First, put the bird's nest in a bowl and soak it in pure water for about 1 hour. Then you can see some tiny swallow hairs floating in the water. At this time, we can pour out the water for soaking the bird's nest and change the water to continue soaking.

Second, when the bird's nest is slightly soft, you can turn the bird's nest. You can use more parts of bird's nest to rub, such as bird's nest horns and swallow cowards, to rub the fine hairs attached to the surface of bird's nest into the water, and then continue to change the water.

Third, when the bird's nest is soaked to the extent that it can be torn, you can gently tear the bird's nest along the grain by hand.

4. After the bird's nest is completely soaked and torn, wash the bird's nest with pure water, let the swallow hairs attached to the surface of the bird's nest fall into the water, and then pour out the water. When changing water, you can place the bowl at 45 degrees, pour out the water with swallow hair on the surface, and then catch the bird's nest with a sieve, which can be repeated several times.

5. After the bird's nest is soaked and torn, prepare two white porcelain bowls, one with water and the other without water.

Six, first select a small part of bird's nest on the white porcelain plate, carefully pick the hair with tweezers and toothpicks, first pick out the big hair, and then pick the small hair. Mao Yan is more easily seen and recognized on the white porcelain plate.

Seven, pick out the fine hair with tweezers or toothpicks, and put it in a bowl filled with water and gently shake it. Fine hair will fall into the water because of the adhesion of water, and put the bird's nest with good hair in a bowl without water.

Eight, after picking the hair, pour the pure water into the bowl with bird's nest, gently rub it with your hands, and dump the fine hair floating on the water. The swallows' feathers are picked clean and can be stewed.

First, the bird's nest hair tip

1, wash your hands and clean bird's nest containers, plates, bowls, tweezers, etc. before picking hair.

2. It is best to use a white porcelain bowl or plate to pick hair. Because most swallows are black or gray, it is easier to find tiny swallows by picking them in white containers.

3. Don't drop oil on the bird's nest, it may spoil the taste of bird's nest.

4, containers, tweezers, screen to wash. If there is grease on containers, tweezers, screens and chopsticks, it will also affect the foaming of bird's nest. ?

5, soaked bird's nest, it is best not to use tap water. Because tap water belongs to "hard water" and contains chlorine, it will affect the foam and hair of bird's nest. It is suggested to put the bird's nest in a bowl, pour in pure water and do hair.

6. Use mineral water or pure water to soak the bird's nest. The temperature of water is better than that of cold water. The winter temperature in the northern region is low, so it is not easy to use cold water to soak your hair, so you can use warm water to soak your hair, and cold water is recommended in other regions.

7, normal bird's nest, soaked bird's nest is fluffy and filamentous.

8. The amount of water when making bird's nest is based on the fact that the bird's nest has not been eaten. Generally, the ratio of bird's nest to water is about 1: 30.

Second, the efficacy of bird's nest

1, tonifying lung and nourishing yin, relieving cough due to lung deficiency, and reducing lung qi diseases. Include asthma, shortness of breath, chronic cough, blood in sputum, hemoptysis, bronchitis, hyperhidrosis, and ebb tide fever.

2, stomach, stomach cold, vomiting. Nausea, retching and bowel sounds caused by deficiency of stomach yin.

3, where the body is weak, tuberculosis, loss of qi after illness, combined with bird's nest for food, can nourish yin and adjust the middle.

4, antiperspirant, qi deficiency, spleen deficiency and hyperhidrosis, frequent urination, nocturia.

5, make people's skin smooth, elastic and shiny, thus reducing wrinkles.

6, bird's nest contains a variety of amino acids, infants often eat can increase wisdom, increase thinking, anti-sensitivity, make up for its shortcomings.

7. Pregnant women eat it during pregnancy and before and after delivery, which has the function of preventing and repairing tires.

8、? Bird's nest is a kind of natural nourishing food, which contains a variety of amino acids and has inhibitory and competitive effects on esophagus, throat, stomach, liver and rectum.

9. All sequelae caused by electrotherapy and chemotherapy, such as dry throat, sore throat, swelling, constipation, hoarseness and nausea, have been significantly improved.

10, bird's nest tastes sweet and flat, nourishing yin and moistening dryness. It is a nutritious and beneficial food with health care and dietotherapy functions.

reference data

Golden Bird's Nest-Baidu Encyclopedia