For cooking experts, dried tofu skin is an ideal ingredient. It itself is bland and tasteless, but when cooked with other ingredients, its essence can be extracted. To make dried tofu skin delicious, you must How to choose high-quality dried tofu skin?

First, look at the appearance. In good dry tofu skin, you can see traces of lean meat-like fibrous tissue when facing the light; in poor quality, you can't see it. You can also look at the cross-section of dried tofu skin (you can also break it in bulk and observe it again). The ones with honeycomb hollows are of better quality.

Second, observe the color. Dried tofu skin is preferably wheat-yellow in color and slightly shiny. The color of poor-quality dried tofu skin is mostly grayish-yellow, tawny, and darker. Some dried tofu skins may have uneven colors and different shades, making them inferior products.

Third, smell. Dried tofu skin is made from soybeans and smells like bean flavor. Dried tofu skin with no smell is of slightly lower quality. If there are other odors, such as bitter, sour and other pungent odors, don't buy it.

Fourth, soak with water. If you buy dried tofu skin at home, you can break it off into a small section and soak it in water. The soaked water is light yellow and not turbid, and is of good quality. After soaking the dried tofu skin in warm water, it has a certain toughness and can be torn into strands when gently pulled.

Tofu skin can be either thin or thick. Different people have different tastes, so it’s hard to say whether thicker or thinner is better. Thick is easy to make and low cost. Thin is difficult to make and high in cost. Generally speaking, if you want to stir-fry, just choose it. If you want to eat the rolls raw or mixed with cold dishes, choose the thin ones that taste better. Regardless of the thickness, be careful not to choose the ones that are very yellow when buying, especially the ones with a very uniform yellow color. That is the added pigment, so the tofu you buy is Blanch the skin with hot water. It's not terrible if it turns white. It's terrible if it turns yellow. Don't choose a particularly white one because all the fat in the soybeans has been removed. Although it's not bad, it will lose some nutrients. No matter how thick the tofu skin is, it should have a certain toughness. Soy products that break when you fold them are bad and contain a lot of adulteration. If you choose a store that is clean and hygienic and not adulterated, don’t worry too much about the thickness. The authentic products that are unpalatable are at least better than the delicious fake ones.