Hairtail fish, also known as swordfish, is a common fish in people's daily life. Especially during the Chinese New Year, everyone is accustomed to going to the store to buy a whole box of hairtail and frying it with noodles after returning home. Golden yellow and fragrant, it makes people appetizing just looking at it.

The hairtail fish is flat and long, showing a silvery gray color. It plays a very important role in our liver, skin, and cancer prevention. Although hairtail is delicious and delicious, it is quite a headache when handling it. Next, I will teach you some methods to help you handle hairtail easily!

Before handling hairtail, you must first prepare these things: a vegetable basin, a pair of scissors, a rubber waterproof glove, a plate, and a small steel ball. The hairtail fish you buy is always frozen. Everyone's consistent thought is: let the hairtail thaw first and then process it. In fact, after the hairtail fish thaws, it will become soft, which will be more troublesome and awkward to handle. If the hairtail you buy home becomes soft, you can put it in the refrigerator for a while.

But make sure the hairtails don’t stick together. Wear rubber waterproof gloves, hold the frozen hairtail, and then use scissors to cut off the head of the hairtail diagonally. Then cut the abdomen of the hairtail along the cut area of ??its head, and then take out all its internal organs. Be careful when removing the internal organs: take out the internal organs carefully and avoid being pricked by the spines of the hairtail fish.

The next step is how to clean hairtail! The outermost layer of hairtail fish has a layer of silver-gray powdery substance, which is troublesome to clean and can easily get on your hands. Therefore, we should put the processed hairtail into a vegetable basin, then pour hot water, wear rubber waterproof gloves, and use steel wool to clean the appearance of the hairtail. It should be noted that the steel wool ball is a very sharp tool, so during the cleaning process, we should use less force and gently rub the surface of the hairtail. The silver-gray powdery substance will easily fall off. Hairtail itself has a fishy smell and is relatively oily.

So we need to soak the hairtail in alkaline water for about half an hour, and then use flowing tap water to clean the head, abdomen and appearance of the hairtail several times. The black membrane on the abdomen should also be washed clean. After cleaning the hairtail, we can cut it into segments and put them on a plate for later use.

The hairtail fish you buy always comes with ice cubes, which makes it more difficult for people to judge whether the hairtail fish has gone bad. In fact, there are many techniques for this. If the hairtail is frozen for too long, its belly will turn yellow, gray-brown spots will appear on the head, and the eyeballs of the hairtail will not be fresh and full enough. The surface of fresh hairtail is only silver-gray, with no other abnormal colors, and the surface is relatively shiny. Moreover, hairtail that has been frozen for too long will have a peculiar smell, and we can also smell it with our noses when purchasing.

After learning these methods, will you still have trouble handling hairtail?