/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.8557843]

My friend has a pet king crab that just molted and it made me wonder if you could use a molted shell from a lobster or crab to make stock. Would that be fucked up?

[Anonymous No.8557855]

>>8557843

Yes. That's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.8557859]

I doubt it'd work but I'd be interested to see what happens.

[Anonymous No.8557874]

I doubt you would get much of anything from a molted shell. The flavor you get from the shells comes in large part for the remaining flesh and connective tissue adhering the flesh to the shell.

Worth a try I suppose, but don't expect much.

[Anonymous No.8557884]

>>8557874
this.

Also, a single shell isn't going to be useful for much of anything, you need many shells to make an appreciable amount of stock.

[Anonymous No.8557903]

As as addendum to >>8557874 lots of insects and crustaceans that shed their shell tend to just turn around and eat it as an extra source of protien. Not really useful or /ck/ related but interesting.

[Anonymous No.8558961]

Finely ground lobster shell is used in French fish stock.

[Anonymous No.8558970]

Isn't the molted shell kind of... dead?

[Anonymous No.8558980]

It's just chitin without much else. Not much flavour.

[Anonymous No.8558991]

>>8557903
Ew, but interesting and very sensible, if it's something they can eat. Seems a bit analogous to femitards who dine on their placentas.

[Anonymous No.8559076]

>>8557843
DO IT.