Food Blogger Finds Starch-Filled Sausage — Check Your Fridge
A drop of iodine should not darken when testing sausage, as a color change indicates high starch content.
36-year-old food blogger Nikita Kravchenko from Nizhny Tagil, known by the nickname Krava Nakormit, explains how to check the quality of sausage and cheese at home. Whether to buy a particular product or not, see in the video above.
Cheese can be tested by placing it in boiling water; if it fails to melt, it may be of inferior quality.
For the experiment, the blogger took popular brands from different price categories. By appearance, they all look identical. Therefore, it«s impossible to guess which product is of good quality and which is not.
Dry-cured sausage can be immersed in vodka to check for additives, with no color change signifying a pure product.
The first and simplest way to expose sausage is with iodine.
The video demonstrates several home techniques to evaluate the authenticity and quality of common sausage and cheese products.
«We drip literally a small drop. If it darkens — that»s a bad sign. It means there«s a lot of starch here,» explained Nikita Kravchenko.
The same method can be used to check cheese. But to verify its quality, one can use boiling water: if a piece doesn«t melt, then such a product should not be purchased.
For dry-cured sausage, any forty-degree alcohol drink will do. If the color of the vodka doesn«t change, it means the product can be safely consumed.
«We draw conclusions: even from budget products, one can find worthy specimens. Don»t let yourself be fooled!« summarized the blogger.
Nikita started making videos five years ago, and now he has millions of views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers. He told E1.RU that he got into this field by chance, as he previously had no interest in cooking and didn«t think it would suck him in so much. Read his story in this text.
Prior to this, in Yekaterinburg, they conducted a test on butter. Samples from different producers were exposed — checked for how quality they are. The results were surprising: the test that E1.RU conducted together with the Public Control Committee of Sverdlovsk Oblast, only 3 out of 15 purchased packs passed.
