"That's right. It's the giant anemone among sea anemones. We have caught enough abalone. If we catch more, it will affect the reproduction and survival of abalone in this sea area. Next, we will go down and catch this giant anemone. I will give everyone a snack at noon and cook a giant anemone like this." After Xiang Yang said this, he found a large water tank and threw the giant anemone he caught into it.
"Brother, can we eat such a big anemone?" Xiang Chen asked worriedly, "Is this a different species from the anemones we usually eat? I heard that these anemones are like mushrooms, and many of them are highly poisonous."
Chen Qingsheng followed up by saying, "Xiang Chen is right. This kind of anemone cannot be eaten. The venom secreted by this giant anemone is not very harmful to humans. Even if we accidentally touch their tentacles, we will only feel stinging or itching. However, if we cook and eat them, we will definitely experience vomiting, fever, abdominal pain and other poisoning symptoms."
"What?" Fang Youqun glared and said, "If we can't touch him or eat him, then why did we catch him?"
"Nonsense!" Xiang Yang smiled and said, "If you can't touch it or eat it, how can it be sold in the market?"
Chen Qingsheng said: "That's because some people know how to process sea anemones. If they are processed well, some people will still eat them. The principle should be the same as pufferfish. It depends on how they are processed to make them non-toxic."
Xiang Yang smiled and shook his head. "How difficult is it to handle pufferfish? If you dare to operate without relevant certificates, it is equivalent to committing a murder crime. The poison of anemone is easy to handle. It contains a lot of collagen and is a rare and exquisite seafood delicacy."
"Brother Yang, do you know how to remove the toxins from sea anemones?" Fang Youqun asked in amazement.
"It's very simple." Xiang Yang smiled and said, "The toxins of sea anemones are secreted, which are not very harmful to the human body. After boiling in boiling water, the harm to the human body can be ignored. The way to deal with sea anemones is the same as that of jellyfish. First, remove the internal organs, then use salt to scratch, and finally wash it with clean water."
"Is it that simple?" Fang Youqun asked suspiciously.
Xiang Yang asked back: "Then how difficult do you think it will be?"
Fang Youqun was immediately amazed. He lay down beside the water tank and observed the anemone carefully.
The anemone was thrown into the water tank by Xiang Yang and lay motionless, looking like a plant.
Fang Youqun patted the outside of the water tank vigorously, but the anemone did not move. He frowned and asked, "Brother Yang, is this anemone dead? I patted the water tank like this, but it didn't move at all."
Xiang Yang asked: "Why did the water tank move when you tapped it?"
"Why else? I'm scared and frightened, so of course I have to move!"
"What if they're not scared and not frightened?"
"That's impossible. They've been caught from the bottom of the sea and brought to the surface. How can they not be scared? Wouldn't they be frightened if I knocked so loudly in an unfamiliar environment?"
"They really don't know what fear is." Xiang Yang shook his head and said, "Fear is an emotion. To have emotions, you must first have thinking? If you want to have thinking, you can't be without a brain. Sea anemones are one of the very few animals without a brain."
"No brain?" Many people were surprised.
"Yes, they don't have a brain. Sea anemones are very simple animals. Not only do they not have a brain, they don't even have a central information processing mechanism. In other words, they don't even have the most basic brain foundation. Although sea anemones look like flowers, they are actually predators. They are one of the most common invertebrates in our territorial waters, including green anemones and yellow anemones. Not only do they not have a brain, they also don't have a skeleton. They anchor to fixed objects on the seabed, such as rocks and corals, or to the shells of hermit crabs."
Xiang Yang hesitated for a while and then continued, "There was once a research report that suggested that sea anemones should be plants rather than animals based on their genetic coding. However, because they can crawl on the seafloor and move very slowly, and they cannot photosynthesize, that research report was quickly denied. Now it is generally believed in academia that sea anemones should be a hybrid of plants and animals."
"Hybrids of animals and plants?" Everyone found it incredible after hearing what Xiang Yang said. They had heard of hybrid plants and everyone knew about hybrid animals, but hybrid species of animals and plants were really something that could only be described as something that was endless in the world.
Xiang Yang actually found it quite magical, but that was the truth.
Soon, Xiang Yang led the crew into the sea again and headed straight for the area where giant sea anemones were abundant.
After Xiang Yang brought the crew to that sea area, he swam back and forth twice, catching a giant sea anemone each time.
When Xiang Yang wanted to go down the third time, he was stopped by He Mingde. In He Mingde's words, Xiang Yang had been in the sea for too long and had to rest for a while before going down again.
Xiang Yang smiled after hearing this. In fact, he was not tired at all. However, in order to set an example for the crew members and prevent some crew members from working too hard and having accidents on the seabed, Xiang Yang readily agreed to He Mingde's request.
However, Xiang Yang was not idle on the boat.
After taking off his diving suit and changing into a casual jacket, Xiang Yang called together a few free crew members to start preparing lunch together.
Today's lunch is definitely the most sumptuous lunch ever on this fishing boat.
The staple food was a seafood hotpot consisting mainly of 4-liang swimming crabs, which also contained scallops, oysters, cuttlefish and crayfish. Xiang Yang ordered people to cook a big pot as if he didn't care about the cost. The 4-liang swimming crabs alone were enough to ensure that everyone could have two.
In addition to the staple food, there are other foods.
First of all, Xiang Yang promised to let everyone taste fresh abalone. Xiang Yang asked people to pick out more than 20 abalones, about ten in number, from a pile of abalone, and asked them to wash them clean. Then, he dug out the whole abalone meat and put it into a large pressure cooker to stew a pot of abalone broth. When adding the soup, Xiang Yang scooped a whole pressure cooker of clean water. While ensuring that every crew member on the ship could get a fresh abalone, Xiang Yang also prepared a bowl of abalone soup for each crew member.
Xu Fang suggested to Xiang Yang that he put a giant sea anemone into the abalone soup, because sea anemone itself is a holy ingredient for making soup, and putting it into the abalone soup will definitely make the taste more delicious.
But Xiang Yang refused. Many chefs do not add any seasoning when cooking abalone, as they are worried that the taste of the seasoning will destroy the original flavor of the abalone. Xiang Yang has never cooked abalone and does not know what the original abalone tastes like, but this does not prevent Xiang Yang from knowing common sense that top ingredients often only require the simplest cooking methods. Xiang Yang decided to make a pot of original abalone soup.