How to store crayfish

Cancer can be called a delicacy, then that after catching they are stored for a short time. In the event that you managed to catch a lot of crayfish, but your plans do not enter them immediately to cook, you need to know how to properly store this useful and tasty product.

Since the cancers contain many trace elements and sulfur, in order to save fresh cancers, it will be necessary to create certain conditions. Fishermen knew perfectly how to properly store both alive, just caught cancers and boiled.

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How to store fresh crayfish

If you are in nature and just managed to catch a lot of crayfish, they can not be folded into aluminum dishes. If you put a catch in a saucepan of aluminum, then all cancers will be ruined, all useful substances will be destroyed.

How to store crabs:

• To keep the catch, you need to fold cancers in stainless tank or ceramic. If there is no such opportunity, then you need to go fishing, to prepare a container for transporting the catch. A spacious box is suitable, in which you need to make holes (plastic, cardboard). During the fishing, the plastic box is placed in water to create a natural habitat for the future, well, or approximate to natural. You can also store a catch in a thermos, pouring cold river water into it.
• Separate attention - transportation. In order to bring a safe catch home, you need to put a crayfish in the box, cover with a damp cloth and close the lid. Holes in such a box are mandatory, otherwise, without access of oxygen, raks may die.
• The ideal option is to purchase a special container with cooling plates. During fishing, such a container needs to be protected from direct sunlight.
• If everything is done correctly, then you have approximately 4 hours in stock to transport crayfish home.
• At home, store fresh catch in the refrigerator or in any other cool room (for example, a basement or cellar). The temperature should not be lower than +3 degrees. Storage duration - 5 days.
• Keep alive crayfish in water. You need to dial water from the reservoir and keep cancer in this water. It is advisable to change water every day, and crayfish - feed fresh river fish.

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How to store boiled crayfish

Boiled crayfish is better not to store for a long time, because they are tasty immediately as soon as they were welded. With each hour after cooking, the taste qualities of this product are reduced.

If you want to keep the boiled product, then the cancers need to be put in the freezer. Shelf life - within a month. Of course, they will not be so delicious as soon as cooked.

The second way to store cancers is to put the welded cancers directly in the container in which they were cooked together with the fridge broth. In such a form of cancers, you can store no more than 2 days.

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General rules or how to keep cancer at home

What you need to know not to spoil all the catch:

• Only large, moving cancers are selected for storage. Low-moving fresh crayfish can only be in the event that they are in cool water.
• If some time you noticed that one or more crayfish surfaced to the surface, then such individuals need to be immediately thrown away.
• If when stored in the box without water, cancer straightened the neck, then it also needs to be urgent. Such a cancer can spoil all the catch and even cause serious poisoning.
• If the cancer is hungry, he eats small fish. And if there is nothing, then the neighbor. Hungry cancer quickly loses weight.
• Freezing of both raw and boiled cancer - only in case of extreme necessity, because meat after defrosting loses not only nutritional value, but also becomes hard.

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How to cook crayfish

Secrets of cooking this product:

• cancer needs to be washed out in cool water, you can leave for 1-2 hours to reach all the dirt;
• after soaking, the cancers are pretty washed in cold water;
• to improve the taste of cancer meat, cancers can be soaked in a mixture of fresh milk with a fatty sour cream. Before boiling cancers are washed. Then the meat will be juicy and very gentle;
• cancer is lowered into boiling water, boiled for 10 minutes with strong boiling;
• such spices are added to the water: pepper peas fragrant, dill in seeds plus a few twigs of fresh dill, salt, bay leaf. Spices must bother;
• after raking, the cancers are left for 10 minutes in the fragrant broth, then served to the table, decorating the rolling of lemon or fresh greens.