What brand of cooking wine is good? How to distinguish good and bad cooking wine?

Cooking wine is very common in our daily life. It is loved by people for its effect of promoting blood circulation and improving taste. However, many people do not know which kind of cooking wine to choose when buying it. So which brand of cooking wine is good? How to distinguish good cooking wine from bad? The following editor will explain them one by one, hoping to help you.

What brand of cooking wine is good?

1. Haitian Ancient Road cooking wine is made from carefully selected raw materials, added with three-year aged rice wine, and 0% added preservatives. It can be used to cook chicken, duck, fish and seafood, bringing out the delicious taste without the fishy smell.

2. Lao Henghe is a time-honored Chinese enterprise. It uses the official medicine recipe of the Song Dynasty, high-quality rice and wheat as raw materials, and each bottle of rice wine is more than three years old, brewed by hand using ancient methods.

How to distinguish good and bad cooking wine

1. Look at the raw materials

According to the current industry standards for seasoning wine, "original brewed cooking wine" and cooking wine made mainly from edible alcohol both meet the standards.

2. Look at the alcohol content

Alcohol content is a very important indicator. Cooking wine removes the fishy smell through alcohol evaporation, and the alcohol content is generally between 10°C and 15°C.

3. Look at the enterprise

Not all companies can make original cooking wine. Brewing cooking wine requires a site, huge capital costs and storage costs, and a long time span (usually several years). Small companies generally cannot afford it. Therefore, when buying cooking wine, you must choose a big brand cooking wine produced by a regular company.

4. Look at the quality

High-quality cooking wine has clear and transparent liquid, without turbidity or suspended matter; while low-quality cooking wine has turbid liquid and incorrect color.

5. Smell the wine

Original cooking wine has a strong aroma. Cooking wine brewed from rice can be smelled through the packaging bag, and you can usually smell the rich aroma after opening the bottle. However, rice wine blended with alcohol does not have the unique ester aroma of rice wine, only the taste of alcohol.

6. Taste

Original cooking wine is brewed with rice, so it has a strong aroma and tastes mellow, without bitterness or other peculiar smells. However, most of the ingredients in alcohol-blended rice wine are water, so it tastes very light.

How to use cooking wine

1. When frying greens, add a little cooking wine after pouring the greens into the pot to keep the greens crispy and green in color;

2. Add some cooking wine to fish soup to remove the fishy smell;

3. Adding some when roasting meat can keep the meat crispy and tender and remove the fishy smell.