Chongqing Jiugongge hot pot is divided into different grids mainly to rinse different ingredients according to the heat.

Jiugongge divides hot pot into three levels, and different grids represent different temperatures and different butter concentrations. Different ingredients are cut into different thicknesses and shapes, or slices, blocks, or strips, cooked in different ways, and then get different tastes. This is the mystery of Chongqing Jiugongge Hot Pot, and it is also a unique cooking method of Chongqing Hot Pot.

When eating Jiugongge hot pot, you can't just put the ingredients into the nearest grid, because different grids have different scalding methods, because different ingredients need different heat. The middle grid has the strongest firepower and the highest oil temperature. It can be used to scald beef intestines, fat beef and loin slices, which can keep the best taste.

Origin of Jiugongge Hotpot

Chongqing Jiugongge hot pot is based on the fairness and balance of the people. People like to eat hot pot, and at the same time, the original Chongqing Jiugongge hot pot was created with this special diet style. As the name implies, there are nine compartments in Jiugongge Hot Pot.

It is said that when Jiugongge hotpot was just created, it was divided into nine compartments for the convenience of accounting. At that time, near the pier, vendors divided the pots into nine grids for different diners to eat. Customers can eat the grid they want, and then calculate the money according to the grid, which is a cheap and convenient way.

The predecessor of Jiugongge Hot Pot is an ordinary large iron pot, which is similar to the Guandong cooking that can be seen everywhere in the street now. Because there are too many people eating, the people sitting at the pot may not know each other.

In order to prevent the selected food from going to others, and other people's food enters their own stomachs, the hot pot restaurant uses wood as a grid to divide a large pot into nine different grid spaces. Now the material used in Jiugongge hot pot has been basically changed to iron.