In the hearts of many foodies, octopus cuttlefish squid octopus octopus looking at the tide of squid flower branches... The difference is braised, iron plate, barbecue, incandescent, after all, octopus balls, squid rings, cuttlefish are still very good to distinguish.
But if they are not made into a delicacy, many people will be stupid and unclear, is the octopus a squid? Is Wangshio a small octopus? Are the branches squid or cuttlefish?
Today Xiaobian will come to be a class representative to help everyone make up for the lessons of these several, after all, understand their differences, in order to better taste them
Octopus squid cuttlefish, a family that loves each other
Don't look at the names of this brother, in fact, they are octopus, squid, cuttlefish alias, eat more people, a variety of "trumpets" will also be more. In addition, this brother has a slippery body, a big head, many legs, which name corresponds to which fish, and it is really impossible to distinguish without careful observation.
In fact, just like the "Three Brothers of the Ruan Family" in "Water Margin", octopus, squid and cuttlefish are also veritable "soft three brothers", they are originally a "family" of the same origin, and even the iconic "big long legs" are also family genes.
From a zoological point of view, they are mollusks under the phylum Cephalopods, and "cephalopods" as the name suggests is "all legs below the head".
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the cephalopod family was a "famous family" in the sea, there were more than 10,000 kinds of biological species, but after experiencing two biological extinctions, there are only more than 700 kinds of cephalopods left today, mainly all kinds of octopus squid cuttlefish, many of which have also become the plate of human beings, the "bipedal beast".
Although the name has the word "fish", but strictly speaking, they are all relatives of shellfish, the reason why the appearance difference is so large, because in the long process of evolution, their ancestors were not satisfied with the small space of the shell, often took the initiative to plunder highly nutritious food, over time, the shell was transformed into the bones inside the body. Among them, the bones of the octopus have completely disappeared, and the whole body is flesh.
So what are the characteristics of each of them?
Octopus: An "8-legged beast" with crisp and tender flesh
Octopus is what we often call octopus, also known as eight belts, eight belts, look at its name to know that it has 8 legs, because the other two brothers are "10 legs", so just a few legs can easily identify the octopus.
Because they can sense the tide in advance, the brachiopods will also swing up and down, and the fishermen can judge the rise and fall of the tide according to this after seeing it, so the Zhoushan people also call it "looking at the tide".
The octopus has 8 legs of equal length and length, a rounded head like a balloon, usually lives on the seabed, prefers dark environments, and is a typical nocturnal animal. Because their bodies are so soft, they love to drill holes, whether corals, shells or stone crevices, wherever they hide.
Because of this, the fishermen also threw the jars specially used for catching octopuses into the sea in a bunch, calculated the time to pull up, and the octopus obediently lay inside.
Don't rush to say that they are stupid, the "octopus world" has produced a lot of "stars" that we know well! For example, Captain David Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean, Dr. Octopus, Spider-Man's nemesis, and Paul, who predicted all eight games at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Of course, in addition to these, the meat quality of the octopus is also top-notch and tender in the "soft three brothers", in order to fully enjoy its "chewing head", the fierce Koreans will directly eat the octopus alive, but for ordinary foodies such as me, if you don't want to feel the sourness of the suction cup sucking on the tongue, or honestly taste a few octopus balls~
Cuttlefish: It's the one that's the best at inkjet
Cuttlefish is also called squid, flower branches, mullet, and the one that can spray ink the most is it. Among the three brothers, the bones in the cuttlefish are the largest and hardest, called the sea mantis, which is a piece of calcareous hard bone, which supports the body of the cuttlefish flat and wide, so if you want to identify the cuttlefish, find the one that most resembles a bag.
They are lazy worms in life, always like to find a space to go into sleep, and their eyes are always awake. However, you must not be deceived by its stupid and cute appearance, they are very fierce carnivores in the sea, eat only live, and are natural hunters. If the population density is too high or too hungry, they will kill each other and devour each other.
But even so, they have not escaped the fate of becoming a dish of Chinese food, from ancient times to the present, dishes made of cuttlefish have not been less, Lu cuisine traditional famous dish mullet egg is a very famous one, even the Qing Dynasty foodie Yuan Ming also recorded in his "Suiyuan Menu".
Meat is eaten, cuttlefish juice people have not let go, most of them are put into cuttlefish dumplings, cuttlefish balls, paella, as a natural food color.
Squid: the "traffic C position" that dominates the snack world
People may be more kind to squid than octopus and cuttlefish, after all, the streets are full of "bombing squid", "grilled squid", "teppanyaki squid". It is also very simple to identify them, look at the squid circle, only grow into a cylindrical shape, in order to be easily cut into circles by people. Because of this feature, squid is also called gun squid, soft fish, pen tube, it can be said to be very image.
Although the squid also has a piece of bone growing in its body, it is different from the cartilage of the cuttlefish and looks like a thin piece of plastic. It also has flesh fins on both sides of the end of the body, like ears, which are very recognizable.
The famous Norwegian sea monster Kraken, based on the king squid near the Norwegian Sea, is also called the great king squid, which is currently one of the second largest known mollusks and invertebrates.
The world's largest soft invertebrate is the king acid squid, which lives in the deep sea 2,000 meters around the Antarctic Sea, with a body length of 5-10 meters, and a barb on the brachiopod, which can easily cut a 2-inch deep opening in the blubber.
Although they are very powerful, they are still targeted by foodies, squid whiskers, white-burned squid, squid shreds, eating a variety of ways, endlessly.