Introduction: The same is foie gras, Chinese foie gras cheap no one eats, French foie gras expensive to eat, the gap is large
Europeans rank French foie gras, caviar and truffle as the world's top three delicacies, no one can resist foie gras just need to be fried slightly, at 35 ° C after the fat melts, the mouth melts the wonderful taste, the taste is enough to intoxicating. Authentic French foie gras, often paired with fine wines, is only found in upscale French restaurants. French chefs often say that not eating French foie gras is equivalent to not eating French food. This sentence speaks to the status of foie gras in French cuisine.
The price of a high-quality piece of French foie gras is expensive, even selling for tens of thousands of dollars, and ordinary people can't taste its delicious taste at all. Foie gras has a high nutritional value and is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, proteins, vitamins and so on. The glutamic acid in foie gras, after heating, produces a seductive aroma, which not only tastes fragrant and mellow, but also its nutrition is also very beneficial to the human body.
Grilled foie gras steak with vegetable salad
The same is foie gras, why is The Chinese foie gras cheap no one eats, the French foie gras sold so expensive and so many people rush to eat it? Why don't restaurants use Chinese foie gras instead of French foie gras? Foodies who have eaten it know that the difference in taste between the 2 types of foie gras is not generally large.
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The breeds of geese are different
【French Foie Gras】
French foie gras is a liver produced by The Lange goose, which is native to the Lundé department in western France and is a special fat liver goose breed. Foie gras generally weighs more than 500 grams, and the criteria for making a meal are that the foie gras is normal in color, harmless and intact. It is reported that the use rate of duck liver has reached more than 80% in France.
【Chinese Foie Gras】
The largest goose breed raised in China so far is the lion's head goose in Shantou, which is still too small compared to the French foie gras, because Chinese is to eat every part of the whole goose such as goose head, goose meat, goose paws, etc. Especially eating meat, there is no focus on controlling a certain part, such as controlling the size of foie gras, so there is a big difference in weight and fat between foie gras and French foie gras.
Farming methods are different
France adopts the "goose filling" feeding method, in order to make the foie gras bigger, the farmer will use a large steel pipe to stuff the throat of the goose 3 times a day, force it to eat a large amount of food, make the goose's liver 10 times larger, and also let the goose be locked in a small cage so that it cannot move, so that the food eaten will be converted into fat. Because they only want foie gras, not goose meat and other parts, all the nutrients are accumulated in foie gras, making foie gras huge and completely different from Chinese foie gras.
The breeding method of goose in China is mostly in a scattered way, free growth, eating forage, often exercising, less fat, fat and tender meat, no one part hoarding growth, so the liver is in line with the natural size of the form.
It looks different
From a visual point of view, the color of French foie gras is relatively light yellow or pale golden yellow, the blood vessels are obviously less and thinner, the flesh is delicate as a paste, and it smells like a faint grass fragrance.
Chinese foie gras is earthy yellow, the flesh texture is not as delicate as French foie gras, and it smells strong and earthy.
Fat content
Many people like to eat French foie gras because of its delicate taste, because its fat content is as high as about 60%, and it tastes as soft and delicate as cream. However, unsaturated fat is the mainstay, which is easy for the human body to absorb and utilize, and will not become fat after eating.
And China's goose is mainly to eat meat type, each part of the goose fat will be evenly distributed according to how much it eats and the amount of exercise, there is no excess fat content engraved on the liver, naturally eat no soft and smooth taste.
How to eat
French foie gras is used in the preparation of meals, is the protagonist of French cuisine, and the most common French cooking is to be slightly fried until it is served with sauce.
Our foie gras is relatively less important, we all eat goose meat. There are relatively many cooking methods in various parts, such as brine goose, roast goose, goose head, goose paw, goose leg can be eaten. Because it is not so fat, it is not cooked separately, and foie gras is used to stir-fry or cook soup with other dishes. Of course, there are also some illegal restaurants that will use the banner of French foie gras to replace it with some processed Chinese foie gras.
Now we all know why, No one eats foie gras in China, while the Foie gras in France is grabbed by some people to eat it, because it is only available in medium-to-high-end restaurants, and it is a delicious food, and some can even be said to be a symbol of status.
The famous French dish foie gras, although it is delicious, but the breeding process is a bit cruel, so in recent years, the ban on foie gras has been passed, and New York will ban the sale. The law holds that it only goes into effect in October 2022 and that no organization can sell, organize and process foie gras or be fined $500-2,000 per violation. Fatty, creamy, and instantly melted foie gras sauce, it was called a diamond on the table by Europeans. It often appears in European and American high-end restaurants. But members of Congress believe that in order to satisfy people's appetites, it is a cruel thing to force geese to fatten and take livers. Prohibition is to protect animals, friends think it should not be banned?
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