Why do you feel that meals cooked over wood fires smell better than those cooked over gas stoves?

As a cook, I have a deep feeling about the difference between cooking with firewood and cooking with gas, and I do feel that cooking with firewood is more delicious and easier to cook than cooking with gas. In fact, the main reason lies in the three aspects of different fire sources, different cooking utensils and different sources of ingredients.

Fire source

When I was a kid cooking in the countryside, especially in winter, I used to put my hand on the edge of the wood fire to warm it up a little bit, and it didn't feel hot or uncomfortable. However, if it is gas, my hands are afraid to get close to the flame or even the edge of the flame. Because the flame temperature of gas is so high that it is easy to burn the skin.

As far as I know, gas is a gas containing combustible components made from coal, so when gas burns naturally, the temperature of the center of the flame is 800-1000 degrees, and the temperature of the side flames is 1300-1400 degrees; the temperature of a wood fire is 500-800 degrees. Cooking with firewood has the flavor of "human fire", and the temperature will not be very high, in the controlled high temperature cooking, the vegetables will not be cooked so fast, you can cook out the delicious dishes. I have tested myself, without blanching, I use the firewood in my hometown to stir-fry bean sprouts, it takes more than 10 minutes, but in the rented apartment gas stir-fry bean sprouts, about 5-6 minutes to start the pot. So it's true that the fire source is different and the flavor of the stir-fried dish will be different.

Cookware

Previously, I talked to a colleague, said that the rice cooked at home, no matter how much water is put in the cooked rice feels like a lack of water, hard, hard, not tasty, and would like to change the kind of rice. Colleagues said, may not be the problem of rice, is the problem of rice cooker, suggest that you can try to change a rice cooker to try. After she mentioned this, I woke up. I went back to my hometown to get the rice, the rice cooked in my hometown is not so dry and hard ah, why take it out of the neighborhood home cooking is dry and hard? So I changed the rice cooker and the problem was solved.

Back to the question here, our old home or cooking with firewood, then, are large iron pot , large iron spatula, frying more cluck more cluck sound, a very appetizing. And iron pot in the frying process will also precipitate a small amount of iron, often eat good for the human body, iron pot is not coated, no matter how to stir-fry dishes, do not have to worry about the coating will fall. But now what the gas frying pan, very few frying pans, most of the non-stick pan, stainless steel pot, figure conveniently do not have to how to clean the frying pan. So, iron pot with firewood, that is the golden partner, fried dishes are certainly more delicious.

Source of ingredients

In addition to the above fire and cooking utensils, there is another reason is the ingredients. People who use firewood are basically in the countryside, or some open-air dining establishments. Nowadays, the pace of life in society is relatively fast, and food is what we call a "fast moving product". Some chickens, ducks, pigs and other animals are fed with feed, captive breeding, the meat is relatively soft; But in the past, our old family of these poultry, eating leftovers, free-range, the meat is very strong and resistant to cooking with the flavor of the ingredients. But feed-fed poultry because the meat tastes bad, more to seasoning covered, the taste is different.

The above are three reasons why I personally feel that wood-fired cooking is better than gas cooking, and I hope that this can answer some of the doubts that you have in your mind about this problem~~