Abstract: Although the enamel cast iron cookware looks heavy, it is solid, durable, evenly heated, and good for people’s health. There are many benefits to using a enamel cast iron cookware, such as using a enamel cast iron cookware to reduce the amount of oil used in cooking, avoiding the effects of harmful chemicals on the surface of a non-stick cookware, and providing iron for cooking. Long-term use of enamel cast iron cooking cookware can effectively treat iron deficiency anemia. Below I will give you a detailed introduction to the benefits of enamel cast iron cookware.
First，What are the benefits of using a enamel cast iron cookware
Modern home cooks often take advantage of the convenience of a non-stick cookware, but don’t underestimate the traditional black iron cookware.
Advantages of iron cookware stir-fry
1, With a enamel cast iron cookware can be less oil. enamel cast iron cookware used for a long time, the surface will naturally generate a layer of oil, basically equivalent to the effect of non-stick cookware. Avoid eating too much oil by not using too much oil when cooking. To clean a enamel cast iron cookware, use hot water and a stiff brush to clean it completely without dish soap.
2.Enamel cast iron cookware can avoid the effects of harmful chemicals on the surface of non-stick cookwares. Non-stick cookwares often contain harmful substances, a chemical that can damage the liver, affect growth and development, and may even cause cancer. It has also been suggested that the chemical may cause women to go through menopause earlier. When stir-frying with a non-stick cookware, Harmful substances will become gas volatilized at high temperature and be inhaled by the human body along with the cooking fumes. In addition, if the surface of a non-stick cookware is scraped with a shovel, the harmful substances will fall into the food and be eaten directly. enamel cast-iron cookwares are not coated with the chemical and pose no such risk.
3, With enamel cast iron cookware can supplement iron elements. At high temperatures, a small amount of the iron in the enamel cast iron cookware will leach into the food, thus providing an objective iron supplement.
Second, what are the advantages of enamel cast iron cookwares?
1.When cooking with a enamel cast iron cookware, a small amount of iron ions will be dissolved into the food, and the most important element for human body to synthesize hemoglobin is iron ions, so long-term use of enamel cast iron cookware cooking can effectively treat iron deficiency anemia.
2, Adding vinegar is mainly formed with iron soluble salt, to prevent the formation of iron oxides affect the absorption, while dissolving the oxide has been generated. New enamel cast iron cookware better don’t stir fry, but oil to do great work, such as Fried eggplant, Fried things, so that with a few times, which is after each use brush (i.e., using pure spirit all the oil cleaning brush down it doesn’t matter), don’t put aside or use dry cloth, must on the fire to dry, so it won’t rust.
Third, enamel cast iron cookware benefits
Enamel cast iron cookware may look heavy, but they are strong, durable, heat evenly, and are good for people’s health. Due to the moderate thermal conductivity of enamel cast iron cookware, it is easy to combine with acidic substances in cooking, which increases the iron content of food by 10 times, thereby promoting the new blood and achieving the purpose of iron supplementation, so it has become one of the preferred cooking utensils for thousands of years
Due to the effect of salt and vinegar on the iron at high temperature, and the mutual friction between the cookware and the shovel and spoon, the inorganic iron on the inner surface of the cookware is transformed into a powder with a small diameter. After THESE POWDERS are absorbed by the human body, they are transformed into inorganic iron salts under the action of gastric acid, thus becoming the raw material for making blood and playing its auxiliary therapeutic role. Although, usually eat rice, noodles, vegetables and so on generally contain more iron, but most of these iron belongs to organic iron, gastrointestinal absorption rate of it is only 10%, and the iron in the enamel cast iron cookware is inorganic iron, it is easy to be absorbed by the gastrointestinal tract, is used by the body, with the iron cookware cooking, can make the iron content in rice doubled; With enamel cast iron cookware cooking, dishes can increase iron 2-3 times, so enamel cast iron cookware iron is the most direct. In addition, cooking vegetables with enamel cast iron cookware can reduce the loss of vitamin C in vegetables, therefore, from the increase of vitamin C intake and health considerations, enamel cast iron cookware should also be preferred to cook vegetables.
Principles for the use of enamel cast iron cookwares
Enamel cast iron cookwares are easy to rust. Excessive iron oxide absorbed by the human body, that is, rust, will cause harm to the liver. Therefore, when people use enamel cast iron cookwares, they need to follow some principles to be beneficial to health. These principles are:
Principle 1:After the meal is finished, you must wash the inner wall of the cookware and dry the cookware to avoid the rust and produce a harmful substance.
Principle 2：Try not to cook soup in a enamel cast iron cookware. enamel cast iron cookware should not be used to boil medicine, should not use enamel cast iron cookware to cook mung beans.
Principle 3：Do not use enamel cast-iron cookwares to serve dishes overnight, as they dissolve iron in acidic conditions and destroy the vitamin C in the dish.
Principle 4：Use as little detergent as possible when scrubbing the cookware. If there is a slight rust in the cookware, use vinegar to clean.
Principle 5：Use as little detergent as possible when scrubbing the cookware, then wipe the water out of the cookware. If there is a slight rust can be cleaned with vinegar.
Principle 6：For serious rust, black slag, black enamel cast iron cookware, should not be used again.
Enamel cast iron cookwares are made of pig iron and generally do not contain other chemicals. In the process of cooking and cooking, the enamel cast iron cookware will not be dissolved, there will not be a problem of falling off, even if there is iron material dissolved, it is good for human absorption, the main reason is that the enamel cast iron cookware has a good auxiliary effect on the prevention and treatment of iron deficiency anemia.
