An iron pot is a commonly used household cooking device, which is suitable for stir-frying, steaming ingredients or other cooking purposes.
This is a must-have item in almost everyone's home, but many people seem to know nothing about the cleaning and maintenance of food after cooking in iron pots.
Some people even rinse the iron pot with cold water immediately after stir-frying.
The chef of the hotel reminds that such a practice is extremely unreasonable, which may bring a lot of unnecessary trouble to yourself and even affect your health.
You must know that you can't rinse the iron pot with water immediately after stir-frying, so what is the reason for this? If it weren't for the chef's reminder, I would have almost made a big mistake.
1. Iron pot cooking
Our country has a long food culture, and the way of preparing food is extremely diverse, unlike those in Western countries.
However, if we want to say that the main cooking method in our country is stir-frying.
However, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and if you want to stir-fry more delicious dishes, then you must use excellent cooking tools.
Since ancient times, people on the mainland have used iron pots to stir-fry vegetables.
In ancient times, the reason why iron pots were used for cooking was mainly because the cost of iron pots was low and every household could afford to use them.
Another aspect is that the iron pot is extremely strong, not easy to undergo physical deformation, or produce other chemical reactions, and the service life is relatively long.
In modern times, with the development of science and technology, kitchenware materials have become more diverse, but many people still prefer to use iron pots.
In addition to the factors of long service life and low price, there are many benefits of using an iron pot for stir-frying.
On the one hand, the use of iron pans for stir-frying does not produce too many harmful chemicals.
Nowadays, there are many kinds of cooking utensils on the market, and there is a type of pot called non-stick pan.
Even if we add ingredients to the pot at high temperatures, the ingredients will not adhere to the surface of the pot.
When this product first came out, it was quite popular.
The reason why it is non-stick is because the surface of the non-stick pan has a special chemical coating.
However, the coating is likely to release harmful substances during the heating process at high temperatures.
Take carbon tetrafluoride, for example.
Long-term absorption of this substance can cause damage to the liver and even cause dreaded cancer.
However, there is no such coating on the traditional iron pot, and we can use it with confidence.
On the other hand, we can minimize the use of cooking oil when cooking in an iron pot.
Oil must be added when stir-frying, this is to allow the dish to be evenly heated.
It will not affect the image and taste of the dish, and on the other hand, adding oil can also speed up the cooking efficiency.
Of course, the most important thing is to pour oil into the pan when stir-frying, which can minimize the situation of sticking to the pan.
If you use an iron pan for stir-frying for a long time, a layer of grease will form on the surface of the iron pan that is not easy to be cleaned, thus playing a non-stick effect.
So with those iron pans for stir-frying, we can minimize the use of cooking oil.
The last aspect is to eat iron pot stir-frying, which can supplement a large amount of iron for the human body.
Although the chemical properties of iron are relatively stable, they will definitely change under long-term high-temperature heating.
The iron on the surface of the iron pot will penetrate into the food in small amounts, so the use of the iron pot to stir-fry can objectively play a role in supplementing trace iron elements for the human body.
There was no concept of chemistry in the ancient feudal society, but the people still discovered the benefits of iron pots that can supplement iron.
Although those people in ancient times did not understand the principle, they had a unique concept, and people in ancient times called it the so-called "pot wok" qi.
thinks that the dishes fried in the iron pot are more fragrant, in fact, this is the reason.
Second, just after frying, you can't use water to flush the iron pot
If you have the experience of cooking at home, you must know that kitchen work is still complicated, not only cooking, but also from food cleaning, cutting, stir-frying to the subsequent cleaning process, which often takes a lot of time.
In order to avoid wasting time, it is common to clean up and cook at the same time when cooking.
For example, in the process of stir-frying, you can clean the kitchen stove and table top accordingly.
It will not let the grease scattered on the outside cool and deposit, and bring unnecessary trouble to your subsequent cleaning.
If you encounter the situation of stir-frying multiple dishes, it will definitely become more troublesome.
In order to save time, some people put the iron pot in the sink immediately after stir-frying one dish, wash it, and then go to stir-fry another dish.
But this approach is actually not reasonable, you must know that there are two disadvantages of rinsing the iron pot with cold water immediately after frying a dish.
First of all, on the one hand, rinsing the iron pot with cold water immediately after frying a dish is not good for your health.
