When eating hot pot, choose "clear oil" or "butter" at the bottom of the pot? Makes a big difference, don't make a mistake
The weather is getting colder, and the popularity of the major hot pot restaurants is getting higher and higher. When the weather is cold, I like to eat some hot, especially hot pot, everyone is lively and lively gathered at a table, a pot is done, what you want to eat, delicious and convenient. Eating hot pot is a mood, an atmosphere, a sense of satisfaction from the tip of the tongue to the tip of the heart. With the help of food, this feeling of joy and harmony will be brought to the extreme.
When eating hot pot, it is very important to choose the right bottom of the pot, you will find that there are two most common, "clear oil pot bottom" and "butter pot bottom", what is the difference between the two? Which is better? Let's take a look.
Clear oil and butter, often used to describe the bottom of the hot pot, the difference between them can be summarized as the following 4 points:
1, the use of different materials
Butter hot pot base
The bottom of the clear oil pot is made of pure vegetable oil (mostly rapeseed oil) as the main raw material, and also with a variety of spices and spices such as green peppercorns, cooking wine, and bean paste, and the spices selected are mostly natural raw materials.
The bottom of the butter pot is made of butter or other animal oil as the main raw material, and in the production process, it also adds a variety of spices and spices such as spirit grass, fennel, bean paste, pepper, pepper, tempeh, etc., which are continuously boiled. The whole boiling process takes about 2-3 hours and needs to be stirred continuously until there is no foam on the surface of the butter.
2, the appearance is different
The bottom of the clear oil pot looks clearer, while the bottom of the butter pot looks thicker. In addition, the biggest difference between the two from the appearance is whether it will solidify.
Clear oil generally does not solidify, always in a flowing state; butter is usually solidified, need to be heated by high temperature to melt, so after the meal, if you find that there is oil solidification on the bottom of the pot or tableware, it means that it is butter.
3. The flavor is different
Butter base
The bottom of the oil pot tastes refreshing, natural and simple, after eating it will not feel too greasy, and the body will not leave too heavy hot pot flavor; the butter pot bottom smells and eats very fragrant, the taste is very thick, with a unique aroma of animal fat, but it is easy to feel greasy after eating, and there will be a strong hot pot flavor on the body.
4, nutrition is different
Butter pan bottom
Clear oil belongs to vegetable oil, the taste is lighter, the oil content is also less, but also rich in vitamin E, easier to digest and absorb; butter belongs to animal oil, the taste is very heavy, the oil content is very much, after eating will be condensed on the human gastrointestinal a layer of butter, it takes many days to fully digest and absorb, invisibly increase the burden of the stomach and intestines. From a nutritional point of view, clear oil is superior to butter.
After understanding the difference between clear oil and butter, the following also shared with you 2 additional tips about the bottom of the hot pot:
【Clear soup pot bottom vs clear oil pot bottom vs butter pot bottom】
In addition to the bottom of the clear oil pot and the bottom of the butter pot, the "clear soup pot bottom" is also the most common when eating hot pot. To say that the difference between the three of them, in the most popular words, is that the bottom of the clear soup pot is not spicy, the bottom of the clear oil pot and the bottom of the butter pot are spicy, the spicy is refreshing is clear oil, and the spicy is thick is butter. The common Mandarin duck pot is half the bottom of the clear soup pot and half the bottom of the clear oil or butter pot.
【Can I drink the bottom of the hot pot pot?】 】
Some friends think that in the process of shabu-shabu, some of the nutrients of the hot pot ingredients are dissolved in the bottom of the pot, that is, whether to drink some hot pot pot bottom, but also to supplement nutrition. In fact, this is a misunderstanding. No matter what the bottom of the pot, it is not recommended to drink, because in the process of long-term boiling and continuous boiling, it is easy to produce some harmful substances, and it is not recommended to eat directly.
In addition, the time to eat hot pot should not be too long, after cooking for 90 minutes at the bottom of the hot pot, the content of nitrite in it will increase by 10 times, and excessive nitrite will cause harm to the human body.
Clear oil and butter, mainly for the bottom of the hot pot, the difference between them, mainly exists in 4 points, respectively, different ingredients, different appearance, different flavors and different nutrition. If you are not blindly pursuing the taste, but wanting to achieve a balance between taste and nutrition, then the bottom of the oil pot is a better choice.
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