Can crayfish be frozen before cooking?
Reading time – 2 minutes.
It is not forbidden to freeze crayfish before cooking, but it is worth considering that this loses its taste, and the meat becomes somewhat tougher – it becomes rubberized and it is more difficult to separate it from the shell. Significant taste impairments can be avoided by freezing immediately after catch. The second condition is that they must be dry and hermetically sealed.
The storage temperature should not exceed -18 C °. The shelf life of frozen crayfish is no more than a month.
You can not freeze and eat crayfish that died a natural death after being caught.
/ /