The temperature required for stir-frying is actually very high, and a variety of seasonings need to be added during the cooking process.
In fact, in this process, the ingredients on the surface of the iron pot will react with the dishes and seasonings accordingly to form some harmful substances.
For example, such as nitrite, phenylpropylbil, etc.
These substances are carcinogens, which not only do not have any benefits to our body, but may also be one of the triggers of cancer.
There is a good chance that these substances will remain on the iron pan if we are done cooking.
Immediately rinse the pot with cold water, and these substances may become foggy due to the sudden drop in temperature.
Harmful gases in water mist tend to be more easily absorbed.
Doing this for a long time will definitely affect your physical health, and even cause dreaded cancer, so don't do it.
As for the other aspect, it will affect the service life of the iron pot, which is indeed very strong and not easy to deform or damage.
However, during the cooking process, the iron pot expands due to heat, and it is more likely to deform than at room temperature.
At this time, we are putting the iron pot under cold water to rinse, then the iron pot will undergo a physical reaction of thermal expansion and cold contraction, resulting in cracks.
If the surface of the iron pans we use has a corresponding anti-stick coating, then these coatings can also be damaged.
If you stir-fry in the future, it may be more sticky.
Even if the conventional iron pot we use has cracks, we will not maintain it afterwards.
Then iron oxide will also be produced in the cracks, which is commonly known as rust.
This substance is not easy for human health and can cause trouble for subsequent cleanup.
Some people also raised their own doubts at this time, knowing that cooking at home will definitely not only make one dish, but also need to cook a variety of dishes.
However, if the iron pot is not cleaned between cooking two dishes, it will definitely carry over the flavor, which will seriously affect the taste and quality of the dishes.
Therefore, it is definitely necessary to clean the iron pot.
But if you don't rinse it with cold water immediately and wait for the iron pot to cool down naturally before washing, I'm afraid you will kill the chef and the family waiting for dinner.
So what should be done to make more sense? Actually, this problem is easy to solve, we can prepare a lot of hot water or lukewarm water before cooking.
In between stir-frying two dishes, using these warm or hot water to clean the iron pot will not cause those problems.
Of course, if possible, we can also prepare two iron pots.
After using one iron pot to fry the dishes, you can change them, and use another iron pot to fry other dishes, and let the iron pot completely cool before cleaning, which can also solve the problem.
3. Cleaning and maintenance of iron pots
Finally, let's talk about the maintenance and cleaning skills of iron pots.
When cleaning the iron pot, you must not be afraid of trouble, brush the pot directly with a steel wool ball, but put a small amount of detergent.
Because most detergents contain specific chemical ingredients, they can react with the iron by fusing harmful substances to avoid too much damage or residue of these harmful substances.
After cleaning the iron pot, we also need to carry out corresponding maintenance, and many people will put the pot directly on the stove after washing the pot, regardless of it.
In fact, this practice is not reasonable, after cleaning the iron pot, we must wipe the water in the pot dry, so as not to let the iron elements on the surface of the iron pot oxidize to form rust.
After the water is dried, we can also pour the appropriate amount of oil into the pan to form the corresponding grease coating from the surface of the lubricated iron pan.
The reason for this is, on the one hand, to facilitate our stir-frying, so that the ingredients will not stick to the pan during the stir-frying process.
On the other hand, it can also prolong the service life of the iron pot and keep the iron pot in the best condition.
Those who live in southern cities need to pay attention to the fact that due to the high humidity of the southern climate and humidity at home, the iron pot will still rust if it is not used often.
Therefore, when you are not cooking, you should bake the iron pot regularly.
In this way, the moisture on the surface of the iron pot can be evaporated, so that the iron pot will not rust.
brief summary
The iron pot is a very common cooking utensil, but there are still many skills in the process of use.
In particular, we need to pay attention to not rinsing the iron pot with cold water immediately after cooking, which is not conducive to prolonging the service life of the iron pot.
And it will also bring some unnecessary risk factors to your physical health.
After using the iron pot, we also need to carry out corresponding cleaning and fixed maintenance.
Although the price of this kind of kitchenware is not high, even if it is damaged, it can be replaced at any time.
But we still need to take more care to keep the iron pot in a better condition, so that the dishes we make can be more delicious.
Source: Guangming Daily
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