Ingredient

Snow crab

Snow crab turns up on fifteen plates across seven of the kitchens we read. The entree section holds five of them, and most often it is served as a platter, on two.

From 40 menus · snow crab is on 15 plates · How we read them

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Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →

How it comes

The forms it turns up in, most first.

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Where on the menu

The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.

How it's cooked

How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.

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The journey of snow crab

The same 15 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.

The journey of snow crab: 15 plates, 5 ways of cooking them, drawn as three rings — how it is cooked, how it arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. Every wedge is listed with its count in the table below.Snow crabsteamed — 6 plates (50%)steamedbroiled — 2 plates (17%)broiledfried — 2 plates (17%)friedbarbecued — 1 plate (8%)raw — 1 plate (8%)not stated — 2 plates (17%)not statedplatter — 2 plates (17%)platterraw-bar — 1 plate (8%)raw-barsteamer-pot — 1 plate (8%)steamer-potnot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (8%)platternot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statedplatter — 1 plate (8%)platternot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statedentree — 2 plates (17%)entreeentree — 2 plates (17%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statednot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statedentree — 1 plate (8%)entreenot stated — 1 plate (8%)not statedentree — 1 plate (8%)entreeappetizer — 1 plate (8%)appetizerkids — 1 plate (8%)kids
The short reading: the commonest step at each ring, everything else totalled. The full table is underneath.
RingCommonestPlates
How it's cookedsteamed6
How it comesplatter2
Where on the menuentree2
Other13 other steps, added up16
Not statedthe menu never printed that detail10
Every wedge, as a table
15 plates carrying Snow crab, cooked 5 ways. A plate cooked two ways is counted under both, so the wedges can total more than 15. “Not stated” is a plate whose menu never printed that detail.
CookedArrives asCoursePlates
steamed6
steamednot stated2
steamednot statedentree2
steamedplatter2
steamedplatterentree2
steamedraw-bar1
steamedraw-barnot stated1
steamedsteamer-pot1
steamedsteamer-potnot stated1
broiled2
broilednot stated1
broilednot statednot stated1
broiledplatter1
broiledplatterentree1
fried2
friednot stated1
friednot statednot stated1
friedplatter1
friedplatterentree1
barbecued1
barbecuednot stated1
barbecuednot statedappetizer1
raw1
rawnot stated1
rawnot statedkids1

Travels with

What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.

Dishes

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Boiled, baby back rib and baked chicken come up more here than elsewhere on our list.

Correct a plate here

In the family

Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.

One entry is all the menus we read give this. All crab

Where on the island

The 7 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.

Snow crab at 7 kitchens across 5 districts. Each row opens the finder with that district set.
DistrictKitchensSide of the island
Lower Midtown1bayside
Uptown1inland
North OC1inland
West Ocean City3harbor
Day-trips ring1harbor