Culinary tricks

Even if you have a cool attitude towards cooking and prefer to keep it at arm's length, there still comes a time when a meeting with the stove and the products becomes inevitable. Novate.ru proposes to treat this philosophically and try to facilitate the process of cooking as much as possible, using effective culinary tricks. By the way, you can find them not only in the family recipe book, but also from other cultures, such as Chinese.

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The Chinese take the purity of food very seriously, so they thoroughly rinse fruits and vegetables, not just rinsing them with running water. The second, no less important step is the use of salt water.

According to a 2006 study by Chinese scientists, salt water effectively removes pesticide residue from the surface of fruits and vegetables. If you want to adopt this technique, use 1 part salt to 10 parts water to wash your produce.

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These little tricks of the trade can make even the toughest meats juicy and tender if you want to throw them away. It is very simple: you just marinate the food in egg white for a quarter of an hour. Europeans may be perplexed and mistrustful of this method because we are used to making meat softer with such ingredients as vinegar, brine and lemon juice.

However, the Chinese are ready to argue with our opinion and defend theirs. According to them, egg white gives meat a smooth shell, which protects it during further heat treatment. This, in turn, does not allow the liquid to evaporate from the fibers. As a result - tender and appetizing meat, which melts in your mouth. By the way, the same functions are performed by the starch added to the marinade.