1, Remove the fins and heads of fresh hairtail, cut the hairtail's belly and put it in sections. If hairtail is frozen, you need to thaw hairtail naturally, take out the internal organs of hairtail's belly and throw them away, then take the hairtail section under tap water, rub off the black film in the hairtail's belly with your hands while washing it, and then rinse the hairtail section clean.

2. First cut the hairtail into sections, then put it in hot water at about 80 degrees for about ten seconds, then quickly put it in cold water, add a proper amount of fine salt and ginger slices in the cold water in advance, and soak it until the hairtail cools down, then scrub it with a brush or cloth, and many scales can be removed, and then rinse it with running water.

3. The scales on hairtail are firmly connected with the fish body, so it is difficult to rub them by hand. Moreover, the fishy smell and greasy taste on hairtail are very strong, and it is difficult to wash them with clean water. You can soak hairtail in alkaline water first, then wash it with clean water, and it will be easy to wash, and there is no fishy smell.

Hairtail introduction:

Hairtail belongs to trichiuridae, an order of Perciformes, a bony fish in the subphylum of Vertebrates under Chordata. Also known as nepotism, fat belt, oil belt, toothfish, etc., it is fierce. Qingdao and Rizhao cities along the Yellow Sea are called snakeheads.

Hairtail's body shape is flat like a band, silver gray, dorsal fin and pectoral fin are light gray, with tiny spots, tail is black, the tip of hairtail is big, and it gradually tapers to the tail, with a total length of about 1 meter. It is fierce and mainly feeds on shrimps and squid.