Squid skewer handling process

Release time:

2023-07-01 00:00

How to handle the squid skewers? Processing procedures are as follows.

1.Selection:Squid raw material specification 150-200g, fresh, no reddening, yellowing, blackening phenomenon.

2. Thawing: Frozen squid can be thawed slowly under natural conditions or thawed with flowing water, and then thawed until the hand pressure is not hard.

3. Slaughtering: Use scissors to cut the squid belly, the center of the cut should be flat. Remove the squid's internal organs manually, remove the back sheath and clean the ink. Separate the killed squid body from the squid head and cover with crushed ice. Keep the temperature of the squid skewers at 2 ~ 4°C.

4. Cleaning:Wash the squid body and squid head twice with ice water at 4 ~ 7℃ to make the body free of ink. Quickly clean the squid skewers without soaking.

5. Rolling:Clean the rolling pin, weigh the squid into the rolling pin, add 1% salt and 1% water retainer. The kneading time is usually 10 minutes, depending on the type of raw material and freshness. Adopt intermittent tumbling for 10 minutes, running for 3 minutes and stopping for 2 minutes, with vacuum degree 0.07 MPa, so that the materials are fully mixed evenly. The temperature of squid skewers should be controlled at 4 ~ 10℃.

6. Segmentation: cut the squid head from the eyes, remove the eyes and squid mouth, squid neck for other purposes; cut off the soft whiskers together with the adjacent hard whiskers, and cut the other hard whiskers into separate whiskers, weighing about 5 grams. Cut the squid skewer vertically into 2.5±0.5cm wide strips. 90g of squid body can be cut into 4 pieces, more than 90g of squid body can be cut into 5 pieces.

7. Threading:Thread by hand or automatic threading machine. The bamboo stick can be a round bamboo stick with a pointed end and a flat end at the other end, or an iron cannon stick with a handle. The surface of bamboo should be smooth and burr-free, uniform thickness, no mold, no bending and deformation. Squid skewer bamboo sticks should be soaked in hot water at 90℃ for about 10 minutes and cleaned before use.

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