The iron pot you just bought needs to follow the following usage principles to avoid rust. These principles are:

1. After frying a dish, brush the pot once and fry another dish. After each meal is finished, the inner wall of the pot must be washed and dried to prevent the pot from rusting and producing iron oxide that is harmful to human health.

2. Try not to use an iron pot to cook soup.

3. Do not use an iron pot to serve dishes overnight, because the iron pot will dissolve iron under acidic conditions and destroy the vitamin C in the dishes.

4. Use as little detergent as possible when cleaning the pot. If there is slight rust in the pot, you can use vinegar to clean it.

5. In addition, iron pots should not be used to boil medicine, and iron pots should not be used to cook mung beans.

Reminder: Iron pots are prone to rust and should not be used to hold food overnight. At the same time, try not to use an iron pot to cook soup, otherwise the cooking oil layer on the surface of the iron pot that protects it from rust will disappear. You should also use as little detergent as possible when cleaning the pot, and try to wipe out the water in the pot afterwards. If there is slight rust, you can use vinegar to clean it.

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Precautions for using iron pots

Prevent food from being stained black. When cooking a new iron pot for the first time, the food will be stained black. At this time, you can rub the pot with tofu residue several times to prevent the food from being contaminated. You can also refine it with oil before formal use. Method: Pour in an appropriate amount of oil, turn on the heat until the oil is hot, turn off the heat, and turn the iron pot to make the oil stick to the wall of the pot. After the oil cools, rinse with water.

Cleverly removes the fishy smell from iron pots. After cooking fish and other fishy ingredients in an iron pot, it is difficult to remove the fishy smell in the pot. At this time, you can put a little tea leaves in the pot, add water and boil it, and the fishy smell will be removed.

Clearly remove the iron smell from iron pots. When a new iron pot is used, there is an iron smell. There is an easy way to eliminate the iron smell: put some potato skins in the pot and boil it for a while, then pour it out, then wash the pot, and the iron smell will disappear.

How to remove grease from iron pans. After the wok has been used for a long time, it has accumulated burnt grease, which is difficult to clean with alkali or detergent. As long as you boil fresh pear peels in the pot with water, the scale will fall off easily.

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