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How about the wild old lightly dried sea cucumber in Jiaodong area?

The wild old lightly dried sea cucumber in Jiaodong is the sea cucumber dried by traditional craft, the processed dried sea cucumber due to the time of up to one month of drying, the gelatinous layer of the sea cucumber is destroyed through physical transformation, so that the nutrients of the sea cucumber are easier to be absorbed by the human body.

The processing procedure of wild old dried sea cucumber in Changdao, Penglai and Yantai in Jiaodong region:

1, fresh sea cucumber is opened and gutted, and then cleaned.

2, use an iron pot without oil to add enough water, pour in the sea cucumber and start cooking.

3, after the sea cucumber boiling boil, turn to low heat and cook for one hour.

4, fish out the boiled sea cucumber, cover with edible salt, seal and smother.

5, after the salt has been salted out the excess water in the flesh of the sea cucumber fishing out, water control.

6, the salted half-dry pull tank salt sea cucumber drying, until dry is the old light dry sea cucumber dried goods.

The old dried sea cucumber is grayish-white in color and belongs to the oldest processing technology, which is simple and inexpensive, and is loved by consumers in Jiaodong area. The sea cucumber reminds consumers to buy the old dried sea cucumber and also pay attention to observe whether it is fake, some small workshops will use saturated brine to repeatedly soak and then dry in the sun to increase the weight of the sea cucumber, the specific method of identification is to observe the bottom of the foot, the bottom of the foot of the sea cucumber is basically covered by the end of the salt can not be seen, but also to observe its thorns, the spine tip of the sea cucumber with salt will become coarse and rounded.