Shaoxing wine, also known as Shaoxing yellow wine and Shaoxing old wine, is also a kind of cooking wine. Shaoxing wine has an attractive and rich aroma, not particularly heavy aroma, but a compound aroma, which is composed of esters, alcohols, aldehydes, acids, carbonyl compounds, phenols and so on.

When Shaoxing wine is added to cooking, amine substances with fishy smell in fish, shrimp and crab are dissolved in alcohol, and volatilize with alcohol when heated, so as to achieve the purpose of removing fishy smell. In addition, cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and so on. There are also different degrees of fishy smell. Adding Shaoxing wine to cooking can also remove fishy smell.

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Selection method of cooking wine:

1, try to buy rice wine and cooking wine series. In terms of product function, yellow rice wine and cooking yellow rice wine are both products without edible alcohol, and the effect of removing fishy smell and improving fragrance is better than that of flavoring wine containing alcohol.

2. Check the label carefully when buying, especially the alcohol level. The higher the alcohol content, the better the quality. The alcohol content of general yellow rice wine is above 14.5.

3. Try to buy brand wine. Yellow rice wine and cooking wine products are traditional foods with stable and moderate quality and price. Old yellow rice wine has a strong aroma. Jiangnan yellow rice wine is brewed with rice, and you can smell the aroma through packaging. However, the yellow rice wine blended with alcohol has no unique lipid aroma of aged yellow rice wine, only the taste of alcohol.

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