Kingcrab.co.uk

Prawns of all types are our best sellers. Here you will find peeled, shell on, cooked, raw, Atlantic cold water or prawns from the far east. All our North Atlantic prawns are 'single frozen' unlike most you will find in the supermarkets of Britain. Single frozen prawns are produced from fresh raw material and the taste is much better. All the prawns in this section are frozen but we have plenty available fresh in the 'Fresh Shellfish' section of the site. Recommended are the peeled brown shrimps, which come from the North Sea, hand peeled then packed in a modified atmosphere pack for extended shelf life - very tasty.

We are first hand processors of fresh white fish from the Grimsby market, whole fish is bought daily, filleted and packed for delivery through the night to our national customers. We also buy fresh fish from other markets in Britain and around Europe. Some species, notably tuna, arrives by air daily into our premises for onward distribution. Fresh fish supplies depend on weather and whilst we usually have most items some species are subject availability. We cannot always get the exact weight ordered especially when its just one kilo so we will debit your card with the actual weight delivered.

We offer a selection of Fresh Shellfish. From fresh dressed crabs to live mussels, most are stock items and arrive daily at our premises some such as lobsters (live or cooked/dressed) are for pre-ordering. Just give us a call 01472 353 353 and we can arrange it. Alternatively send us a mail - orders@kingcrab.co.uk - with your order and we will do the rest.

Freezing shellfish gives us the opportunity of offering you seafood that we would normally only be able to supply in season. Cockles, for example, would only be available from July to October if we didn't buy the frozen product when in season.

Smoked fish has a tradition in Grimsby, there are still a number of original smoke houses dating back years when fish smoking was one of the few ways of preserving the catch. Much of our smoked fish is still produced in this antiquated method; laborious and time consuming but producing an end product that beats the mechanical kiln smoked fish you find in the supermarkets.

In the bad old days if fish couldn't be sold fresh or if there was too much about that day then it used to get in the queue for freezing. These days' things have changed; fresh fish now is specifically bought and processed for freezing to capture the freshness and quality. Frozen at sea fish, for example, is by far better than most fresh fish because whole process from catching to freezing can be done in less than half an hour.

All our fish steaks are boneless. When the fish is too big for filleting we freeze then it saw it up into portion size chunks and vacuum pack each one for extra freshness when opened. Normally each steak weighs between 6ozs - 8ozs and we pack them in a handy 1 kilo poly bag.

We have been selling our 'Premier Seafoods' brand of Scottish smoked salmon for years. Generally a lighter smoke of oak mixed woodchip gives our smoked salmon a moist texture whilst maintaining that smokey flavour on the pallet. You will also find in this section our 'Hot Smoked' portions and fillets, ready cooked to eat straight from the pack. All the products in this section are supplied fresh.

The section covers many products from the traditional battered fish fillet that you will find in a chip shop to king prawns in filo pastry. Most of these products are for caterers but some we sell in smaller lots, all great value and most oven ready.

A small section is dedicated to this subject. Fish roes and squids are usually an acquired taste but for those who buy them they are a delicacy and not always that easy to find in the shops or supermarkets.

Seafood can be preserved in lots of ways; before freezing salt was the main method of stopping the fish caught in the summer months from rotting. These days freezing has generally taken over as the most convenient method of keeping our seafood to be consumed later. In this section you will find not only salted but marinated products, seafood preserved in oil and canned seafood.

From time to time we are offered products that we don't normally sell. This could be products, usually frozen, that for some reason are below their original value and we can offer at a considerable discount to the norm.

We sell plenty of seafood which is what we are here for but we also sell other things related to fish in some way. Scallops shells are just one of the many things we get asked for....