1 How to keep fresh pike crab storage Put into the water

Pike crab is a kind of sea animal, so buy back the pike crab want to keep fresh is best to continue to keep the pike crab life activities, it is recommended to put the pike crab just flush with the body of the pike crab in the water, so that the pike crab to save the breath, conditions can be fed some small fish and shrimp for the pike crab to eat.

Put in the refrigerator

Freezing is also a kind of food can be preserved, if the frozen pike crabs can be frozen pike crab legs tied with a rope, if the pike crabs placed in a foam box, it is best to put the foam box and pike crabs into the refrigerator freezer freezer together to save.

2 How long can pike crabs be kept at room temperature

Pike crabs are a kind of seafood, generally leave the living environment is not good to survive for a long time, and put in the room temperature environment to save, it may be very easy to die and then spoiled and deteriorated, can be stored for up to 3 ~ 5 days, but in order to meat better, it is recommended that the best in less than 2 hours to eat, and at the same time do not buy too much at one time, to buy a one-time portion of the eaten! The best thing to do is to buy a portion that can be eaten in one go.

3 How to see if the pike crab is dead Smell

Fresh pike crab is no odor, take a very close smell can smell a little bit of seafood fishy, but if the fishy rotten smell is more obvious, that has been deteriorated, and the heavier the smell, the longer the death of the deterioration of the time is likely to be.

Look at the state

Live pike crabs are still alive, so the legs of the pike crab are still swinging, while the dead pike crab base is in a quiet state, next to other pike crabs in the movement will not appear for the reaction.

Touch hardness

The dead pike crab meat and shell will change, the most obvious may be the shell becomes soft, and live pike crab because of the biological activity, the shell will be very hard, and pick up may also feel the weight than the same size of the pike crab to light.

4 Can you eat a dead pike crab

No.

Pike crabs can be eaten when they are dead.

Pike crabs and river crabs live in different environments, out of the seawater after the survival of a very short time, if the pike crabs die immediately after the frozen fresh, as long as this kind of preservation, are edible, buy frozen pike crabs, it is recommended to go home and put into the freezer after preservation, but if the pike crabs are rotting, it is recommended that you do not eat again.