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Do you still need wheat starch to make cold noodles at home?

Whether you are doing business at home or outside, as long as it is cold noodles, you must use wheat starch, because cold noodles are a kind of pure starch food, which is made of starch in wheat flour. If you look at flour from the perspective of cold noodles, it is composed of gluten and starch. Therefore, to make cold noodles, we must first separate gluten from starch, and the way to separate starch is to wash your face, which is why you must wash your face when making cold noodles. Although cold rice noodles are made of starch, not all starch can be used to make cold rice noodles. There are many kinds of starch and their uses are different. For example, pea starch is most suitable for bean jelly, and sweet potato starch is most suitable for vermicelli. Similarly, wheat starch is most suitable for cold rice noodles, and no other starch can make the unique soft, translucent, smooth and firm quality of cold rice noodles. So to make cold noodles, wheat starch is the only choice.