Casserole maintenance tips

1. The newly bought clay pot needs to be treated, such as boiling it with rice water, to prevent the clay pot from bursting during use.
2. When using the clay pot for the first time, you need to use a small brush to brush off the many small sand particles on the inner wall of the clay pot to prevent the sand particles from falling into the food.
3. Newly bought clay pots often leak because there are many sand holes. When using a new pot for the first time, it is best to make noodle soup or porridge. After eating, do not brush the pot first, put it by the stove to bake it, so that the batter in the pot dries up and blocks the tiny sand holes on the pot wall, and then wash it. In this way, the clay pot will not leak.
4. Do not cool it quickly when cooking. If you need to add water, you must also add hot water to avoid cold and hot shocks and reduce its service life.
5. Handle it with care, don't "hit it hard", after all, it is a local product, and bumps will make it "completely broken".
The clay pot is a pottery product that can better preserve the color, aroma and taste of food. Many people like to use it to make soup and stew meat. However, Zhang Kan, a senior engineer at the National Daily Ceramics Quality Inspection Center, believes that if the method of use is improper, the casserole is easy to be damaged and even prone to accidents. Therefore, when using a casserole, you must pay attention to the following points:
First, the porcelain glaze of the casserole contains a small amount of lead, so it is best to soak and boil the newly bought casserole in 4% vinegar water first, so that most of the harmful substances can be removed. It is not suitable to store wine, vinegar, acidic beverages and food if the inner wall of the casserole is colored.
Second, before using a new casserole, it is best to boil it with rice water, so that the tiny holes of the casserole can be blocked to prevent water seepage and extend the service life. Before each use, the water outside the casserole must be wiped dry. If you find that the water is less during cooking, you should add some warm water in time. The soup in the pot must not overflow or burn dry. The most taboo for casseroles is to dry-cook an empty pot, and you should not put a cold pot on a high fire suddenly to prevent the casserole from bursting.
Third, casseroles are not suitable for cooking and boiling sticky foods.
Fourth, the heat of using a casserole is different from that of using other types of pots. Generally speaking, the cooking temperature of an iron pot is high heat, low heat, and high heat, while the cooking temperature of a clay pot is low heat first, then high heat, and finally low heat after the soup boils. After cooking, the clay pot should be placed on a dry wooden board or straw mat, and never on a tile or cement floor, otherwise the clay pot will crack when suddenly cooled, which can easily burn people.