When is the best season for snails?

Snails eat best around the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Among the four seasons of the year, the best season is around the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on August 15th of the lunar calendar every year. Oncomelania usually gains weight around August 15th of the lunar calendar every year, which is a double feast of taste and taste.

Snails will be pregnant in March every year, and this time will last from March to June or July every year. Although you can choose to eat snails at this time, on the one hand, it is immoral, and on the other hand, if you eat snails during pregnancy, it will not taste very good.

Precautions for eating snails

1. Remove impurities from snails before processing. Put the fresh snail into a container, add water (a little sesame oil can be dropped into the water) and let it stand for half a day, so that the snail can naturally spit out the impurities in the body. Then rinse with clear water, cut off the tail and tip of the snail with scissors, and then rinse with clear water.

2. Cook snails at high temperature before cooking. Put the washed snail into boiling water, boil it and take it out (you can add seasonings such as onion, ginger and cooking wine when cooking to remove the fishy smell of snail). In boiling water above 80℃, larvae parasitic in snail meat can be killed.

3. The snail must be thoroughly cooked and fried for at least 20 minutes to prevent parasitic infection. The substance secreted by conch brain nerve can cause discomfort, so head should be removed before eating.