1, with the refrigerator to save crabs
According to the size of your refrigerator freezer to find a suitable foam box, you can put it in the freezer in advance to see if it fits. Then tie the legs and feet of the crabs and put them in the foam box. Place them one by one right next to each other and try to squeeze one layer before adding more. Fill the foam box with water until the water is just above the surface of the crabs. Cover the box with a lid and place it in the freezer. When you want to eat the crabs, just take them out and thaw them. This way of preserving the crabs can maximize the freshness of the crabs.
2, temporary pool preservation of crabs
If the amount of purchased crabs more than three to five days to eat, you can not use the above how to save live crab storage, the best way is to make their own bathtub as a temporary pool, the first to let out to the crabs to enjoy a little.
Because the four walls of the bathtub is smooth, the crabs can not escape, and then gently pour the crabs into the bathtub, fill the water to just bury the crabs, if the crabs put eight feet up can breathe at the surface of the water, and according to the time of storage and the number of cast flavored with a small amount of small fish and shrimp, with this method of crab storage of crabs in general can be more than 7 days or longer, the quality of the good quality of the crabs stored survival rate of up to 95% or more.
Special reminder: If you don't eat it right away, please don't wash it with water, or the crab will die. There is no need to put them in the refrigerator if the room temperature does not exceed 15℃. Under normal circumstances, it can be kept for 5-7 days, but if you keep it for too long, the crab will be thinner, and it will not affect the taste if you eat it within 3 days.
Expanded Information:
Cooked crab can be eaten overnight, but not into the refrigerator is the same as into the safe, stored for too long cooked crab is still easy to trigger poisoning killer. Overnight leftover crab, histidine will be in the role of some microorganisms decomposition into histamine, back to the pot heating although you can kill pathogenic microorganisms, but can not destroy the toxin.
So, eating cooked crabs that have been stored for too long may also lead to histamine poisoning. Improperly stored cooked crabs are also at risk of food poisoning. Because of the tenderness of crab meat, cooked and then stored in the refrigerator is easy to lose nutrients, so it is better to eat with the cooking.