1, Pronunciation: [?cuān ]

2, Initials: Water

3, Strokes: 6

4, Definitions:

①Blanch, the top of the "into", the bottom of the "water", together, it means "(to put something) into the (boiling) water".

The original meaning is a "cooking method, put the food into the boiling water a little boil: blanch balls, blanch radish.

② dialect: the metal utensils used to boil water, can quickly boil the water: blanch, water blanch children.

"Boil" and "blanch" to see a lot of people in the description of the cooking process is to mix the two words.

The difference between the words "boil" and "blanch" is that:

●"Boil" is a hot cooking process that involves putting fresh ingredients into a boiling pot of water and cooking them in a way that makes the food more flavorful. Cooked into a dish of a cooking method. Blanch soup wide fresh, the main ingredients are cut into thin slices, fresh flavor, crisp dishes. Generally savory, light, refreshing, more soup as a heat transfer medium, into the dish quickly, is one of the methods of making soup or half-soup dishes.

●"Blanching" is a preliminary cooked process, is the raw materials into the cold water or boiling water pot to get rid of the odor as well as a cooking method to break the raw. There are two main methods of blanching: one is a pot of boiling water blanching, generally applicable to plant-based raw materials and tender animal raw materials; the other is a cold pot of blanching, generally applicable to the texture of the old and tough fishy and nasty taste of heavy animal raw materials.