In addition to "sweet, sour, bitter, hot and salty" cooking, "fresh" is also a very important taste experience. Oyster sauce - a kind of seasoning that can improve the freshness, almost every household can use it. In fact, there are many ways to cook oyster sauce, such as mixing, braising, braising, braising, frying, frying, and stuffing... but it is not a "universal sauce"!
Don't put oyster sauce in three dishes
01 Braised in soy sauce, sweet and sour vegetables
Whether braised or sweet and sour, sugar should be added. White sugar itself has the effect of refreshing, and adding oyster sauce is equivalent to twice refreshing. However, there is a lot of sodium glutamate in oyster sauce. If you use too much food, it will be bitter.
02 Pickled vegetables
It is not recommended to put oyster sauce in pickled food, including cured food, pickles, pickles, etc. Because pickled dishes are pickled with many condiments for a long time, the saltiness is naturally not light. Oyster sauce contains salt, and adding oyster sauce can only increase the salinity.
03 Spicy dishes
Oyster sauce is a kind of condiment with strong freshness, which is only suitable for relatively light food, while spicy food tastes too complex, which will mask the freshness of oyster sauce, so it is not recommended to add oyster sauce.
Do not eat oyster sauce in two cases
01 People with seafood allergy do not eat
Oyster juice contained in oyster sauce is extracted from oysters or raw oysters. Some people are naturally allergic to seafood. These people had better not eat it. Although the content is small, the risk still exists.
02 Don't eat those that are not well preserved
The bottle of oyster sauce is often marked with "Store at room temperature, refrigerate after opening", indicating that oyster sauce is not resistant to high temperature. Because the kitchen often opens fire to cook, the temperature is sometimes very high, so oyster sauce is easy to deteriorate, even mildew.
Does Eating Oyster Sauce Really Cause Cancer
It is said that oyster sauce can cause cancer because it contains a large amount of sodium glutamate, which will significantly increase the risk of cancer when it enters the human body. MSG also contains this substance. After people dare not eat MSG, they dare not eat oyster sauce
In fact, the Joint Organization of Food Additives Experts of the World Health Organization has listed MSG as a safe condiment without restriction. Many international authorities have also conducted toxicological experiments on MSG, and none of them found that MSG has carcinogenic effects on human beings. It is safe to eat MSG.
The sodium glutamate contained in oyster sauce is the same as that in MSG. It is a fresh material and will not pose a threat to health after consumption. It's just that high temperature will make it lose its flavor, which has no other disadvantages.
Tips for adding oyster sauce to stir-fry
1、Oyster sauce is not resistant to high temperature, so the heat and time must be controlled during cooking, and it is better to add it when the food is about to come out of the pot. Do not add oyster sauce in the pan because it is easy to lose its freshness after heating. Long cooking will affect the freshness of oyster sauce.
2、 The oyster sauce bottle is not easy to control, so many people rely on throwing the amount of oyster sauce. It is recommended that everyone first pour the oyster sauce into a small bowl, preferably less than more. If it is less, it can be added again. If it is more, it is difficult to remedy.
