Eggs are best boiled in hot water, not steamed in cold water. Stewed egg refers to steamed egg, which is a common home-cooked dish. It tastes very smooth and tender and is suitable for all ages. When stewing eggs, it is best to use slow fire or medium fire, generally steaming for about 8 minutes, which can make the custard heated more evenly and taste more tender.

Do you want cold water or hot water for egg stew?

Novices who cook stewed eggs always don't know whether to use cold water or hot water. In fact, you must use hot water to stew eggs. Boil the water before stewing the eggs. When the water in the pot boils and SAIC begins, put the egg soup in the pot, so that the steam can make the stewed eggs heated more evenly and taste more tender.

If the stewed eggs are boiled in cold water, it is easy to see that the custard is hard and honeycomb-shaped, because it takes a long time to heat the egg liquid with the water in the pot. In this process, the protein in the egg liquid will gradually solidify into pieces, and the custard will harden, making the custard honeycomb, and its umami taste will also be reduced.

Matters needing attention in egg stew

When stewing eggs, gently stir the eggs into the bowl with chopsticks until bubbles with a height of 1 cm appear on the egg liquid; It is best to add warm water to the egg liquid and inject warm water while stirring; The ratio of eggs to water is preferably 1: 2 or1:3; When steaming egg custard, be sure to cover it, so that the egg liquid is heated more evenly.