It is 100% a scam, but the fault is not with the blacksmith, but with a certain TV station program!
First of all, let’s take a look at the craftsmanship. One of the selling points of Zhangqiu iron pot is manual hammering, but if you have some common sense, the same raw materials, machine forging, will definitely be stronger and more uniform than manual hammer hammering. The iron pot is not a purple clay pot made by a craftsman. Artificial technology may make the iron pot artistic and sentimental, but it will not make the quality better.
Secondly, is the raw material of Zhangqiu iron pot special? Could it be that Zhangqiu blacksmith mastered the smelting technology of Yue King Goujian? From all reports, it is just ready-made iron plates purchased by the iron pot factory. , therefore, this article is not valid.
Then, in the show, the trick of chasing eggs with water in an iron pot without adding water or adding oil is just a physical phenomenon of water vapor supporting buoyancy. Any ordinary iron pot will have the same effect at a certain temperature. , restaurant chefs basically cook at high temperatures and quickly stir with a spoon. Gas stoves at home generally cannot achieve this temperature effect. This can only show the ignorance of the program director or exaggeration for the sake of program effect.
Also, various current experiments have proven that unless a special coating is used, such as Teflon, it is impossible for an iron pan to be non-stick. The iron pan just has a layer of grease.
Finally, with modern technology, the metal pots made of multi-layer materials are compositely forged, and their various indicators far exceed those of ordinary iron pots. Therefore, Zhangqiu iron pot is not better than ordinary iron pot. This is just a scam, intentionally or unintentionally.
Personal test! ! ! After buying and using it for two years, I can tell you that there are only one or two genuine Zhangqiu iron pots, and the quality is really poor. The price is about 680 yuan. I won’t tell you the specific last name of the iron pot seller to avoid suspicion of advertising. If you go there and ask the village cadres, they will tell you the real one. If you ask the villagers, they will most likely not tell you or they will tell you casually. The reason is unclear. .
Listen to me slowly.
After watching China on the Edge of the Roof, my greedy heart was pounding every day, and I couldn’t cook delicious food. It turned out that it was not a technical problem on my part, it was because I didn’t have a good pot. , found the root cause, let’s go! Go buy a pot!
On a morning with howling autumn wind, my friends and I set out with laughter and the smell of delicious food. In about two hours, we arrived at Zhangqiu, located in Jinan, Shandong Province. Zhangqiu District of the city is historically known as the "Hometown of Blacksmiths". There was an ancient saying that "Zhangqiu Blacksmiths are everywhere in the world". Along the not-so-wide road in the village, we heard the sound of clanging iron, and we instantly became excited. We found it!
1-I entered a house where the sound of blacksmithing was quite pleasant. Several people at the door started knocking more actively when they saw someone coming. In the yard, there was a cement floor. There was a toolbox and several people. Holding hammers and an iron plate each, they hammered in a cheerful rhythm. There was no fire or stove in the courtyard. The two women worked hard to sell the product. We are the authentic Zhangqiu iron pot! There are packaging boxes next to it, which are the common products on Taobao, and the price is about 200 or less.
Looking at the thin iron sheet that could be broken even if I hit it hard, we quickly ran away regardless of the enthusiastic urging of the recommending women to stay.
2- We visited five or six more stores, and they were all almost the same. There were even a few children playing with them in one store. We had strong doubts about the CCTV program! What the hell is this!
3-I met several villagers on the road and asked about the situation. Some pointed to this house, some pointed to that house, and some enthusiastically took us to have a look, and we looked at five or six more houses. The same Taobao same style!
4-With a greedy heart that will never give up until I reach my goal, I walked into the party member activity center in the village. A village cadre was inside. I consulted carefully and drew a route by hand. Picture, I turned left and right and came to a path next to a forest.
The door of this house is interesting. There are seven or eight steps outside the wall. The door is very small, and the steps up are also very narrow. An iron door is about fifty or sixty centimeters wide, and the height is only about 180 centimeters. It was unlocked, so he pushed the door open and entered.
5-Be instantly elated!
A large stove with a height of about 3 meters stood in the yard. A thin old man with a weathered face and a thick apron was holding an iron plate with a long clamp and calcining an iron plate. Next to him, a slightly fat man in his 40s was assisting him.
