How to clean cuttlefish

Cuttlefish has high nutritional value and delicious taste. It is very suitable for making a variety of delicious dishes. It brings a very good sense of freshness to people's diet life and provides the body with high nutritional supplements. The body shape of cuttlefish is rather peculiar and its surface is slippery, so it is difficult to clean before cooking. Let’s take a look at the best way to clean cuttlefish. I hope everyone can understand it.

Cleaning of dried cuttlefish

1. Soak the dried cuttlefish in clean water for about 10 hours. Change the water 3-4 times during the soaking until the cuttlefish becomes soft. If you need to speed up the process, you can use warm water and add an appropriate amount of alkali.

2. After the dried cuttlefish is soaked until soft, peel off the skin. When peeling, start from the edge and peel cleanly.

3. After peeling the skin, remove the cuttlefish's bone plates. Then clean out the remaining internal organs and impurities, including eyes, teeth, etc. Then wash it with clean water and cut it into pieces or slices according to your needs.

Cleaning of fresh cuttlefish

1. The cleaning methods for fresh and frozen cuttlefish are the same, except that the frozen ones need to be thawed first.

2. Soak the cuttlefish in water for a while, clean the entire surface of the cuttlefish, and then rub the tentacles with your hands.

3. Grab the entire tentacle in the water, grab the head with your other hand, pull the entire internal organs out of the head, and separate the internal organs from the tentacles. Do not break the ink cartridge.

4. Digging out the eyes in water can prevent ink from contaminating other places. Remove any uneaten parts such as teeth.

5. Peel off the skin of the head, make a cut along the midline of the back, and remove the bone plate.

6. Put the edible head and tentacles into another basin of clean water and wash them. After washing, you can cut them.

Other methods:

1. Wash the cuttlefish, touch the hard part on its back, make a cut and take out the cuttlefish boat inside, which is the white board in the picture.

2. Take out the internal organs, that is, pull out the entire cuttlefish head. Be careful with the inkstone, if it is broken you will get your hands black. You can peel the inkstone completely from the internal organs and use it to make cuttlefish noodles. The same goes for cuttlefish paste, which can be stewed with some salt and is super delicious with rice!

3. Squeeze out the cuttlefish's eyes. There are small transparent beads in the eyes. Be careful not to let juice spray out.

4. Squeeze out the teeth. The teeth are a bit like plastic sheets. After squeezing the teeth, a ball can be squeezed out.

5. Start peeling the skin. There is a cut just now, so start from there. You can turn the whole thing over and peel off the cuttlefish skin completely. You can also peel the cuttlefish head, but the whiskers are difficult to peel, so just peel it briefly.

6. Separate the ink fountain and cuttlefish paste.