Cool water soaking silver fungus: 3-4 hours

Silver fungus soaked in cool water, the time up to 3-4 hours, can let the silver fungus slowly absorb water, the maximum degree of silver fungus soaking open, so that stewing the silver fungus will shorten the time, for to help the silver fungus cooked more viscous.

Hot water soaking silver fungus: about 20 minutes

With hot water soaking silver fungus speed is very fast, generally ten or twenty minutes can be soaked open, but hot water soaking will affect the number of silver fungus rise, but also affect the quality of soaking silver fungus, so that the texture of its sticky soft.

Soak a little longer to cook the thicker, but does it mean that the longer the silver ear soak the better? The answer is naturally no.

The fungus can be soaked, but if the soaking time is too long, the loss of nutrients will increase, the nutritional value will decrease. Moreover, prolonged soaking will produce harmful ingredients nitrite.

It is best to soak in cold water.

While it is said that hot water soaking speed, but the silver fungus is a fungus food, the temperature is too high may make the silver fungus in the loss of some nutrients, destruction of nutrients, affecting the taste, so it is best to use cold water soaking is better.

The soaking of the fungus is actually relatively simple, put the fungus in cool water and soak for 3-4 hours, during which time you can change the water every hour to remove the residual dust and other impurities.

After soaking, take out the roots and remove the impurities and rinse them several times with water. Then put the silver fungus root-side up in the water so that the water completely soaks the fungus, so that it rests again for about half an hour, and when cooking, just tear it into small pieces with your hands.

However, most families use hot water to soak the fungus. Because hot water soaking is fast and can be used quickly, this method is favored by some housewives. But in fact, this hot water hair silver ear method is not enough. It will affect the number of fungus rise and will also affect the quality of the fungus soaking so that the taste is sticky and soft. If you really want to speed up, the silver fungus can be soaked in warm water for about 1 hour before eating, to be its hair through, remove the bottom plate and impurities, hand-torn into small pieces can be steamed, boiled, stewed and so on.