Every time I go to a hot pot restaurant, there is a side dish I must order, duck blood. I used to love duck blood, but some time ago I saw the media report that there was a hot pot brand I often went to. In a shop somewhere, I found that "fresh duck blood" had nothing to do with ducks, which immediately made me sick.
As a knowledge-based foodie, I also consulted various materials and professionals, and finally came up with a method to distinguish between true and false duck blood. I'll tell you in detail.
Duck blood, as a common hot pot side dish, has captured countless taste buds of foodies like me with its tender, smooth and refreshing characteristics. However, fake duck blood incidents occur from time to time. Whether you go to a hot pot restaurant to order duck blood or go to the market to buy duck blood and go home to play hot pot, you have to be careful.
It is not difficult to tell the difference between true and false duck blood. Lazy meow summarized them as the following three points.
Real duck blood, the overall texture will be more delicate and smooth, so it is easy to break. When buying duck blood, you can try the texture on a small scale by hand. If you feel the texture is rough and it is not easy to break it hard, you will encounter "problem duck blood" in nine cases out of ten.
In addition, the surface pores of raw duck blood are small and smooth, and the cross-sectional pore size is uneven after being cut with a knife. If it is some adulterated duck blood, the surface will be rough and the pores will be larger. After cutting with a knife, the pores on the cut surface will be more uniform. Through the identification of stomatal state, fake duck blood can also be simply identified.
Real duck blood smells with acceptable natural blood smell. If you can't smell anything, it's probably artificial duck blood. If the smell is pungent, or there are other smells such as chemicals, it means that duck blood is not bad, or it is mixed with other substances. Don't buy it.
If it is cooked duck blood, we can also distinguish the authenticity of duck blood by tasting it. Really duck blood, smooth and tender, eaten in the mouth, a bit like eating tofu, tender and crisp, with a faint fragrance. If it tastes chewy and even feels like jelly, it is basically adulterated duck blood.
In other words, if you encounter the following three kinds of duck blood, you must turn around and walk away, which can also be understood as "3 don't touch":
1, don't touch duck blood with rough texture and large pores on the surface;
2. Don't touch the duck blood with the smell of chemicals.
3. Don't touch the duck blood that is chewy and not easy to bite.
After learning how to distinguish between true and false duck blood, I believe everyone will be curious about how these fake duck blood on the market is faked.
At present, most fake duck blood on the market is composed of pig blood, chicken blood and cow blood. It is harmless to eat animal blood such as pig blood, but these unscrupulous merchants usually use inferior animal blood for cost reasons, and in order to make fake duck blood look more realistic, harmful substances such as formaldehyde, industrial pigments and anticoagulants will be added.
If we eat this fake duck blood for a long time, it will bring us a lot of harm. But don't worry too much, learn the three methods taught above, remember to eat duck blood "3 don't touch", and the probability of stepping on the pit is still relatively low.
Learn from laziness.
It is said that buying is not as good as selling, but as long as we are careful, pay more attention to details, and be a knowledgeable foodie, we can see the problem on the nail next time we encounter similar situations, easily identify fake duck blood and avoid being cheated again.