Vermicelli factory employees: Buying the wrong vermicelli is equivalent to eating glue, keeping in mind 4 points, avoiding glued vermicelli, and not suffering losses
Autumn and winter, the weather is relatively cold, many people love to eat vermicelli, one is that vermicelli is made of starch, contains a lot of carbohydrates, can provide enough calories to the body, not afraid of cold; but the taste of vermicelli is good, there are many methods, such as fried vermicelli, stewed vermicelli, vermicelli soup, etc., can be matched with various ingredients, how to eat is not tired.
Vermicelli is mainly made of starch-rich ingredients, such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, mung beans, peas, etc., the color and taste are different, of which the best quality vermicelli is sweet potato vermicelli.
Recently, more people have bought noodles on the street, saying that they are pure sweet potato noodles, and they can also be credited, and there are many people who buy them.
If you think that vermicelli only contains starch, it is wrong, in fact, it is particularly rich in nutrients, containing protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, fiber and so on. It absorbs the flavor of the soup very easily, so it is best eaten in stew. Are the real sweet potato noodles sold on the street? I can tell you that a few dollars a pound is not to think about it.
There are many people who like to eat sweet potato noodles, and some merchants in order to make huge profits, adulterate with conscience, use illegal additives and other behaviors, and even use formaldehyde to make noodles, resulting in a serious decline in the quality of vermicelli, endangering our health.
At present, most of the cheap vermicelli on the market are glued, cooked for a long time, full of toughness, and must be paid attention to when purchasing.
How can I buy real sweet potato noodles? Workers in the vermicelli factory said that buying the wrong one is equivalent to eating glue, remember 4 points, and buy vermicelli without loss. Below I will share the skills to everyone, friends who like to eat quickly learn to learn.
4 characteristics of good vermicelli
1) Take a look
Real sweet potato noodles are not particularly smooth, there are a lot of bubbles inside, and there are also many small bumps formed by bubbles on the surface. And even if it is a vermicelli strip, the color is dark and light, and it will not be so uniform. But the glued vermicelli, the general color is very uniform, from the beginning to the end are a color, no bubbles, the transparency is very high.
2) Break it
Starch noodles have a certain toughness, but the toughness is not particularly strong, and it can be easily broken by hand. If gluing is added, the toughness will be multiplied, so that it cannot be easily broken by hand, even if it is bent repeatedly.
3) Smell it
Real sweet potato noodles are made with sweet potato starch and smell with the clear flavor of starch and no other flavor. If it is made with other starches, there is no fragrance. If it smells irritating, it must be an illegal additive. If there is a sour or smelly taste, the vermicelli will spoil.
4) Burn it
Children born in the 1980s and 1990s, when they were young, many people burned noodles, and the noodles will swell after being lit, which is the characteristic of starch, which forms a white bubble after burning, and crushes into powder with a pinch of the hand. The glued vermicelli is very viscous after burning, black after burning, and very hard.
It should be noted that buying sweet potato noodles must look at the price, too cheap is definitely not the real sweet potato flour.
Whether it is a traditional handicraft workshop or a modern mechanical processing, the price of pure sweet potato noodles cannot be only a few dollars a pound. The staff of the vermicelli factory calculated an account for me and finally understood why pure sweet potato vermicelli was so expensive.
Five or six pounds of sweet potatoes can make a pound of sweet potato starch, and a pound of sweet potato starch can make eight or two vermicelli, the minimum wholesale price of sweet potatoes is more than 1 piece, making a pound of vermicelli is at least 8 yuan, plus labor, water and electricity, packaging, transportation and other costs, at least ten yuan. If you use sweet potatoes with low flour yield, the cost is higher, so sweet potato noodles of more than 12 yuan may be real.