How to buy red pepper?
1, look at the shape
Good quality color with purple red pepper, complete shape, no mildew and moth, leaf stalk and impurities.
2, smell the smell
To dry, dry, spicy pungent scent is better not too strong, the nose or any chemical taste.
3, hand pinch
High quality dried chili with the hand, a thorn in hand dry feeling, hand fiddle, there will be "sand rustles", gently pinch dry pepper will be broken;
Inferior dry chili pinch is not broken.
4, weigh weight
Weigh in hand with weight, the same volume of high-quality dry red pepper was light;
Inferior dry chili is heavier, and is mixed with black dry chili seed and tree stem.
5, taste
High quality dried chili spicy flavor is obvious and lasting;
Dry chili spicy taste bad.
6, water
The water of high quality dry chili is light brown; the water of inferior dried chili is red.