How much is a kilo of dried sea cucumber? How to preserve it? How to choose?

If the sea cucumber just fished out of the sea is not eaten in time, it will melt itself after 6-7 hours because of autolytic enzymes, until it disappears, so many people will choose and buy dried sea cucumbers, although the nutrition of dried sea cucumbers is not as good as that of fresh sea cucumbers, but the nutrients it contains are easier to absorb than fresh sea cucumbers, and the storage is convenient, so it is very suitable for users who like to eat sea cucumbers. How much is the dried sea cucumbers per jin? How do I keep it? How to choose and buy?

How much is a jin of dried sea cucumbers?

Sea cucumbers are divided into light-dried sea cucumbers, salt-dried sea cucumbers, sugar-dried sea cucumbers, freeze-dried sea cucumbers and so on. At present, light-dried sea cucumbers are the best sold in the market and the highest price. Pure dry sea cucumbers are about 6000 yuan per jin, ordinary light dried sea cucumbers are about 4000 per jin, salt dried sea cucumbers are about 2000 per jin, sugar dried sea cucumbers are not recommended. At the same time, sea cucumbers are generally calculated according to the number of heads, the number of heads represents the size of sea cucumbers, the less the number of heads, the larger the nutritional value of sea cucumbers, the higher the nutritional value, so the price is more expensive.

As a tonic, sea cucumbers are very expensive. For the general public, if they deteriorate due to careless preservation, the loss they bear will not be comparable to that of two jin of eggs.

How do I keep it?

1. Keep dried sea cucumbers in a dry and ventilated place. Because the meat of sea cucumbers has dried up, the appearance is also wrapped in this layer of salt, isolated from the air, will not go bad.

2. For fear of affecting its quality and taste, if you want to keep it in the cold for a short time, and if you want to keep it for a longer time, you'd better put it in frozen storage and thaw it before eating. This is the safest way to save it.

How to preserve the sea cucumbers?

1. Ice cubes: put the sea cucumbers in ice cubes (ice cubes on plastic foam) and change the ice cubes once a day, which can be preserved for more than a month.

2. Top soup: 500g top soup, 5g salt, 5g chicken essence, 150g fish gum powder (can play the role of condensation) into the pot to boil, while hot to add the sea cucumber sent to medium well, waiting for cooling can be naturally solidified, sea cucumber will be wrapped in the solidified top soup, the solidified top soup package on the fresh film in the refrigerator preservation, the effect is very good, can be preserved for 1-2 months, and the freshness of the top soup can fully infiltrate into the sea cucumber When in use, take it out and steam it to make it taste more delicious.

3. Sea cucumbers should not be stored for a long time, preferably not more than 3 days. Soak them in cold water during storage, change water 2-3 times a day, do not touch oil, or put them in a freezer that does not freeze.

4. Use a small plastic bag to cover it separately and store it frozen.

Other preservation methods of sea cucumbers

1. Ready-to-eat sea cucumber

0-4 ℃ storage for 90 days. Do not eat after opening the bag and need to be frozen and stored. If more than 90 days, can be frozen storage, can be stored for 12 months, but the taste will change, nutrition will not be lost.

2. Frozen sea cucumbers

Stored under freezing (- 15 ℃) for 12 months.

3. High pressure sea cucumbers

Stored under freezing (- 15 ℃) for 12 months.

4. Freeze-dried sea cucumbers

Seal in a dry place at room temperature for 36 months.

5. Salted sea cucumbers (semi-dry)

The storage method of sea cucumbers: the prepared sea cucumbers are covered with small plastic bags and frozen in the refrigerator.

Storage method of unprepared salted ginseng and semi-dried ginseng: unprepared salted ginseng and semi-dried ginseng must be frozen in the refrigerator and must not be stored at room temperature.

How to buy dried sea cucumbers?

1. Observation: the color and lustre of high-quality dried sea cucumbers is black-gray or gray, the body is complete and correct, the individual is uniform, the size is basically the same, strong and shiny, the thorns are straight and complete, the incisions are small and clear, the feet under the abdomen are dense and clear, no impurities, no smell.

2, taste: the same sea cucumbers grow in different seas will taste different, so when buying sea cucumbers to carefully sniff the taste, there is fresh sea water, salt water taste and no sweet taste, medicine taste of sea cucumbers are better.

3. Touch: dried sea cucumbers are hard, not easy to break, light in weight, charcoal-like in percussion, and elastic in throwing. Low-quality dried sea cucumbers are easy to break and salt crystals or impurities fall off, with a sense of heaviness, percussion or inelasticity and echo.

4. Incision: the body of dried sea cucumbers is clean and salt-free, free of viscera, sediment, etc., with uniform wall thickness, dark brown meat and bright luster. The colloid layer of low-quality dried sea cucumbers is thin, uneven and even broken, and the tissue morphology is aging.