Choosing to buy and clean sand mud in clams, snails: thanks to peppers, metal ...

Ngao

When purchasing the shell clam, so choose the hard left and close the mouth. Clam shell, try splitting your hand if can easily separate them i.e. dead clam. There are also the clams mouth alive back open. At this time, use your hands to touch them, if you see the moving or closing the mouth clam, clam fresh longer.

Blood cockle

Delicious large blood cockle is the right size, not too big nor too small. Small children too when the processing will begin again (for grilled shellfish, small children are too meat not shrivel is covered), while adults prone to dai. Want to select fresh oysters, you notice the basket cockle has many shell out tongue fresh shellfish is displayed it fresh longer. If there's time you should select them individually. If the shell shut up, you still can get a live shell or die by inhaling the shellfish, if odors, then absolutely do not buy.

The snail

The delicious snails you located outside, when touching, you closed. In contrast, deep indented in the real estate is not delicious. Dead snails have very unpleasant smell.

* How to clean

For clam, steel trap

One simple way to wash clean clams is washed with salt and chili pepper clams. After buying the clam to us washed clams with cold water, then grab a bit more salt water pots white, dropped two more peppers were finely chopped on. To remove the clam in a solution on immersion in about 1-2 hours, ngao will release the sand runs out and out of the hotel. Then rinse clean and processing. This way is used similar to the clam, a steel trap.

For screws

For screws you can clean the mud snail by soaking in a brass metal containing at least, drop some metal utensils on Thai vegetable knife, such as lips, chopsticks, spoons ... into approximately 2-3 hours, when the snail is the smell of metal they will release the mud out very fast and clean.

Or the way of the people of the Delta of the river water or used as water use wash the rice soaked take the screws purchased from markets or be caught from the river bottom up about 1-2 hours, all muddy substance in the mouth snails will auto eject and soup into each array of mucus, then you simply rinse with clean water and normal processing.

With regard to shellfish

Often the shellfish species is quite "stubborn". Take a few small drops of sesame oil to the brass water, they will slowly release the dirt out. If you don't like viscous substances and cooking can be permanently separated meat and rubbing of salt when washing to remove the slime off.=