1. Soak in salt water for more than 3 hours

As long as the clams are soaked in salt water for a period of time, they will open their mouths and spit out the sand in their stomachs. I just always go to the market in the morning and buy the clams back, then run them in salt water for the morning, then bring them to fry at noon, and basically the sand will be spit out pretty much.

No one wants to eat a mouthful of sandy clams, especially after a quick stir-fry, the sand usually doesn't fall into the broth, unlike white clams in boiled soup that may fall into the broth, and it's just not that bad.

2. put rusty nails or knives

This is a seafood seller taught me, is to put some rusty knives with the clams together, the clams will also spit out the sand, just this relative to salt water, I feel that the effect is not so obvious, and I do not know if I use the knives are not rusty enough.

3. and then hard to rub the clam shell

Don't think that the clams spit out the sand even if clean, the clam shell is a little dirty, after all, a long time soaked in seawater, some of the moss, mud is very normal, it is necessary to rub each clam hard, really feel too dirty, you need to use a brush to brush a little more than a few times the water, washed clean.

4. Boil a pot of boiling water to let the clams open and then rinse with cold water

This last method is the most practical and fastest, without waiting for hours, is to boil a pot of boiling water, put the cleaned clams in it, cook for a minute or so, and the clams will immediately open, then you have to leave the fire. And then the clams to the pot to go, with cold water rinse three or two times, open the mouth of the clam meat in the sand will be rinsed off, in this way you can ensure that every clam is clean.