Flower armor blanching usually three to five minutes.

The exact point in time to blanch a flower nail should be when it starts to open its shell and stops burning after it is fished out to keep it fresh and avoid excessive loss of freshness. The blanching time should not be too long to avoid affecting the flavor of the meat.

Before blanching, you should add some salt to the water to remove the sediments in the flower nails. If you blanch with directly heated water, you need to blanch for about 3 minutes. If you blanch with warm water, you need to blanch for about 5 minutes.

Unblanched flower nails are prone to uneven heating during frying, with shells and meat separating or meat being very loose and not firm. Blanching promotes the formation of a complete shape of the flower nail. In addition, after blanching, the flower nails need cold water. Flower nails from cold water will be more elastic and make them taste better.

Life habits and distribution range of flower nails

1, life habits

Flower nails mainly consume single-celled algae such as chlorella, hairy algae or crescentic rhododendron algae. By foot burrowing, shallow in summer and deep in winter, buried in the mudflats, camp bottom life. Its main natural enemies are crabs, snails, fish and so on.

2, the distribution range

Flower armor is widely distributed in China's north and south sea area, China's Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Zhejiang and other coastal waters, Fujian and Guangdong coastal production is more, the season in late spring and early summer. It grows rapidly, short culture cycle, adaptable, long survival time out of water, is a kind of shellfish suitable for artificial high-density culture, there have been a large number of artificial culture in Quanzhou Bay, Weitou Bay, Deep Bay.