Squid is not a fish, although it is customary to call squid fish, in fact, it is not a fish, but living in the ocean mollusks, is a mollusc phylum cephalopods sheaths subclass ten carpals general order of the tube squid order of the eye-opening subobjects of the animal, conical body, pale body color, with a pale brown spot, the head is large, the front of the birth of the tentacle of the 10, tail end of the fleshy fins in a triangular shape, often swimming in groups in the ocean at a depth of about 20 meters, also known as the Soft Fish, The gun squid is also known as the soft fish and gun squid.

Squid habits

Squid is often active in the shallow sea in the upper layer, the vertical range of movement up to more than 100 meters. To krill, sardines, silverfish, small males and other food, and itself for the ferocious fish prey. Eggs mature in batches and are produced in batches, the eggs are encased in gelatinous egg sheaths, each egg sheath encases a few to several hundred eggs depending on the species, and the amount of eggs produced by different species varies greatly, from several hundred to several tens of thousands. Mainly distributed in tropical and temperate shallow sea.

Squid buying method

Quality squid body shape complete solid, pink, glossy, body surface slightly white frost, fat meat, translucent, back is not red; low-quality squid body shape is small and crippled, the color of the red and yellow slightly black, no luster, the surface of the white frost is too thick, the back of the black red or moldy red. Market to see the squid have two kinds of squid: one is the cadre of fat squid, it is also known as the "gun squid", a cadre of elongated squid, it is also known as the "soft fish", the small soft fish commonly known as the "small tube boy "

Squid how to clean

1, clean up the internal organs

Use a knife to cut from the back of the squid, the back of the fish spines, cartilage parts of the two transparent slender bones is, take it out. Split it open and rip out all the intestines.

2, remove the skin

Skin on the back of the squid, you can pull off the 2 squid foot pieces first, first remove the skin near the foot pieces. Then from the corner of the squid began to lift the skin began to slowly pull. After removing the skin, the squid is white and tender.

3, go to the eyes

Cut the head, the inside of the dirty wash away, squeeze the eyes, and then squeeze out the teeth.

4, clean the squid suckers

Cut the squid whiskers from the head, each squid whisker must be cleaned one by one the round suckers on it.

Squid sour can still eat it

Squid sour generally can no longer eat, indicating that it has deteriorated, you can throw away the squid in time, or as a pet food to use. In addition, the preservation of squid must pay attention to the preservation time, the expiration date can not be eaten.