Nowadays, going to a hotel to eat hot pot is like ordering green pepper and meat shredded in a restaurant decades ago, which is accustomed to people's concepts. This phenomenon is actually abnormal, very abnormal. Some people have done statistics, saying that in the past 5 years, the hot pot industry has increased by 11.6% per year, with a total scale of 500 billion yuan. The national catering industry is divided into eight worlds, and the hot pot occupies a seat, which is worthy of the name of the single product boss.
What does this set of data illustrate? It proves that the long-established Chinese cuisine is no longer a delicious dish with a broad and profound eight major cuisines, but a fast-food strategy that is striding towards the United States. If you don't believe it, look at the development of Haidilao and Sichuan-style hot pot in recent years, you will definitely feel that something is missing, and you can't find the feeling of playing tooth sacrifice in the restaurant decades ago, but it is familiar to eat McDonald's.
That's it, eating hot pot with peace of mind is also comfortable, simple and easy to get full. However, do you think the hot pot is not delicious? What the hell is not tasty?
Don't think hot pot is delicious now? Too expensive? Is the flavor single or is the beef and mutton improper? The base sauce is very fragrant and fragrant. Looking for a circle of problems, I still feel that it is not delicious, and I don't know where the problem is.
Hot pot has been popular for more than thirty years, and it has been changing the pattern of traditional Chinese cuisine, and people seem to have only eaten this year to understand that hot pot is not so delicious. Looking back, I was shocked and sweaty, and it turned out that the hot pot had long since changed, and it was no longer the warmth of winter.
In the words of the philosopher, it is qualitative change, the hot pot is still the hot pot, but it is like a leftover meat bun that has been placed for eight years, and it is broken inside. The taste is getting more and more fragrant, the color is getting better and better, it is more and more unpalatable, or dare not eat. What's going on?
This must be explained, otherwise it will be seated in the right place, I will eat a hot pot, how did I become a lazy man?
Lazy man does not mean that people are lazy, but that they do not like to cook and are too lazy to cook. In the past, it was eaten on the street, and now there is takeaway, and it is more convenient to feed the hot pot. This bento that rushes into the cool water and breathes is really called lazy hot pot, so this "lazy" is no longer a derogatory term.
Looking back at the development of hot pot for decades, it is indeed inseparable from people's laziness. In the 1980s and 1990s, I was too lazy to cook at home and went to street restaurants to drink and eat. The eight major cuisines of the country are gathered, but now it has become a pot of stew because of the hot pot, and the hot pot has successfully brainwashed the foodies.
It doesn't matter if you are lazy or not, the hot pot is still very convenient, it is also delicious, and the hospitality is not shabby. So despite the constant opposition from Daga, everyone still eats it. Yuan Ming, the top foodie of the Qing Dynasty, hated hot pot very much, and Cai Lan, a famous contemporary foodie, not only strongly opposed it, but also wrote an article "Against Hot Pot". Opponents agree that hot pot is vulgar and uncultured.
Mr. Cai Lan's worries are becoming a reality. When he first opposed hot pot, it was not that he did not dislike it, but accepted the concerns of the Masters of Sichuan Cuisine, and the cuisine created by the Chinese nation from Peng Zu and Yi Ya was about to be destroyed by hot pot.
This worry has turned around, because it is not delicious now. Why? It turned out that the hot pot had changed, and it had changed from two directions. One is luxury, in fact, it is high price, expensive, originally a hundred and ten pieces a meal, became hundreds of thousands of pieces. For example, Haidilao, after eating for many years, eating more than a thousand pieces of 100 pieces, I knew that it was a leek garden planted by the old foreigners.
Then there is the hot pot flavor change, the material is no longer the original quality, do not believe you look at beef and mutton rolls pig blood duck blood belly or something, or natural? Most likely not, none of them are raw materials.
What reason is not to say, let's say hot pot, love to eat hot pot is no problem, the problem is where to eat. Chain stores are too expensive, small restaurants are difficult to get real materials, where to eat? Eat at home and make it yourself. Eating hot pot at home is the right thing to do, which is not only conducive to the recovery of cuisine, but also can eat serious beef and mutton, and no longer worry about spending money to eat fake meat harmful to the body.
That brings us to the point. As long as you eat hot pot at home, you not only eat with peace of mind, but also enjoy a lot of fun in life.
The first step is to procure materials. The key ingredients are beef and lamb slices, hairy belly duck blood, these materials are a lot of catty. Direct way to buy fresh meat, come back and roll it yourself up and freeze it, slice it when you eat it.
The second step is to slice the meat. Frozen meat slices to say alone, the slicer is very cheap, dozens of pieces a piece, good points a hundred and ten pieces. With a slicer you know where the good is, the sliced meat is very healing, not much to say here, try it yourself.
Step 3, side dishes. Meat dishes have beef slices or lamb slices is enough, pig blood and duck blood in the market is estimated to be not real, the hair belly is processed, and the original self is not easy to clean. Vegetarian dishes include potato chips, white radish slices, thousand pieces of tofu and water tofu, and then the same green vegetables, it is enough. Have the conditions to match yourself.
The fourth step is to make the bottom of the pot. It is not recommended to taste the bottom of the pot, supermarkets a lot of finished products, do not want, otherwise eat a hot pot full of food flavor for three days. Learn the old Beijing shabu lamb eating method, white water pot bottom, eat the original taste, meat is meat flavor, vegetables are vegetable flavor.
Step 5: Serve with a dipping bowl. It is not recommended to buy ready-made dipping sauce, and I don't know how much preservatives are in it. I bought chili crushed boiling oil, leek flower sauce, stone ground sesame paste, tofu milk, chives, and soy sauce on the spot of the vegetable market, which was enough. Spicy flavor, umami and salty, you can adjust it as much as you want.
The picture accompanying this article is a live picture of me eating hot pot at home, and the old driver can feel it, so that the beef and mutton bought can be eaten with confidence. As for buying beef and mutton online, why not worry? It's really hard to say, to talk too much, three articles can't finish.