In the complicated vegetable markets and rural markets, the most fragrant place is probably the sesame oil shop and sesame oil stall, you can smell the aroma of sesame seeds from a distance, and the gluttonous insects in the stomach are instantly awakened.
When shopping for vegetables, take a bottle home, mix cold vegetables, make soup, and finally come to a few drops, immediately increase the flavor and taste, make people have a great appetite, if you forget to add that sesame oil when cooking one day, then this meal will always feel almost delicious, and you have to think about it for a long time.
In fact, among the many condiments, not only soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken essence, vinegar and other seasonings with too many ingredients have "big traps", such as sesame oil, which has a single ingredient, even if you see the "production process" of the condiments, it will be difficult to prevent "counterfeit products".
As for those "freshly squeezed and sold sesame oil" that can be sold for 10 yuan a bottle, there is another mystery in it! Next, I will tell you about it and see if you have ever been tricked!
How does a fake sesame oil turn into a real sesame oil?
The traditional sesame oil processing method is to put the sesame seeds that are fried and blown into the stone mill, grind, the sesame seeds will be squeezed into an oil embryo, add water and stir and shake, about three or four hours, the sesame oil will slowly float up and completely separate the oil residue, and finally scoop out the sesame oil and pour it into the strainer, and then go through precipitation, which can get a bottle of real small grinding sesame oil.
This kind of handmade sesame oil can retain the fragrance and nutrition of sesame seeds to the greatest extent, but the disadvantage is that it is time-consuming and laborious, and the oil yield is low, so it cannot be produced quickly on a large scale. So the pressing method of sesame oil came into being, and now many stalls and shops selling sesame oil are basically squeezed out by machines.
A running machine, the boss from time to time in front of everyone, poured some sesame seeds into the running machine, and after a while, the oil outlet began to flow sesame oil, and there were a lot of sesame residues on the other side, and the air was filled with the aroma of sesame seeds. After watching this scene, ninety percent of people will be full of trust in this freshly squeezed sesame oil, after all, hearing is false but seeing is believing, so intuitively seeing freshly squeezed sesame oil must be true.
The key is that its price is still cheap, some can buy a bottle of sesame oil for ten yuan, and some are sold directly at the price of sesame seeds, twelve or fifteen pounds of sesame seeds, buy a pound can be exchanged for a large bottle of one pound of sesame oil, which is much cheaper than going to the supermarket to buy.
But the real situation is that this kind of freshly pressed machine is basically modified, and the sesame seeds poured into it usually flow down the pipe into another channel and then "stealth", and the oil flowing out of the machine is the "blended oil" poured in advance by the vendors, as long as a small switch, so that the traders can steal the day and sell the fake sesame oil as real sesame oil.
In fact, the whole process of oil extraction and sales can not stand up to careful consideration, first of all, the oil squeezed by the machine, the lowest temperature should be about 40 degrees Celsius to be warm, but this kind of sesame oil bought on the spot is cold. If the boss claims to be cold pressed, it is even more unbelievable, because cold press is a very complex production process, and it is not something that a simple small machine can do.
Secondly, the speed of oil production on the spot is a little too fast, the sesame seeds have just been poured in, and the machine is estimated to have just started running, and the oil began to flow in the oil channel without blinking, which is unlikely.
There is also the oil yield of sesame seeds is not high, a pound of sesame seeds at most four taels of oil, that is to say, it takes more than two pounds of sesame seeds to squeeze out a pound of sesame oil, and now the wholesale price of sesame seeds has been eight or nine yuan a pound, and then counting some costs such as labor, time, machine loss, booth fees, etc., how can a pound of sesame oil be sold to about 30 yuan, so that there is a profit to be made, so you can know how much water in this "freshly squeezed sesame oil" is.
And why it can be sold so cheaply, is because the so-called "freshly squeezed sesame oil" is a "fake sesame oil" mixed with inferior and cheap soybean oil, blended oil, sesame sesame essence, pigments, etc., which looks very similar to real sesame oil, and has a very strong fragrance, and it is also relying on the fragrance of sesame sesame oil essence to attract more customers for itself.
After this kind of fake sesame oil is bought home, the aroma will dissipate after a period of time, and there will be no fragrance when eaten, and there is no health benefit to eat, there will be flavors and pigments in it, and the dosage is basically difficult to strictly follow the standards formulated by the state, so the safety of eating is not guaranteed at all, and there may be many problems in the production and processing environment, so it is best to take a detour when encountering this cheap freshly squeezed sesame oil in the future.
How to distinguish a real sesame oil from a fake?
1. Look at the price
Cheap freshly squeezed sesame oil sold in the market like this is generally not credible, so is the "small grinding sesame oil" ground by stone mill credible? The truth is that there may also be fraud, and people can generally see that the freshly ground sesame paste is not ground sesame oil.
According to the traditional stone grinding sesame oil process, it is basically difficult to make on the spot, small sesame oil shops are generally made in family workshops, and then poured into the bottle to sell after precipitation, so there will be people mixed with some fake sesame oil into the pure sesame oil to reduce costs, so that the selling price of true and false sesame oil may also be appropriately reduced, relying on low prices to seize the market, so the price is often the first way to distinguish between good and bad, true and false.
2. Look at the color
Pure sesame oil looks red copper after being poured into the bottle, and the color is dark, but the sesame oil that is machine-squeezed and blended out, the color will be light, a color between peanut oil and sesame oil, don't buy sesame oil of such a color, it may be fake.
3. Shake it
When buying sesame oil, you can hold the sesame oil bottle and shake it a few times, if there is less foam in the sesame oil bottle, and the rising speed is relatively slow, it means that the quality of the bottle of sesame oil is more trustworthy. But if a large number of white bubbles emerge quickly from the bottle of sesame oil and disappear very slowly, then it may be a fake sesame oil.
4. Rub it
This method can only test the sesame oil that has been bought, pour the sesame oil on the hand, and then rub it with both hands, and use the heat to rub it out of the fragrance, if the smell is rich and fresh, it means that you have bought high-quality sesame oil, on the contrary, if you smell a trace of bitterness or other strange smells, you may have spent money to buy fake sesame oil.
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It is best to buy sesame oil from a trustworthy sesame oil shop, remember not to be cheap, or go to the supermarket to buy sesame oil produced by big brands, which may not be as pure and taste as traditional small grinding sesame oil, but at least the hygiene and production standards of large processing plants are in line with national regulations. However, it should be noted that there are still sesame blended oils on the market, that is, they are directly marked with sesame oil mixed with other vegetable oils, and you must see it clearly when you buy it. #春日生活打卡季#
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