Food Blogger Finds Starch Sausage, Urges Orenburg to Check Fridges

Learn simple methods to check the quality of food products at home.
Mar 2, 2026
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The color of iodine should not change

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Nikita Kravchenko

36-year-old food blogger Nikita Kravchenko from Nizhny Tagil, known under the nickname Krava Nakormit, has explained how to check the quality of sausage and cheese at home. Whether to buy a particular product or not, watch in the video above.

Cheese can be checked with boiling water

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Nikita Kravchenko

For the experiment, the blogger took popular brands from different price categories. By appearance, they all look the same. Therefore, it«s impossible to tell which product is of good quality and which is not.

Dry-cured sausage can be dipped in vodka to see if the liquid changes color

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Nikita Kravchenko

The first and simplest way to expose sausage is with iodine.

How to check the quality of sausage and cheese — watch in this video

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Nikita Kravchenko

«Drop just a small drop. If it darkens — that»s a bad sign. It means there«s a lot of starch here,» explained Nikita Kravchenko.

Cheese can be checked in the same way. But to confirm its quality, you can use boiling water: if a piece doesn«t melt, you shouldn»t buy such a product.

For dry-cured sausage, any 40-proof drink will do. If the color of the vodka doesn«t change, then the product can be safely consumed.

«We draw conclusions: even among budget products, you can find worthy examples. 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 accident, as he previously had no interest in cooking and didn«t think it would captivate him so much. Read his story in this text.

Previously, in Yekaterinburg, they conducted an examination of butter. Samples from different manufacturers were put to the test — checked for how quality they are. The results were surprising: the test, which E1.RU conducted together with the Committee for Public Control of Sverdlovsk Region, was passed by only 3 out of 15 purchased packs.

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