Seafood similar to lobster claw?

September 6, 2006 10:07 PM

What kind of seafood is most similar in texture to the bits of meat all the way at the pointy tip of a lobster's claw?
posted by greatgefilte to Food & Drink (11 answers total)

Cooked correctly, scallops can get take on a similar texture (but nothing really tastes much like lobster except the real thing).
posted by jacobian at 11:15 PM on September 6, 2006

king crab, monkfish
posted by jbickers at 1:57 AM on September 7, 2006

Second monkfish, aka "poor man's lobster"
posted by mikepop at 6:03 AM on September 7, 2006

Surf clam.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 6:50 AM on September 7, 2006

Thirding monkfish, but it must be properly prepared. This recipe worked well for me.
posted by Not in my backyard at 8:23 AM on September 7, 2006

gooseneck barnacles,the tasty bit is in the stalk.
posted by hortense at 9:54 AM on September 7, 2006

Crayfish. Normally you just eat the tails, but there is some claw meat if you are prepared to go digging.
posted by verisimilitude at 12:31 PM on September 7, 2006

My god, that's the very worst part of a lobster.
posted by Napierzaza at 1:29 PM on September 7, 2006

Monkfish for sure.
posted by sindas at 8:04 PM on September 7, 2006

My god, that's the very worst part of a lobster.

Really? I didn't think there was a bad part of a lobster ... unless you count the tamale.
posted by jbickers at 12:05 PM on September 8, 2006

Monkfish is the poor man's lobster? I always thought it was eelpout.
posted by rsandy7420 at 1:13 AM on September 10, 2006