The second step: when the salt particles are completely dissolved, the clams will be poured into the water, the water should not over the clams. Then add a few drops of cooking oil to the water and stir with chopsticks. Half an hour later, the clams will stick out their tongues and spray water around, about 2 hours later, the clams in the body of the sediment is spit out very clean, you can rest assured that used to cook food it. Of course, if you have time, the longer you soak the better, but not more than a day, otherwise the clams will be thin.
Note: In general, most people only put salt or only oil, in fact, the two at the same time put the best results, the time required is also the shortest, so that the clams better spit clean sediment.
In addition, in order to prevent the clams will spit out the sediment again sucked back, in the soaking, the clams can be placed in a water filter basket, and then set the water filter basket on the water basin, so that the filter basket to maintain a distance of four or five centimeters. In this way, the sand spat out by the clams will sink to the bottom of the basin and will not be sucked back.
Step 3: Fish out the clams that have spit out the sand, rinse them with water and they're ready to cook.
Clams often harbor sand and mud in their flesh, and the common method is to soak the clams in seawater or salt water, but this method takes a long time and makes it difficult for the clams to spit out the mud.
At this time, the following methods can be taken to dispose of:
1) Pour seawater or salt water into the container with clams; then add a few drops of peanut oil to the container with clams, and then use chopsticks to stir, so that the oil flower evenly spread on the water, so that the water is isolated from the air, and the clams will soon spit out the mud and sand.
2) put iron (such as a pair of scissors) into the container of clams, shellfish have smell the iron flavor will spit sediment habit. This will also make the clams spit out sand quickly and well.
3) back and forth shaking: find a larger, with a lid of the pot or box, put the shells in, pour a little water, no more than can be, and then use your hands to keep shaking the container back and forth, moderate strength, not too big, or the shells of the clams will be crumbled, the appearance of bad. Shake two minutes later, the clams fainted, will spit out a lot of sediment, wash with water and then shake, repeated three times is almost.
4) blanching: this method is the most direct, the most thorough removal of clams in the sediment method, but if you use the clams to do the soup, it is not recommended to use this method, the fresh flavor will flow. It can be used for stir-frying clams. Put the clams in a pot of boiling water, cover the pot, and fish them out after a minute. Rinse the clams again with water to thoroughly clean the mud from the clams, drain and set aside. You can remove the mud without any reservation with this method. A friend suggested that I use the water in which I blanched the clams to cool them, so that the sand will sink to the bottom, and take the water on top and wash them again, so as to maintain the fresh flavor of the clams. I think it makes sense too.
Warm tips: If you can place an isolation net in the middle of the clams and the bottom of the container, so that the clams and the bottom of the container to leave a certain amount of space, the sand will sink directly to the bottom, more helpful to the clams to spit sand.