How to handle and store live lobster
- Keep transport time to a minimum.
- Keep your lobsters moist with wet newspaper or damp cloth.
- The colder the lobster is, the less it will move.
- Refrigerate your lobsters immediately and keep them cold until you are ready to cook them (best around 4°C).
- Prepare or dispatch lobster within a few hours of purchase.
- Do NOT store live lobsters in fresh or salt water, your freezer, in sealed plastic bags (lobsters need to breathe), or let them sit in melted ice.
- The best way to keep your lobsters alive for up to 24 hours is to store them covered with a damp cloth or newspaper in the coldest part of the refrigerator.
