Survival on the Island starts with a female boss

Chapter 38 Kelp and Shell Soup

"It's okay, please wait here for a while. I still remember that yesterday, in that oyster area, there were a lot of oysters and some barnacles on the rocks. I will go and collect some. After all, in this wilderness, if Not adding a little high-protein food will have a great impact on the body."

After speaking, Ma Yongqiang patted his buttocks and walked towards the distance gracefully.

Although Ma Yongqiang said so, seeing a weak girl working so hard to find food, but being a big man wasting a whole morning, but gaining nothing, I feel somewhat embarrassed Can't hold on.

After about an hour, Ma Yongqiang wrapped a large bag of clams and scallops in his clothes, and trot back to the fire, panting.

Yu Tina saw that Ma Yongqiang had worked so hard to get so many seafood and oysters back, she looked happy and hurriedly got up to go forward, since Ma Yongqiang had also finished the package.

Put it on the ground, the two carefully picked it up, picked out the large shellfish with plenty of meat and fat, and put it aside first.

Then put the remaining smaller oysters next to the fire, and heat the shells. After heating, all living shellfish will open their closed shells under the steam.

Wait for all the shells that are one size smaller to open their shells, and then use a knife to carefully remove the edible parts.

This part of the delicate work will be handed over to Yu Tina, after all, women are more careful.

Yu Tina carefully used a razor blade to remove the part of the shellfish from the mud and sand, and put it in the iron pot that had been filled with water, ready to make a pot of delicious seafood soup.

Of course, Ma Yongqiang was not idle at this time, I saw that Ma Yongqiang did a simple treatment of those disgusting things that looked like eyes. These disgusting things are actually the most common in the ocean. Biological "barnacles".

Barnacles (Latin scientific name: Balanus), commonly known as "touch", "horse teeth", etc., are barnacles belonging to the family Barnacles. They are arthropods with calcareous shells that attach to seaside rocks and are distributed in almost all seas around the world. The intertidal to subtidal shallow waters.

There is a hard shell on the body surface of the barnacle, and on the top there are 4 movable shell plates consisting of a back plate and a shield plate, which are opened and closed by muscles, so that the barnacle can extend its vine legs to catch prey.It can not only be attached to the reef, but also can be attached to the hull, and its adsorption force is extremely strong.

Barnacles are a headache for people all over the world. Their main hazards are:
Increased ship resistance consumes fuel
Due to the attachment of barnacles.The roughness of the part below the waterline of the ship increases, which increases the resistance of the ship during navigation. At the same time, it also increases the self-weight of the ship, which reduces the speed of the ship and the ship, and increases the fuel consumption.

Increased self-weight weakens the ability to resist risks

If offshore oil platforms and building facilities are attached by barnacles, it will increase the self-weight of these facilities, increase their external load, weaken their ability to resist storm waves, and make them easy to tilt and collapse.At the same time, the center of gravity of platforms and buildings is raised due to the increase in self-weight, and the danger increases when tsunamis, earthquakes, and storm surges come.

Affect the comprehensive utilization of seawater resources
The attachment of barnacles will block the oil platforms and power plant water supply and drainage pipes that use seawater for cooling, affecting the cooling effect of seawater.There is even a risk of accidents.When seawater is desalinated, the water inlet pipeline will be blocked, which will reduce the effect of seawater desalination.

Interfering with the use of equipment
The attachment of barnacles hinders the normal operation of military facilities, civilian and scientific research instruments, and reduces the sensitivity of sensors, instruments and transmission components.

Affect fishery production and reduce the quality of aquatic products

Barnacle attachment affects breeding, competes with shellfish for attachment base and bait, blocks the mesh of nets, affects water exchange, hinders the growth and development of breeding objects, and reduces the quality of aquatic products.

Accelerated localized corrosion rate of underwater fixtures
The attachment of barnacles can alter the local electrochemical corrosion process and rate of the metal, leading to localized corrosion or perforation.

In addition, for some creatures in the ocean, such as sea turtles, whales, etc., barnacles are a very terrible creature, because these marine creatures are often troubled by barnacles, and in the ocean, there are a large number of vines caused by organisms every year. Pot to die. (The above knowledge is taken from Encyclopedia)

Of course, Ma Yongqiang didn't know this knowledge. It was thanks to the knowledgeable Yu Tina who was handling the shellfish while doing science popularization with Ma Yongqiang.

Teneng pots are usually attached to the coastal rocks, densely packed one by one, and the appearance is not very good-looking. People with dense phobia will definitely not be able to stand it.But these things that look a little creepy, taste delicious.

People on the beach will use tools to pry it off when the tide is low, and the family will enjoy it slowly after returning home.The method of Tenghu is also very simple, because it tastes very fresh, so there is no need for too much seasoning.Seaside people usually boil it in water, or steam it, or scramble eggs and steam eggs, and the taste is extremely delicious.

If some seagoers are hungry, they will directly find some firewood and roast it on the rocks. It only takes a while to eat tender and delicious Tenghu meat.

After Ma Yongqiang finished handling the barnacles, he placed them next to the fire with the big scallops on a relatively thin stone slab, ready to make a beautiful teppanyaki.

Yu Tina used a knife to cut the collected kelp heads into small pieces and put the small scallop meat into an iron box, added fresh water, and used stones to make a simple heating shape next to the fire.

Then put the iron box pot on the stone, so that the flame can evenly heat the bottom of the box. After a short time, a pot of delicious seafood and seaweed soup is ready.

Sun Hao, who was pretending to be dead next to him, could no longer pretend for a while, and struggled to sit up. The smell of the muscular Sun Hao being heated by the food in the water had already hooked his soul.

Rubbing her hands with her hands flowing, she looked at Yu Tina pleadingly, and said in a low voice:
"Xiaona! Why don't you give me a piece of meat, let me taste it first!"

Just now Sun Hao addressed Yu Tina affectionately, but when he raised his head and met two cold eyes, he changed his tone hastily under the temptation of food.

After all, Sun Hao basically didn't eat any food after the shipwreck, unlike Ma Yongqiang and Yu Tina, who ate more or less food.

Seeing Sun Hao's begging look like a pug, Ma Yongqiang was a little disgusted, so don't turn your head away to pay attention to Sun Hao.

In the end, Yu Tina really couldn't stand Sun Hao's pug-like expression. She picked up a relatively large oyster from the stone with a kelp pad and pointed it at Sun Hao.

Sun Hao quickly took over the oysters thrown by Yu Tina, grinned his teeth and tossed his hands back and forth because of the heat, and finally when the temperature dropped a little bit, he followed the shells with a sound and thoughtfully smashed the shell meat inside. Meat with soup, a piece of it was sucked directly into the stomach without chewing.

The delicious juice and the soft and soft shellfish gave off an endless aftertaste in Sun Hao's mouth, and he closed his eyes with enjoyment.

(End of this chapter)