There are several kinds of hot pot bottom materials.
1. Butter chafing dish bottom material
There is no doubt that butter is the main raw material used to make the bottom material of butter hot pot. The bottom material of this hot pot is very attractive in color, taste and fragrance, with a slightly heavier texture and a generally heavier taste.
Choice suggestion: This hot pot bottom material tastes spicy and is not suitable for people who can't eat spicy food. At the same time, the greasy feeling of the bottom material of butter hot pot will be stronger, and people who like light taste are not suitable for selection. However, for people who like heavy mouth, the bottom material of butter hot pot is especially suitable, especially those who like spicy food and are afraid of acne. The bottom material of butter hot pot is also a good choice.
2. Clear oil hot pot bottom material
The base material of clear oil hot pot is "plain oil", which is rapeseed oil. It looks refreshing and tastes spicy, which is acceptable to most people.
Choice suggestion: This kind of hot pot bottom material will not be too strong, and those who like refreshing taste can choose with confidence. From the health point of view, the two kinds of hot pot bottom materials are more recommended to choose the clear oil hot pot bottom material. The bottom material of butter hot pot is probably a layer of butter on the stomach after eating, which is difficult for the stomach to digest directly. Therefore, for people with bad stomach, it is best to avoid butter chafing dish bottom material when choosing chafing dish bottom material. As far as the cholesterol content is concerned, the bottom material of the clear oil hot pot contains almost no cholesterol, which is more suitable for the three high people who want to have an occasional mouth addiction, and will not cause too much burden to the body.
3. Other hot pot bottom materials
The two kinds mentioned above are hot pot bottom materials, and there are some mild flavors:
(1) Sauerkraut hot pot bottom material: sour and spicy taste, especially suitable for people who want to eat spicy food but can't.
(2) Tomato hot pot bottom material: refreshing sour taste, mild taste and more appetite, which is more suitable for families with old people and children at home.
(3) Mushroom hot pot bottom material: Mushroom hot pot bottom material is the lightest, mainly fresh and fragrant, which is especially suitable; Choose people with health needs.
How to see the quality of hot pot bottom material?
1. Before cooking
Before cooking, the shape of hot pot bottom material is usually block. Because of the different ingredients added, the bottom material of block hot pot usually presents different colors, but in general we can also distinguish high-quality varieties. Generally, the high-quality hot pot bottom material looks shiny and the color is positive, but it is not too bright. If the color is too bright, you must avoid choosing and picking varieties with more pigments. Usually, there is an obvious layer of grease on the surface of the bottom material of high-quality butter hot pot, and the color of pepper can be clearly seen. With the increase of temperature, the bottom material of hot pot usually becomes a little soft. If you can keep a solid texture at any time, it is probably added with ash, which is not recommended.
Step 2 after cooking
Many people think that the brighter the color, the better the luster of the hot pot bottom material after cooking, but it is not. If the hot pot bottom material is bright red after cooking, it is likely that more additives such as capsaicin or pigment have been added to the hot pot bottom material. At the same time, the high-quality hot pot bottom material will look a little thick and muddy, but it will not be too thick and sticky, so you should also pay attention to this when choosing. Generally, the hot pot bottom material cooked with fresh oil has no white foam after boiling. If there is much foam, it is probably made of "cooking oil".
General selection suggestion: when choosing hot pot bottom material, you should choose products with hard texture but not hard, and the color should not be too bright. After cooking, the bottom of the pot should be slightly thicker, and the surface should be clean and foam-free, not foamed.
How to distinguish the smell of hot pot bottom material?
1. Pay attention to the aroma duration.
Generally, hot pot bottom materials are made of a large number of seasonings and spices, which have a strong smell, but many inferior hot pot bottom materials will add most seasonings to achieve the effect of making up for the smell. Although the chafing dish base added with flavoring agent will have a strong fragrance at the initial stage of cooking, the fragrance will not last long. Therefore, when selecting, we should choose the hot pot bottom material with lasting fragrance and strong continuity, and avoid picking the hot pot bottom material with too many seasonings to some extent.
2. Pay attention to whether the spicy taste is pungent
Usually, the hot pot bottom material will be spicy, but the spicy taste of high-quality hot pot bottom material will be softer, but the fresh fragrance will not be too pungent. In the selection, if you encounter a spicy taste that is too irritating, you must pay attention to avoiding the selection of hot pot bottom materials with more additives.
Overall selection suggestion: To sum up, when choosing the hot pot bottom material, you should choose the kind with soft and lasting fragrance, which can better avoid the hot pot bottom material with too many additives.
Matters needing attention in eating hot pot
1. Escape from life
First of all, eating hot pot pays attention to the meat first, because it is sliced, so it is just hot, that is, when the sliced meat is put into hot pot, the color of the meat changes, and it is cooked and ready to eat. Then, like meatballs, you can cook them for a while before eating them. Anyway, it must be cooked before eating.
Avoid scalding
Because hot pot is cooked and eaten now, the ingredients will definitely be very hot after cooking, so there is a saying that "one is hot and three are fresh", but at this time it is best to put the food on a seasoning plate or bowl to dry for a while, because people's mouth, esophagus and gastric mucosa can only endure the temperature of about 50 C, and food with too high temperature will burn the mouth, esophagus and stomach, especially those with aphtha, oral mucosal inflammation and stomach discomfort.
Avoid beer
It's not good to drink cold beer when eating hot pot. First, the hot pot is hot and the beer is cold. Eating hot and cold alternately will stimulate the stomach, which is not good for the stomach. Secondly, because many ingredients are cooked in hot pot, such as meat, seafood and other ingredients with high purine content, the purine content in hot pot soup is also high. When people eat too much purine, it will be converted into uric acid, and beer will transport the converted uric acid to joints or soft tissues, so that,
Avoid soup base
In fact, as mentioned above, the ingredients cooked in hot pot are various, such as meat, seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, bean products and so on. It will lead to a good taste of the soup base of the hot pot, but it will also contain a lot of purine and oxalic acid. Moreover, purine will be converted into uric acid in the human body, and too much uric acid will be deposited in the blood, joints and soft tissues of the human body, which is particularly prone to gout. Therefore, it is not advisable to drink soup bottom when eating hot pot, and drink plenty of water.
Avoid spicy food
Nowadays, most young people are not spicy and unhappy, so many people will choose spicy when eating hot pot, and spicy is usually accompanied by heavy oil and heavy taste, but spicy will stimulate the esophagus and stomach, so people with bad stomachs should not eat spicy, heavy oil and heavy taste are particularly easy to get angry, leading to constipation, so eating hot pot is best not to be too spicy, especially not to drink this spicy soup base.