When cooking in the kitchen, it is inevitable to use pots and pots. There are many kinds of materials for pots and pots, and enamel pots are one of them. Let me briefly introduce it to you below.
What is an enamel pot
1. Introduction
Enamel pot, also known as enamel cast iron pot. A cast iron pot is covered with a layer of enamel porcelain. Enamel is an inorganic glass porcelain glaze coated on the surface of metal substrate. It is mainly composed of silicate minerals such as high strength quartz and feldspar. It has no toxic side effects on human body. An enamel cast iron pot is a living pot. After a period of use, food oils will gradually penetrate into the enamel to form a non-stick layer on the surface. The longer the pot is used, the better it will be.
2. Type
There are many types of enamel-cast iron pots, including pot, frying pot, saucepot, and so on. Enamel cast iron pots are divided into two main types according to the enamel inside: white and black. White enamel does not need a pot, while black enamel needs to be boiled in oil before first use.
What are the advantages of cast-iron pots?
Cast-iron pots provide a small dose of iron during cooking, and some experts say that traditional iron pots are the safest cookware available. Iron pots are mostly made of pig iron and generally do not contain other chemicals. The main reason is that the iron pot has a good auxiliary effect on the prevention and treatment of iron deficiency anemia.
In addition, cooking vegetables in an iron pot can reduce the loss of vitamin C in vegetables. Therefore, in order to increase the intake of vitamin C and health considerations, the iron pot should also be preferred to cook vegetables.
For example, the heat transfer is uniform, the heat is moderate, easy to combine with acidic substances in cooking, so that the content of iron in food increases several times. Thus, it promotes blood regeneration and achieves the purpose of replenishing blood, thus becoming one of the preferred cooking utensils for thousands of years. When the temperature of the fire is over 200 degrees Celsius! The raw iron pot gives off a certain amount of heat, which controls the temperature of the food to 230 degrees Celsius! The human body needs a large number of trace elements, including iron, but the human body from the general food to get too little iron, the body absorbs a large number of iron is from the iron pot, iron pot fried dishes with iron elements for the body to absorb, but only the cast iron pot in the frying time to integrate iron elements, fine iron pot, just pot is not very able to let the human body get the required iron. Iron pots are mostly made of pig iron and generally do not contain other chemicals. In the process of frying and cooking, there will be no solubles in the iron pot, and there will be no shedding problem. Even if there is iron solute out, it is good for human absorption. Iron pot to prevent iron deficiency anemia has a very good auxiliary effect. Due to the salt, promote the action of iron at high temperature, coupled with the pot and shovel, the uniform friction between each other, so that the surface of the inorganic iron inside the pot into a small diameter powder.
The main component is iron, but also contains a small amount of sulfur, phosphorus, manganese, silicon, carbon and so on. A raw or cooked pot. The raw iron pot is made of gray iron melted and cast by model. Cooked iron pot is made of black iron sheet forging or hand hammering, with thin pot billet, fast heat transfer performance.
Cooking with an iron pot can increase the body’s iron intake because the amount of iron in food cooked with an iron pot increases. This may be caused by the shedding of tiny iron filings and the dissolution of iron. Thus, for the prevention of iron-deficiency anaemia, cooking meals in an iron pot may be beneficial.
Cooking vegetables in an iron pot can reduce the loss of vitamin C in vegetables. The researchers used seven fresh vegetables, including cucumbers, tomatoes, greens and cabbage, and found that dishes cooked in an iron pot contained significantly more vitamin C than those cooked in a stainless steel or non-stick pot. The researchers believe that in order to increase the body’s vitamin c intake, the first choice should be cooking vegetables in an iron pot. Aluminum pot can also retain more vitamin C, but aluminum is not good for health. In addition, adding salt to cooked vegetables preserves more vitamin C than uncooked vegetables. It also reduces the amount of water seeping out of vegetables, ensuring a tender taste.
How to clean and maintain the enamel cast iron pot
1, cooking to use small and medium fire cast iron pot cooking to use small and medium fire, cast iron heat is good, hot food, can turn off the fire to the minimum. Do not use high heat to preheat the pot before cooking food. Cast iron pot has a good heat preservation effect. If overheated, it will not only affect the cooking effect, easy to make food stick to the pot, and may even cause the enamel to fall off.
2, cleaning attention in the difficult place to wash, first with hot water for a period of time. If you accidentally burn and stick to the pot, just soak in hot water or after a period of time can be easily washed. Any dried vegetable residue can be soaked in hot water, sprinkled with kosher salt and scrubbed with a dish towel. Do not use wire brush and other sharp objects to treat with violence. The cast iron pot should be dried immediately after cleaning, especially the pig iron part of the pot edge, to prevent rust.
3.Don’t blow hot and cold Many people take their pots and pots directly to the faucet and rinse them with cold water after using them, but you should never do this to your enamel pots. The enamel pot whose temperature has not fallen must be cooled before it can be flushed with cold water, or washed with hot water to reduce the thermal contraction caused by the temperature difference between hot and cold and avoid the destruction of the pot body.
Enamel pot is actually in the cast iron pot outside wrapped a layer of enamel porcelain, its appearance is more beautiful, some also have, there is a full sense of design, like friends buy home to pay attention to maintenance oh, maintenance methods have been listed above for you, you can refer to them.
