How to preserve small yellow croaker
The special cold storage should be able to freeze.
If you have your own refrigerator, it will take a month or two at most. Fish will go bad if it takes too long. Even if it's not bad, there is less nutrition. If you want to store fresh yellow croaker, you should first remove the internal organs and scales, wipe off the water and put it in a fresh-keeping bag. It can only be stored for 2 days in the freezer and for a long time in the freezer.
How to preserve dried small yellow croaker
The first method is to soak the yellow croaker in hot water at 88℃ for 2 seconds, and then store it on ice after the surface of the fish turns white. In this way, the storage time of fish can be extended by about two times.
The second method is: first, cut the belly of the fish without scraping scales or washing with water, then soak it in cold salt and boiling water for half a day, then dry it, and apply a layer of edible vegetable oil to the scales and belly, so that the fish is still delicious after two or three days.
How to choose fresh small yellow croaker
The small yellow croaker in the supermarket is usually frozen fish! If it is fresh, its color is bright, the scales are intact and the body is complete; The eyeball should be convex, black and white, cool and clean. The anus is the easiest to deteriorate on the surface of fish. If the inside of fish is not fresh, the anus of fish will be slack, rotten, red, swollen, protruding and cracked, while the anus of fresh fish is intact without cracks, compact in appearance and without yellow, red and turbid colors.
How to distinguish small yellow croaker from large yellow croaker?
The shape of small yellow croaker is very similar to that of large yellow croaker, but it is smaller, with a body length of16 ~ 25 cm, a weight of 200 ~ 300 g, and a yellowish brown back. The main differences between large yellow croaker and small yellow croaker are as follows: the scales of large yellow croaker are smaller while those of small yellow croaker are larger and rarer; The tail handle of large yellow croaker is longer than that of small yellow croaker. The second fin spine of the gluteal fin of Pseudosciaena crocea is equal to or larger than the eye diameter. The small yellow croaker is smaller than the eye diameter; The jaws of Pseudosciaena crocea have 4 inconspicuous small holes, while those of Pseudosciaena crocea have 6 small holes. The lower lip of Pseudosciaena crocea is longer than the upper lip. The mouth is round when closed, the upper and lower lips of small yellow croaker are equal in length, and the mouth is sharp when closed.