Benefits and medicinal values of of cooking in mud pot
Posted on: 11/Dec/2018 5:31:31 PM
As we get back to age-old traditions with pure cold-pressed oil, millets, and more, we cannot miss out on the uses of mud pots! These days, there are a number of people who have started buying and using these pots, as they contain a lot of health benefits. What are they? Why are mud pots getting back to our households yet again? What are exclusive about them? Check out
In the age of our grandparents, cooking was all done in mud pots. Right from storing water to cooking rice, kulambu, make curd, and for all sorts of kitchen, and allied processes, mud pots were used. Though breakable, when used in the right method and handled with proper care and caution, these mud pots have excellent longevity.
- Water stored in mud pots taste uniquely good. You can easily find the difference between the regular water you have in your water bottles and those stored in mud pots. There is a visible difference in the taste as well as the aroma
- Foods prepared in clay pots will have their nutritive value kept intact. The ingredients get cooked in a slow process, and hence the heat gets evenly spread all over the vessel. Being very porous in nature, these clay pots tend to transform heat uniformly
- Compared to cooking in steel vessels, the dishes cooked in mud pots will be tastier
- Also, the overall oil consumption will be lesser
- Clay has an alkaline nature. This gets interacted with the food’s acidity. Thus, the pH balance of food gets neutralized. Thus, all the gastronomic pains and troubles will get nullified by cooking in clay pots
- Cooking done using clay pots will have enhanced sweetness due to the natural tendency of clay
- Further, these pots tend to retain heat for a long time which is not the case with steel utensils
Now that you understood the benefits of cooking in clay pots, you have to understand that there is medicinal value to clay pots as well. Boil water using clay pot and drink the water – you know what? You will get relieved from cold and cough quickly. Boiling in clay pot will increase the mineral value of the water, and hence enhances the overall goodness of water, thus giving you good strength and mineral value added in water.
