The fresh sea cucumber that has just been caught is called rolled cucumber by fishermen. After expanding the belly, sea cucumbers that have not yet been salted or steamed in a pot for the next step of processing are called skin cucumbers. Generally speaking, the fresh sea cucumber processed into dry products after harvesting, should first pick a small mouth from the anus, release the internal organs of the body, processed by the boiling water pot, control the clean water, cooled down after adding an appropriate amount of coarse salt and mixing (generally 500 grams of sea cucumbers to 550-750 grams of salt), marinated for 8 hours, fished out the control of the clean water, add grass ash and mix well, placed in the shade of a cool, airy place to dry (in the processing plant is generally used to ultraviolet drying), patting the surface of the sea cucumber clean. ), shoot the grass ash on the surface of the sea cucumber and put it in a bag. Generally 5-6 kg of fresh sea cucumber can be made into 500 grams of dried sea cucumber. The dried sea cucumber with large body, neat and uniform head, plump meat, complete body, no damage to meat warts, proper opening, no mud and sand in the chamber, fresh and glossy, small ash powder, sufficient dryness, moisture content within 5%-7%, and 35 heads per 500 grams are of the best quality.

Specifically: (a closer look will deepen the understanding)

1, pull the cylinder salt sea cucumber: skin ginseng after boiling in seawater or brine called pull the cylinder salt sea cucumber, general skin ginseng to be in seawater or brine to cook two to three fires, add up to more than 1 hour, some people in pursuit of the rate of sea cucumbers, sea cucumbers are only in the boiling water to cook for 5-10 minutes, then sprinkled with salt to marinate up, so that sea cucumbers or with the dry sea cucumber processed out of the dry sea cucumber. This kind of sea cucumber or dry sea cucumber processed by this kind of sea cucumber will not be long when it rises and develops, and it will be bigger when it is put into cool water, but it will shrink back once it is developed with hot water, in fact, it is sea cucumber with pulling salt. Some of the sea cucumbers sold on the market are wet and soft, and some are frozen.

2, dry sea cucumber (salt cucumber, light dry sea cucumber, pure dry sea cucumber): In Changdao or Yantai, fishermen call the sea cucumber that is boiled with seawater or saturated salt water and dried naturally by the sun, and the one that is not wrapped with salt and grass ash again as light dry sea cucumber, and the one that is wrapped with salt and grass ash and dried by the sun is called salt sea cucumber, and it is the traditional processing method of sea cucumber. According to the number of times of salt wrapping, it is called once salt, twice salt 。。。。 Five times salt, etc., because there is no uniform scale of salt wrapping, and in practice, few people every time to test the salinity, therefore, it is likely that the fisherman A's one time salt sea cucumber is equivalent to the fisherman B's three times salt sea cucumber, sea cucumber wrapped up to the third time when the salt content is already amazingly large, and there are some people sent out after wrapping, wrapped and then sent, wrapped again, so that sea cucumber once the water as a paste in some cities in some of the supermarkets, the price of the sea cucumbers is $20, and the price of the sea cucumber is $20. In some big supermarkets in some cities, the selling price is about 850 yuan for 300-400 grams. It is placed in a gift box, which is not good-looking.

Domestic ginseng (Changdao, Dalian, Yantai) processed with traditional processing methods of light dry sea cucumber in terms of taste and rehydration is better than pure dry sea cucumber processed with advanced equipment, but due to the blasphemy of the illegal processors of salt ginseng and the market competition requires industry self-regulation, resulting in the market salt ginseng the road gets narrower and narrower, and gradually withdrawn from the market in Qingdao, Jinan, Dalian, Yantai, etc., replaced by pure dry sea cucumber. dried sea cucumber instead.

The ash has the effect of preventing dampness, antiseptic and stopping bleeding. The grass wood ash is not harmful to human body, but there are some unscrupulous traders who process sea cucumber with coal ash or cinders. (Grass wood ash burnt with straw or wheat orange is black, Changdao and Yantai fishermen mostly use it, the color of sea cucumber wrapped out is also black, wrapped lightly, wrapped well, the hair does not lose its color, the water will not turn black, on the contrary, it is not; Grass wood ash burnt with peanut orange stalks and shells is white, JiaoNan fishermen use it mostly).

Pure dry senator, also known as salt-free senator, (30-32 pounds of fresh sea cucumbers out of 1 catty) the fresh sea cucumbers directly expand the belly processed into the skin of the senator and then go to cook in fresh water, the use of advanced equipment, through the low-temperature dehydration and drying, the processing of dry sea cucumbers, some manufacturers in the processing of the use of FD technology, because the sea cucumbers live in the seawater environment, it is not possible to do without salt, so salt-free senator is just a lower salt, the salt is not possible. It is impossible to have no salt at all, so salt-free ginseng in the strict sense does not exist. The water content of dried sea cucumber is below 10-12%. The dried sea cucumber imported from Japan mostly adopts this processing method, and the processing technology of Japan in dry sea cucumber is in the leading position in the world. In recent years, many domestic processing factories have also learned the dry sea cucumber processing technology of Japan through learning and joint venture cooperation methods. In recent years, many domestic processing factories have learned the processing technology of Japanese dried sea cucumber through learning and joint cooperation. The price of good quality unsalted sea cucumber in domestic shopping malls is as high as RMB 3,500-4,600/500g, and it is as high as RMB 6,000/500g in a shopping mall in Beijing.

3. FD sea cucumber: FD technology is used to process desalted and dehydrated sea cucumber (some manufacturers do not desalinate it in the processing). The FD sea cucumber, which is directly processed without expanding the belly, is like puffed popcorn and is sold on the shelves of large supermarkets for as much as RMB 8,500/500G.

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