A gradual river netizen came to Sichuan, in Sichuan ate the authentic Sichuan kimchi, an inquiry found that the production of Sichuan kimchi is not at all complicated, so asked a friend in detail to make the method, intends to go home to also try. Back from Sichuan, he began to prepare, the first step, choose the kimchi altar. So in the online shopping around, found that there are many kinds of kimchi altar, porcelain, earthenware, glass, plastic and even stainless steel ......; this is not over, ceramic altar and divided into porcelain inside and outside the glaze; earthenware have no glaze, some outside the glaze, some inside and outside the glaze... ...; not finished, the results of online search also saw that some pickle altars contain lead, used to contain food is very unhealthy and so on. It was only then that he realized that the original seemingly simple kimchi is actually not simple.

Is the kimchi altar unhealthy? The first thing you need to do is to choose the best one for you. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty and get out of the way.

First, on the pickle altar safe or unsafe

The use of earthenware, porcelain and glass are thousands of years (pottery longer, nearly 10,000 years.), but these three things are all from the same source. , but all three come from clay firing. Then there must be places where the clay has less heavy metal content and places where it has more.

But this is something that modern humans have been able to avoid by setting standards for how to eat ceramics that contain heavy metals.

For example:

GB / T12651 and food contact with the permissible limits of lead and cadmium dissolved in ceramic products

GB / T3534 daily ceramics lead and cadmium dissolved in ceramics determination methods

GB / T8058 ceramic cooking utensils lead and cadmium dissolved in ceramics and determination of the permissible limits of lead and cadmium dissolved in ceramics

All authentic manufacturers of ceramics produced and sold must comply with these regulations. Must comply with these provisions, then no factory. If the factory sampling out exceeded the standard, there are heavy fines. Now there is no boss to run a factory will deliberately touch these red lines.

Second, about which kimchi altar is more utilized in kimchi

The principle of kimchi is anaerobic fermentation of lactic acid bacteria.

Anaerobic nature is isolated from oxygen, earthenware, ceramics, glass, unglazed earthenware airtightness is worse, glazed are similar. All can bubble vegetables. Stainless steel jars can also bubble.

Which is better for pickles?

Glass because it transmits light, and light is not friendly to foods that have been bubbling for a long time.

There is no research that says there is any significant difference in the flavor profile of kimchi between the two containers, porcelain and ceramic, for kimchi.

Relative to the price, earthenware is cheap, and ordinary people choose this kind. From the ancient kimchi altar, the emperors and nobles, the rich and powerful and there are many porcelain.

But the unglazed earthenware altar inner wall is more conducive to microbial adhesion, long-term use of kimchi flavor formation has a certain impact.

The plastic altar is usually used to package pickle products to use, not suitable for long-term pickle.

Stainless steel jars are mostly used in kimchi laboratories, and are not suitable for long-term kimchi.

To summarize

Kimchi is essentially the process of people using microorganisms on the fermentation of vegetables, that even the simplest of the same thing can be rough to do. But as the scientific theories of the fermentation process have been studied more and more y, the factors affecting the fermentation process have been understood more and more. The kimchi process became refined. This refinement explains to some extent the scientific reasoning behind why some places or people can make good kimchi. Following the development, it became easier for people to eat good kimchi.