My friend also smiled and said, "I can drink 1000 glasses of this wine without getting drunk." The reason why this wine is not intoxicating may be that there is no alcohol in my friend's cooking wine. Afterwards, my friend also confirmed my opinion that there was no alcoholic substance in the ingredient list on the package. This discovery puzzled my friend.
With the improvement of people's living standards and the rapid development of catering industry, the demand for cooking wine is increasing day by day. There are many kinds of cooking wine in the market, such as "seafood cooking wine", "onion and ginger cooking wine" and "original cooking wine". Consumers are inevitably in a fog when buying. How should they choose? Let's uncover the "past lives" of these cooking wines.
Cooking wine on the market can be divided into three categories according to its functions, namely yellow wine, cooking yellow wine and flavoring wine. We understand the specific segmentation and selection step by step to help us buy cooking wine that suits us.
Seasoned wine
The cooking wine bought by friends mentioned in the previous article is actually "spice seasoning water". Strictly speaking, it is not cooking wine, but a kind of flavoring water to remove fishy smell. The significance of its existence lies in that unscrupulous merchants occupy the market with low prices under the banner of cooking wine. Generally, flavoring wine is made by mixing a certain proportion of edible alcohol and spices.
This flavoring wine is the most common in daily life, which is characterized by its affordable price and wide audience. If there is no requirement for the quality of dishes, it is more appropriate to choose this product simply to remove the fishy smell. Pay attention to the alcohol content behind the packaging label, and try to choose the one with high degree, so that the fishy smell removal effect is better, and the effect with low degree is almost zero.
Boiled yellow rice wine
This cooking wine can be used as an upgraded version of the above cooking wine, which is made by mixing 30%-50% yellow rice wine with various spices. For example, "onion ginger cooking wine", "seafood cooking wine", "spiced cooking wine" and "king of cooking wine" ... generally, the alcohol concentration is 10-15, which contains a certain amount of salt. It's yellow rice wine specially used for cooking, and it can't be drunk directly. When buying, choose different cooking wine according to your own dishes, so as to achieve the purpose of removing fishy smell and enhancing fragrance. At the same time, the price is moderate and can be accepted by ordinary people.
yellow rice wine
There are many kinds of yellow wine. Shaoxing yellow rice wine is mainly said here. Among them, the famous ones are "Yuan Red Wine", "Yellow Wine" and "Carved Wine".
1, yuan red wine
It used to be called "Zhuangyuanhong". There were no uniform standards and tools for ancient people to make wine, so the quality of the wine brewed was mixed. If good quality wine is brewed, cinnabar will be smeared on the wine wall. When you meet a family dinner, take it out and say hello to your relatives and friends, which means that this is your best wine and highlights the host's hospitality. Over time, it gradually developed into a custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
The alcohol concentration of Yuan red wine ranges from 65438 06℃ to 65438 09℃. After opening, it has a unique fragrance, amber, clear and transparent, and tastes bitter. It is a representative variety of Shaoxing wine and is widely loved by the public. When preparing dishes, the flavor of the food itself is more mellow, especially when stewing meat, its wine taste and meat taste complement each other.
2. Rice wine
Rice wine is also a kind of Shaoxing cooking wine, named after increasing the input of glutinous rice or glutinous rice during brewing. Generally, the alcohol content is about 15 degrees, the color is bright orange, the smell is rich and fragrant, and the entrance is refreshing and mellow. Drinking before meals can promote body fluid circulation, stimulate appetite and relieve fatigue. Generally, when cooking fish, it can bring out fresh, sweet and tender fish.
3. Carved wine
Liang Zhangju, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, recorded in The Traveler's Continuation that "the best drink in Shaoxing is the daughter's wine. Its altar rate is painted as "flower carving", which shows the status of flower carving wine in Shaoxing rice wine. Generally speaking, it is difficult to understand the literal meaning of "carved flowers". To put it simply, Zhejiang people usually brew yellow wine when their daughters are born, and then put it in jars with colorful patterns and patterns, which is called "flower carving". This kind of wine is "flower carving wine".
The quality of Huadiao wine is judged according to the time of cellar storage, and the price is reflected in the length of time. There are dozens to hundreds of dollars, so pay attention to your own needs when buying. The above three kinds of yellow rice wine can be used for drinking and flavoring, and can also be used as medicinal liquor. I think through the above analysis, when you buy cooking wine, there will be no embarrassing situation that cooking wine is "water". According to your own needs, carefully check the ingredients on the packaging label and choose the quality of cooking wine that is more suitable for you.