Methods to get the sand out of clams include soaking in salt water, heating, and shaking.

1, soaking in salt water

The most common way to make clams spit out sand is to soak them in salt water, which can make them spit out sand, and the method is also very simple. But generally this will take a few hours, and sometimes soaking once can not spit the sand clean, need to soak longer or even several times, in order to make them completely complete the spit sand.

2, heating

Burn a pot of hot water, add some white wine, boil, pour the flower armor into the pot, cook until the shell can be turned off the fire, and then fish out the flower armor, in the flow of water rinse can be.

3, shaking

Prepare two pots, put the clams into a pot add the right amount of water. Then put the other pot, inverted in the pot with clams on top of the hand began to rock back and forth up and down. The shaking and spitting method usually shakes them about five times, which will cause them to spit out a very large amount of sand, essentially making them very clean.

Buying a flower nail note

1, observe the flower nail opening and closing mouth

Observation of the flower nail opening and closing mouth is the simplest method. Generally in the static state, the flower nail will automatically spit out the tongue, if it is gently touched, it immediately shrink back, indicating that the occupation of the flower nail is very fresh, you can buy. So every time I buy a flower nail, I have to be quick, as soon as I see those flower nails open their mouths, quickly pick them up, so as not to alarm the other flower nails.

If the tongue, touch no reaction, this flower armor is dead, not fresh, do not buy; if it is a closed mouth flower armor, observe for a while, fresh flower armor will still automatically spit out the tongue.

2, look at the appearance

Fresh flower armor pattern color bright and shiny, if the color is dark and lusterless, we have to buy.

And the shell of the flower armor is not complete or broken, or flower armor has turned the shell, this kind of flower armor do not buy, most likely not fresh or already dead.