Daily life, seasonings enrich the flavor of our lives, common seasonings are soy sauce, sour vinegar, sugar, oil and salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), chicken powder and other most basic seasonings, usually like to cook, the pursuit of a rich variety of dishes, the kitchen will also be equipped with thirteen spices, such as star anise, cinnamon ping, peppercorns, pepper, grass fruit, lemongrass and so on. Different spices can make the same dish, make a different taste, let life colorful.

Different seasonings with, will have a different flavor, with the right, the flavor is very good, with the wrong, cook out the taste is very strange. Pepper is divided into black pepper and white pepper, although there is only one word difference, but the use of the difference is very big, with the wrong, the flavor difference of ten thousand eight hundred thousand miles, and even bad a pot of vegetables.

Pepper is one of the world's most popular spices, was the most valuable seasoning in ancient Europe, the former seafaring trade, mainly trafficking pepper, so in the past the price is expensive, only the aristocracy can afford to eat, and used to be mainly used for food preservation.

In fact, black and white peppercorns are the fruits of the same plant, only due to different processing, resulting in different colors. Picked before the pepper is ripe and boiled in hot water, the skin dries to black, while white pepper is picked when the pepper is ripe, the husk is removed and the fruit inside dries to white.

Black pepper and white pepper is the main difference between the color and smell, the color needless to say, divided into black and white, the smell of the two are completely different, black pepper flavor is more intense, black pepper shells have volatile substances, smell a stimulating odor. The flavor of white pepper is not so strong, a little lighter.

Black pepper and white pepper have different flavors, and different uses and practices. Black pepper flavor is more volatile, so it is not suitable for a long time cooking, otherwise the taste will become diluted, high temperature can stimulate the flavor of black pepper, usually we eat black pepper steak, black pepper beef tenderloin, sometimes barbecue also use black pepper, after high temperature baking for a short period of time, can stimulate the flavor of black pepper, so that the meat is more flavorful, but also more appetizing.

White pepper is relatively light, mainly stored in the fruit, the flavor is relatively mild and stable, sometimes cooking soup, but also the white pepper grinding crushed and then used, is to make the white pepper easier to taste. Usually white pepper is mainly used for fishy, fresh and fragrant, usually cooking fish soup, cooking pork belly chicken pot, cooking meat porridge, put a little white pepper flavor, especially in winter, white pepper is a little pungent, drink a bowl of soup, warm body, quite comfortable.

Black pepper and white pepper flavor characteristics are not the same, the production process is relatively large differences, the use of completely different, according to the cooking needs to use pepper, barbecue, the practice of iron plate suitable for the use of black pepper, soup, stew suitable for the use of white pepper, completely different. Of course, sometimes you can also mix the use, now there are some mixed grinding device on the market, mix 2 kinds of pepper, when you use, twist the lid, now grinding, very convenient.