The difference between a boiling pot and a hot pot

The boiling pot is a special pot with a steamer. Hot pot can be used as a cooking pot or a steamer.

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It should be said that woks are popular in Yunnan. High-grade wok is made of copper, but limited by economic conditions, wok made of pottery is also used for cooking. In Yunnan, especially Jianshui, as long as it comes to copper cooking pots, it can be said that it is omniscient.

After all, Yunnan, the kingdom of non-ferrous metals, is almost all over the province, and Yunnan is famous for its rich copper since ancient times. The Central Plains entered the Bronze Age, and this kind of expensive bronze tableware can only appear when offering sacrifices to the royal family and nobles with considerable status. Yunnan, which can be regarded as a wilderness in their eyes, has long been a daily cooker for ordinary people.

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Hot pot, called "ancient style soup" in ancient times, was named after the food was put into boiling water and made a "splash" sound. It is one of the original delicacies in China, and it is also a kind of food suitable for all ages.

Hot pot generally refers to a cooking method in which a pot is used as a vessel, a pot is cooked with a heat source, and various foods are cooked with water or soup. At the same time, you can also refer to the pot used in this cooking method. It is characterized by cooking while eating, or the pot itself has the function of heat preservation. When eating, the food is still steaming and the soup is integrated.

There are similar dishes all over the world, but they are especially popular mainly in East Asia. Hot pot tastes hot, spicy and salty, oily but not greasy, suitable for mountain and river climate. Today, it has developed into a mandarin duck pot, spicy and light, each with its own needs. Different soups and foods are added according to personal preferences, which is suitable for all ages and the best in winter.

Typical hot pot ingredients include all kinds of meat, seafood, vegetables, bean products, mushrooms, egg products, staple foods and so on. They are cooked in boiling water or at the bottom of special soup pots. Some ways of eating will be dipped in seasoning and eaten together.