This is the knowledge that roams from generation to generation: cook broth – wait until the meat boils, and remove the foam. But why and what kind of foam, no one explained. It is necessary – and the point.
Some say that all the harmful substances found in meat are collected in the foam. Others say it’s dirt and antibiotics. In fact, both are wrong. Foam is just a curdled protein. There is nothing harmful, especially dangerous, in it. And if not, then why take it off? ..
The answer is extremely simple: to get a beautiful clear broth. After all, even if you cook borsch, gray flakes of foam will look rather unpleasant in it. In addition, the pan will be harder to wash: foam tightly sticks to its sides.
To remove the foam quickly and without unnecessary fuss, it is best to take a special spoon – it looks just like usual, but with holes. Broth flows through the holes, and the gray foam settles on the spoon.
Another way is to throw an onion in the broth. Rolled protein will stick to it and will not spoil the aesthetics of the dish with a look of unpleasant flakes. Some recommend adding onions and carrots to broth. But we are not going to advise this way: why should we make the soup heavy with excess fat?
And absolutely desperate cooks filter broth. To do this, you need to have a special piece of thick gauze. And besides, we will have to accept the fact that after cooking the soup there will be one more pot of dirty dishes.
However, those who say that there are still harmful substances in meat are right. Experts have repeatedly found in the chicken, for example, remnants of antimicrobial agents and various bacteria that survive, in spite of everything. To get rid of all the nastiness that could be in the meat, it is advised to drain the first broth.
Nutritionist, expert of Roskontrol
Meat contains hormones and antibiotics, fish – lead and mercury, vegetables – pesticides. When cooked, it all ends up in the broth. Therefore, the first water after boiling must be drained.
In addition, the expert advises to abandon the broth on the bones: animal bones accumulate a lot of radionuclides.
If you cook the broth, pouring out the first water (and better the second too), it will turn out less fat and rich. But at the same time, the benefits in it will be much greater.
It is also necessary to drain the first water because, according to all the rules, the chicken, meat and fish should not be washed before cooking. It sounds strange, but when washing meat, we risk ourselves a lot of harm. The fact is that from the shops to our kitchen the meat often gets, being contaminated with various bacteria. This is inevitable, and there is nothing particularly terrible about it. But when washing salmonella, listeria and E. coli are sprayed with microdroplets of water throughout the kitchen, they crawl away on work surfaces. And they begin to multiply, infecting other foods.
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