Freeze with water
Prepare a suitable sized organizing box with a lid, tie up the legs of the pike crabs with leather straps to prevent the crabs from running around, and place them neatly in the box, then pour in a suitable amount of water not over the pike crabs and put them into the refrigerator for freezing with the lid on.
Steaming and freezing
Buy the pike crabs at home, all at once into the pot to steam, not eaten all right, one by one, wrapped in plastic wrap, into the refrigerator frozen, can be saved at least half a month to eat without defrosting, directly into the steamer steamer for 10 minutes can be.
With this method of preservation of the pike crab, taste, flavor and live crab as good, because it has been steamed, so do not have to worry about the crab meat shrinkage, eat when still so full, fat.
It should be noted that the pike crab steamed must be thoroughly cooled before wrapping up and preserved if wrapped up and frozen while hot, there will be water vapor, resulting in the deterioration of the pike crab.