#My Fancy Life #After the opening of the East China Sea on August 1, the pike crab, which has the reputation of "the freshest sea in the open sea" in the East China Sea, began to be listed in large quantities. Because logistics and preservation technology have been particularly developed, the pike crab in the East China Sea now basically occupies the seafood markets of major cities.
Pike crab is fresh and sweet, but the only drawback is that poor selection may occur juicy and succulent, and it is not the fattest season for pike crabs, so it is still necessary to make a lot of effort in selecting pike crabs.
Such a pike crab space is not very interesting
Before my mother retired, she was an employee of the aquatic company, and when she went to work, she was mainly responsible for purchasing various seasonal seafood, so she knew the quality and quality of various seafood very well, and she was even more handy in picking pike crabs. My mother bought pike crab this season never bought male crab and female crab, she only chose a kind of pike crab, and mastered her 4 skills to pick crabs, it can be said that all of them are "top cover fat", today I will share with you the experience of an old aquatic person in selecting pike crabs.
Two female crabs
Everyone knows that pike crabs have male and female, this mainly depends on the umbilicus of pike crabs can be clearly divided, the pointed navel is male; the round navel is female. However, whether the pike crab is male or female, it is not yet the time of "top cover fat", if you want to achieve yellow full of cream fertilizer, you have to wait until the sea is cool again, how to get around the mid-autumn festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, so now the purchase of female crabs and male crabs is almost meaningless.
In addition to the male crab with a pointed umbilicus and a female crab with a round navel, there is also a crab with a triangular umbilic shape, and because it is between the male crab and the female crab, people also call it "second female crab".
The "second female crab" is a female crab that has not yet matured, so it is also called "girl crab". This crab has not produced seeds, so it has the characteristics of both male crab and female crab, the shell has both cream and yellow, now is the best time to eat it, if you wait until the shell will become a female crab.
Chopped second female crab
Now when buying crabs, the round navel of the female crab and the pointed navel of the male crab are not the time, and it is the right time to pick the triangular "second female crab", such a crab is now the best time to eat it.
First, look at the back cover of the crab
The higher the drum at the joint, the fatter the crab
Turn the crab over, look at the crab's back cover connection, the higher the back cover connection, the fatter the crab will be, and the crab that is turned over can quickly turn over, indicating that the vitality will be much fresher.
Second, pinch the crab's penultimate leg
The penultimate leg of the crab is pinched by hand, if it feels that the pinch cannot be moved, or the pinch is particularly elastic, and the pinched depression can be quickly restored, indicating that the meat of such a crab will be relatively full.
Three, look at the tip on the shell of the barracuda crab
Pick up the pike crab and shine in the sun, the tip of the crab shell can see whether it is full of meat, and the pike crab with meat on the shell tip is naturally "top cover fat".
Fourth, look at the color of the crab navel
If the navel of the pike crab is pure white and not bulging, it is generally thinner. The "top cover fat" pike crab has a dark red or brown umbilicus, and the umbilicus will bulge, and it will feel like it cannot be pressed when pressed by hand.
Now to buy a pike crab is to buy that kind of "second mother crab" with a triangular umbilicus, such a pike crab if you compound pick crab 4 standards, then such a pike crab must be a "top cover fat".
Now this season is the season of a large number of pike crabs on the market, male crabs and female crabs are still almost fat, but the "second female crab" is very plump, everyone may wish to pick the "triangle" navel of the second female crab to buy.