Bumble Bee Crab Meat, Fancy White, 6 Ounce

I didn't like the large amount of meat in our soup from the l lb. can of meat my husband was finding in the refrigerator section in brick and mortar store. This small can of meat made a really good crab soup for this land person anyway. My husband is a east coast person and he like it too. Might be because we have a good recipe made with a can of celery soup, small carton of cream, Tablespoon of Old bay, small amount of Worcestershire powder & onion powder, butter product, this small can of crab meat was perfect. I haven't finish my mug of soup yet, but no shell or grit yet knock on wood. The grit and shell was on the bottom of my mug, but not a lot just wouldn't eat that part next time, quite a bit of crab meat bottom of my mug too. Weird texture but still good flavor. No fishy smell. Our very first time to try cream of crab of soup we tried a can of lump crab and it had a lot of fishy smell. 2nd try to make cream of crab soup we tried claw meat it had no fishy smell. This is our 3rd can and third time to try cream of crab soup. Again no fishy smell. Overall this is my preference because I like a lot of cream of soup with just a little bit of crab meat, lol.

This can of crab meat is surprisingly not bad. Plenty of meat in a small can. But there are two things that I think can be pro or con, depends on your usage. 1. Not much taste. I guess it's expected since it's not refined. Can be a good thing to mix with something else. 2. Very finely minced. So don't expect any meat chunk at all. It's good if use it to make crab cake. But then again, using canned crab meat to make crab cakes just wouldn't taste as good as fresh crab meat.

The product is ok, inside the can I found an unexpected piece of paper - like a paper cup used to hold the product. Once I got that out and drained the can I found the meat is pulverized but It did make an decent crab salad sandwich. Also, not so happy with the fact that they were thrown in a big box with multiple other items so two cans were dented. It will work for emergency storage as it has a nice long date.

So far two cans have been used and required much draining to get to the meat. I was surprised by a top and bottom “wax?” sheet in the can. Now sure why either was necessary.

It's hard to know where to begin to describe this product. I hesitate to call it crab meat because I'm nowhere close to being convinced that's what it is. I was born and raised on the Gulf Coast and have caught, cleaned, and cooked with crab all my life. This "stuff" doesn't resemble any crabmeat I've ever seen. Actually, I'm not sure I have really seen whatever it is; because the 'so-called' pieces of crab meat are practically microscopic. I'm talking, TINY, TINY, TINY!!! Grain of sand tiny. The task of removing the "CRAB SLUDGE" from the tissue paper it's packed in turned into a messy chore and the loss due to sticking was significant. Not that it matters because nothing from nothing leaves nothing. I put what I could salvage from the cans into a gumbo with the hope that at least I would get some crab flavor in the roux. I would have gotten better results typing out the words, "CRAB FLAVOR" on a piece of paper and dropping that into the pot. The sludge ruined my gumbo. If you are thinking about buying this product, take your money and flush it down the toilet, where this trash belongs.