Canned frozen lobster: worth eating?

[stak]

On sale right now at my local grocer: cans of frozen lobster for $15, regularly priced at $25. I assume it won't be as good as fresh but I wonder if it is good enough to even bother with. There is a recipe in Laura Calder's "Dinner chez moi" that calls for canned lobster; I think she is a maritimer and therefore should know from lobster...so if it's good enough for her I'm thinking it will be good enough for me. Any thoughts?

[bagelman01]

works great mixed with shrimp or lump crab in fried cakes, also in lobster eggs benedict, lobster salad.
Just make sure to fully defrost, drain well, wrap in cheesecloth and squeeze the water out.

[kseiverd]

A little OT, but to poster who mentioned Phillip's. One time supermarket had 1 lb cans (on ice - not frozen) of Phillip's back fin & lump crab meat... at an extremely attractive price. Use/sell-by dates were just fine. Though not cheap, knew it would be a nice treat and a bargain to make batch of crab cakes, so I splurged.

When I got home... put on reading glasses???... to see if there was any interesting recipe on the can consider. That's when I discovered that "phillip's" crab meet did NOT come from anywhere remotely close to it's Maryland roots!?! Came from halfway awround the world!! I don't usually buy frozen/prepared seafood stuff, but later checked out lables on a few "P" products... again from different parts of the world... far, far away.

The crab cakes were yummy, but felt a little gullible for just going by the NAME on the can??

[stak]

OK, so I tried it in lobster Mac & cheese and it was great! It was just claws & knuckles & surprisingly nice in taste & appearance. I think I will stock up & maybe try it in a stew or bisque.

[TheCarrieWatson]

That's awesome - thanks for posting. I'd never heard of that stuff.

[slacker1]

We bought a can at Costco and added it to a paella. Worked great.

[jo_jo_ba]

canned and frozen? never heard of it... might be worth it for lobster cakes

[Dce88]

I've never heard of canned frozen lobster meat. One thing I always say is, bad pizza is better than no pizza... Not sure if this applies to lobster though. With the $10 off sale though I would pick it up. Great idea too about the lobster Mac.

One thing I've been wanting to try similar to this would be Phillip's canned crab. Probably a similar scenario. Best when cooked into something as opposed to star of the show.

Dan
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[C. Hamster]

Canned frozen lobster? Yikes.

I think canned shellfish of almost all types is not worth eating. Sorry.

And definitely not in a lobster roll.

[cstr]

Canned works well in most cooked dishes like casseroles, mac&cheese, fradiavlo.

[stak]

No so good for lobster rolls then? Who cares, actually... Mac & cheese is a fantastic idea! Thanks