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How to open mussels
How to open mussels?

1. Take out the raised mussels and rinse them with clean water. First use a knife to cut a slit along the edge of the mussel shell, and then insert the knife along the slit to pry it open. Once the mussel shells are open, separate the mussel meat from the shells and scoop them out into a pot.

2. Remove the grayish-yellow gills and mud intestines. The method of squeezing does not completely remove the dirt, so it is best to choose in the removal method.

3, clean mussel meat. Rub the picked mussel meat with salt for a few times to wash the mucus, float it into the water again, and scrape off the putrefaction with your finger, and then rinse it with water.

How to kill mussels?

1, with a knife or fruit knife inserted into the mussel's slit, along the slit first cut a circle, which can be connected to the lower mussel slit on the meat to separate, but also the upper and lower mussel shell on the meat to separate.

2, the shell muscle is located in the upper and lower ends of the mussels, is the main connection between the two shells of the role of the point, as long as the cut section is good.

3, the above two parts are completed, with a knife slightly cocked open mussel seams, and then take the hand of a flap on the open, it is very simple, but to be out to mussels shells in some places are very sharp, it will cut the hand, especially with the gap.

4, pay attention to the knife to cut the shell muscle, to stick to the mussel shell to cut clean, so that a dig mussel meat out.