The scales of hairtail stick firmly to the fish body, which is difficult to clean by rubbing with hands, and it takes time to scrape with a knife. Add some salt and ginger when cleaning, so that the freshness of fish will not be affected by foreign objects when cleaning. Hairtail has a strong fishy smell and is very greasy. It is not easy to wash it directly with water. We can soak it in alkaline water for a while and then wash it with clean water, so it will be washed quickly without fishy smell.
There is an advantage of this treatment, that is, scraping with nails will not hurt your hands! Of course, you can also wipe it against the fish scales with a rag, because the fish scales are already open and easy to fall off, so just wash the rag.
How to thaw hairtail
In fact, there is a simple trick here. Just sprinkle some rice wine on the fresh hairtail bought in the cold storage and put it back in the refrigerator called high temperature cold storage, and it will thaw quickly, and there will be no water and no foul smell of freezing.
After thawing, soak it in ginger juice boiled in boiling water and air-dried for half an hour, and then scrub it with steel balls, so it is easy to clean fish scales and dirt, and it can remove fishy smell and increase freshness. In most cases, it is not appropriate to take out the fish scales, because even after a long time in the refrigerator, the fish scales of hairtail are still very nutritious.