Horseshoe water chestnut peeling tips are soaking method, hot and cold method.

1, soaking method: we need to eat the horseshoe out, put the horseshoe into a large pot, add the right amount of salt, flour, and then add the right amount of water, they will be fully stirred, so that the flour, salt and horseshoe evenly mixed in one piece. The salt can sterilize and disinfect, and the flour has a particularly strong adsorption capacity, which can adsorb all the dirt in the hoofs. After scratching and washing them once, put them aside to soak for 20 minutes.

Cleaned hoofs to the board, first put it on the board vertically, and then fixed with a hand, and then use a knife to cut off the head and tail of it all, cut off the part of not too much, because cut too much if it will cause a great deal of waste, cut off the head and tail hoofs are left in the middle of the layer of skin, we use the knife is very easy to be able to peel down the skin, so that the peeled out! This is a very clean hoof, and the waste of pulp is also very small.

2, heat expansion and contraction method: put the horseshoe into the plate, and then into the steamer, steam on high heat for 15 minutes. Time to clip out, put the horseshoe into cold water, the use of hot dirty cold shrinkage. After soaking for five minutes, use a utility knife to cut off the front tip. Then use your hands to peel off the outer skin, it is very convenient not to waste, and then use a knife to remove the back of the horseshoe tip, horseshoe skin to go well.

Growth habit of water chestnut

The growth period of water chestnut is 140-200 days. The bulb can overwinter in the soil, to the following spring with the terminal buds to produce inconspicuous shortened stems, the base of the stem node downward to produce slender fibrous roots, into the soil about 20-30 centimeters, and upward to produce when the stems (tubular stems), and continue to tiller, the formation of the mother plant.

The lateral buds then draw out 3-5 stolons in all directions, and after elongating to 10-15 centimeters, the terminal buds produce leafy stems on the ground, forming new tillers and secondary tillers of up to 30-40 plants, and stop tillering from summer heat to white grizzly (in Hangzhou, China, in late September), and later on, new bulbs are formed on the tops of the stolons.