There are two kinds of traditional iron pot: raw iron pot and cooked iron pot. Raw iron pot is casting mold, high temperature resistance is heavier hand, heat average, not easy to paste the bottom stick to the pot, cooked food is delicious. Cooked iron pot is artificial, pot ears with nest nail on the side of the pot, the pot body is light but easy to deformation, not as durable as raw iron pot.
Iron pot than most alloy pot heat transfer faster, but the maintenance of iron pot is more troublesome, maintenance is not easy to rust.
What does it mean to “pre-treat” a new pot?
Boiling usually refers to the maintenance of a new pot before its first use. The proper boiling procedure allows the pot to be rust-free and non-stick for the rest of its life. So don’t rush to use the new pot, need to be pretreated first.
Why are new iron pots “pre-treated”?
A newly purchased iron pot, because there will be a lot of impurities left on the surface of the pot, and in order to keep from contacting with the air before use, iron pot is usually sprayed with a thin protective layer when leaving the factory, which should be removed before cooking and using. This process is our common name “pretreatment”, at the same time, the pot is also an important step in the use of iron pot maintenance. There are different ways to boil the pot, mainly lard. Many local custom example, will also use lard and non – dish stir-fry. How to save time and effort to maintain their own use of cast iron pot? Let’s try the following method, a piece of raw fat pork can be done, and the iron pot handling clean, save time and effort.
How to “pre-treat” the new iron pot?
1, remove the label on the pot body, wash the pot body with running hot water; Dry the water (especially the bottom of the pot) and place the cast-iron pot on the stove over medium-low heat to dry.
2. Use the clamp to hold down the raw fat pork, use it as soap, and wipe it continuously in the pot with a spiral shape, so that the spilled grease is evenly covered with the whole pot surface.
3. With constant wiping, the pot will spill more and more melted black lard, and the fat pork will become black and smaller.
4. Pour the lard, then drain the oil in the pot, wash the pot with hot water, and repeat steps two and three on the fire.
5, if the pork surface becomes hard, can use a knife to return to the surface of the piece in addition to continue to wipe; After each round of rubbing, the pot will appear cleaner than before. Do this until the raw fat pork is no longer blackened.
Wash the iron pot with hot water and then dry the water, put the cast iron pot on the stove and dry it with a small and medium fire, then wipe a thin layer of vegetable oil with kitchen paper, carefully wipe the cast iron pot from the inside out, and put it in a ventilated place to dry.
Today, with the improvement of people’s living standards, we have more kitchen pots and pots to choose from. Whether we go to the supermarket or choose online shopping, we can see a wide variety of commodities. pot is inseparable from every family. There are many kinds of pot. Many people now use cast-iron pots.
Precautions for using cast iron pots
Avoid staining food black. The new cast-iron pot will stain the food black when it is used for the first time. At this time, you can rub the bean curd residue into the pot a few times to avoid food contamination. It can also be refined in oil before formal use. Method: Pour in appropriate amount of oil, open fire until the oil is hot, turn off the heat, turn the cast iron pot, make the oil stick to the wall of the pot, wait for the oil to cool, scrub with water.
Get rid of the smell of the iron pot. After cooking fish and other raw materials with fishy smell in cast iron pot, it is difficult to remove the fishy smell in the pot. At this time, you can put a little tea in the pot and boil it with water, and the smell will be removed.
To remove the iron taste of the iron pot. A new cast iron pot has an iron smell when it is used. A simple way to get rid of the iron smell is to boil a little of the yams in the pot for a while, then throw it away and rinse the pot with water. The iron smell is gone.
Skilfully remove grease from iron pots. Frying pot used for a long time, the accumulation of burnt grease, with alkali or detergent is difficult to wash clean, how to do? As long as the fresh pear skin in the pot with boiling water, pot dirt will be easy to fall off.
If it is a newly bought iron pot, after rust removal, you need to maintain the pot. The method is to put the iron pot on the fire and heat it, wipe it repeatedly with a piece of pork, and it can be seen that the lard is immersed in the pot and appears black and bright.
Finally, when using an iron pot, it is also necessary to pay attention to that it is not suitable to cook acidic fruits such as bayberry and mountain plant. Because these acidic fruits contain fruit acids, they will cause chemical reactions after encountering iron and produce low iron compounds, which may cause poisoning after eating. Do not use an iron pot to cook mung beans, because the products contained in the skin will react chemically with iron, resulting in black tannin iron, and the soup of mung beans will become black, affecting the taste and human health.
