With the improvement of the quality of life, the cooking of big pot dishes in rural areas is getting better and better, and each family is doing better than the other.

In the past, there were only eight bowls, but now some have become better and better due to comparison, and the number and variety of dishes have also increased. Some families now have seventeen or eighteen dishes on a table.

The local specialties from rural areas and delicacies from the mountains and seas are all on offer and are not inferior to city hotels at all.

In rural areas where there are a lot of big pot dishes, a temporary kitchen is usually built first, because many rural areas use firewood, and the smoke is very heavy at home and it is generally difficult to discharge it.

Also, there are too many workers, and the home is too narrow and crowded.

In rural areas, the kitchen staff who make big pot dishes are usually well matched with each other. Those who wash and pick up vegetables, those who chop and chop, and those who hold ladles all have different divisions of labor.

Generally, large pots are used for cooking, and the earthen stoves are built in a row. The pots are placed side by side so that the dishes in the row of pots can be cooked at the same time by burning a fire underneath.

Build two separate woks, one for cooking and one for frying, so that dozens of tables of dishes can be finished quickly at the same time without worrying about meal time at all.

Although it looks messy and unhygienic, it is almost all pollution-free food from rural areas and is very healthy to eat.

As the name suggests, cauldron dishes are dishes that are boiled or stewed in a large pot. It is a dish made with various ingredients in a pot, including soup and water.

This dish is often used in collective canteens and when doing errands. In the past, when we were educated youths, we dug rivers in winter and ate big pot dishes every day.

There is no uniform way to make big pot dishes. You can use whatever ingredients are available. However, they are also divided into vegetarian big pot dishes and meatless big pot dishes. To put it bluntly, those with meat are called meat big pot dishes, and those without meat are called vegetarian big pots.

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Although everyone's method is different, they are similar. The method does not pay much attention to knife skills, and just cut the ingredients into roughly shaped shapes.

Big pot dishes, also called boiled vegetables, are more common in northern my country, but southerners basically don't eat this kind of big pot dishes. Many southerners find it unacceptable, and some even call big pot dishes "pig food."

I had the same feeling before. I felt that the big pot dishes were too shabby, looked dirty, and completely unappetizing.

It wasn’t until I traveled to the north and tasted it for myself that I realized that it tasted much better than I imagined.