

Using your fingers, pinch the tentacle end, and right where you sliced, and out should pop the beak of the squid. Discard the eyeball and anything attached to it. Next you must clean the head and tentacle end of the squid.ĭo this by placing the head on a cutting board, and cutting right above the eye. Rinse the squid well, refreshing the water a few times. Use your fingers to soften the insides, and then just squeeze them out just like you’re squeezing sausage out of its casing.

Next is to remove the innards of the squid bodies. I used tweezers to pull out the back bone. See it sticking out? It goes from neck to tail. Launch Connection server timed out Connection server timed out.
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You now have a body, but there is a cartillagenous back bone.
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Then remove the skin, by simply grabbing it and pulling on it the skin comes off easily. Remove the fins from the tail end of the squid, by just pulling them off. I rinsed the squid 4-5 times during the cleaning process. Have a large bowl of clean water on hand. The first step is to pull the head out of the body set the head aside. If you have lots of experience with seafood, well then I have some expletives for you, cause I’m jealous!Ī body or tube, and a head with tentacles attached. If you’ve never cleaned squid, you’ll enjoy this tutorial. It made me happy, like an Italian grandma! Ordering squid rings would have been easier, but I couldn’t find them, and honestly, it was a good experience to learn about the creatures as I cleaned and prepared them.

Fortunately it came in two 2.5 pound packages so I was able to keep one frozen and thaw the other. I ordered 5 pounds of frozen whole squid from a fish market in Seattle. As a result, I have minimal experience working with fish, outside of cleaning fresh trout when we fish in Colorado.īut I decided to put an end to my complaining, and order some seafood online from (hopefully) a reputable source. Those of you who live on the coasts, or just about anywhere in Europe, have no idea how different it is to not have a seafood market or, better yet, a personal fish monger. Over the years I’ve moaned and groaned about not having access to beautiful, fresh seafood, because I live in a land-locked state.
