The time to cook clams should be well grasped, cooking time is too short clams may not be cooked thoroughly, so eat a certain impact on health. If cooked longer, the meat of the clams become old, the taste will be worse. If the rhubarb clams are boiled in water, they are usually boiled for 3-5 minutes, until the clams are open and then they are basically cooked.
Want to cook out of the yellow clams is not old, this time you can put some ginger and shallots in the bottom of the pot, and then the yellow clams directly into the pot, do not need to add water, cover the lid, cook for about five minutes, until the yellow clams are all open, then you can eat.
If the freshly purchased yellow clams are already open, and there is no reaction when you touch them with your hands, such yellow clams may be dead and are not recommended to be eaten. Yellow clams also belong to seafood, seafood this food must eat fresh, if dead, will produce a lot of bacteria, people eat, very bad.
The selection of yellow clams should also pay attention, do not buy some dead yellow clams, such yellow clams are not edible.