Now that the material conditions are good, we can eat all kinds of ingredients that we could not eat before, and even a variety of foreign ingredients, and the differences in Chinese and Western diets, from the perspective of ingredients, are particularly obvious, and the more representative foreign foods are various dairy products.
Walking into the supermarket, we can always see a variety of dairy products, such as cream, butter and the like, but sometimes the names of these dairy products are too much, in addition to cream, butter, there are cheese, butter, cheese, cheese, cheese and so on, look at you dazzling. Cream, butter, cheese, called for so many years, do you know the difference between them?
In order to facilitate everyone's better understanding, here is a generalization, a variety of dairy products seem to be a lot, in fact, it is mainly divided into three categories, and the most common names of these three types of dairy products are cream, butter and cheese.
One, cream
There are not many other names for cream, and as far as is known, it is also called "taboo" in Guangdong.
First, what exactly is cream. First of all, the milk fat content of unprocessed milk is about 3.5%, and these milk fats are the state of the particles, which are usually suspended in the milk.
However, these milk fat particles suspended in the milk are themselves very unstable, and after standing for a period of time, these milk fats will float to the surface of the milk, and the layer of milk fat on the surface will be collected, and what we call cream here will be obtained. If modern centrifugation techniques are used, the cream can be made quickly.
It can be understood that cream is a kind of fat separated from milk, but it is not to say that all of it is fat, the content is only 15%-35%, how to describe it most appropriately? That is to say, it is more like a kind of "water-covered oil", a layer of oil wrapped up in water.
So, how do you usually eat cream? In fact, our most common is the cream on the cream cake, for this, everyone is not unfamiliar, right? In addition, some people like to put cream in coffee or milk tea, and the taste is very good.
There are also many kinds of cream, including whipped cream, half-pair half cream, sour cream, solid cream and so on.
Two, butter
Butter also has a name, called butter, which is also derived from the Guangdong region.
First, let's talk about what butter is. Isn't the cream mentioned above, here, butter is more like a cream with a higher concentration. It can be described this way, the cream is collected, the excess water is squeezed out, and the rest is the butter. So, 80% of the ingredients in butter are fat, with only a little bit of water.
If the cream mentioned above is described as "water-coated oil", then the butter here can be described as "oil-in-water", which is not well understood to explain?
So, how do you usually eat butter? First of all, butter can be used as a normal cooking oil to fry things, such as steaks and other ingredients in butter. In addition, butter can also be used to make cookies, bread, and can also be spread on bread.
Butter is also divided into many kinds, including salt butter, unsalted butter, various butters and so on.
Three, cheese
The name of cheese is the most dazzling, so let's take a closer look here. Cheese is also called cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese.
Finally, how exactly the cheese is made. Compared with cream and butter, the cheese method is completely different, and it is a completely different process.
In milk, the most abundant protein is called "casein", and if it is under the action of rennet, these proteins will react into solids. Next, these solid substances are collected, and then according to the different types of cheese, or fermented, or matured, and finally made, it is delicious cheese.
The general composition of cheese contains about 30% water, about 35% fat, 32% protein, and a small amount of minerals. The cream and butter mentioned above are mainly fat, and the cheese mentioned here, its main ingredients, are fat and protein, with a content of half to half.
So, how do you usually eat cheese? Cheese can be eaten in a wider way, it can be cut into thin slices, sandwiched in sandwiches, can be eaten with bread, can be made into sauce, can be boiled soup to drink, can be made into vegetable salad, of course, can also be directly cut into slices and eaten dry.
As for the types of cheese, it is said that there are more than 8,000 kinds of cheese in the world, which shows how much Westerners love cheese, how high it is, that is true love. The more famous cheeses are French brie cheese (known as the king of cheese), Italy's mozzarella cheese, Britain's cheddar cheese, Switzerland's Emmenta cheese, American cream cheese, and so on.
Fourth, in the end, how to use Chinese soy products to describe foreign dairy products
First of all, to explain these three kinds of dairy products in the simplest sentence, that is: cream, is the fat extracted from milk, the fat content is not high, is a soft state; butter, butter, is also the fat extracted from milk, the fat content is relatively high, is a solid state; cheese, is a mixture of fat and protein extracted from milk, is a solid state.
Foreigners to dairy products to the extreme, is equivalent to Chinese to the soy products to the extreme, if you use Chinese soy products to describe these three dairy products, you can understand in this way: China's soybeans, is equivalent to foreign milk, soybean juice after standing, the upper layer of oil film made of oil skin, is cream; tofu brain is butter; and tofu, is the so-called cheese. This metaphor is very appropriate.
Through the above introduction, everyone should have a general understanding of these dazzling dairy products, right?