You can either bake or fry these crab cakes. My personal preference is to bake them because it's easier (no risk of them falling apart when you flip them) and they are less prone to drying out (it's easy to overcook the crab cakes when frying them in a pan). The upside of frying is you get a wonderful crispness on the outside of your crab cakes that I love. I haven't tried these in the air fryer yet, but I'm thinking that might give me the best of both worlds and it's on my list to try the next time I'm making these. If you have one and want to experiment, let me know in the comments how it goes!