Quite often inhabitants of apartment houses should resolve an issue: how to dry fish on the balcony. Work this delicate also demands certain skills and knowledge as, without having experience, it is possible to spoil easily the final product and the mood. That it didn't occur, it is necessary to know some subtleties.
If you decided to indulge yourself taranky own preparation, use for this purpose only a fresh river or saltwater fish from whose catch there passed no more day, otherwise the dried fish will be bad quality.
Training of fish for drying
Before drying fish on the balcony, surely prepare her. All this becomes in several stages:
- processing;
- salting;
Processing
During processing it is necessary to sort carcasses by the size as each weight requires the time of salting. Then carefully to draw. It is possible to salt fish without undressing when inside there is a caviar, and there is a strong wish to keep it. In these cases pour in a fish belly through a mouth by means of the syringe in strong salt solution. On big carcasses make cuts along a back that dried better.
Salting
During salting it is necessary to remove excess moisture from fish. For this purpose it is required to salt well it not only from above, but also in (about 1.5 kilograms of salt on 10 kilograms of fish). It is better to stack a jack that the laying was equal. From above to put oppression at the rate of 150 grams on 1 kilogram of raw materials and to take out to the cool place for 3-5 days. For oppression it is possible to take bricks, to bank or a bucket with water.
Soaking
At this stage we remove from fish excess salt and napityvay its liquid. We pull out carcasses from a brine and we allow to lie down a little for uniform distribution of salt on all surface. Well we wash out a baking plate a stream, then we fill in with a cold clear water and we leave for some time, periodically changing liquid.
Council: how many days we keep in salt, it is so much hours and we soak.
Process of drying of fish
We string the salted and washed up fish on a fishing line, a thin rope, a twine. It is possible to use usual office paper clips, having hooked on them for a fish lip. We hang up copies of the different sizes separately as time of drying will be a miscellaneous. In large options for uniform drying surely we insert a toothpick into a paunch. Small fishes shouldn't adjoin.
We place a design in that place of a balcony where chilly and there is an airing. Ideal temperature for drying from +18 to 20 degrees. All process will take from 5 days to several weeks.
Ways of protection against external factors
Don't subject fish to influence of direct sunshine, the heat "will cook" her and will deprive of fat. The code the balcony is closed, then everything is fine. If it is open, then it is necessary to work over creation of protection against annoying flies and insects. There are several ways:
- create protection from a gauze or old tulle;
- dip carcasses into weak acetic solution, oil vegetable or sprinkle lemon juice.
Besides, on the balcony there shouldn't be objects with a pronounced smell as fish will absorb it.