Eel is endangered. How can the eel shop open more and more?

When you have no appetite, what do you want to eat most?

If there is a bowl of fragrant and golden eel rice in front of my eyes at this time, and no appetite, I can also dry a large bowl of rice.

Fragrant

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Why does no one eat eel sashimi?

Japanese people like to eat eel. They have always had the tradition of "eating eel and duration of bitter summer". There are somewhat phrases: "Pu -roast eels are overflowing, and the souls of the underworld are also coveted. … "The ghosts of the original prefecture are all ghosts, let alone food on earth?

The famous old lady Cai Lan also said on Weibo: "It has been autumn, the Japanese people eat eel season, and the beginning of Fujian has just begun, and a lot of harvest." Affected by the Japanese eel culture, many people think that midsummer is the most edible eel to eat eels In the good season, but in fact, the Chinese prefer to eat eels in autumn and winter, because the eels before traveling have accumulated more fat, and the taste is more mellow and rich.

In summer, the eel fat is relatively thin and thin, the taste is lighter, and it is much more plump in autumn and winter. Image source: Tuwa Creative

Anyone who likes to eat sashimi knows that the fattest part of a fish is often fish belly. The taste of the fish belly is the best and the price is the most expensive, such as salmon fish. The fat of eel is distributed in muscle fibers, like snowflake fat beef, and muscle fat content exceeds 10%. Of course, it tastes beautiful.

The muscle fat content determines the texture of the meat, the picture on the left is salmon, and the picture on the right is Hetao. Picture from: Verlasso

But eel is so beautiful, why did no one make it sashimi?

This is because eel blood is toxic, but fish blood toxin will decompose after heating, so there is no problem with cooked food.

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Eel is delicious, but it is difficult to deal with

Although the eel is delicious, it is not easy to deal with. The eel is thin and long, and the autumn is slippery. In fact, many fish have this smooth surface mucus, which is secreted by the mucus cells of the epidermis. This layer of mucus can reduce the resistance of fish swimming and can also play a role in antibacterial protection. In addition, the scale of the eel is very small, it is even more difficult to catch it.

Studies have shown that the main component of eel watches is water and protein. Image source: YouTube@Mogumogu

If you have seen the eel in the vegetable market, the scene is absolutely bloody enough to make you unforgettable.

Before the ice bath appears, the enthusiastic stall owner can only dizzy the eel manually, and then use a special "torture" -to eel nail to fix its head on the cutting board. At this time, the fish will fight hard. After dissection, due to nerve reflexes, eels will continue to move ...

This picture, who depends on who has a psychological shadow!

A few knives finished a piece of eel cleanly, behind the master's long -term skill. Image source: YouTube@Mogumogu

How difficult is the eel? There is such a sentence in the Japanese industry, "Three years of skewers, eight years of dissection of fish, barbecue for a lifetime" (3 years of skewers, 8 years of cracks, and life).

Eel: I can also rescue

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Bakery eel is also a technical work. In our traditional cognition, the mucus of eel is the source of fishy smell, which is cleared. However, the master of many Japanese eel houses thinks that it will be better to keep the mucus. After the eels are cut, they directly put the eel on the charcoal fire. When barbecue, the temperature on the surface of the food can reach 200 ° C. High temperature can destroy the fishy smell of fish skin. At the same time, the melted fat will also take away some fat -soluble odors. The baked eel is also fragrant!

Really fragrant!

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Why is the price of eels so much?

When you can't stand the temptation of grilled eel, when you accidentally open the takeaway platform, you will find that the price of eel rice is very different. What about the stimulus of gambling?

The price of two eel rice on a takeaway platform

The domestic eel fever is largely caused by the previous Japanese boom. Prior to this, most of the people who like to eat eel rice are Japanese, and Japan is still the largest consumption place for Chinese eel.

