In China's catering culture, gutter oil stands tall with its unique "charm", as if it has become an uninvited guest, but behind the smoke is the truth that consumers can hardly digest. As the documentation shows, from expired flour and underwear oil rubbing to gutter oil, people's anxiety about food safety has been rekindled. And gutter oil, whose name sounds a bit mystical about underground trading, runs rampant in the sun. As the morning sun dews, office workers rush to find breakfast on the streets, and all kinds of food fill their sights and smells, but who can guarantee that these foods are not mixed with a trace of gutter oil "flavor"?The thought that the oil may come from the swill oil that was fished out of the gutter, and after being heated and dehydrated, the so-called waste turned into treasure can't help but make people lose their appetite. Having said that, the existence of gutter oil also seems to reflect a kind of social progress - from the past "fading out of a bird" to today's "more oil and water", unconsciously, we have the qualification to "eat gutter oil".
Does this mean that as society develops, so does our "appetite"?However, just as we lamented the "waste utilization" of gutter oil, the gutter oil incident of CCTV's hot pot restaurant has made people's trust in catering companies fall to the freezing point. These companies filter and clean the oil from customers' shabu-shabu, cool it and then serve it again, which is undoubtedly a great challenge to consumers' health. And the statements of some experts are even more laughable - they believe that gutter oil needs to be treated to have no peculiar smell, and it needs to invest a lot of money, so it is impossible to return to the table.
Such a statement is tantamount to telling the public: the gutter oil you eat is because some people save the cost of processing. In this case, behind the heated discussion on food safety, is there some "apocryphal" ingredient just to cover up the truth of the facts?However, it has to be said that the problem of gutter oil is no longer just a joke, it has become an unspeakable part of Chinese food culture. In this ironic reality, we expect companies to take more stringent and effective measures to address this issue. After all, the pursuit of good food should never be based on health risks.