Why is meat stewed with firewood more fragrant and delicious than natural gas or coal?

Nowadays, with the rapid pace of urbanization and the gradual popularization of modern life in rural areas, firewood stoves have quietly become history. Wandering away from the horizon, people who enter the city from the countryside, with the growth of age, their nostalgia is getting heavier and heavier. Under the continuous smoke, the delicious meals cooked by my parents with that firewood stove have become the flavor of childhood and hometown. .......

As the saying goes, food is the most important thing for people. I was exposed to fireworks every day when I was a child. I always think that the food cooked by firewood is naturally delicious. So why are the dishes cooked with firewood in rural areas more delicious than those cooked with electricity? Because there is an aromatic volatile oil substance in wood, it will produce fragrance when burning, giving food a special flavor.

There is firewood in the stove, and the fire is very strong Cooking food tastes much better than cooking with coal and gas. Many old people in rural areas will say that if they are not used to cooking with coal or gas, they must cook with firewood to eat. Wood, fire and straw are steady and not impatient. Stewed out all the nutrients in the ingredients. Maturity is one of the three elements of Chinese food, and cutting and seasoning are more controllable, even cooking with natural gas. Only maturity is the most subtle.

In addition to the firewood stove, the key is the large cast iron pot. Because the pot is relatively large and deep, it conducts heat quickly and is heated evenly. Medium-cooked, not over-fried, slightly cooked. Moreover, there is no range hood on it, which will not completely smoke out the original flavor of the dish and achieve a very delicious effect. The electric type has high speed and much nutrient loss.

The flame of firewood makes the food heated evenly in the iron pot, unlike the fire of coal and gas, which heats the whole bottom of the pot. The following dishes are ready, the above dishes are still raw, and the original flavor of the dishes is not much left after constant stirring in the pot. I used to travel a lot, and all the dishes in the hotel tasted almost the same except the seasoning. I always feel that this is the reason. It's not that the skills of restaurant chefs are inferior to those of women who burn firewood in the countryside.

There is another psychological reason, firewood is scarce now, so it feels more awesome. In addition, water quality also accounts for part of the reason, and people who have lived in the countryside feel the same way. The water used in rural areas is basically groundwater (water is hard, with high content of natural minerals), while the fire in cities is either electricity or gas and natural gas, and the water used is treated water (water is soft, with low content of minerals).

Firewood is the product of nature, which condenses the essence of nature, and its energy will enter the dish, making it particularly delicious. In addition, gas is now used to cook vegetables. Gas is the invention of human beings, so now whatever chemical things are harmful to people to some extent, even if they are not, they are not as good as those created by nature.