First look at the craft. One of the selling points of Zhangqiu iron pot is hand hammering, but if you have some common sense, the same raw materials, forged by machine, will definitely be more powerful and more evenly stressed than hand hammering. Iron pot is not a teapot made by a skillful craftsman. Handicraft may make the wok artistic and sentimental, but it won't make the quality better.
Secondly, is the raw material of Zhangqiu iron pot special? Does Zhangqiu blacksmith master the smelting technology of Gou Jian, the king of Yue? Judging from all the reports, it is only the ready-made iron plate purchased by the iron pot factory, so this article is not valid.
Then in the program, the trick of chasing eggs without adding water or oil in the iron pot is just a physical phenomenon of steam floating. Any ordinary iron pot will have the same effect at a certain temperature. Chefs in restaurants basically cook at high temperature and stir quickly, but gas stoves at home generally can't achieve this temperature effect. This can only show the ignorance of the program director or the exaggeration of the program effect.
In addition, all kinds of experiments have proved that it is impossible for iron pans not to stick unless special coatings, such as Teflon, are used. All kinds of so-called boiling in online videos just add a layer of grease to the iron pot.
Finally, under the modern science and technology, the indexes of metal pots forged by multi-layer materials far exceed those of ordinary iron pots. Therefore, Zhangqiu iron pot is not much better than ordinary iron pot, but a scam intentionally or unintentionally.
Pro-test! ! ! After two years of purchase and use, I tell you that there are only one or two real Zhangqiu iron pots, and the quality is really bad. The price is around 680 yuan. I won't tell you the specific surname of selling iron pots, so as not to be suspected of advertising. When you go, ask the village cadres, and you will tell you the truth. Ask the villagers, and don't say anything or say it casually. The reason is not clear.
Listen to me slowly.
After watching China on the Tip of the Tongue, my greedy and spicy mother's heart is pounding every day and she can't cook. It's not my technical problem, it's the lack of good pots. I found the root cause. Let's go! Buy a pot!
One morning in the autumn wind, my friends and I were laughing and laughing, and with the faint scent of food, we set off for about two hours and arrived in Zhangqiu, Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province. Zhangqiu District is a famous "hometown of blacksmiths" in history, and there is an old saying that "Zhangqiu blacksmiths are all over the world". Along the road in the village, which is not too wide, we heard the tinkling of the iron, and we got excited in an instant and found it!
1- entered a house with a nice voice while the iron was hot. Several people at the door knocked on the door more actively when they saw someone coming. In the yard, on the concrete floor, a toolbox was set up. Several people are holding hammers, each with an iron plate, and the rhythm is cheerful. There is no fire and stove in the yard. Two women are trying their best to sell products. We are authentic Zhangqiu iron pot! There is a packing box next to it, all of which are common products of Taobao, and the price is probably below 200.
Looking at the thin iron sheet that I could knock hard, we quickly slipped away regardless of the enthusiasm of recommending women.
2- I went to five or six other houses, and almost all of them looked the same. There is even a house knocked by several children, and we have strong doubts about CCTV programs! What the hell is this!
3- Several villagers in Lu Yu asked about the situation, some pointed to this, some pointed to that, and some were eager to show us around. They also visited five or six other stores, the same Taobao, the same model!
4- With a greedy cat's heart, I walked into the party member activity center in the village. A village cadre consulted carefully, drew a road map by hand, turned left and right, and came to a path beside a forest.
This door is very interesting. There are seven or eight steps outside the wall. The door is very small, and the steps on it are very narrow. An iron gate is about fifty or sixty centimeters wide and about 180 centimeters high. The door is unlocked, so you can push it in.
5- be elated in an instant!
There is a big stove about 3 meters high in the yard. A thin iron old man, with a full face of vicissitudes of life, was wearing a thick apron and was holding it with a long clamp, burning an iron plate. Next to him, a chubby man of about 40 years old is helping him.
6- When the old man stops the fire, we will go to his room to chat. The old man has been working while the iron is hot for more than 60 years. Because of environmental protection, the village kept one or two stoves. Except for him and another family, all the products sold by other families are imported from Yiwu! Those yards are for people to strike while the iron is hot, and no finished products can be produced at all.
7- Needless to say, the old man's unique skill, iron pot, CCTV video is right, that is, the traditional method, hand forging pot, manufacturing needs to go through 12 processes, 18 times heating, tempering at a high temperature of about 1000 degrees, forging 10,000 times until the pot body is like a mirror. The forged Zhangqiu iron pot is more suitable for the stir-frying of Chinese food, and has the characteristics of natural uncoated, easy temperature control, non-stick and non-paste, fuel saving and long service life. The key is the thickness, 2.7 kg per pot! Because the stove is limited, you can't burn a few pots a day. His old man and his son are in charge of calcination, and four or five others are in charge of forging. Each person produces a pot a day, which is basically bought by foreign customers with the help of local people. Without inventory, Taobao is even more impossible.
8- after talking about the pot, the old man's unique skill is an iron flower, iron flower! There are peonies and chrysanthemums, which are exquisite and rarely come out. It can't be played several times a year, because it is easy to rust when it is released, and the price is not low. Not many people buy it. Basically, they just make a sample and have a look.
9- Tsinghua University architectural design students, some graduate students design works and ask the elderly to customize them. I don't have an album with me, and the works are very modern.
10- chatted for an hour, because it was noon, and I ate two of his steamed buns. Noodles are thick and good, but the stuffing is not big. Maybe my family is working hard and needs to eat more noodles, hehe. When the pot was just cooked, I didn't want a box, so I wrapped it in a newspaper and we said goodbye to the old man. When we left, it was the gate, spacious and imposing. Usually there are many people who come to see it, so we usually don't open it. The door we came to is the back door.
