Crab can be frozen after steaming.
Steamed crabs can be put in the refrigerator frozen preservation, generally need to eat the cooked crabs into a clean container, will be sealed up into the refrigerator for preservation, and then put into the refrigerator freezer can be, wait until you want to eat and then take it out to re-heat, such as seafood this kind of food, usually the shelf life is relatively short. In this way crabs can usually be kept frozen for about 3-4 days.
But note that you can't put fresh crabs in the freezer, because fresh crab meat is very soft and tender, which contains a lot of water, directly frozen, then, when thawed, the ingredients in the meat may be melted away with the water, making the crab taste greatly reduced.
Crab selection skills:
1, look at the shell shell color is bright, shiny, and dark green, generally thick and solid body; yellow, most of the more thin; can pick to the "Golden Hair Golden Claw" better.
2, look at the navel convex out, generally fat fat cream full: concave in, most of the fat body is not enough. When the hands of the crab should also feel enough "heavy", this is to pick the fat and cream, crab meat full of hairy crabs.
3, look at the crab feet claws solid, crab feet on the "foot hair" clumps, generally fat old healthy; hairless, most of the body is soft no fat.
4, look at the male and female as the saying goes: "the lunar month of August to pick female crabs, September after the selection of male crabs". Because after the ninth month of the lunar calendar, male crab gonads mature well, taste the best nutrition. But now we all like to choose female. General belly button round for female crabs, belly button pointed for male crabs.
5, see whether the crab is responsive, if the hand or branch touch its eyes next to the eye, the eyeballs will be flexible flashing, responsive, or will be "mouth spraying white bubbles" of the person, or enough raw and fresh.