1. Ready-to-eat sea cucumber with packaging bought directly from the specialty store. This kind of sea cucumber is the simplest to handle before eating. Directly put it in water to melt and serve. It is best to melt with cold water or hot water, but the sea cucumber melted in cold water tastes better.
2. Choose instant sea cucumber made in dry sea cucumber. The sea cucumber made by ourselves will not have preservatives or anything, but the method of making it is important.
(1) Put the sea cucumber in an oil-free basin, soak it in cold water, put it in the freezer for two to three days, and change the water every 24 hours.
(2) Boil the soaked sea cucumber in an oil-free pot and keep it boiling for 1-2 hours. Take it out and pinch it with your hand to see if there is a hard heart inside. If there is, you need to continue cooking.
(3) After taking it out, cut it from the bottom opening with scissors, take out the sand mouth, dry it naturally, cool it and soak it in water for two to three days.
3. Natural thawing method: take out the frozen instant sea cucumber and put it on a plate, and let it thaw naturally at room temperature, usually about 12 hours. Natural thawing is the best thawing method, so that the thawed sea cucumber has the best quality.
4. Cold water thawing method: soak the whole bag of ready-to-eat sea cucumber in cold water below 25 degrees, and then open the bag and take it out after the sea cucumber is thawed. This method can also ensure that the taste of sea cucumber is not destroyed to the maximum extent.
Instant sea cucumber breaks the complex molecular chain of sea cucumber through technology, leaving the important active nutrients in the sea cucumber, which can be fully absorbed and utilized by the human body without foaming.
The advantages of instant sea cucumber are: saving trouble, simple and convenient to eat. The phenomenon of nutrition loss caused by soaking in dry sea cucumber by family users is avoided, and the great waste caused by soaking in dry sea cucumber is also reduced. The disadvantage of instant sea cucumber is that due to the limitation of processing technology, the taste of instant sea cucumber is generally soft, which is slightly different from that of dry sea cucumber bubble.
Storage method:-18 degree frozen storage in refrigerator.
How to eat: Instant sea cucumbers are mostly packaged in single vacuum, and the quality of natural thawing is the best, followed by cold water or warm water thawing.
Fresh processing: refers to the processing method of boiling live sea cucumber directly in water (high pressure or low pressure) and then freezing and selling it. The processing link is simple, the nutritional value should be kept intact, the taste is smooth, the moisture content is low, and the fishy smell is slightly lower.
Water-soaked processing: Water-soaked sea cucumber means that dry sea cucumber is soaked and frozen for sale. The quality of ready-to-eat sea cucumber depends on the quality of dry sea cucumber. At present, there are many quality problems in dry sea cucumber, such as adding sugar, salt and even additives, which leads to serious nutrient loss of ready-to-eat sea cucumber in water.
Another problem of water-borne sea cucumber is uncontrolled foaming. For example, an 8cm sea cucumber weighing 60g can be foamed to a length of 13cm and a weight of 100g. This kind of sea cucumber tastes soft and glutinous, and it will break when touched, and there is basically no fishy smell.
Add half-cooked raw sea cucumber: This kind of sea cucumber is the worst processing method on the market at present. This processing method only needs 1-2 kg of live sea cucumber to process 1 kg of instant sea cucumber. Because alkali is used in the processing, it will not lose weight and shrink during the processing.
And it tastes harder than normal sea cucumbers. People who don't understand sea cucumber often mistake it for Q, but it is actually a kind of instant sea cucumber with the worst quality, generally tens of yuan. This processing is generally characterized by astringent but not slippery skin and fishy smell!