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How to cook rice wine? What do you need to add? How long does it take to cook?

The most traditional drinking method of yellow rice wine is warm drinking. Warm drinking is characterized by rich aroma and soft taste. There are generally two ways to warm wine: one is to heat the wine container in hot water, and the other is to heat it from the fire. But rice wine should not be heated for too long, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate and it will be tasteless.

First, how to heat yellow rice wine

1, warm ironing method

Put the yellow wine into a special wine container (hot bottle, warm bottle) and blanch it with hot water. This is a very convenient and direct method, and it also avoids the inaccurate temperature and time when cooking.

Specific steps:

(1) Introduce the wine in the wine bottle into the warm wine bottle. If you are afraid of overflow, you can use a funnel to operate.

(2) Pour boiling water into the warm hip flask, and stop pouring water when the height of hot water in the kettle reaches 2/3 of the height of the warm hip flask.

(3) Carefully put the thermos bottle into the thermos bottle. Pay attention to the amount of water in the warm hip flask to prevent it from overflowing and scalding people.

(4) Prepare two clean towels, one for holding the bottle mouth and the other for sucking the water in the bottle.

(5) Pour the wine in the thermos into the glass, wait for about three minutes, touch the glass with your hand to test the temperature of the wine, or take a sip carefully with your mouth. The best tasting temperature of yellow rice wine is about 38℃.

2. Cooking methods

Prepare a warm hip flask (hot hip flask, warm hip flask), then add yellow wine and cook directly with fire. You can add ginger slices, medlar and even red dates when cooking. Adding shredded ginger or plum to yellow rice wine will make the wine more mellow and have better nutritional effect.

Drinking yellow wine in winter can promote blood circulation and dispel cold, dredge meridians, effectively keep out the cold and prevent colds. In particular, adding ginger slices to boiled yellow rice wine can promote blood circulation and dispel cold, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen.

First, matters needing attention in heating yellow rice wine

1, the heating time of yellow rice wine should not be too long, otherwise the alcohol will evaporate, but it will be tasteless. The process of scalding wine should be as soon as possible.

2. Generally, yellow rice wine is scalded to 60-70 degrees through water, and then cooled a little before drinking. The best tasting temperature of yellow rice wine is about 38℃. At this temperature, the aroma of yellow rice wine is more intense and soft. The other is that it is safer to drink warm. Too hot wine will hurt your lungs. The correct drinking method should be when the wine is neither too hot nor too cold. The ancients said "warm wine" and "warm wine", which is the reason.

3, warm hip flask (also known as hot hip flask, warm hip flask), commonly used ceramics and tin. Search on Taobao and you will know. But you can't use the tin pot for a long time, because the tin pot will decompose lead when it meets high temperature.

When the wine is heated and boiled, the alcohol will continue to volatilize. At the same time, alcohol will directly smoke the eyes, but it will cause harm to the eyes. Beware of steaming eyes when ironing wine.