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Four Star Seafood
Live Dungeness Crab
$22.50
Live local Dungeness Crab! 1.5# and larger. From our local boats.
Origin: California
Method of Capture: Pots
Wild or Farmed: Wild
Good Alternative MSC
Live Dungeness Crabs has a light reddish, brown hue on their back, sometimes with a purplish wash in the front portion. Some will have characteristic patterns of lighter streaks and spots on their back as well. They will have white-tipped pincers on their claws.
If you are going to boil this crab, make sure the water is as salty as seawater. The delicate flavor of the meat can be diluted and weakened if it is not cooked in saline water.
Although a Dungeness freezes well, but nothing compares to the flavor of a fresh, live crab.
Ideally you want to cook live crabs as soon as you receive them. If you do need to store them, place them in an open container, like a large bowl, and line it with wet newspaper or towels, and place inside the refrigerator or a cooler. Temperatures at around 48 degrees or lower is ideal. You want to recreate a cool, moist (not wet), and dark environment open to oxygen. This will keep the crab alive for one extra day, at most.