How to distinguish real and fake vermicelli? This is a good question. I’m from Henan. People here, including northern my country, like to make vermicelli and eat vermicelli. For example, in our hometown in the countryside, we use home-grown sweet potatoes to make vermicelli in winter. I have four ways to identify them: look, Fold, burn, cook and expensive, remember these five words and you will never buy fake vermicelli.

Vermicelli has a wide range of uses. It can be used to make hot and sour noodles, cold salad, pork stewed vermicelli, rice noodles, etc. So many classic delicacies are inseparable from authentic vermicelli, and fake vermicelli cannot be used at all. To see the effect of real vermicelli, let me talk about it in detail below, how to distinguish true from fake 1. Look

You can see the color of vermicelli by looking. The color of real vermicelli is a very natural and transparent color, while the fake vermicelli looks like It is black, gray, opaque, and looks very turbid inside. This kind of vermicelli is mixed with many other substances, and real vermicelli is made entirely of starch, so it looks very clear and clean. 2. Folding

Folding means breaking the vermicelli with your hands. Real vermicelli will break as soon as you fold it with your hands. Real vermicelli is relatively brittle because starch has no toughness, so the vermicelli produced is also relatively fragile. ; The fake vermicelli keeps folding no matter how hard it is and is very tough, which means that it is adulterated, usually with some gluten-enhancing substances. In fact, some restaurants and vendors like to use fake vermicelli because it can be soaked for a long time. And it won't break. The most important thing is that it looks good and doesn't get lumpy easily. 3. Burning

Burning means burning with fire. Find a vermicelli and put it on the fire. Real vermicelli will expand quickly and turn white after burning, and will not break. There are many snacks selling this kind of snack in our hometown in Henan. The method is to fry the vermicelli in a frying pan. Once fried, the vermicelli becomes thicker and larger, and then some sugar liquid sticks to the outside. It is a very delicious snack.

After the fake vermicelli is burned, it will either burn or not burn and break as soon as it burns. If it burns, it will be a pile of ashes after burning. The fake vermicelli contains adulteration. Mixed with other substances, it looks very scary. This is the performance of fake vermicelli. With this method, you can immediately distinguish which is real and which is fake. 4. Boil

Boiling means boiling the vermicelli in water. Put the vermicelli in the pot and cook for a few minutes. Real vermicelli will be very chewy after being cooked, because the starch will become very tough and chewy after being heated; while fake vermicelli will become very chewy. Not to mention vermicelli, they break as soon as they are cooked and even turn into paste. However, it should be noted here that some adulterated vermicelli also cook continuously and are very chewy. Hehe, these vermicelli are chewier than real vermicelli and are fake vermicelli. Yes, it means there are a lot of impurities in it. 5. Expensive

Expensive means that when buying vermicelli, pick the expensive ones. The truth that has never changed since ancient times is "Real products are not cheap, and cheap ones are not genuine." It is very simple. If you see the selling price If the price is much lower than the market price, don't buy it. Basically, it can be judged as fake vermicelli. The cost of real vermicelli is also high, so it can't be sold so cheap, right?

Of course, this method is generally very effective, but you should also be careful when encountering businesses that do not follow the routine. They have understood people's psychology, so the more fake they are. Instead, he sells it higher, so be careful if the price is particularly high.