Crab Buying Guide: How To Buy And Store Fresh Crab?

A dish from crabs, to be delicious and full of nutrition, also needs clean, fresh and delicious ingredients. Therefore, you should choose fresh sea crabs to have a way to preserve the crabs for a longer time. Crab can be processed into many delicious and nutritious dishes for health. Let's also learn how to choose to buy and preserve crabs so that your family always has the most delicious and attractive dishes.

1. How to buy crabs?

Crab is a very familiar and popular ingredient in many cuisines. You can refer to some of the following tips to be able to choose to buy fresh, firm and nutritious crabs. When choosing to buy crabs, people will also distinguish between raw and cooked crabs to choose from.

2. How many crabs/person to buy?

Learning about buying and storing crabs is essential for everyone. However, the most important thing is that you should know how to choose the right amount for each person's serving. This way, you will not have to store it for too long, making the crabs no longer fresh. But only buy enough for the meal and the next day, if you want to continue to process related dishes, you can go to the market to buy more.

It is more difficult to calculate how many crabs a person needs to eat if they choose to buy live crabs. In fact, a crab will have about 20-25% meat compared to the sum of its parts. This means that the total amount of meat a person can eat from a crab is about 25% of their weight when the crab is alive.

To be safer and more reasonable, we should buy in the amount of about £3 per person. If people buy crabs with small weight, it needs to be calculated. According to our practical experience, you should get between 8 and 12 crabs for each person in the family. If there are different dishes in the meal, you can also reduce the number of crabs per person.

3. How to preserve fresh crabs?

Depending on whether the crab is alive or dead, there will be different preservation methods to ensure hygiene and safety. At the same time, it also helps you keep the crabs fresh and full of nutrients.

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