How long does crab keep

[Pete62]

well done, gunna clean em b4 u cook em? personal preference is to, yep will keep for a couple of days no prob.

Pete

[BR65]

Neil, they taste best straight out of the pot mate, I cant help my-self, and pinch the legs.
make sure you plunge them in a ice slurry of sea water after cooking, to stop the process.
They will keep for a few days, put them in a sealed container with a plastic trivet or similar in the bottom so they dont sit in their own juices, I allways clean mine straight after cooking and break in quaters
I do as per Mick, sea water ice slurry when i catch them

[Kleyny]

Do you guys cook them in seawater or just salted tap water?

[BR65]

allways sea water mate, but its at the end of the street for me.
fresh water with sea salt would do at a pinch I spose, but getting the mix right would be hard.
just bring a bucket of water home with you at the end of the trip?

[Pete62]

Do you guys cook them in seawater or just salted tap water?

Seawater is better but a hand full of course salt will do.

Don't listen to BR65 he is probably drunk, clean em b4 u cook em

Pete

[BR65]

pfffft, do you guys even have mud crabs in NSW, I thought border patrol intercepted em all at the Tweed

and its only Wednesday, I save my drunken rantings for Friday posts

[Bazil Brush]

Yea i just put a handfull of coarse salt in the boiler.

But i don't know about lasting a couple of day's,the last couple i caught didn't even get the chance to cool off.

Baz

[Kleyny]

that was the plan Brian.

Gunna be another trip of dislikes, crab pots in my boat grrrrr and now taking a non fisher so bait in the boat too. Whats next I wonder.

Oh I forgot to mention I got pulled up in the green zone just past lime pocket. They said I couldnt have baited pots on my deck whilst in the green zone. I can understand why but my whole boat is cast deck LOL.

They let me go with a warning. After me explaining the whole dont like crabbing but its what you do to keep the wife happy lol.

neil

[Pete62]

pfffft, do you guys even have mud crabs in NSW, I thought border patrol intercepted em all at the Tweed

and its only Wednesday, I save my drunken rantings for Friday posts

That's the salmon going north u r thinking of mate, selling them to u chumps as Barra fillets.

Pete

[Pete62]

Yea i just put a handfull of coarse salt in the boiler.

But i don't know about lasting a couple of day's,the last couple i caught didn't even get the chance to cool off.

Baz

Tru that Baz, fresh bread and hot crab sangas

Pete