6-When the old man stopped the fire, we went to his house to chat. This old man has been blacksmithing for more than 60 years. Because of the environmental protection inspection, the whole village only retained one or two stoves, except for him and another family. What other stores sell are finished products imported from Yiwu! Blacksmithing in those yards is only for people to see, and there is no finished product at all.
7- Needless to say, the old man’s unique skill is the iron pot. The CCTV video did it right, it just looks like that. [呲呲] Use traditional methods and hand-forged pots. It takes twelve years to make them. It goes through a process, eighteen times of heat, tempered at a high temperature of about a thousand degrees, and withstood tens of thousands of forgings until the pot is as bright as a mirror.
The shape of the forged Zhangqiu iron pot is more in line with the needs of stir-frying Chinese dishes. It has the characteristics of being naturally uncoated, easy to control the heat, non-stick, non-stick, fuel-saving, and long service life. The key is thickness, one pot is 2.7 kg. ! Because the stove was limited, he could not burn several pots a day. The old man and his son were responsible for calcining, and the other four or five people were responsible for forging. Each person produced one pot a day, and basically all of them were bought by out-of-town customers and locals. Without inventory, Taobao is even less likely to have it.
8-After talking about the pot, the old man’s unique skill is to make flowers made of iron, iron flowers! There are peonies and chrysanthemums, all of which are exquisite. There are very few produced, and you can’t get a few of them a year, because they are easy to rust when displayed. The price is not low, and not many people buy them. Basically, they are just for samples.
9-Students majoring in architectural design at Tsinghua University. Some of their graduation projects were customized by old people. They had a photo album, but I didn’t take any pictures. The works are very modern.
10- I chatted and waited for an hour, because it was noon. His family had steamed buns, and I ate two. The noodles were thick and delicious, and the fillings were not big. Maybe the family It's a strenuous job, so you need to eat more noodles, haha. After we had just finished cooking a pot, I didn’t ask for a packaging box, so I wrapped it in newspaper, and we said goodbye to the old man. When you leave, it's a large and grand door. Usually there are many people coming to see it, so it's usually not opened. The door we came from is the back door.
As time goes by, not many photos remain, which is a bit regretful.
Such an old craft really needs local support, such as special policies for environmental protection to allow the existence of iron stoves, otherwise it will be difficult to buy good things.
Talking about the follow-up, I bought a pot handle and a pot earmuff on Taobao, which solved the problem of the iron pot being hot. The cooking is absolutely delicious. Add the oil and lower the heat, and fry the chopped green onions. Soy pot noodles have become my specialty, other dishes, haha.
In terms of process stability, the quality of the pots pressed by industrial templates is far better than those made by hand. It is purely a matter of hype that leads to high prices, which is no different from TV sales. If you read those introductions carefully, you will see that basically ordinary pots can do it, or even do it better than others. The real core of making iron pots is the smelting process. Even iron is not specially smelted, so there is basically no core competitiveness. .
But from a functional point of view, it has the functions of all pots, so I can’t say that I’m totally lying to you.
Whether an iron pot is good or not depends first on the craftsmanship!
What kind of iron is used for casting or "forging iron pots" is crucial! When smelting the iron used to make pots, you should pay attention to the composition of the material. After all, iron pots are used for cooking! If the composition of the iron used to make the pot is unknown or contains unhealthy ingredients such as heavy metals and micro-radiation elements, no matter how hard you try, it will be in vain! ! Just like poisonous flour is processed into exquisite cakes...
If the promotion of the iron pot ignores the aspect of "making the pot": what kind of iron is used! Blindly emphasizing the craftsmanship will not be able to mobilize the purchasing desire of consumers who are increasingly familiar with scientific knowledge!
The above is just my humble opinion and does not constitute a recommendation to buy a pot [face covering]
Zhangqiu Iron Pot is a big scam.
When I moved to a new house the year before last, I spent about 400 yuan to buy a Zhangqiu iron pot when buying furniture.
