The cleanest tips for making clams spit out sand
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The most common way to make clams spit out sand is to soak them in salt water, but It usually takes several hours, and sometimes the sand cannot be spit out completely after soaking it once. It needs to be soaked longer or even several times before they can completely spit out the sand.
Method pros and cons:
Advantages: simple and easy to operate
Disadvantages: long time consuming, average sand spitting effect
Soaking in warm water
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Different from salt water soaking which takes a long time, here is a shorter and more trouble-free method. Soak the clams in warm water of about 50 degrees. Of course, there is no need to buy a thermometer. The criterion is that it feels hot to the touch but does not burn your mouth when you drink it. This will be about 50 degrees.
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Immerse them in a water temperature of about 50 degrees, and the clams will feel the danger. They will absorb more water in order to protect themselves, and they will actively vomit. Sand, usually only takes 10 minutes to complete.
However, this method requires special attention to the temperature. If the temperature is too high, it will cook them and fail to fully remove the sand.
Method pros and cons:
Advantages: short time
Disadvantages: difficult to control water temperature
Shaking method
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1. First prepare two pots, put the clams into one pot and add an appropriate amount of water.
2. Then place another pot upside down on top of the pot containing the clams, and start shaking it back and forth with your hands.
In order to facilitate everyone's observation and comparison, the sand they spit out was poured into the previous glass bowl. This is the first time they shook the sand spit out for tens of seconds.
The shaking and spitting method generally shakes them about five times to make them spit out a lot of sand, which basically makes them spit out very cleanly.
Method pros and cons:
Advantages: short time consuming, good sand spitting effect
Heated flushing
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< p>First rinse the clams you bought home under running water, then put them in a waterless wok and heat them for 3 minutes. When the clams open their shells one after another, quickly pick them out and put them under the faucet. Clean the internal sediment.02
Finally, put it back into the pot and stir-fry for seasoning. Not only is this method very fast, but the cooked clam meat is very tender, and the nutrients and moisture are not easily lost!
Pros and cons of the method:
Advantages: simple and convenient to clean
Disadvantages: there is really no such thing
Two major misunderstandings
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Adding cooking oil will not help discharge sand but will accelerate death.
The oxygen content of water with added cooking oil is reduced, making it difficult for clams to breathe, let alone vomiting sand. Such a water environment will accelerate the death of clams.
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If you keep stirring the clams, it will be more difficult for the clams to discharge sand
Stirring the clams with a stirring stick will stimulate the clams and make them Sensitive to the environment, it is difficult for clams to stretch out water pipes to discharge sand when frightened.