As a foodie, how could you miss the delicious crayfish. But。。。 there are too many negative rumors about crayfish, many parents not only dare not let their children eat, but also dare not eat themselves.
In fact, we have too many misunderstandings about crayfish, those years of rumors about crayfish are purely fabricated:
Misunderstanding one: Crayfish are too dirty, foreigners don't eat them?
I just want to tell you that not only do Europeans and Americans eat crayfish, but even our neighbor Japan started eating them earlier than us. Moreover, foreigners not only eat crayfish, but also have many ways to eat them, such as crayfish pie, crayfish rice bowls, crayfish cheese macaroni, crayfish sushi rolls, which are way better than our spicy crayfish!
Misunderstanding two: Crayfish grow in smelly sewers and eat garbage!
Nani, the crayfish we eat now are all farmed. Crayfish raised in standard environments grow just like Chinese mitten crabs, in ponds and other water bodies, and the overall farming situation is safe and controllable. As for eating garbage? Sorry, they eat feed~ Moreover, crayfish are quite tolerant and can survive in polluted water, but they don't like such an environment either. If the water quality is poor, crayfish will have difficulty reproducing and will not grow well. No one would farm them that way, okay?
Misunderstanding three: Crayfish have hundreds of times the heavy metal limit and are inedible?
Same as above, crayfish are very sensitive to heavy metals. In water bodies with excessive heavy metals, crayfish cannot successfully molt or survive. Moreover, crayfish that feed on aquatic plants are at the bottom of the food chain, so their accumulation of heavy metals is low. Under normal farming conditions, heavy metal residues will not exceed the limit.
Besides, most of the heavy metals ingested by crayfish are transferred to the shell, and the heavy metals in the meat may not exceed the limit. Generally speaking, except for the shell, most of the heavy metals in a crayfish are concentrated in the head. As long as we remove the shell and the head, we won't ingest too many heavy metals.
Misunderstanding four: Eating crayfish can easily lead to lung fluke infection?
Actually, getting infected with lung fluke disease from eating crayfish is an occasional event. There is also a chance of infection when eating shrimp and crab, and it's not lower than eating crayfish. Crayfish are not typical hosts; they can only occasionally become parasitic hosts for lung fluke cysticerci.
In fact, whether you eat crayfish or freshwater fish and shrimp, you must cook them thoroughly to avoid lung fluke infection.
After dispelling these misunderstandings, it seems that eating crayfish is not as scary as we imagined. Generally, as long as we do the following, eating crayfish is very healthy and safe:
·When cooking crayfish, soak them in clean water for 2-3 hours, then scrub them clean, cook them at high temperature, and then eat.
·Since lung flukes usually parasitize in the digestive system of aquatic products, if you eat lobster at home, you can cut off the gills on both sides and remove the intestinal thread. When eating lobster out, be sure to remove the head.
·Before eating crayfish, it's best to check the crayfish's body: if the tail is curled, it means it was alive before being put in the pot. If the tail is straight, it means it was already dead before being put in the pot. Dead crayfish cannot be eaten as they may cause poisoning.