If you don't finish it that night, you can put it in the refrigerator after it cools down and wrap it in plastic wrap, or you can freeze it if you have the conditions. But the refrigerator stored in the cooked crab at the latest do not exceed the next day at noon, and then eat again to remember to steam once again, eat the best put some ginger, favorable sterilization. This way to eat crab, to ensure that the enjoyment of delicious at the same time, but also take into account the safety.
Two, save cooked crab, if you want to eat, try to return to the pot to steam through before eating, but to be covered in the freezer layer of the refrigerator, because cooked crab and fog, dew and other toxic contact, the next day to eat when you have to cook again, cook in boiling water, to be heated for half an hour after the opening of the pot, to prevent microorganisms within the crab has not been completely killed. Avoid eating crab without seasoning because of the cold nature of crab, eating crab should be accompanied by ginger, vinegar, etc., to prevent stomach injury. But if the flavor is changed, it is best to throw away although waste, but health is more important.
Three, if the cooked crab short-term preservation, can be covered with plastic wrap, placed in a cool ventilated place. Generally can be kept fresh for 6 - 8 hours, provided that the day is colder and the temperature is lower. If the weather is hot and you want to keep cooked crabs for a short period of time, you will have to put the crabs in the refrigerator freezer. This way the crabs at noon can be kept until evening, but not overnight. If you want to store cooked crabs for a long time, such as overnight, you'll have to put them in the freezer. However, direct freezing tends to cause cooked crabs to lose moisture and become dry and unpalatable. When freezing, you can freeze them together with the soup in which the crabs were cooked, which will keep the crabs fresh.
Four, cooked river crab can be eaten overnight, but not into the refrigerator is equal to the safe, stored for too long cooked crab is still easy to trigger poisoning killer. The principle is the same for the histidine mentioned above. Overnight leftover crab, histidine will be in the role of some microorganisms decomposed into histamine, back to the pot heating although you can kill pathogenic microorganisms, but can not destroy the toxin, so, eat stored too long cooked river crab, may also lead to histamine poisoning.
Fifth, because the crab meat is tender, or cooked to eat clean best, and then into the refrigerator to save easy to lose nutrients. So it's better to eat them as you go. If you take out the cooked crab from the refrigerator ready to eat, be sure to cook the crab through again before eating.