When many people arrive in the summer, especially late at night, they feel a burst of emptiness from the depths of their souls, and they always want to go to the night market to eat barbecue. The scallops on the barbecue stall are delicious and cheap, and 10 yuan can be several, which is popular with young people.
But do you know that a small scallop is a big mystery?
01 The scallop that hides the mystery
In the barbecue restaurant, whenever a customer asks, the merchants all say in unison, this is the fresh scallop of the day.
However, careful friends may find that when we eat scallops, some roast scallops can easily clip the shell meat, and the shell meat is not connected with the shell. Some grilled scallops, on the other hand, are stuck together with the meat and shell and will not be easily detached.
Through online inquiries, we found that this kind of scallop that can be easily clipped up is actually an "assembled goods"!
In fact, as early as 2014, there were relevant news reports that in order to save costs, some merchants recycled scallop shells, with frozen scallop meat, and "assembled" into fresh scallops.
02 Market Research: Cost difference 10 times
Some people say: delicious is enough! What are you not in charge of the combination of people?
In fact, the gap here is big! A reporter went to the seafood market to investigate, and found that there are three kinds of pure fresh scallops sold, with different sizes and prices.
The small red shell is the cheapest, but due to its small size and hard meat, it is not suitable for barbecue. However, we found in the seafood market that compared with this pure fresh scallop, the frozen scallop meat is not only large and full, but also more expensive, only 15 yuan a catty, a pound of more than 20.
According to the merchants, generally sprinkled baking points like to buy this frozen scallop meat, because this frozen meat is better preserved. The price of pure scallops ranges from 5-8 yuan per year, while frozen scallop meat only costs about 5 cents. The same scallops, but the cost is ten times different!
03 The difference between fresh scallops and assembled scallops
Fresh scallops and frozen scallops are no different in appearance, but after baking we find that the two scallops are still very different.
After the fresh scallops are roasted, the scallop columns can be clearly seen, and the meat is tightly eaten. After the frozen scallops are roasted, the meat is relatively loose, and there is no obvious scallop column in sight.
In addition to assembly, some merchants will also use formalin to make the frozen scallops look a little fuller! Some merchants also set their sights on oysters, an assembled oyster that costs only about 3 cents.
04 What happens to these assembled scallops and eat them
In July 2015, Ms. Yin of Hefei ate 8 roasted scallops and felt that the taste was a little wrong when she ate them. And the scallop shell is particularly black, and the scallop meat varies in size. The shell is not tightly connected to the shell, "Tilt the shell slightly, and the meat falls." ”
Ms. Yin asked the owner of the barbecue shop, who explained that the separation of the meat shell was most likely the cause of the refrigeration. Ms. Yin didn't take it seriously. But not long after arriving home that night, she had diarrhea.
05How to distinguish whether scallop meat is fresh or not?
So how do we avoid eating this assembled meat? Here Xiaobian has prepared a few tips for distinguishing between fresh scallops and assembling scallops:
1. Fresh scallop meat is very elastic, bright color, meat and shell generally do not detach.
2. After the cooked scallop meat is eaten, there will be traces in the shell and there will be no bare situation. However, sometimes the original scallops may also be removed due to excessive force by the chef when cleaning, but usually, there will be some traces on the shells.
3. The shell of the scallop, the fresh scallop will appear very dirty, after many repeated use of the scallop shell is very clean and smooth, the frozen scallop meat appears yellow, there is a little black, not fresh scallops will also have a fishy smell.
When you buy grilled scallops in the barbecue restaurant, you must pay more attention to distinguish whether the store uses frozen assembled scallops or real pure fresh scallops!