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Why Sichuan people always like to hang sausages in the window or on the outside of the air conditioning unit?

Sichuan sausage, Sichuan snacks, flavors vary, the appearance of red oil color sense, cut red and white. China's sausage (also known as sausage) has a history of more than 1,000 years ago, more famous Guangdong sausage, Sichuan sausage, Jiangsu Rugao sausage, Zhejiang pork and beef mixed sausage, Hunan large sausage, etc., a variety of sausage each has a different processing method and its characteristics.

Sichuan people like to hang the sausage in the window or air-conditioning unit on one is to let the sausage dry as soon as possible. Because windows and air conditioners are well ventilated compared to indoors, the air flows quickly, and some can also be exposed to the sun, the sausage hangs above the dry fast. Another is to put it indoors, fresh sausage has a great smell, the whole room will have a smell. Put outside the flavor evaporated. In fact, rural people do not hang the sausage outside, it is placed in the home with fire dry. The sausage hanging windows, air conditioning machine is a unique landscape in the city, but also a different flavor of the year,

Two is difficult to see the sun in Sichuan winter, cold and humid, before the old way of washing a piece of clothing half a month to dry, if you put in the house inside a month to dry, if the sausage hanging in the house, a month after the sausage into the smelly sausage, so the sausage should be as soon as possible drying, can only be hung! The sausage should be dried as soon as possible, but can only be hung outside or smoked dry.

Three is the natural drying of the sausage dry wet just right, unlike plant production with the dryer that drying, resulting in sausage dry humidity is too dry, so that the drying of the sausage to cook out no matter the taste or flavor is not as good as the natural air drying, so the Sichuan experienced sausage veteran will generally choose to hang outdoors for natural drying.

Fourth, most cities in Sichuan now ban smoking. Generally in the rural areas of Sichuan people drying sausage method is to use spices and wood chips together to create smoke for smoking, now the city ban on smoking, can only be hung outdoors for air-drying. Although the natural air-dried sausage flavor is not as strong as smoked, but the natural air-dried sausage color to be lighter than smoked, unlike smoked black, so that people look more bright and attractive color, so now the traditional smoking production methods are mainly retained in the rural areas of the city are mostly drying in the outdoor natural air-drying.