I have been using it for two years now, and there are rust wounds everywhere. There are black, yellow and white inside the pot. Rub it with pig skin, wipe it with cooking oil, put it in a pot and soak it for ten seconds. God, I have used all kinds of methods, rust is still rust, flowers are still flowers. What’s even more frightening is that I found that the Zhangqiu iron pot is very soft. I can make deep marks on the pot with a spatula. I doubt that the material of the pot should be some kind of alloy, because the material is soft and easy to shape, which can save money. Huge production costs.
If rust (iron oxide) is not washed clean and eaten too much, it may cause heavy metal deposition in the human body and harm the body. If the composition of the pot is an alloy, it depends on what is mixed in. If the alloy is toxic and unhealthy, it would be terrible!
I really couldn’t handle it, so I threw away this Zhangqiu iron pot. After all, health is the first priority, because we have to deal with the pot every meal!
Zhangqiu Iron Wok is an ordinary local product. It became famous on a food show. However, I don’t know how to count it. I feel that it is a rare treasure. With the expansion of production and price increase, it is now left alone. Question
Before answering this question, you need to first understand what the "iron" of an iron pot is. Strictly speaking, this "iron" refers to cast iron. The molding process of cast iron can only be casting, which means that molten iron melted at high temperature is poured into a pre-made mold. After the molten iron cools, it is taken out, polished, and then installed. Putting on the pot handle is the basic process. The pots used by ordinary people in the past were all made by this process, and the commonly known raw aluminum basins and raw aluminum pots were also made by this process - casting.
The performance of cast iron is that its structure is relatively stable and it is not easy to rust, and the iron element in the iron pot is also very beneficial to the body. The disadvantage of authentic iron pots is that they are relatively brittle and easily broken. Based on this characteristic, they must not be knocked. If it is a pot shaped by beating, it is definitely not an iron pot. So what should a pot shaped like this be called? Strictly speaking, it should be called a "steel" pot.
Although the main constituent elements of both are iron atoms, the mechanical properties of steel and iron are still very different.
More than 99% of the pots we commonly use today are made of steel. Today, with unprecedented industrialization, making a steel pot is actually very simple. It can be stamped, and it is very efficient and takes just a few seconds. time is enough. If it is made by hand with a hammer, the efficiency is very low, and you can't hit a few in a day. I have done this work myself, so I should have a say. So what is the difference between a stamped pot and a hand-beaten pot? There is absolutely no difference! Because its material will not fundamentally change.
Based on the above, even if the Zhangqiu iron pot mentioned today is really hammered by hand, it will only have one more selling point at most. So was there really a real Zhangqiu iron pot in history? I think there should still be some, but they must be iron pots made by casting technology, not the steel pots made by beating now.
"China on the Tongue" has broadcast dishes fried with "Zhangqiu Iron Pan". The effect of non-stick pan is better than that of real "non-stick pan", and it is equipped with manual cooking The popularity of cast iron pots has made it famous. At its peak, tens of thousands of pots were sold online, with prices ranging from 200 yuan to 400 yuan.
According to traditional saying, a real Zhangqiu iron pot needs to be hammered 36,000 times. If it is really hammered 36,000 times manually, then it is worth 400 yuan and 500 yuan alone. However, due to profit-driven, Almost everyone in Zhangqiu is engaged in the production of this pot, and they have begun to "show off their reputations" and pass off inferior products as good ones. Some people simply use cold pressing technology to forge iron pots, which originally took 36,000 times to be manually made. A one-time molding, just like this, the brand of Zhangqiu Iron Pot was smashed.
Therefore, there are very few real Zhangqiu iron pots. Few people can do manual labor. Only opportunistic and quick-making things can be done. The results can be imagined. And Zhi
It's not a scam. This pot can cook vegetables, boil water, and make a helmet on top of it. . . .
There is nothing wrong with packaging and promoting things to sell better. Whether you buy it or not is up to you. As long as the pot is made of real iron, I am not lying to you. LV can use air bags to make clothes. If the price is astronomical, why can’t the pot be sold at a higher price?
Anyway, I won’t buy this pot, so if it’s more expensive, it’s more expensive. I will try my best to support this pot!
Purely handmade is a scam in itself. It will never be as accurate as machine-made. This is just a daily product. Only craftsmanship, art and handwork have value