I want to tell you today how to choose the right crab sticks. This is especially true on the eve of New Year holidays, when many people will cook crab salads.
My salad with crab sticks are always tasty, because I know what you need to take, and which are not. In this article, I will share how I choose them at the store.
Enjoying composition
I look at the composition in the first place. Everyone has long known that the crab sticks are not made of crab meat. At the heart of - ground fish surimi, it should be the first priority.
If this ingredient is not on the first or absent, it means that the crab sticks are no fish there, or it is present in minimal quantities. It will be a bad stick, they should not take.
choose manufacturer
I advise you to buy a stick of known brands and sold by weight not take in the store. Yes, it is cheaper, but part of you do not know, and therefore there is a risk to buy a defective product.
By the way, "Roskachestvo" already gave a list of good manufacturers of crab sticks. This "Fish House", "Tokimo", "Vici", "Santa Braemar", "Meridian", "A'more". But in the list of manufacturers whose stick is not worth buying, hit "Red Price", "Everyday", "Aro", "First", "Horeca Select".
We look at the appearance
Good crab sticks should not be orange and light pink to pink-red. And it should be painted on one side only. In addition, elastic, smooth, with no rough edges. Also sticks should be equal in length and identical in thickness.
Check on the elasticity (my ways)
In the store it has not come out to check only at home. Take the rod, Little its bend. If she just cracked - then a good product, if at the slightest bending broke and crumbled - sticks of dubious quality.
Here's an easy way to check how quality crab sticks you bought. Try to stick to deploy. If it is easily unfolded - then it is elastic and it does have a surimi (minced fish). When broken down, crumbled, or worse, it turned into a mess - it's a bad indicator.
These are the methods I use, and I have always come out delicious crab salads. Write in the comments what you are buying crab sticks? What to look for?
See also: Salad "Olivier" with crab sticks. Recipe for the New Year
Salad "The Little Mermaid" with crab sticks and processed cheese. 15 minutes and you're done
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