Crabs belong to seafood. When they are alive, they can best keep their nutrition and fresh fragrance. If crabs die, they will soon breed bacteria, and their nutritional value will be greatly reduced, not to mention their bad taste. So how to preserve crabs at this time is a problem that everyone is concerned about. In fact, there are three ways to preserve crabs, but it is best not to preserve them for a long time for their nutrition and taste.

1. preservation method 1

it is relatively simple to preserve crabs that can be eaten in about three days if they are not enough. Choose vigorous crabs, bind their feet to reduce the physical consumption of crabs, then put them in the freezer of the refrigerator, keep the temperature at 5 -1 degrees, and cover them with wet towels for preservation. When eating every day, choose the ones with insufficient vitality first, and the crabs with sufficient vitality can continue to be preserved.

The way to tell the difference is to touch the crab's eyes with your hand, and eat it first if it is insensitive.

2. Preservation method 2

Choose vigorous crabs, prepare a plastic bucket/basin with a height of 3-5 cm, and put the crabs in it without stacking; Then add water to half the height of the crab's body, mainly to keep it moist. You can't bury all the crabs

. Because you are unlikely to have oxygen-increasing equipment, if the water is too deep, the crabs will suffocate due to lack of oxygen. There is no need to cover the bucket/basin, check the crabs every day, eat the crabs with insufficient vitality in time, and preserve Yangcheng Lake crabs by this method. When the temperature is not high, crabs can be preserved for more than 5 days.

3. preservation method 3

if you can't eat all the crabs in three to five days, the best preservation method is to make your own bathtub as a temporary breeding pool and let them enjoy it first, because the walls of the bathtub are smooth and the crabs can't escape. Pour the crabs into the bathtub gently, fill them with water until they are just buried, so that they can breathe on the water, and put a small amount of small fish and shrimp according to the storage time and quantity. Use this method.

4. Pay attention to

Do not eat cooked crabs for a long time. Stored cooked crabs are easily polluted by bacteria, so crabs should be cooked and eaten now, not stored. In case you can't finish eating, the rest must be kept

in a clean, cool and ventilated place (preferably in the refrigerator), and must be cooked and steamed thoroughly when eating.