Eat hot pot precautions
It is not advisable to roll hot:
Some people like to eat hot mouth hot pot, from the hot domestic fishing up to the mouth, hot pot boiling food can be as high as 100 degrees, and our mouth, esophagus, gastric mucous membrane heat resistance of about 50 ℃ -60 ℃, too hot food will be scalded mouth, esophagus, gastric mucous membrane.
Clean and hygienic:
The ingredients of the hot pot are varied, there are meat, seafood, soy products, vegetables, etc., and then into the pot must be divided into categories of clean, respectively, placed, placed food poisoning.
Pay attention to the time of shabu-shabu food:
When shabu-shabu hot pot, it is appropriate to have the food cooked in the hot pot, the food cooked for a long time will lose its fresh flavor, and the nutrients in the food are destroyed; if the time of cooking is not enough, the food will not be cooked and it is easy to cause indigestion.
Blind pursuit of fresh:
Some people in pursuit of eating fresh crispy smooth taste of hot pot, chopsticks after the food in the hot pot soup pot dip a dip on the belly, resulting in indigestion outside, or food bacteria caused by gastrointestinal diseases.
Hot pot soup base can not drink:
Some people think that hot pot soup base super nutritious, in fact, hot pot soup is not "bone soup", he went through a long time of boiling, hot pot soup inside the base material after a chemical reaction to generate harmful substances, may cause poisoning can also damage kidney function.
Can not eat too spicy:
Some people feel that eating spicy hot pot is very addictive, in fact, too spicy will stimulate the stomach and intestines, may cause gastrointestinal discomfort, resulting in diarrhea, constipation, hemorrhoids and so on.
The soup of the hot pot is best not to drink
Although the soup base is an integral part of the hot pot. However, hot pot soup base is not suitable for long cooking.
Because with the prolongation of time, the nitrite content in the hot pot soup will continue to rise. Some researchers have done experiments to determine the change of nitrite content in four kinds of hot pot soup base. The data were collected at four points, namely, at the beginning of shabu-shabu, and at 30, 60 and 90 minutes after shabu-shabu of various foods. It was found that the nitrite content in the soup did rise as the measurement time increased. By the end of the 90-minute meal, the biggest increase in nitrite content was found in the pickled vegetable soup base, at 9.83 times, and the seafood soup was also higher, at 7.06 times. Bone broth base and mandarin duck broth base showed a smaller rise, at 2.88 and 3.05 times respectively. In terms of nitrite content, the concentration of various soup bases did not differ much at the beginning, ranging from 1.3 to 1.8mg/L. The concentration of nitrite in the soup bases was higher than that in the other soup bases. However, with the prolongation of time, the difference in nitrite content became larger and larger. Sauerkraut soup base of the final content of up to 15.73mg / L, seafood soup also reached 12.70mg / L.
Then drink such soup, will nitrite poisoning?
This do not have to worry, the value of nitrite in the soup base, not enough to make you poisoned. However, although it can not make people poisoned, but does not mean that it will not bring adverse effects to the human body. In the hot pot soup base, the content of amino acids and amines is relatively high, they may be synthesized with nitrite under heating conditions, such as nitrosamines, nitrosamines and other carcinogens. Therefore, if you want to drink soup, it is best to half an hour before. In addition, seafood soup base and sauerkraut soup base purine content is high, gout patients should avoid drinking.
In addition to nitrites and purines, it is also important to note another two easily overlooked risks, that is, hot pot soup is often too salty and oily. Although oil and salt are not carcinogens per se, too much salt itself is a promoter of stomach cancer, and too much animal fat is also a promoter of carcinogens. Therefore, if you feel that the soup is salty, or there is oil in the soup, you should also try to drink less.
There are many types of hot pots and convenient hot pots are emerging
When it comes to the types of hot pots, it can be said that there are many different kinds of hot pots. According to the fuel and points of charcoal hot pot, gas hot pot, electric hot pot, alcohol hot pot, etc.; on the texture and on the tin hot pot, aluminum hot pot, stainless steel hot pot, enameled hot pot, etc.; according to the structure of the one-piece hot pot, split hot pot, mandarin ducks hot pot, etc.; according to the style of cooking, there is a soup and brine hot pot, stewed hot pot, boiled hot pot and so on. It can be said that there are thousands of hot pots and flavors, such as Guangdong seafood hot pot, shabu shabu is seafood and so on, the ingredients are very elaborate, the most important thing is to pay attention to the taste of fresh and eat the fun, food and not tired, taste endless; Suzhou and Hangzhou area of the chrysanthemum hot pot, hot pot soup for the chicken broth or broth, and supplemented with meat, fish, chicken, and other thin slices of raw and chrysanthemum with shabu shabu, fragrant and refreshing, the flavor is unique; Yunnan Yunnan flavor of the hot pot, characterized by the hot pot must be put in the leg of the clouds, eaten with mushrooms, chicken, and so on, and then eaten with the cloud. Eat with mushrooms, fish and other raw materials, tender, spicy, flavorful; Chongqing tripe hot pot, with a variety of raw materials, brine soup, spicy and mellow characteristics. With the food "convenient" in-depth, but also let the "convenient hot pot" gradually emerged in the past two years to become the hot pot "new favorite". In addition, many brands of food and beverage involved, whether from the brand influence, product development capabilities, channel operation capabilities, are the original convenient hot pot at different levels of upgrading iteration.
Hot pot has a special meaning for Chinese people
Maybe foreigners don't understand why Chinese students will eat hot pot alone, and don't understand what hot pot means to Chinese people, may think that a person eating hot pot is just a solution to the meal, and a person eating a burger is the same. In fact, it is not, hotpot is more like a culture for Chinese people. There is a loneliness scale on the Internet that has become popular, and the fifth level is "eating hot pot alone", but I think this kind of loneliness is more of a kind of enjoyment. Eat hot pot, men and women, young and old, friends and family around the steaming hot pot, each reaching out chopsticks to clip the desired ingredients, without the etiquette of greeting, there is not so much to talk about, we raise a cup **** happy, overflowing with a warm and cordial atmosphere, to eat in fact, is the camaraderie and real. If you are always wandering in a foreign country, you may eat a hot pot to feel that this is really back home. Further details, no matter which kind of hot pot, are not simple hot pot, all have their own significance. Take the "hot pot city" Chongqing, for example, in Chongqing, eating hot pot also have to pay attention to the seasoning is generally the most basic selection of onions, ginger and garlic and sesame oil, so as to eat out of the original flavor of the hot pot. Hot dishes also have rules, first eat tripe and duck intestines of a class of ingredients, hot method is "seven on eight down", so hot out of the dish is the most tender. Entertaining guests or get-togethers with friends, a hot pot plus a few bottles of Chongqing's favorite Jiang Xiaobai, the most in line with the hot and passionate character of Chongqing people. It is also because the hot pot for each Chinese has a special significance, so the "convenient hot pot" popularity is also reasonable.