huge problem with it but at the end of the day you'll have eaten a whole family of crabs by the time you feel full but the people of maryland have found a great workaround the fishermen at the chesapeake bay area are the best at getting to the crab meat they get that they put some magic in it and bam crab cakes or something like that i don't really know the full story but so the irony about crab cakes being so extraordinarily expensive is the fact that they are incredibly easy to make so really you're not saving yourself that much time you might as well drop to the lowest possible option in cost and then just make it yourself you know what else is easy bundling your home and car insurance and that's where today's episode's sponsor geico comes in combining your home and car insurance could save you even more for bundling made easy visit geigo.com today and head to the link in the description to see how much you could save but cheaper episode four so this is gonna be a little bit different how do we shrink the price of a crab cake as small as it will go so that's what we're going to do let's make this shall we all right let's talk crab here for starters the average crab cake costs about 10 to 12 per oceanic cake which is absurd so let's start at the heart of the conversation crab choice now we have two options here either fresh crab this one is dungeness and pre-picked crab now the pre-picked stuff cost me about like 24 for a full pound of lump crab yes this is real crab meat i checked okay don't at me now alternatively this fresh crab came in at about one and a half pounds for 19 now already it looks like the fresh crab could win but first we gotta dig in a little bit further so let's go ahead and break down all of that crab remove every little ounce of meat we can gently carefully lovingly as you know now once all that is done turns out we were left with barely over half a pound of actual crab meat which means that we paid 19 for half a pound of meat it's 38 dollars per pound bruv first off what in the quest is this trickery so pre-picked so peep this is really hard to say the crab that has already been picked wins this pricing round but where does it stand in the flavor department now to make them thicko mode cakes we're going to use the same recipe for both types of crab here so get yourself a medium sized bowl and to that you're going to add half a cup or 110 grams of mayonnaise 1 tablespoon or 15 grams of good mustard dijon ideally 1 tablespoon or 15 grams of wurst shark shire sauce sorry two teaspoons or 10 grams of hot sauce the zest of one lemon one teaspoon or five grams of sea salt black pepper to taste whisk that together until thoroughly combined then whisk in one large egg now from here just toss in your crab meat carefully fold it together we're not trying to turn this into shredded crab okay try to keep the chunks in there as best as you can now once it's mixed nicely add three quarters of a cup or 45 grams of panko bread crumbs or crushed saltine crackers again mix until thoroughly combined be really really careful at this stage it tends to tear up here so you know the gentler the better the gentler the better you want those nice chunks now take those bad boys and form them into eight even patties now here you can see me forming them into six that was completely by accident apparently i don't know how to count um this should make eight patties i was wondering why they were so large you can also do six larger patties if you want good job josh very good now since the other one only had half a pound of crab meat in it then we only had four but here's our crab side to side now obviously there's a little bit of a difference the fresh crab is a little more vibrant colored it smells a little more fragrant we're pretty much done at this point all you gotta do now is get a 12-inch skillet add in a quarter cup or 60 milliliters of oil for frying canola or peanut oil place it on your stove and set the heat to medium high once that oil is shimmering and is nice and hot now shallow fry those in batches to avoid overcrowding for three to four minutes or until beautifully crispy brown flip and shallow fry for an additional three to four minutes then take them out of the pan drain on a plate also i ran out of paper towels and the washing machine was broken so it's on a plain plate but really what what is going on today josh all right you good now that's it that's that's the crab cakes that's all you have to do now obviously i repeated this process with the fresh ones as well the fresh ones looking a little springier a little more nice and now we're ready to dig in now before we do that you can optionally make a little french remoulade and to do that you're going to start with a medium-sized bowl with one egg yolk in there two teaspoons or 10 grams of dijon mustard and the juice of one lemon and some salt and pepper to taste whisk all that together and then while constantly whisking slowly stream in three quarters of a cup or 180 milliliters of neutral tasting oil like canola oil now obviously we're making a mayo you could also just opt for three quarters of a cup of mayo if you just want to skip this process but you guys know how i feel about homemade stuff don't hurt my feelings okay papa does this for you once you've added all of your oil and you have a nice beautiful emulsified mayonnaise go ahead and add three and a half tablespoons or 35 grams of finely chopped pickles or cornichons one finely chopped shallot crush two cloves of garlic and begin chopping together with two anchovy fillets and a little bit of salt and just chop and spread with the flat side of your knife over and over until you get a beautifully fine garlic anchovy paste add that to your remoulade along with half a bunch of chives that have also been finely chopped and some salt and pepper to taste now look okay i know we've gone beyond uh but cheaper here i did this completely for myself but i figured people would whine that i didn't give you the recipe so i'm not including that in the pricing sorry about it now all there's left to do is get your crab cakes line them up place them next to your expensive potential remoulade that you might have made or not some lemon cheeks we only cheek around here all right toss on some extra chives now let's get our final verdict on pricing and flavor fresh picked versus the pre-picked huge price difference first off obviously as we have mentioned this is not like a let me figure out how to make a crab cake for 25 cents look grabs expensive that's a fact of life [Music] i can't change that what i can do is we can look at both of these and try and decide what the best possible value in a crab cake you can get and it is not going to a restaurant because that is the most overpriced you'll ever get now let's start with the pre so it's good salt level nice it's good it's good again exact same recipe so here we go second one you can tell this is fresh just by looking at it look at the texture this is the fresh one and then this is the pre-pick look at that completely stark difference fresh one that's too good i'm gonna level with you let me be honest this is miles better but it's also twice the price for me i would be willing to go the extra mile and get this now granted that's my own personal opinion now if you just really want crab cakes that are delicious this for this price and this for this price i'll dip some in the sauce see if the sauce helps well wait no that one's already too good i mean yeah the thing is is it it doesn't taste bad what do you think i think this tastes bad it's crab cakes of course it tastes good at the end of the day if you are looking for the absolute cheapest option physically possible it is making your own at home from scratch using the pre-picked stuff that is as low as crab cake is ever going to go while still using real crab but do you want to know what else has mad crab cakes b-roll [Music] all right guys and that is it thanks again to my friends at geico for sponsoring this episode they're helping me with my culinary journey around the united states and they want to help you too by helping you save money on your home and car insurance so head down to that link down below and visit geico.com today now let's talk about these cakes of crap i know that this isn't like oh my gosh josh you didn't make this for 25 cents per crab cake obviously not i can't control the price of crab that's why they put market price on the gosh darn menu well that's actually not why that's what that's because they it's a strategy of up charging you technically but we won't get into that my main point is what we did here was we looked at a lot of different options and we really distilled it down to the cheapest possible way to make crab cakes now if you're the type of person that's like my time is worth more than that then the money you're saving well then what what are you doing them but cheaper huh the point is crab cakes are overpriced and you you really can save a pretty large chunk of money just by making it yourself and it's so easy and fun to make you might as well just do it right and you can control the flavor you guys know how i feel about having control but anyway with all that said if you enjoyed this video or you learned something leave a like subscribe and i will see you next time ow [Music] very cheap little money not here down here very cheap little money down here very cheap little money not here down here very cheap little money not here down here not here down here [Music] you

Channel: Joshua Weissman

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Length: 9min 52sec (592 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 16 2020