Monkey head mushrooms can be soaked for 4 to 5 hours. Specific method: use water to wash the surface of the monkey head mushroom spoils, remove the root (one of the root causes of the bitter taste) into the basin, add 30 ° - 40 ° of warm water (with rice water is better) soaked 3.5-4 hours, until the hand pinch the monkey head mushroom without hard lumps when you can. Soak the monkey head mushrooms, you need to go through four processes, which are washing, soaking, cleaning, steaming, so that soaking out the monkey head mushrooms, there will be no bitter taste taste, and the dishes and soups will taste more fresh.

Monkey head mushroom soaking precautions: never use boiling water soaking, one, the temperature of the boiling water will make the monkey head mushroom nutrient loss, the water temperature more than 60 ° will make the monkey head mushroom active nutrient loss, and two, with boiling water soaking will make the monkey head mushroom internal meat tendons, affecting the taste.

Monkey head mushroom cleaning process: 1, soaking good monkey head mushroom, root tip up, with scissors to the root tip, black parts cut off, continue to put back into the warm water. 2, with a hand like squeezing the sponge, repeatedly scrub the monkey head mushrooms, scrubbing the process, the color of the water will slowly deepen.

3, after the monkey head mushrooms out, from the new into the rice water, and then continue to scrub, so repeated 3-4 times. 4, until the wash out of the monkey head mushrooms water without a bitter taste, so that represents the success of the cleaning.