How long can lobsters live out of water, waiting to be cooked?

My hub and I have left lobsters in the fridge waiting to be cooked for 48 hours before, waiting 7 hours is going to be fine!

kylaamn, the lobsters probably died because you used the wrong amount of salt in the water, sea water has about 6% salt content, any more or less will kill any saltwater animal.

My guess would be that your lobsters died due to you putting them in the salt water. the salinity of the sea is roughly 3.5%, not the 6% as stated prior.

Keeping them in the fridge for 7 hours is quite long. Before long the lobsters will start secreting a mucus due to their inability to breathe. If you can get your hands on some fresh seaweed, do so. This will prolong the life of the lobsters to around a day, and possibly two.

1) While the nerves may fail at this point, the brains of lobsters will take a while to reach 25c because their shells have a low thermal conductivity, meaning their insides won't respond very quickly to changes in temperature in their environments. So in theory, they will feel pain for quite a bit until their insides hit the 25c mark. 2) Killing a living thing with a brain and nerves is bad no matter how it's done.

not that long i had lobster tonight for dinner and we brought them home LIVE!! and with in 20 min sitting in the sink with water and salt they died:( i felt bad

Poor lobsters.

Fresh is the best, then no chance of food borne illnesses coming into effect.

I wouldnt wait much longer than that. put them either on ice or in the fridge to keep them cool and dry. but dont wait no more than that...

out of salt water they will live for a max 3 hours. that's okay they will still be okay by 10 PM don't stress.

My guess is as long as you feed them and provide their clean habitat. Salt water?

u r not a human...

please be a vegetarian and do some good for yourself.