Miller's Select Special White Crab Meat, 6.5 Ounce

I make a crab dip recipe that was handed down to me by my mother-in-law. It requires one can of claw crab meat. The flavor is much less flavorful if you use any type of crabmeat other than claw crab meat. What I like best about Miller's Select is that I almost never find shell or cartilage in the meat. Every other brand I have used, I had to carefully feel and examine the entire can of crab and pick out cartilage and shells and I still missed some. Also, other brands have a few intact claw meat pieces on top and bit and pieces of claw meat underneath ; I opened a can of Miller's Select (my last can from the case I ordered nearly a year ago) this week and the entire can consisted of intact claw crab meat. In answer to "Very Good Flavor but...," in forty years of making Granny's Crab Dip, the canned claw crabmeat I have used has never been pink. Miller's Select Claw Crab Meat is an excellent product and since I used up the last can this week, I am ordering another case today.

I seldom write reviews, but thought that I would for this product. First, I admit that I am a "crab cake" snob. I grew up 4 blocks from the Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk and we would go "crabbing" down at the jetty were the ferry would go over to the Eastern shore. Car inner tube and a bushel basket stuck in the middle of the tube. Chicken necks tied to strings and a net. Blue Jimmies! I usually try crab cakes at restaurants and I am mostly disappointed, maybe always, a lot of filler and very little meat. Also I have had crab cakes at the Baltimore boat show many year ago, unbelievable!!! This crab is nothing like the blue crab that I know, yet the package states that it is "blue crab" claw meat, yet there is very little "lump" meat in the container. Just eating the meat from the can, it's blah, not much flavor if any when it comes to crab meat. The package says it from Thailand. Very disappointed, since I have been able to find good tasting crab meat sold in stores. Just finished my second batch of crab cakes with this meat and decided to write this review. Not even sure if I will waste my time with the remaining 6 cans.

I bought this because of the good feedback and bad luck that I have had with canned crab. I was hoping that this product was different than previous canned crab that I have had. Alas, it is just a little better. Unfortunately, canned crab just seems to be not very good and I have to stick with fresh expensive crab.

I bought 2 cans of crab meat from 2 different manufactures in order to compare them while making crab fried rice. The Millers Select was bought on Amazon and the better known Bumble Bee was bought at my local store. The biggest difference is the size of the meat chunks. The BB was fine hairlike strands, while the Millers was actual chunks of meat. See the pictures for comparison. Once the water was poured off, there was only a little over 1/2 a can of the BB, while the Miller's was 3/4 full. The BB had very little taste. The MS was better. Both had some small bits of shell. Hands down I'll be buying the MS from now on. The Crab fried rice came out fine. Not nearly as good as PF Changs, but not bad....

It does have discreet pieces of crab, rather than just being shredded, but it still tastes like . . . cat food. Or at least, like cat food smells. I just don't think it's possible to can crab, the best I've had is from Tokeland, WA, the Dungeness crab processing company there occasionally sells a canned product, but it's marginal. The only decent packaged crab I've had is that refrigerated stuff, which keeps for a few weeks.

WOW. I was blown away when I first tried this. I knew it would be better than what I was used to, but I didn't know it was going to be THIS much better. I'm used to the cheap crap from Bumblebee and Chicken of the Sea. This is worlds away from that. That cheap stuff you wouldn't really want to eat out of the can so I just used it as an ingredient in dip. With THIS stuff though, you can eat it right out of the can and it is delicious! Now when I make dip, I barely even use any other ingredients any more because I want the dip to be mostly just this crab meat. I can't wait to see what other recipes I can use this in! Stuffed mushroom caps, crab burgers, and crab nachos are all on my To-Make list.

I recently came across a recipe for crab cakes which included 'canned premium jumbo lump crabmeat'. The magazine recipe had info. regarding "premium canned crab or pasturized crabmeat" (both of which I was unfamiliar with) which explained what jumbo lump crab (large whole pieces) and backfin or special white (flaked) is. The recipe showed a picture of Miller's Select. So I tried them. I am very pleased with my purchase. I've made crab cakes and crab & shrimp louie salad and both got rave reviews (and there was no "canned" taste). I'm looking forward to making a crab bisque. I will definitely purchase again.

Was a little leery after reading these reviews online, but I decided to spend the money and buy anyway.Let me just say WOW!The crab is AMAZING!Flavor, color, texture - all perfect.Like some other reviewers have mentioned, most of the can is shredded crab meat, with about 25% of it being fully intact claw meat.But it is ALL crab! No shells or excess liquid or fillers.You open the can and it smells like the ocean.Ate one can straight with a fork.Next can was crab casserole.I am going to try them for crab cakes next.