In many dietary words, "hot pot" belongs to fewer than the word polysemous and so on. It is both food. And is the name of the cookware, or traditional diet, can be said to be multi-tasking. As the name of the food, the ancient "Buxia for", "warm pot", "servant monk" refers to it; now the maw hot pot, clear soup hot pot, red soup hot pot, mandarin duck hot pot, four seasons hot pot, Nowadays, the hot pot of maw, clear soup hot pot, red soup hot pot, mandarin duck hot pot, four seasons hot pot, onion pot, shabu-shabu hot pot, shabu-shabu, lamb shabu-shabu, wild Italian hot pot, white meat hot pot, assorted hot pot and so on, refers to it.
As a kind of cooking utensil, hot pot has the function of both cooking and eating. Food ingredients in the hot pot hot and ripe, it is cookware; hot pot can be directly on the table, it is breakfast utensils, usually, hot pot can be made of iron, copper, pottery, aluminum and other materials. Size are available. Some have ears, some pots and stoves connected to a wide range of styles.
About 10,000 years ago, China's earliest container - pottery tripod is used as a pot. The meat-based food are all thrown into the tripod, and then in the bottom of the fire to cook the food. It became a pot of stew, then called "soup", which was the first hot pot. There was no salt, no seasoning, no sauce, just a bunch of meat cooked. The huge size of the tripod, can not be moved, can only be fixed in one place, not convenient to enjoy at any time.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, not only was copper and iron invented, but a variety of ceramic products were also improved to make smaller vessels for general use. The production of copper and iron, not only formed a revolution in utensils, but also with modern pots and pans are very similar, copper pots and ceramic casserole, to the present is still the most practical and most common hot pot utensils. The former tripod, on the other hand, has been extended as a symbol of power.
The development of hot pot, like catering, was gradual. Based on the vessels, social needs and the discovery of raw materials, in the era of the Three Kingdoms, Emperor Wei mentioned the "five cooked kettle", which is divided into several compartments of the pot, you can cook a variety of different foods (healthier), and nowadays, "mandarin ducks pot", which is the same thing. It is similar to today's "mandarin duck pots", which can be said to have the same flavor. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "copper pot" became the most common vessel, which is now known as the hot pot. Evolution to the Tang Dynasty, the hot pot is also known as "warm pot".
Today's hot pot containers, methods and flavoring, although it has gone through thousands of years of evolution, but a **** the same point remains unchanged, that is, the fire pot, water (soup) heat conduction, cooking (shabu-shabu) food. This cooking method has appeared as early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and can be said to be the prototype of hot pot. It is recorded in the "Outer Chronicle of Han Dynasty Poetry" that in ancient times, during rituals or celebrations, food was eaten by "striking bells and listing tripods", i.e., people gathered around the tripods and put food such as beef and mutton into the tripods to cook and share the food, which was the germ of hotpot. Through the Qin, Han, Tang Dynasty evolution, until the Song Dynasty really have hot pot records.
Song Lin Hong in his "mountain home Qingsui" mentioned eating hot pot, that is, it is called "dial Xia for". He talked about in the tour of Wuyi Mountain, visit Shi Dao, in the snow to get a rabbit, no chef to cook. "Shi Yun, the mountain only with thin batch, wine, sauce, pepper, and the Wozhi. To wind stove on the table, water half a choshi, wait for the soup rang a cup, each divided into chopsticks, so that since the clip into the soup swinging cooked, bite, it is free to each juice for free dipping." From the eating style, it is similar to the current "shabu-shabu hot pot".
The pot is one of people's favorite foods in winter, but there are many dietary taboos against eating hot pot, so if you don't do it right, you're likely to experience gastrointestinal discomfort or even poisoning. First, it is not advisable to eat shabu-shabu, simply to pay attention to the meat "tender". Many people who eat hot pot think that seven or eight minutes cooked mutton slices to eat up flavor, but this is easy to infect with trichinosis.
Second, the time to eat charcoal hot pot should not be too long. Because, eating pot is often a lot of people in a small room, high indoor temperature, air circulation, indoor oxygen deficiency, charcoal burning impermeable, it will produce a lot of carbon monoxide, easy to make people poisoned.
Hot pot ingredients are meat, seafood and vegetables, etc., these materials are mixed together in the thick soup formed after cooking, contains a very high concentration of substances called "porphyrin", metabolized by the liver to generate uric acid, which can make the renal failure, impeded excretion, resulting in excessive uric acid deposition in the blood and tissues, which causes The first thing you need to do is to get rid of it.
Conclusion winter eating hot pot has now become a popular, families generally in the family conditions can be the case, are often their own at home to eat hot pot, the prevalence of hot pot does not have a long time, but from the beginning also has a long history and culture.