The difference between bamboo razor clams and razor clams

Bamboo razor clams (cheng), also known as the king of razor clams, is a marine bivalve mollusc, the body was extended, the two shells embracing a bamboo tube, so the name of the bamboo razor clams. It has a high nutritional value and is now being cultured on a large scale.

The common razor clam (Solen grandis). The shell is smooth, yellow-brown, glossy, brittle and thin; the surface is prominent, the dorsal and ventral edges are parallel to each other, the back end is purely rounded and rectangular, the growth line is obvious, the length is about 11 centimeters, it seems like two ruptured bamboo slices, so it is called bamboo razor clam.

Razor clam is the curtain clam order (Veneroida) razor clam family (Solenidae) valve gill class mollusks of the common name. Also known as razor clam emperor, holy son, bamboo locusts, dragon. Shell long, subcolumnar or ovoid, two shells equal. The anterior and posterior ends are open, the anterior end is a foot hole, and the posterior end has a water tube protruding. The top of the shell does not project, and its position varies with the different species, some being at the very front of the shell, others slightly forward of the center of the shell.

The two thus differ in appearance, species, and place of culture.

How to wash bamboo razor clams

For aquatic seafood, the general public do not understand how to wash clean, because it is not like washing vegetables as long as all the rinse is good. Aquatic seafood often have sand in the shell, wash not clean not only affect the taste, nutritional value is not good.

So, how to wash bamboo razor clams is good?

The first temporary breeding after rinsing. In the razor clam before processing, should be first temporary 24 hours, inducing the sediment spit out. The method is to put the razor clams into the net cage with a partition (scallop cage is also OK), put the water depth of 1 ~ 1.5 meters in the pool, the use of bamboo poles hanging horizontally temporary, every 3 hours vertical activities of the net cage, shake to spit out the sediment. After 24 hours of temporary culture can be fished out, with clean seawater to the razor clam body surface sediment rinse, and put into the drained plastic bucket, waiting for the next step in the processing.