Are the salted duck eggs raw or cooked?

Salted duck eggs are reprocessed eggs made of fresh duck eggs, which need to be cooked before eating. Eggshells are blue, round and smooth, also called green eggs. Salted duck egg is a kind of reproduced egg with unique flavor and convenient eating. Salted duck eggs are good food with good color and flavor.

Generally salted duck eggs are raw. Good quality salted duck eggs have clean, smooth and round shells without cracks. The shell of poor quality salted duck eggs is spotted and dark. When buying salted duck eggs, you need to weigh them. The heavier the salted duck eggs, the better the taste. Especially when selecting Gaoyou salted duck eggs, if the weight is heavy, it is usually Gaoyou double yellow salted duck eggs, which tastes more refreshing.

Gaoyou Salted Duck Egg

Gaoyou salted duck eggs are a traditional dish in Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, and Gaoyou double yellow duck eggs (Gaoyou ducks produce double Huang San yellow and four yellow, etc.). According to records, Gaoyou salted duck eggs have become a treasure on the table as early as the Qianlong period. Traditional production techniques of Gaoyou salted duck eggs were selected into the fourth batch of Jiangsu Intangible Cultural Heritage List on October 29th, 20th18th, the second batch of Yangzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage List on May 28th, 20th18th, and the first batch of Gaoyou Intangible Cultural Heritage List on February 8th, 2008.

Gaoyou people not only breed Gaoyou ducks, double yellow eggs and salted duck eggs, but also create a rich duck culture, and hold the China Double Yellow Egg Duck Egg Festival every year. In 1950s, Gaoyou folk song Counting Duck Eggs was praised by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou Enlai for its humorous and light melody and strong local flavor. Gaoyou Duck is the business card of Gaoyou people. "I don't know Gaoyou people, but the prophet Gaoyou eggs."

Characteristics of Gaoyou salted eggs

Gaoyou duck lays more eggs, with large egg heads and a large proportion of yolk, especially for producing double yellow eggs. Its egg quality can be summarized by protein's "fresh, thin and tender" and yolk "red, sand and oil". In Wang Zengqi's Hometown Cuisine, there is a vivid description: "In the past, it was difficult for the sea to water, and salted duck eggs in other places were really disdainful." Gaoyou salted eggs are characterized by good quality and rich oil. Protein is very tender, unlike other places where the hair is dry and pink, and the mouth is like chewing lime. There is more oil here than anywhere else. Usually, when eating, we usually break the "short" and dig with chopsticks to eat. When the chopstick head is dropped, the cheap red oil comes out.