On a hot summer day, how can we not have crayfish and cold beer? After dinner, I gathered some friends together, ate crayfish and drank ice wine to enjoy the summer night. It was really cozy and cool.
Crayfish are delicious, but they have to be washed and cooked to make them taste even better. Many people are afraid of washing crayfish. Here are two simple methods for cleaning crayfish.
Method 1
1. Put the purchased crayfish into a bucket or a large basin, sprinkle with edible salt and a little edible alkali, and use a stick. Stir in the bucket so that the entire bucket of crayfish is evenly exposed to the salt and alkali. After stirring, you can sprinkle some more salt.
2. Pour clean water into the bucket until the height is just above the crayfish. At this time, the crayfish will spit out the dirt in the digestive system. Then stir gently for a few minutes to clean the mud on the shrimp shells and under the gills.
3. Pour out the salt water and try to drain away the remaining salt water dirt. After leaving the crayfish in the bucket, fill the bucket with clean water and stir.
4. Repeat rinsing and stirring several times until the water becomes clear and there is no other dirt. Then you can drain the crayfish and wait for cooking.
Method 2
1. Put on gloves, hold the head of the crayfish with your hands, and cut off the left and right claws of the crayfish first. This is edible. Cut off both claws of the crayfish and soak them in clean water for a few minutes.
2. Pinch the head of the crayfish with your hands, brush the abdomen clean with a brush, and then pinch the carapace in the middle of the tail until it breaks off. Grab the tail carapace and pull it slowly so that the intestines of the shrimp come out.
3. Use scissors to cut off one-third of the crayfish head. Do not cut too much. Then use the tip of the scissors to dig out the black sac-like object inside its head, which is the shrimp stomach.
4. After gently rinsing the crayfish head with water, rinse the whole crayfish with dirt, and then put it into the basin and wait for cooking.
The above method is simple and convenient to wash crayfish. Friends who like to cook crayfish by themselves can give it a try.
