When we eat hot pot barbecue, many people will order kelp, its eating method is diverse, good taste, high nutritional value, careful people will notice that the kelp in the hot pot restaurant is generally knotted, so why does kelp knot?
Why should kelp be knotted
1. The main reason is that it is easy to cook, because the flaky kelp is immediately glued to the pot as long as it is in the pot, and the kelp that is not knotted will be attached to the bottom of the pot when it is boiled, resulting in paste, so the kelp should be knotted.
2. The surface of kelp is relatively slippery, not easy to clip, knotted to increase the friction with chopsticks, after a knot will be easy to clip kelp up.
3: After boiling the water, the surface of the kelp will be slippery, it is difficult to separate it with chopsticks, and the kelp piled together will also affect the taste.
4: Easy to preserve iodine.
5: After soaking the kelp, it should be dried, and the dried kelp that is "hair-covered" is easy to break, and it is easy to tie a knot for transportation and storage.
What is the use of kelp knotting
Market
There are not many people selling kelp buckles in the northern vegetable market, and most of the people who sell kelp are a large piece of kelp with a big knot, so that consumers can buy it home and toss it themselves, shredding, cutting, and knotting at will. The large pieces of kelp in the wet market are knotted because after the kelp is dried, it is easy to mess, so it is convenient to knot the kelp, which is convenient for storage and transportation.
The southern vegetable market is different, buying vegetables is a meticulous job, to say a little exaggerated, in the south to buy coriander can be bought one by one. And some of the people who sell kelp in the southern vegetable market have the patience to make kelp into kelp buckles to sell. Therefore, it is more common to sell kelp buckles in the south, but it is rare to sell large pieces of kelp, which is also a big difference between the north and south vegetable markets.
Restaurant
After the kelp buckle in the wet market is finished, let's talk about the kelp buckle sold in the restaurant. Generally only hot pot restaurants sell kelp buckles, and its important purpose is to facilitate diners to clip kelp buckles (there is oil in the hot pot, it is really not good to clip flake kelp), but also to avoid sticking to the bottom of the pot.
How to choose kelp is better
In fact, it is also very simple, you can start from the following four aspects:
Look at the color
Put into the dish of kelp, its color is green. However, the color of dried kelp is not green. When we buy dried kelp, we have to choose dark kelp with yellow-brown or greenish-brown, so that the kelp is not chemically added, and after it is soaked, it will appear the kind of green that we usually have.
If dried kelp is green and the color is bright, don't buy it. Such kelp is most likely soaked in chemicals and therefore exhibits this color.
Look at the white frost
Some dry kelp surfaces, with a lot of white particles covering it, like a layer of white frost. This white cream is neither dirty nor salt, in fact, it is mannitol produced after the weathering of plant alkali, which is rich in nutrients. If you see white frost on the surface of kelp, it proves that it is high-quality kelp.
Smell the smell
Whether it is kelp or other seafood, they all taste the same, with a salty and umami taste of the ocean, and a faint fishy smell. When selecting kelp, smell the smell, if you can smell other pungent odors in addition to the normal smells mentioned above, it means that these kelp are chemically added.
Check the quality
When purchasing, do not just look at the surface of kelp, it is best to carefully open and check it. Some kelp looks bright on the surface, turned inside, but small and broken, there are many hollows, silt, mildew, such kelp do not buy.
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