What's The Use Of Potato Starch?
Like to cook or chef working people all know that the potato starch is often come in handy, not only because of inherent in potatoes nutrients and health effect, more because of the effect of potato starch, it is necessary to look at, can be fully utilized, and bring your life more convenient, so the purpose of the potato starch have?
Potato Starch raw Potato Starch, Potato Starch, namely family with the most stable quality of flour, Starch called cornstarch in Taiwan. The characteristic is the sticky foot, the texture is exquisite, the color is white, the luster is better than the green bean starch, but the water absorbing water is poor, the water will be condensed into a transparent sticky.
In Chinese cooking (especially Taiwanese dishes), mix it with cold water and mix it with cold water to make it look thick, and make the food look shiny. Hong Kong food is commonly used in raw powder (corn flour). However, the sauce thickened with white flour will become thinner after cooling, while the sauce of cornstarch will not change after cooling.
Too white powder can't be heated directly or put into a hot food. It will immediately condense into a lump and cannot be boiled away. Cornstarch with boiled food cool, after Mr. Juice becomes a thin, known as the "water", so usually in the west to make more use of corn starch to make the material reach the sticky instead of using cornstarch.
