1. Hot pot generally refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a vessel, a pot is cooked with a heat source, and various foods are cooked with water or soup. At the same time, you can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the function of heat preservation. When eating, the food is still steaming and the soup is integrated. There are similar dishes all over the world, but they are especially popular mainly in East Asia. Hot pot tastes hot, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, suitable for mountain and river climate. Nowadays, it has developed into a mandarin duck pot, which is spicy and light, and has its own needs. Different soups and foods are added according to personal preferences, which is suitable for all ages and the best in winter.
2. Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products and staple foods. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.
Thirdly, the popular characteristics of hot pot catering are accepted and loved by consumers, especially the cold and dry weather in the northern region makes the hot pot market have great potential, and the management methods of hot pot types are constantly innovating. Chongqing hot pot, which is famous for its "spicy, spicy and hot", is a southern hot pot, with instant-boiled mutton as the main representative, a northern hot pot and a new hot pot.
Fourth, the development of hot pot is gradual, just like the development of catering history, which was completely changed according to the introduction of utensils, social needs and the discovery of raw materials at that time. During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Wendi's "five-cooked pot" was a pot with several compartments, which could cook different foods at the same time, similar to today's "Yuanyang pot". In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "bronze tripod" was the most common vessel, which is today's hot pot. In the Tang Dynasty, hot pot was also called "warm pot".
Up to now, the hot pot utensils have not changed much. In addition to using high-temperature resistant transparent glass, the new container can see food tumbling when cooking, and there will be no fish escaping from the net when eating. Pots such as copper pots, iron pots and casseroles are just more exquisite and have been used for thousands of years. The most common and widely used pot is "stainless steel pot", also known as "white iron pot".