Refrigerating Left Over Steamed Crabs

by Bobby
(Baltimore, MD)

After you eat your steamed blue crabs and there are left over crabs, how long is safe to keep them refrigerated before they are no longer safe to eat?

After steaming Blue Crabs and keeping left-overs in the refrigerator, we would only recommend 3 or 4 days max. for storing them. Just a gut feeling on our end that seafood doesn't keep as well and as long as other left-overs, such as turkey or chicken or ground beef.
Good rule of thumb is to eat 'em up! "before" they do go bad.
Smell them, first, if waiting longer than 3 days, and discern any bad discoloration before reheating them.
We, personally, don't give them a chance around here to spoil and waste...one to two days here, so, basically it's "you're call" on left-over steamed crabs, just don't wait too long!