Methods to keep crabs alive

1, refrigerator + wet paper towels

The activity of crabs is still relatively strong, and many merchants will tie up the crabs just to reduce the energy consumed by the crab activity, if you don't eat it in time after buying it home, you can tie up the crabs and then put them in the refrigerator after using wet paper towels on the surface. The temperature of the refrigerator is about 5-10℃ is good.

2, room temperature live

Eat crab season in October, the temperature is not particularly hot, the crab soaked in water, watering regularly change water, do not advance to scrub the crab, scrubbing the crab damage will also lead to a large number of deaths of crabs.

3, nutritional maintenance

Want crabs do not die then maintain humidity and survival environment, but also to provide nutrients, if you want to save a week or more, it is recommended that the crabs untied, placed in a larger pot buried in water can be, the crabs can stand out of the water to breathe on their own, and then put some small shrimp, or feed some sesame seeds, broken eggs with wine, you can fatten them.

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Precautions for eating crabs

1, crabs are not Everyone is suitable for eating

Because of the cold nature of the crab, it is not recommended for people with a cold stomach, cold hands and feet, allergic to the body to eat. In addition, because the crab is rich in high protein, especially the crab yolk, crab paste in the cholesterol content is very high, so patients with gallstones, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obese patients are not recommended to eat.

2, do not eat dead crabs

Because the crab dying body will secrete a toxic substance histamine, and will be prolonged with the time of death and accumulation. Of course, the dead crab meat will also be quickly corrupted and spoiled, and other bacteria will grow. Therefore, dead crabs should not be eaten.

3, eat crabs avoid raw food need to be cooked

While the crab has a drunken crab to eat, but because of the water quality problem, the crab body tends to have a large number of bacteria, so eat crabs must be cooked, don't crave delicious and eat raw. Cooked crabs must also be cooked and steamed through, high temperature sterilization, so that the crab shell red, after eating. Cooked and steamed through the crab such as eating is not easy to store for a long time after eating.

4, eating crabs can only eat meat, paste, yellow

Because crabs in rivers and lakes, to plankton and plants for food and like to crawl in the sand and gravel, so the gills, intestines contain a lot of mud and sand spoils (the red circle in the picture below for the inedible parts), must be removed when you eat, but only to take the crab meat, crab paste, crab yellow food. For those who suffer from coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, high blood fat, arteriosclerosis, it is recommended to eat less crab and not to eat the crab yolk and crab paste.

5, eat crabs must be vinegar, ginger food

Because of the cold crab, so stir-fried crab is to add ginger, green onion, garlic seasoning to drive away the cold to fishy, and eat steamed crab in vinegar with an appropriate amount of chopped ginger, dipped and eaten. One can offset the coldness of the crab, play a bactericidal effect, the second crab meat dipped in vinegar can be deodorized and increase the fresh flavor of the crab.

6, eat crabs male and female time to pay attention to

There is a saying called "September group umbilical cord, October tip", meaning that eating female crabs in the lunar calendar during the month of September, mainly eat female crab crab yolks, and in the lunar calendar in October, you have to eat male crabs, mainly eat male crab paste.

7, eat crab is not easy to eat the same food

Crab also has with the food, so eat crab can not eat with celery, persimmons, pears, oranges, pomegranates, tomatoes, melons, peanuts, sweet potatoes, honey, rabbit and other foods, otherwise it will bring discomfort to the body. It is not recommended to drink tea or eat cold drinks immediately within 1 hour after eating crabs.

8, after eating crabs to do drink ginger soup to wash hands

After eating crabs, if possible, it is recommended to drink a bowl of ginger brown sugar soup to warm the stomach. In addition, as a result of eating crabs on the hands will have a crab-specific fishy flavor, generally we will burn a bowl of warm water with chrysanthemum or coriander boiling to wash hands to go fishy.

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