How to keep fresh pike crabs overnight:
1, water freezing method: Fresh pike crabs want to ensure the perfect taste, it is best to choose the water freezing method.
Prepare a small box, the pike crab one by one next to the yard, and then add water to the inside, until the water completely did not over the pike crab, cover the lid into the refrigerator freezer frozen. Take them out and thaw them before serving, which is how long-distance transportation is done to ensure the freshness of pike crabs without affecting the taste of the meat. Raw frozen pike crabs, not suitable for steaming, it is best to be used for fried food.
2, steamed and then frozen: This method applies to many families, a time to eat the pike crab steamed, do not have to worry about will be wasted. Directly sealed with a plastic bag, into the refrigerator freezer to save, stored for a week meat is still very fresh.
Steaming pike crabs need to pay attention to: pike crabs cleaned, belly up, water boiled over high heat steaming for 12-20 minutes; after steaming pike cooked must be cooled, immediately into the refrigerator freezer, so that you can maximize the freshness of the crab to maintain the taste of the crab. Save pike crabs, not directly in the refrigerator.
The pike crab belongs to the Arthropoda phylum Crustacea in animal taxonomy, and its cephalothoracic armor has nine serrated teeth on each side of the anterior edge of the left and right sides of the head, the last tooth is large and long, and protrudes horizontally and laterally, so that the middle part of the cephalothoracic armor is broad, and both sides of the pointed and thin, in the shape of a weaving pike, so that is why it got its name.
The pike crab grows in the shallow sea near the shore, inhabits the sea area with water depth of 10 to 50 meters, and is most intensive in the sea area with mud and sand substrate with water depth of 10 to 30 meters. Pike crabs in the daytime when the light is strong, lurking in the seabed, and at night to swim to the water layer for food.