The different pursuit of eel taste and size causes complementary eel markets in China and Japan. Picture from: "Report on Export Eel Technical Guide (2016)"

The mainstream eel breeding in China is divided into three categories: Japanese eels, European eels and American eels. The traditional eel rice uses Japanese eels. Although the American eels and Japanese eels are included in the endangered list, European eels are even entered into an extremely endangered list, but the price of Japanese eels is much more expensive than the other two, because consumption is consumed because consumption is consumed. The market is there.

2022.8.19-8.25 Live eel wholesale quotation in Fujian market, varieties and size have a great impact on prices. Picture from: China Eel Network

The domestic consumer groups have only emerged in the past two years. They have not developed a fixed consumption habits. Most people only eat it once occasionally, and they are not high in variety, as long as they are delicious. I am afraid that even many eel restaurants may not know what eel varieties they buy, just know it is river eel. According to news reports, it is estimated that about half of the Japanese cuisine is estimated in the market to supply the American eel, and about 2/3 of the frozen eels are made of American eel.

In addition to the variety, the size of the eel also affects the price. Do you think the greater the eel, the more expensive? In fact, the smaller the eel, the more expensive the eel, because the smaller the eel, the tender the meat, and the less thorns. One kilogram of eel with a total of 3 to 4 tails, that is, 3P or 4P -sized eels are most popular with the Japanese. They pursue the taste of the entrance. The eel more than 1 catties was called a vegetable eel. Instead, the Cantonese cuisine preferred this big eel, the taste was more Q bomb and chewy. This kind of different pursuit of eel taste and size causes the eel market in China and Japan to complement each other. my country's market has digested these larger eels with relatively cheap prices.

It's delicious

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This eel is not the other eel

The Japanese eels, European eels, and American eels mentioned earlier belong to the river eel. They are three varieties under the genus Eel eel. They are the main force of grilled eel rice. There are two other common eels in Japanese eel dishes -sea eel and star eel. They and river eel are different species under the eyes of eels, and their uses are not the same.

From top to bottom, it is river eel, star eel (acupoint) and sea eel (鳢)

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Sea eel is a fish and eel. The tip of the teeth is profitable, and it is really troublesome to deal with it. However, there are many oils and delicious tastes. They are often used to make soups. Residents of Chinese coasts like to use sea eel to make eels (xiǎng, a delicious fish dried).

The small thorns of the sea eel are tightly arranged from the head of the spine to the tail, and it is difficult to pull out one by one, so these small thorns must be cut to the degree of edible. Picture from: Kalapeedia, etc.

Star eel, the official name is Star Kangji Eel or Star Nutty Eel, which is the "acupoint" in Japanese materials. Star eel has less fat and light taste. It is fat without river eel for eel rice. Star eels are often made into tempura and sushi.

Star eel is a classic ingredient of tempura

There are also some fish, under the banner of "eel". In fact, they are "fake relatives" who recognize their relatives. Among them, the laja eel and blind eels are the most famous fish. They are very primitive fish.

The turline eel has a mouth of a "horror movie"

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Petromyzontidae, also known as the eight -eye eel, looks a little cute on the side, looks like an alien alien on the front, with a bite of teeth that make people feel terrified. However, it has always been a high -end food of European nobles. It is said that the British King Henry I died too much to eat too much because of the deliciousness of the laja eel. Not to mention the people of South Europe (Western, Portuguese, and Fa) who love to eat.

The sale eel stewed rice, so delicious that the brachy laja eel dish looks a bit "dark". Picture from: wikimedia Commons

If you think the seven -lamprene grows terrible, then it is likely that the blind eel is a bit "disgusting". This is a rotten animal, which has a highly developed mucus gland.

Blind eel: growing like this, I have worked very hard

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The mucus glands of the blind eel can produce a lot of "snot", which is said to be used as a substitute for egg white. Picture from: vanouver aquarium

The appearance of blind eels is so dismissed, but it has become a Korean dish -grilled blind eel.

At the beginning, Koreans did not eat blind eels. They used blind eel skin to process them into leather, and blind eel meat was abandoned. Later, the blind eel was cooked by people who were hungry and abdomen, and gradually became a special barbecue in Busan. If the killing eel is bloody, then the scene of baking blind eel is absolutely terrible-

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