When building the perfect crab cake, especially Maryland crab cakes, you need to use the best type of crab meat for the job to ensure they stay together.

The main types of crab available are ... can reach up to 20cm/8in and has plenty of delicious white, dense sweet meat. The meat in the shell, notably different for its pale greyish-green colour ...

If I had to choose one type of crustacean to eat for the rest ... This dish is a bit fiddly, as it takes a while to get all the crab meat from the shell, but the work is not difficult.