Unfortunately, after a long time, there are not many photos left.
Such an old craft really needs local support, such as giving special policies for environmental protection and allowing iron furnaces to exist, otherwise good things are really hard to buy.
Let's talk about follow-up. I bought a pot handle cover and a pot ear cover in Taobao, which solved the problem of iron pot hot pot. Cooking is absolutely delicious. I replaced the oil with a small fire and fried the chopped green onion noodles, which became my specialty and other dishes, hehe.
From the perspective of process stability, the quality of the pot pressed by industrial template is far better than that by hand. Pure hype leads to high prices, which is no different from TV sales. If you look at those introductions carefully, basically an ordinary pot can do it, even better than him. The real core of making iron pots is smelting technology. Even iron is not specially smelted, and there is basically no core competitiveness.
However, if it has all the functions of the pot in terms of function, it can't be said that it completely deceived you.
Iron pot is good, first of all, it is not a matter of craftsmanship!
What kind of iron is used for casting or "machining"? Iron is very important! The composition of iron used for making pots should be paid attention to at the beginning of smelting. After all, iron pots are used for cooking! If the iron used in the cooking pot is unknown or contains unhealthy components such as heavy metals and micro-radiation elements, it is useless! ! Just like poisonous flour is processed into beautiful cakes. ...
If the iron pot ignores the link of "what iron is used to make the pot" in the propaganda! Simply emphasizing the technology, you can't mobilize consumers who are more and more familiar with scientific knowledge to buy!
The above is only my humble opinion, and it does not constitute a suggestion to buy a pot [covering your face]
Zhangqiu iron pot is a big scam.
The year before last, when I moved to a new house to buy furniture, I spent 400 yuan to buy a Zhangqiu iron pot, which is the kind of baked orchids. It also claimed to have cooked the pot, so naturally it didn't touch the pot.
It's been used for two years now, and rust is everywhere. This pot is black, yellow and white. Clean it with pigskin, clean it with cooking oil and soak it in a pot of oil for ten days. Everything has been used. The rust is still rust, and the flowers are still flowers. What's even more frightening is that I found Zhangqiu iron pot so soft that I could make a deep impression on it with a spatula. I don't know what alloy the pot material should be, because it is soft and easy to form, which can save a lot of manufacturing costs.
Excessive intake of rust (iron oxide) may cause heavy metal deposition and cause harm to the body. If its body is made of alloy, it depends on what is mixed. If this alloy is poisonous and unhealthy, it would be terrible!
I really can't get it right, so I threw this Zhangqiu iron pot away. After all, health comes first, because every meal has to deal with the pot!
Zhangqiu Iron Pot, an ordinary local product, became famous in a food program, but it was a rare treasure because it didn't count itself. It expanded production and raised prices, and now nobody cares.
Before answering this question, we need to know what the concept of "iron" is. Strictly speaking, this "iron" refers to cast iron, and the forming process of cast iron can only be casting, that is to say, molten iron at high temperature is poured into a pre-made mold, cooled and polished, and then the pot handle is installed. This is the basic process. In the past, the pots used by ordinary people were all made of this technology, as were raw aluminum pots and raw aluminum pots.
The performance of cast iron is that its structure is relatively stable and it is not easy to rust, and the iron in the iron pot is also very beneficial to the body. Authentic wok is brittle and easy to crack. Based on this feature, you must never knock. If it is a knock-molded pot, it is definitely not an iron pot, so what should the pot shaped like this be called? Strictly speaking, it should be called "steel" pot. Although the main constituent elements of both are iron atoms, the mechanical properties of steel and iron are quite different.
More than 99% of commonly used pots are made of steel. In today's unprecedented industrialization, it is actually very simple to make a steel pot. Stamping is ok and efficient. It only takes a few seconds. If you knock by hand with a hammer, the efficiency is very low, and you can't hit a few a day. I have done this work myself and should have a say. So what's the difference between a punching pot and a hammer pot? There is absolutely no difference! Because its material will not change at all.
Based on the above, even if the Zhangqiu wok mentioned today is really handmade, it is only a selling point at most. So is there really a real Zhangqiu iron pot in history? I think there should still be some, but it must be a cast iron pot, not the beaten steel pot now.
China on the Tip of the Tongue once showed Zhangqiu wok cooking. The effect of non-stick pan is better than that of real non-stick pan, coupled with the scenery of artificial cast iron pan, so it is famous for its dryness. The hottest line can sell tens of thousands of pots, and the prices range from 400 yuan and 200 yuan.
Traditionally, the real Zhangqiu iron pot has to be hammered 36 thousand times. If it is really a manual hammer for 36,000 times, it is worthwhile to spend 400 yuan and 500 yuan on it. However, driven by interests, almost all people in Zhangqiu are engaged in the production of this kind of pot, and they have begun to be "arrogant" and shoddy. Some people simply forge iron pots with cold pressing technology, which turned out to be 36,000 times as artificial.
Therefore, there are very few real Zhangqiu iron pots, and few people can do manual work. Only people who are opportunistic and get rich quickly will do it, and the result can be imagined.
This is not a scam. This pot can be used for cooking and boiling water, and it can be used as a helmet when placed on it. . . .
In order to sell well, there is nothing wrong with doing some packaging and hype. It's up to you to buy or not. As long as the pot is made of real iron, it is not a lie. LV can make clothes with airbags and sell them at sky-high prices, so can't the pot sell higher?
Anyway, I won't buy this pot. If it's more expensive, I'll try my best to support it!
Handmade is a scam in itself, and it will never be as accurate as machine made. This is just a daily necessities, only handicrafts are valuable.