it will be the Mid Autumn Festival in another 20 days. Eating moon cakes on the Mid Autumn Festival has been a tradition since ancient times. Since then, moon cakes have also been improved and upgraded. Ice skin moon cake is the new favorite of moon cake industry. It is very popular as soon as it goes on the market, but the preservation method of ice skin moon cake is also very exquisite. It's very difficult to preserve the frozen moon cake, and it affects the taste, so if you buy it, you should buy less.
1、 Can moon cakes be kept in the refrigerator
The moon cake can be put into the refrigerator with the packaging box. In such an environment, the preservation time of the moon cake will be longer. When preparing to eat, take out the moon cake an hour in advance, so as to ensure the taste. But after all, mooncakes are made of flour, oil, sugar and nuts and baked. Although for some kinds of mooncakes, putting them in the refrigerator can prolong their shelf life, it will still affect their flavor. This is because the starch in the raw material of moon cake is mellowed after baking and becomes soft. Under the condition of low temperature, the mellowed starch will precipitate water and become aged (i.e., "retrograde"), making the moon cake hard and taste worse.
When the moon cake is preserved, it should not be put together with other food and sundries, so as to avoid the smell and loss of its proper taste and characteristics. During storage, pay attention to prevent cockroaches, ants, rats, etc. from eating, so as to prevent infectious diseases. In addition, when purchasing boxed or bulk mooncakes, the production date or ex factory date should be clearly seen, so as to grasp the shelf life.
2、 Can frozen moon cakes be preserved at room temperature
The storage method of ice skin moon cake is very exquisite, and it can't be preserved at normal temperature. In order to keep the shape of mooncakes from deformation, cracking and aging, it can only be done at low temperature. Because the filling is fresh jam, it is easy to deteriorate at normal temperature; that is to say, the preservation of ice moon cakes at low temperature is related to the shelf life of ice moon cakes.
Secondly, the crust of ice skin moon cake is mainly made of glutinous rice. When the crust melts, it will become sticky glutinous rice balls. In order to keep the ice crust not too hard to eat, a certain amount of water must be kept in it. Containing water means that it is easy to breed bacteria and become a hotbed for mold growth. Therefore, preservation at low temperature can reduce bacterial pollution and mold growth, and prolong the shelf life of moon cakes. Therefore, the frozen mooncakes must be kept in the refrigerator, especially the cut mooncakes, which should be put in the freezer and eaten as soon as possible.
3、 How long is the ice moon cake kept at normal temperature
Ice skin mooncakes should not be preserved for more than two hours at normal temperature. Therefore, the insulation measures must be taken at room temperature. For example, the bakers have prepared a special insulation bag for ice skin moon cakes or for ice cream. Under the protection of this bag, the ice skin can be kept from melting for two hours. In addition, when the frozen moon cake is stored, it should not be put together with other food and sundries, so as to avoid cross flavor and loss of original taste and characteristics.
Why is it so strict to eat ice skin moon cakes? Ice skin moon cakes are different from traditional Guangdong moon cakes in the way of manufacturing. Ice skin moon cakes are made of special ice skin flour, mixed with cold boiled water to form dough, then packed with stuffing and put into the mold. Although the hygiene control of the whole process is not always strict, they do not need to be baked at high temperature, so the risk of microorganism is high, so ice skin moon During the transportation and storage of the cakes, more strict temperature control is required. When carrying ice skin or ice-cream moon cakes outdoors, the moon cakes shall be refrigerated in a travel refrigerator, and the moon cakes shall be taken out from the refrigerator before eating.
Therefore, if the ice skin moon cake is placed at room temperature for more than two hours, it should be discarded, otherwise the friend with weak gastrointestinal function will easily get gastroenteropathy after eating.
In general, in the case of unopened, put the frozen moon cake in the refrigerator's cold storage for preservation, and take it out directly for consumption when you want to eat it. After that, keep the frozen mooncakes in the freezer. But the frozen mooncakes directly taken from the freezer's freezer can't be eaten immediately, because the mooncakes preserved in the freezer will become hard and taste bad. The best way is to change the frozen moon cake from the freezer to the freezer half an hour before eating, so that the moon cake will thaw naturally, so that you can taste the soft waxy and sweet ice skin moon cake.