Cold dishes are a major category next to hot dishes, forming a unique technical system of cold dishes. According to their cooking characteristics, they can be divided into 65,438+00 categories, such as frying, boiling, steaming, roasting, frying, sugar sticking, freezing, rolling and dehydration, and there are some specific methods in the categories. Explain that cold dishes have many cooking skills, not hot dishes. Therefore, people are used to juxtaposing it with the cooking technology of hot dishes as two major cooking technologies.

Compared with hot dishes, cold dishes are basically the same except for the preliminary processing of raw materials. The obvious differences are as follows: the former usually cooks first and then cuts; The latter is to cut first and then cook. Hot dishes generally adopt the natural form of raw materials or the cutting, processing and copying of raw materials to form the shape of dishes; Cold dishes take silk, strips, slices and blocks as the basic units to form the appearance of dishes. The cold dishes with high technological names include single dish, mixed dish and flower-and-bird pattern.