Notice of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup usage

Swiftlet’s Spit Soup has been considered a nutritious and precious dish. However, in the processing progress, you could unintentionally lose some nutrition, or you could use wrong methods that make our bodies couldn’t absorb all nutrition of the Swiftlet’s Spit Soup. Therefore, we have some notices for you as follows:

How To Clean The Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

When defeathering Swiftlet’s Spit Soup, don’t dip Swiftlet’s Spit Soup into hot water because it will be dissolved and lost some substances.
Don’t use any chemicals to clean the Swiftlet’s Spit Soup but clean water. Some people use wine, cooking oil to clean it. It is unnecessary because some substances or taste will be lost. Clean water is enough.
Don’t dip Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in water too long (about less than 4 hours). Pick it up when it’s soft.

Notice of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup usage

How To Preserve The Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

If you don’t use Swiftlet’s Spit Soup after cleaning, wring it dry then put it into the cool drawer of the fridge. You can keep it in the fridge within a week. If you want to save it longer, dry Swiftlet’s Spit Soup completely by the fan (don’t dry it in the sun), then put it into a box and keep it in dry place.
It is a nutritious food but it’s not a fairy medicine.
Therefore, don’t keep it for years. Although it can be kept for years if being kept in dry place, it can be lost substances if you keep it too long. Don’t eat mouldy Swiftlet’s Spit Soup.

How To Use Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

When you should eat Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is also important. Although there is not any official research, people think that eating Swiftlet’s Spit Soup before going to bed is the best. Because after sleeping one hour, human’s hormone is very high and if there is any substance from food at that point, it’s really good for us.
You should eatSwiftlet’s Spit Soup regularly to keep healthy. You should eat a small amount of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup everyday or in some certain days a week instead of eating a large amount sometimes.
The best way to cook Swiftlet’s Spit Soup is to steam. All substances of Swiftlet’s Spit Soup will be kept. Whichever dishes you cook, you should steam Swiftlet’s Spit Soup separately, then mix it into dishes.

Bizarre Bites: Swiftlet’s Spit Soup

Every once in a while I stumble upon a food and think, “What sick mind came up with this idea in the first place?” Swiftlet’s Spit Soup falls into that category. I’d like to meet whoever first decided to soak a Swiftlet’s Spit Soup in water overnight, then pick feathers and feces out of the nest, add it to a bowl of chicken broth, onions, sherry, and egg white, and then start eating. C’mon, that’s insane.

Spit Soup

The soup’s flavor depends largely on the geographic region of the nest. I love nests harvested near the ocean. They offer a sea-salty, briny flavor (the birds eat primarily saltwater fish, the nests are full of their saliva, spewdom, and droppings. It only makes sense that the nests would taste of the sea!). Some chefs like to play up the salty flavor (and sometimes slimi- ness) of the soup. I’m cool with that. To me, it just tastes like Mom’s chicken soup—seasoned with bird spit and lots of slimy chunks.
However, the Chinese (as well as some Taiwanese and Indonesians) have enjoyed this gelatinous, soupy delicacy for hundreds if not over a thousand years. The soup isn’t made from any old nest. The soup calls for the nest of a bird called the swiftlet or cave swift. These birds produce special nests found not in trees but in caves throughout southern Asia, the south Pacific islands, and northeastern Australia.
As you can imagine, it’s not easy to attach a nest to a cave wall. These industrious birds use a mixture of seaweed, twigs, moss, hair, and feathers to fashion the nest. The truly bizarre secret ingredient: saliva. Male birds gorge themselves on seaweed, which causes them to salivate like a Labradoodle at a picnic. Saliva threads, which contain a bonding protein called mucilage, spew out of the bird’s mouth. Once dry, the saliva acts as cement. The crafty avian will continue to build on to the nest until it can support the weight of its bird family. The process usually takes about forty-five days.

Swiftlet Factoids

The birds live in southern Asia, the south Pacific islands, and northeastern Australia.
Swiftlets have four toes and short legs, so they cannot perch, but they can cling to vertical surfaces like the side of a cave or their nests.
A swiftlet’s diet is made up of insects and more insects, with insects for dessert.
Swiftlets mate for life, and both the male and female take care of the babies.
Swiftlets typically lay one to two eggs.

Saliva Facts

Saliva is 98 percent water. The other 2 percent is made up of electrolytes, mucus, antibacterial compounds, and various enzymes.
Saliva is used in the first part of digestion. It moistens food and starts to break it down with its enzymes. It also helps to create a food bolus to help us swallow. Our mouths, with the help of saliva, roll our chewed food into a ball, so the food goes down the esophagus and not the trachea.
When you have to vomit, there is a signal sent to your brain and you create extra saliva. This makes the vomit less acidic, protecting your throat, mouth, and teeth from burning and decay.
The average person makes 700 milliliters of saliva per day. That’s the equivalent to more than two cans of soda.
Your spit production slows down when you sleep.
The mouth is the most unsanitary part of your body. It houses about 10 billion bacteria.
Saliva rinses the mouth to reduce the bacteria amount, but at night when its production slows down, there is very little cleaning being done. That’s why we often wake up with bad breath. We smell all of the bacteria that have built up overnight. It’s mouth B.O.