Soak crayfish in salt water

Crayfish is a kind of aquatic product, so if crayfish live in water for a long time, it will contain a lot of mud, sand and parasites. Before cooking crayfish, you must wash them thoroughly to avoid mud and other pollutants in the crayfish. When cleaning crayfish, there is no need to use special cleaning products. Many people like to soak crayfish in salt water. Can this clean them?

How to clean crayfish?

Prepare appropriate amount of vinegar and salt, add to clean water and stir well, then put the lobster in and soak for about 15 minutes. The lobster will be very clean after soaking, so just rinse it 3 times with clean water.

If you are still not sure, you can brush it again with a brush. It is best to wear rubber gloves, first brush the surface of the crayfish clean, then remove the stomach from the shrimp head. When cutting with scissors, do not cut to the bottom. Cut halfway and gently pull the shrimp head out. In this way, the entire stomach will generally come out. Then pinch the tail wing in the middle of the tail with your hand and twist it left and right until it breaks. Slowly pull out the black shrimp intestines, and then clean them.

How to clean crayfish? Here are some tips for cleaning crayfish:

1. Vinegar + Salt

Soak the carefully selected crayfish in clean water mixed with vinegar and salt for 15 minutes to force the lobster to spit out the dirt in its gills. After soaking, the crayfish are basically very clean. At this time, rinse them with clean water three times and then they can be sent to the kitchen.

This method is simple and practical. Vinegar and salt are common condiments. As long as you master a certain ratio, cooking crayfish at home will be much easier and more convenient.

2. Automatic cleaning

The most difficult part to clean of crayfish is its abdominal claws. Since it is alive and has two powerful claws, it is impossible for you to clean it. So how do you clean this part of the crayfish? In fact, you can let the crayfish clean itself automatically.

After buying the crayfish, don't rush to eat it. Put it in a basin, add a little salt, and then put it in level clean water and soak it for 24 hours. After a day of crawling in the box, the dirt in the crayfish's abdomen is basically soaked out. At the same time, due to the effect of the light salt water, the crayfish also vomits out foreign objects in its body, killing two birds with one stone.

3. Manual cleaning

The first step is to raise it. After buying these crayfish home, you should soak them in water for 1 hour before washing them. You can also use 2 pools to wash them alternately. It is far from enough to just wash the surface of the crayfish. Because the environment in which crayfish grow and the food they eat are full of mud and algae, the inside of the crayfish must be cleaned before eating.

After peeling off the crayfish's head shell, we can see the stomach sac that serves as the digestive organ, which is very dirty. There is a thing in the abdomen of the crayfish that is responsible for breaking down the nutrients delivered by the stomach sac. It functions similarly to the intestines and must be removed! You can easily do it by pinching the wing in the middle of the crayfish's tail and pulling it out.

There is delicious "yellow" in the crayfish's brain, so when cleaning it, you can use scissors to cut from the top of the head to the bottom at an angle of about 45 degrees. This way, you can take out the stomach sac while retaining the "yellow". Finally, remember to rinse it carefully with a thin stream of water.