Sea crabs can be eaten when they are dead. The so-called crab that refers to the river crab, sea crab is called sea crab not called crab. Some people heard that the crab dead can not eat mistakenly think that all the crab dead can not eat it . This is a misconception. The river crab dead absolutely poisonous, the sea is the sea crab is not called crab, sea crab dead eat all right. Of course, don't eat them if they're rotten. Now the conditions are good enough to eat live sea crabs. Of course, live sea crabs are fresh and the meat is tight. But dead sea crabs are just as good as those that have not been around long enough.

To identify dead crabs, look, smell and pinch.

1, see: look at the color, dead crab color dull.

Fresh crabs cooked back bright red, bright white abdomen, while the dead crab back dark red, gray abdomen, gray.

2, smell: dead crabs have a rotten flavor.

Live crabs cooked is fresh seafood flavor, if you think the crab itself is very stinky should be the inherent fishy smell of seafood, get used to it does not feel the stink, and dead crabs due to the meat has been corrupted, the rotten meat is cooked there will be a particularly pungent stench, different from the rancid stench of the meal spoiled.

3, pinch: dead crabs are very soft after cooking.

Live crabs are hard after being cooked, and their shells will not be concave when pressed by hand, while dead crabs are soft because they have begun to rot, so they will be pressed down when pressed gently by hand.