Tricks to buy live sea cucumbers, how much can one pound of live sea cucumbers produce after being cooked and frozen?

The tricky thing about buying live sea cucumbers is that one pound of live sea cucumbers can yield 15-20 pounds of skin when cooked and frozen After cooking, 4-6 pounds of vat salt will come out, and finally 1 pound of dried ginseng without any added ingredients will come out. There’s no exact number, you’ll have to experience it yourself.

First, let’s talk about fishing time:

Sea cucumbers go dormant twice a year (winter and summer) and only come out to eat in spring and autumn. Sea cucumbers that have just finished their dormancy have used up a lot of nutrients in their bodies. The sea cucumbers don't have much skin (that's sea cucumber meat, in jargon). At this time, the sea cucumbers are eating so hard that they are basically full of sea water. At this time, if you kill the boiled vat salt (the amount of vat salt produced depends on the heat, which will be explained later), not much will be produced, and not much will be produced when dried.

The sea cucumber is about to go dormant. At this time, the sea cucumber has accumulated nutrients. After the skin, there is less water in the belly.

Second, let’s talk about breeding methods and varieties.

Sea cucumber farming includes wild bottom sowing, deep-sea cages, hanging cages, cofferdams, pits, greenhouses, etc. The thickness of sea cucumber skin produced by each method is different. Generally, wild ones have thicker skin.

There are many varieties of sea cucumbers, including Russian red ginseng, Japanese Kanto Kansai ginseng, Korean green ginseng, Dalian sea cucumber, Shandong sea cucumber, Fujian sea cucumber. In recent years, hybrid ginseng has appeared (such as the hybridization of Japanese sea cucumber and Dalian sea cucumber). . So that's another factor.