The skill of fishermen makes clams clean up sand without a seed before cooking very simple

First, the housewives should buy clams in the seafood market area to make it easy to pick up the fresh clam. However, not everyone is near the seafood market, so when buying clams, you should choose heavy ones, when there is no bad smell. Then bring to preliminary processing to clean sand before processing.

The way to clean sand in clam of clam catchers is very simple as follows:

- Put the clam in the water basin and soak for about 1 hour for the clam to open its mouth. Then, use a strong hand to wash and remove the sand and dirt from outside and inside the clam.

- Then clam into a sealed container, add a little water, close the lid, then shake it hard and long to make a clam feel like "motion sickness", then add water to continue immersion, the clam will not "stand firm" but after a certain time, it automatically releases all the sand.

Many people are surprised with this method but it is really effective, please try it! In addition, if people do not want to waste energy because they have to shake the clam continuously, it can be replaced by another method below:

- Soak the clams overnight in a pot of water with salt, vinegar, and cooking wine. After a night, make sure the clam will release all the sand, you are spoiled for cooking!

How to choose to buy good clams, oysters and snails

For clams

You should choose the ones with hard shells, close their mouths, hold heavy hands. If the clam is light, use the hand to separate it easily.

For clams opening their mouths, if you touch them, they shut their mouths, proving it is alive and delicious.

For blood cockles

With blood cockles, you should not choose the ones that are too big or too small. Should choose the medium range is the best. Because the big ones when processing meat will be very tough, the small ones will be shrunken and not pleasing to the eyes.

When choosing oysters, you should choose the ones that stick out your tongue, so that they are alive and fresh. For those who shut their mouth if they smell bad, it is dead shellfish and should not be bought.

For snails

Fresh and delicious snails are snails that have eyebrows lying close to the outside. When you touch it will close. With the snail not delicious, on the contrary, when you touch the snail will indent deep inside. Dead snails have an extremely unpleasant odor.

When coming close to snail basket with strange smell, you should not buy. In addition, to avoid buying snails that have children to eat will not be fat and lose good you should not buy snails on the early moon or late moon!

Because at these two times, on the occasion of the snail's breeding, they have many small children.