How to clean lobster

In summer, many people like to eat crayfish. The nutritional value of crayfish is also very good. When you buy fresh crayfish from outside, the first thing you do when you get home is to clean the crayfish. The method is relatively simple. For example, put salt and vinegar in clean water, and then soak the crayfish for about 15 minutes. This way, the dirt inside can be spit out, and then clean it. Let's take a closer look below.

How to clean lobster

Step 1: After buying the lobsters, first select the dead lobsters and throw them away. Then put the live lobsters in clean water for three to four hours to allow them to vomit and excrete the dirt in their bodies. During this period, you can change the water several times. Since lobsters live in mud and eat small algae, their bodies are relatively dirty and their insides must be cleaned.

In addition to keeping it in clean water, 1. Put the lobster directly in clean water mixed with vinegar and salt and soak it for 15 minutes to force the lobster to spit out the dirt in its gills. Basically, the lobster is very clean after soaking. 2. Put the lobster in a basin, add a little salt, and then put it in a level amount of clean water and soak it for 24 hours. After 24 hours, the dirt in the abdomen of the lobster will be mostly soaked away as it crawls in the basin. At the same time, due to the effect of the light salt water, the lobster will also spit out foreign matter in its body, thus killing two birds with one stone. Automatic cleaning of the lobster inside and out is done effortlessly. There are two benefits to washing it in this way. First, it is clean. Second, after such a tossing, the lobster's resistance will not be too intense when further treatment is performed. You can also boil a pot of water, turn off the heat after the water boils, pour the lobster into the pot, and after a while you will see that the water is very dirty, and the dirt in the lobster will come out.

Step 2:

The most difficult parts to clean are the abdomen and claws of a lobster, which need to be scrubbed carefully with a brush. If I were to make it at home, I would seriously consider cutting off all the extra legs except for the two large claws of the shrimp. If the lobster is small, you can cut off the claws as well, since there is not much meat in it anyway.

Step 3:

After peeling off the lobster's head shell, we can see the stomach sac which serves as the digestive organ. Its function is similar to that of the intestines and it is very dirty! This must be removed. You can pinch the middle part of the lobster's back from behind and use scissors to cut off about 2 cm of the head, revealing a hole on the top of the head, which is enough for you to pick out the stomach sac inside with the tip of the scissors and rinse it with a small amount of water. Some lobsters have delicious "yellow" in their skulls, so when cleaning them, you can use scissors to cut it from the top of the head at an angle of about 45 degrees downward, so that the stomach sac can be taken out while preserving the "yellow". Finally, remember to rinse it carefully with a thin stream of water. This cut is very critical, as it requires removing the stomach sac on the head without removing the yellow paste on the head. Don't cut all the way in with the scissors. Cut halfway in and then pull out. This way, the entire stomach will normally come out. It's very easy to do, so just practice more.

Step 4:

Pinch the tail fin in the middle of the tail with your hands and twist it left and right until it breaks, then slowly pull it out. This way the shrimp's intestines will come out.

Finally, rinse the lobster that has undergone the above treatment with clean water three times and it can enter the kitchen. These are the methods you need to use to clean lobsters yourself. Many places that sell lobsters now require you to remove the shrimp threads and heads. If you don't want to do it yourself, you can just kill them when you buy them. When you get home, you still need to bathe the lobster with a brush to avoid sand that would affect the taste.