I only know that hot pot oil can be reused. Most of what Chongqing shops eat is recycled old oil. If you don't reuse it, it won't smell good. If you use the soup twice, it probably won't taste like that.

Careful people may find that there are often news reports that unknown hot pot restaurants reuse hot pot bottom materials. After the guests eat the hot pot, they take the soup base to the kitchen for filtration and then give it to the guests at other tables. Today, I will teach you a few tricks to tell whether the bottom material of a hot pot restaurant is reused.

For the packaging bag of chafing dish bottom material, you can ask the shopkeeper of the packaging bag whether there is a QS health certificate before the chafing dish bottom material enters the pot. Some unscrupulous merchants will prepare some dirty bottom materials in advance, so pay special attention to this when eating hot pot.

The flavor of hot pot soup will be decomposed continuously after the hot pot bottom material is put into the pot, and it takes more than 10 minutes to melt into the soup, which is also the reason why the hot pot is getting hotter and hotter. Reusable pot bottom is different, and it will have a strong spicy taste at first. If you taste them, you should pay more attention.

The color of hot pot oil, fresh hot pot oil is often bright blood red, which makes people feel comfortable at first sight and greatly increases their appetite, while the old oil used many times is dark red like paint, even with a little black, so be sure to open your eyes carefully before eating hot pot.

The thickness of chafing dish oil layer is about 10mm for fresh chafing dish oil, but the old oil will become thicker after repeated use because of repeated condensation, which can also be distinguished by the foam after the chafing dish is boiled. After a good hot pot is boiled, the foam will disappear, while the foam in the old oil pan will increase.

There may be many people who will still struggle with the smell after eating hot pot. Xiaoqu tells you, don't worry at all. Now hot pot restaurants have been equipped with exclusive deodorizers. Just turn around in front of the machine for a few seconds, and all the odor troubles will be forgotten.