have less flavor and lose large amounts of liquid when heated Untreated scallops have a duller, off-white appearance with pink or orange tones In the kitchen, the cook sometimes needs to separate the large, tender swimming muscle from the adjoining, smaller, tough catch muscle that holds the two shells shut When sautéed, scallops quickly develop a rich brown crust thanks to their combination of free amino acids and sugars, which undergo Maillard reactions Squid, Cuttlefish, Octopus The cephalopod group are the most advanced of the molluscs, with their mantle turned into a muscular body wall and the remnants of their shell within (the term means “head-foot”: the foot muscle is near the head) The octopus, species of Octopus and Cistopus, has eight arms clustered around its mouth with which it clambers along the bottom and seizes prey; the coastal-bottom cuttlefish (species of Sepia) and open-ocean squid (species of Loligo, Todarodes, Ilex ) have short arms and two long tentacles The anatomy of the squid mantle This main portion of the squid body consists of an envelope of muscle that propels the animal by contracting and squeezing water through a small opening The mantle muscle is built up from tough connective tissue and alternating rings of muscle fibers, some oriented across the mantle wall and some along it Cephalopod Texture The muscle fibers of squid and octopus are extremely thin — less than a tenth the diameter of a typical fiber in a fish or steer (0.004 mm, vs 0.05–0.1 mm) — which makes the flesh dense and fine- .. .the coastal-bottom cuttlefish (species of Sepia) and open-ocean squid (species of Loligo, Todarodes, Ilex ) have short arms and two long tentacles The anatomy of the squid mantle... portion of the squid body consists of an envelope of muscle that propels the animal by contracting and squeezing water through a small opening The mantle muscle is built up from tough connective... from tough connective tissue and alternating rings of muscle fibers, some oriented across the mantle wall and some along it Cephalopod Texture The muscle fibers of squid and octopus are extremely thin — less