A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot

"Brother Yi, how do you tell the difference between wild honey and fake honey?"

The sheep is very concerned about this issue, and she has suffered a lot.

"How to distinguish..."

Li Yi thought for a while, then smiled and said: "To be honest, it's really not easy to distinguish, because honey actually doesn't have much technical content, and if you want to fake it, you can make it so that people can't see it.

There are generally three types of fake honey that are common on the market, namely concentrated honey, blended honey and fake honey.

Concentrated honey is to use concentrated equipment to concentrate honey with super high water content into the concentration of real honey.

This kind of honey is no different from real honey in appearance, but its nutritional value cannot be compared with real honey.

But this kind of honey is still good, after all, the main raw material is real honey.

The blending of honey is relatively poor. It is used to mix some rice syrup, beet syrup, fructose syrup, etc. with concentrated honey, and then add some flavor and coloring.

It’s okay to eat this kind of honey once in a while, but it’s better not to eat it often, because there are syrups and flavors and pigments in it, eating too much will make you fat, and it’s not very good for your body.

The most rubbish is fake honey, which is purely blended with sucrose, fructose syrup and flavor and coloring. Some counterfeiters even use alum to boil it.

As I said before, alum is harmful to the human body, and this kind of honey must not be bought. "

Listening to Li Yi's explanation, everyone present couldn't help being dumbfounded, and the live broadcast room was full of complaints.

"My God, people nowadays are so heartless, there are so many tricks out there in fake honey!"

"Oh! Is there anything else I can eat now?"

"Looks like I'd better just eat white sugar, at least eat it clearly so I won't be cheated."

"The country should take good care of it! Food safety is more important than Mount Tai!"

"It's so hard to eat something healthy!"

Li Yi looked at the barrage flying in the live broadcast room, and said with a smile: "Actually, if you want to eat honey with peace of mind, it's best to find some local bee factories and buy that kind of farmed honey.

Although that kind of honey will also increase its production by feeding it with sugar, it is still a serious honey. "

Hearing this, Yang Yang shook his head and sighed: "We are usually so busy at work. Even on holidays, we don't have enough time to rest. How can we have the time to go to the suburbs to find honey to buy? Sigh! It's too difficult!"

"Actually, you can go to the supermarket to buy it."

Li Yi said with a smile: "As long as you know how to look at the ingredient list, there is usually only honey on the ingredient list, which is basically concentrated honey.

It is best not to buy more than two ingredients, which are basically blended. "

As he spoke, he paused for a moment before sighing: "To be honest, as long as it's not wild honey, the so-called health effects are pretty much the same."

Looking at the beehive in his hand, Zhao Jinmai couldn't help asking: "Then how did you get this wild honey? How can we buy it if we want to?"

"You can only find channels."

Li Yi explained: "Find a channel that can contact the place of production, it is best to contact the bee collector directly, then the ones you buy are basically wild honey.

But if you switch hands once or twice, it will be dangerous. "

Listening to his words, the sheep shook his head and sighed: "Forget it, I'll just buy farmed honey that feeds sugar honestly in the future, wild honey can't afford it!"

Seeing this, Li Yi smiled and handed her a wrapped honeycomb: "I'll give you a piece, let's set a standard for you!"

"real?"

The sheep was flattered: "Thank you! Thank you so much!"

Li Yi reminded: "You go back and smell it carefully, taste it, see its structure clearly, establish a concept of pure wild honey, and then when you encounter wild honey in the future, you will know how to judge the authenticity."

"good."

The sheep nodded, lowered its head and sniffed the smell of honeycomb, and was very surprised: "It smells so strange! It's very fragrant, but it also has an indescribable smell. It's a bit greasy and oily. I can't describe it."

Let her hold the honeycomb and sniff it around, Li Yi has already picked up the tray and put all the wrapped honeycomb into the steamer.

Steaming can completely separate honey and beeswax, but it will increase the water content in honey.

But the ones that Li Yi steamed in the steamer were originally for invert syrup, so adding some water would be fine.

After steaming for thirty minutes, Li Yi opened the steamer.

In the steamer, a pallet of dark yellow honey had flowed from the tray, while lumps of gauze had shriveled up, and a paste-like brown-yellow beeswax could be vaguely seen inside.

Taking out the tray and putting it on the desk, Li Yi boiled water and told Zhao Jinmai, "Go and get the lemons I bought."

"okay!"

Zhao Jinmai responded, and turned around and shouted: "Wu Lei! Go and get the lemons!"

Wu Lei was sweating in front of the stone mill, when he heard her cry, he asked, "Why don't you go get it?"

"Brother Yi asked you to go!" Zhao Jinmaihu pretended to be Huwei.

"..."

Wu Lei shook his head, got up and went to the storage room, and brought the lemon.

"Brother Yi, Lemon."

Wu Lei put the lemon on the desk and asked curiously, "Why do you want lemons?"

"Use citric acid to convert syrup."

Li Yi explained, and then ordered: "Squeeze all the juice out."

"good."

Wu Lei responded, took a porcelain basin, and handed it to Zhao Jinmai: "Go and wash the lemon."

"Why should I wash?"

Zhao Jinmai deliberately angered him.

"Then you go grind the noodles and I go wash?"

Wu Lei spread his hands.

"Okay, I'll wash."

Zhao Jinmai took the lemon, went to the faucet, and rinsed it.

The sheep followed, cleaned the lemon with her, and brought it back together.

Wu Lei has already brought the tongs for squeezing the juice and a knife for cutting lemons.

The sheep took the knife and skillfully cut the lemon in half.

Wu Lei took the lemon and squeezed out all the juice inside with a tong.

Zhao Jinmai stood aside and helped him clean the lemon peel in the clip, and the two clips were used alternately.

They cooperated tacitly, and Li Yi was also busy in front of the stove.

He took two pots of clean water and poured them into the pot, then scooped out two big pots of white sugar and put them into the pot as well.

Seeing that Zhao Jinmai and the others were about to squeeze a basin of lemon juice to the brim, Li Yi stopped: "It's ok, it's enough."

As he said that, he took the lemon juice and poured most of the pot into the pot, leaving only a little residue.

Then, he took the honey tray and poured half of the honey into the pot.

Turn on the fire, turn it to low heat, and Li Yi carefully pushes the sugar water with a shovel.

"Should I add the lemon juice before starting the fire?"

The sheep watched seriously, and it was the first time she saw the process of making invert syrup.

"Yes, through the increase in temperature, give the citric acid enough reaction time."

While pushing the sugar water and honey in the pot, Li Yi explained: "If you go back and try to make it yourself, you must be careful not to stir it too much.

If you want to guarantee success, it is best to let it cook on a low heat and leave it alone. "

"Why?" The sheep didn't understand.

"Because when you are stirring, it is easy for unmelted sugar particles to stick to the side of the pot or the shovel, just like this."

Li Yi picked up the shovel, showed her dozens of sugar granules stuck to the shovel, and explained: "If these sucrose granules stick to the side of the pot or the shovel, they don't participate in the reaction, and then fall back into the syrup, they will It is possible to cause the recrystallization of the syrup, so that the inversion syrup will fail to cook.

So, if you are afraid of it being burnt, you have to stir carefully like me, try to let all the sugar participate in the reaction, so that the transformation can be successful. "

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