The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, and parents have been discussing these days whether the brine dishes on the Spring Festival dinner table are directly bought ready-made, or are they marinated at home?
Today's Spring Festival, the vegetable market does not close, supermarkets do not close, a lot of brine shops are also continuing to operate, if the map is convenient, the home hospitality of the brine dish can actually not be marinated in advance, so there is no need to go to the beef and mutton wholesale market to buy beef, when the guests come, directly go to the brine shop to buy, although the unit price is higher, but can do how much to eat to buy, in fact, save money;
This is my mother's opinion, the mother thinks is also good, the guests at home are not much, buy more than ten pounds of fresh beef, brine will shrink, a pound of fresh beef after brine, can have 7 two is not bad, most of the time are not good to grasp this heat, in fact, really can not do, the brine shop beef tendon meat is about 80 yuan per kilogram, their own home brine, fresh beef tendon meat is also more than 30, close to 40 looks, plus spices, fuel, time, loss, is almost the price of the brine shop, And it doesn't have to be delicious from a brine shop;
My father's idea is more traditional, the New Year will have a New Year's atmosphere, and now there are no more fried meatballs, fried fish pieces, fried lotus clips, and the brine dishes are not made at home, then there is no New Year's flavor in the family, so, at my father's insistence, or decided to marinate some, so, go to the beef and mutton wholesale market to buy beef taught my dad;
Before the father goes out, the mother is a thousand dings and thousands of instructions, choose fresher front legs or hind legs of the meat, the meat is thinner, there is fascia inside, the hardness is also moderate, the most suitable for making marinated beef;
Go out a morning, dad but empty-handed, dad said, he saw a lot of elderly people in the beef and mutton wholesale market to choose, said that the beef of this family is too dry to be fresh, the beef of the family is too dry, can not buy, the only few selling beef in the wholesale market, have been denied by the group of elderly people, either the hanging beef has no luster, or the color is too dull;
Since everyone does not buy, dad naturally did not buy, so he returned empty-handed, the second old at home is talking about some things he saw when he went out to buy beef in the morning, at this time, Grandma Li next door came to my mother to ask my mother to go out to buy beef, after learning more about the situation that my dad encountered in the morning, Grandma Li said, this I am "in line", I take you to buy, pick beef, the surface is wet or dry? Do you choose "hanging up" or on a stall? These are flexible and maneuverable, mainly keeping in mind that 5 do not buy, not afraid of not buying good beef;
When Grandma Li of the next door gave my parents to popularize her various experiences in buying beef, I also learned some, and today I take this opportunity to share it with you, hoping that when you buy beef before the Spring Festival, you can also do it with a score in your heart and do not spend money;
First, buy beef to understand the 5 "buying skills"
1. Observe the color of the surface of the beef hanging from the meat stall,
Look at Chinese medicine pay attention to hope and smell, in fact, this truth applies to many scenes in our lives, take to the vegetable market to buy beef, observation is the simplest, go to the meat stall, first do not panic to ask the boss price, observe the color of beef, fresh beef color has a gloss, and the color distribution is even, indicating that from the color point of view, such beef is considered to be better beef, if the color is darker, at the same time there is no luster, it means that the quality of beef is poor, you can leave directly, no need to ask the price, Even if the price of beef is cheap, it cannot be bought, and eating beef is not to buy good beef;
2. Smell the beef
After observing the color of the beef with the naked eye basically in line with our initial judgment, you can get a little closer, smell it with your nose, the beef hanging on the meat stall, if there is a putrid smell, then it directly means that the beef has been very unfree, if the smell is sour, it means that such beef is poor, normal beef can not have a putrid smell and sour taste, but a very normal meaty taste, through the above two steps, we can ask the boss the price of beef below;
3. Touch the freshness of the beef
Buying beef and buying pork is a truth, we buy more fresh pork, but all fresh pork will not have a sticky feeling, so when buying beef, we can get started to touch the freshness of beef, normal fresh beef will not stick to the hand;
4, in addition to sticky hands, you can also try the elasticity of beef
While touching the beef sticky, we can press the beef by the way to see if the beef is elastic. After pressing the beef, the beef can immediately return to normal, indicating that the beef is elastic, the quality of the beef is relatively good, on the contrary, after pressing down, the depression can not be restored immediately, indicating that this is a defective beef, we still do not want to buy good;
5. Finally, observe the meat quality of the beef
In fact, this step is back to the first step, but what we observe at this time is the color of beef fat and the color of meat, normal beef, fat should be white, and beef should be red, which can show that the meat quality of beef is relatively tender, if not such a color, when you touch it with your hand, you will find that it is very rough, which means that the taste of beef will be relatively poor;
Second, buy beef, wet or dry?
1, the first case, the surface is very wet
Most of the beef stalls sold beef are closed to sell, whether the meat stall is indoors or outdoors, under the action of the wind the beef surface will be relatively dry, and there may be no wet situation, and the meat stall will not often pour water on the beef, which is also unreasonable, if the beef surface is wet, the beef is still flat on the meat stall board for sale, it may be "water-injected meat", more money is certain, but there is a great possibility, such beef taste must not be tender;
2. Beef that can see blood and water
Often some frozen beef, can see the blood water coming out, the frozen process of blood water will also coagulate, placed on the meat stall to sell, frozen beef will naturally thaw, blood water will slowly melt, although this is a normal phenomenon, but such beef taste is not fresh beef delicious;
3, beef with extremely dry surface can not be bought
Fresh beef is very elastic, as mentioned above, it will bounce back, but if we touch the beef, the surface is dry, then because the hanging surface is slightly dry, there will be a possibility of air drying, but this air drying can not be extremely dry kind, if it is extremely dry beef, at least it means that this beef is not fresh enough, we also want to avoid buying;
At the end of the writing, I still want to say a few words, beef stalls sell beef, what part should we choose? In fact, in our daily life, the opportunity to buy beef is actually not much, relatively every day to buy pork, when buying beef, it seems that it is not very good to distinguish, my mother's experience is like this:
1. Simmer soup or braised, choose beef brisket;
2, stir-frying, such as radish shredded stir-fried beef head shredded, choose beef tenderloin;
3, marinated beef, choose beef front leg meat or hind leg meat, which is often said to be beef tendon meat;
4, in addition to beef ribs, most of which are also simmered soup;
5, there are also beef shoulder blades, my mother called phoenix wings, is also very delicious, usually used to simmer soup;
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