Prdlobster
Commander
Any lobsterman from Maine or Mass on the forum mind sharing what they're getting for a price? We've been getting between $8 and $9 down here in RI depending on the run.
$8.50 for boat run, We don't has a shedder price but some wharfs do. I hope they aren't setting ourselves for another price crash like we saw last year. Early shedders and a high old shell price is hard on the market, when the OS price gets in this price range restaurants start to drop them off the menu reducing demand. when a customer walks in to a fish market and has a choice between OS for $10 plus or shedders for half the price and chooses the shedders it reduces demand for OS, driving the price down. All this happening while we are giving each other high fives cause the price is up.
$8.50 for boat run, We don't has a shedder price but some wharfs do. I hope they aren't setting ourselves for another price crash like we saw last year. Early shedders and a high old shell price is hard on the market, when the OS price gets in this price range restaurants start to drop them off the menu reducing demand. when a customer walks in to a fish market and has a choice between OS for $10 plus or shedders for half the price and chooses the shedders it reduces demand for OS, driving the price down. All this happening while we are giving each other high fives cause the price is up.
Usually you get less meat out of a new shell compared to a hard shell of the same size that's why they are cheaper. As far as texture and taste...I actually prefer a new shell it seems like like they are a little more sweeter and buttery and a lot easier to crack open...but that's just me.
Steve you are right on that one 8$ now 2.50 June wtf
Hello Bill,Sorry for the hijack here but I'm curious.
If I buy a shedder to cook and eat for 1/2 price of an "old shell" is there a "difference" in the texture or flavor of the meat?
Why is a shedder 1/2 the price of an old shell???
Curious?
Appreciated, Bill D
Hello Bill,
you will notice the difference when you open them both up side by side, same size lobsters. The shedder will be full of water and very small amounts of meat and the OS or Hard Shell (Old Shell), will be full of meat with a lot less water weight because they have fully grown into their shell and haven't shed yet. Hard shells are a little more work but you get what you pay for. Someone else commented about the shipping durability and this does factor into the equasion as well. I am not a fisherman but grew up around the region and have eaten enough to know that, plus I have family in the business too. I would prefer a hard shell over the soft shell any day, but each to their own. Some people swear up and down the meat is sweeter in one more than the other, but I will not say as I don't see it/taste it.