Yes. In fact, stone crab claws are cooked once fishermen bring them to shore. They are boiled for about eight minutes and then dipped in cold water to stop the cooking process. All you have to do is crack and dip them in our delicious homemade mustard sauce.

A fresh stone crab will taste delicious and fresh for about seven days after delivery as long as you store it in a refrigerator. However, we find that our stone crabs never spend more than a day in a refrigerator. People just can't help but gobble them up.

A average person eats about a 1 pound. A George Stone Crab lover, however, can eat 2lb-3lbs. It's true. We seen it with our own eyes.

We pack our stone crabs in a cooler. For local Miami delivery, we put the claws on a bed of ice. We can even crack them for you. If you live outside Miami, we use gel packs to keep the claws fresh. They are delivered in a cooler by FedEx Standard/Priority Overnight. Note: We never deliver frozen claws.

If you have any claws left over, put them in an open container and keep them in the coldest part of your refrigerator. Or, you can put them in a cooler with ice. Remember to drain the water every so often.

Yes. However, we recommend that you eat them the day you receive them if they are cracked. Otherwise, the crab meat will be become dry and lose all its sweet tasty freshness.

The best stone crabs in the world are found in the Florida Keys and along the Florida coast. Wikipedia tells us they are available in Connecticut to Belize, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba and the Bahamas.

The stone crab is never killed when caught. Only one claw is removed, and then the animal is returned to the ocean. Claws are never removed from egg bearing females. Once a stone crab is returned to the water, it grows a new claw. That could take one to two seasons.

The stone crab season begins October 15 and ends May 15. Any place offering stone crabs after the season are serving them frozen.

George offers 4 sizes and on rare occasion sometimes five. George offers medium, large, jumbo, and colossal. And
once in a while our fishermen catch the mother load - a KING Colossal - a.k.a. The Baby Arm.

Those little spots are just bruises that the claw gets while living at the bottom of the ocean. The spots are fine and the meat is never harmed or bruised. We agree, the bruises are not aesthetically pleasing.

Yes, but you have to eat a lot to get full. We recommend medium claws as an appetizer.

This happens sometimes when there is a cold front in Florida and the cooler temps make the meat stick to the shell. It's all good to eat.

Stone Crab (Menippe Mercenaria)
Menippe-Greek, means force or courage
Mercinaria-Latin, something of value.