Sausage is considered to be well-dried when it is 80% dry.

Sausage was originally called Chinese sausage. Why was it called sausage in the first place, because the traditional time of making sausage was in the winter months, so it was called sausage. No season can be produced year-round, and then called sausage is no relevance, Chinese sausage is very famous in the world. Foreigners use Chinese recipes and techniques made of sausage, called Chinese sausage.

Generally speaking, drying to 80% dry is ideal. At this point, the skin of the sausage is basically air-dried and a little hard to the touch, but not particularly hard. This level of drying ensures the sausage's texture while preventing it from drying out too much. The drying time varies depending on the weather and the humidity of the environment. Generally speaking, drying for 2 to 3 days in sunny weather will achieve a state of 80% dryness. However, it is still recommended to be flexible according to local conditions.

Introduction of the origin of Chinese sausage names

Anciently, there was a butcher's store in the city of Yangcheng, and the shopkeeper's surname was Huang, who was smart and good at business. One day, a customer, two eyes staring at the sausage turn; look right and left, and finally picked up a to, with the nose smell, asked, this is what intestines, yellow shopkeeper full of smiles, answered is the sausage; customers heard, said nothing, turn their heads and go. Huang shopkeeper wondered in his heart, do not ask the price to go, there must be a reason.

He took two cooked sausage, chased up, said, sir, give you two taste, the customer waved his hand and said I do not eat chili, thank you, Huang Boss only then understood that the customer to wax and spicy two words confused. They will explain. The customer then took the sausage. Put into the mouth and chew, full of rich flavor in the mouth, immediately caused by the appetite. So bought a few pounds. From then on, the Huang shopkeeper to the sausage renamed sausage, and write on paper sausage two big words, hanging on the sausage.

In this way, the business of the butcher store also prospered. Later this butcher store, renamed sausage store. Although this is a legend, but the flavor of the sausage is really fragrant, the clever Huang shopkeeper changed the name of the sausage to sausage, which is true to its name. From this point on, the name sausage spread.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Sausage for the above