Cooked hairy crabs can be stored in the freezing area, but it is not recommended to store them for too long, usually about 3-5 days, because household refrigerators are only routinely frozen, which will lead to changes in the texture and flavor of hairy crabs, such as severe dehydration of muscle tissue and serious juice loss after freezing and reheating, which will lead to poor taste. At the same time, the characteristic flavor of hairy crabs will be weakened, and the bad flavors such as ammonia smell and fishy smell will be aggravated, so it is not recommended to freeze hairy crabs in domestic refrigerators.
2 How to thaw hairy crabs 1, and thaw frozen crabs with cold water. Thaw frozen crabs to a place with temperature, which will thaw faster. Aquatic products and fresh meat quick-frozen foods should be moved from the freezer to the freezer (1℃- 10℃). Food should be moved several hours to one day in advance (depending on the size of the food).
2. Thaw with salt water If it is too late to put it in the refrigerator, you can thaw the crabs completely with salt water. This is because salt water can accelerate the melting of ice without breeding bacteria. Tap water is not suitable for thawing frozen meat.
3. Adding vinegar to thaw vinegar can also accelerate the melting of ice. You can pick up crabs with chopsticks and soak them in vinegar and water, or you can speed up the thawing of crabs.
4. When thawing in the microwave oven, you must use the lowest gear and gradually heat it. First, heat it for about two minutes, and then determine the heating time according to the degree of thawing of crabs until it is completely thawed.
Can live hairy crabs be frozen? Generally not recommended.
Although fresh crabs can be frozen directly in the freezer of the refrigerator, it feels rude to do so. Moreover, crabs are aquatic products, and the most important thing when we eat them is to eat the delicious taste of seafood. If we cook them in the freezer, the taste will be greatly reduced, the meat will become tasteless, and the crabs that may be more easily recognized will have a stronger smell. Therefore, it will lose the umami flavor of seafood, and it is best not to do so.
How to eat hairy crabs 1. Crab shell according to your own taste and preference, choose male/female crabs, take out the cooked crabs, dry them, and open the crab shells by hand.
Second, turn the crab upside down and break it off, because the crab intestines in the crab navel are dirty and can't be eaten, even if there is some yellow in the crab navel of the mother crab, if it is not handled properly, it is not recommended to eat it for fear of being polluted by the crab intestines.
Third, eat crab yellow/paste the mother crab to eat yellow, and the male crab to eat yellow; After the crab shell is lifted, take the crab stomach out of the crab cover, then take the crab yolk/crab paste out of the crab cover with a spoon and dip it in vinegar and shredded ginger. Of course, if you eat well, you can suck a layer of crab yellow/cream on the outside of the crab's stomach.
Fourth, eat crabs. Open the crab body with both hands, suck the crab yolk/crab paste on the cross section of the crab body, then grab the root of the crab leg with your fingers and tear off the crab body along the texture of the crab body, dip it in vinegar and ginger, or pick out the crab meat with a toothpick.
5. After eating crabs, you can eat crab legs, which mainly eat its thighs. You can break off the crab legs, bite off both ends, and suck skillfully, so that you can suck out the whole crab thigh. If you don't have enough to eat, you can cut off the crab leg shell once with scissors and pick out the crab leg meat.
Sixth, eating crabs and cutting crabs is the most powerful, save them for the last one. Crab scissors are broken into three sections by hand according to the joints. The biggest part has a crab scissors, which can be moved and forcibly broken, and then the crab shell is cut open with scissors to pick out the meat, and then the meat at other joints is picked out in turn.