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  • soy sauce.

  • Pretty standard stuff, right?

  • Salty umami, flavorful.

  • At this point, it's pretty much a universal condiment, and there are hundreds at the supermarket.

  • There's Chinese Japanese light, dark, sweet to understand the old way of making it revisited a soy sauce maker in Taiwan where they still make There's the traditional way.

  • Yeah, this is you ding shing, which makes its sauce with wood fired black beans.

  • CIA and his brother are now the third generation owners of the company.

  • They've been making their sauce by hand for over six decades, and they learned from this guy there.

  • Dad, it is thought out to see the little.

  • There are many ways to make soy sauce, starting with the type of soybean that is used to how the soy sauce is fermented and what the fermenting agent is.

  • Most sauces are made with yellow soybeans, which is most commonly grown, but some makers like you ding shing, prefer black soybeans.

  • Now the courthouse in €100 million.

  • Instead, she now those are changing Uh, Chin Pao How, uh, now someone to home and, uh, she is a starter culture for fermentation.

  • It is also used to make by Joe in Japan, it's known as Koji where it's used to make soy sauce, but it's also part of the sake making process.

  • This band Tommy, uh, to the court holiday home and say, uh, how those machines family home and said about, uh, I don't hate to run.

  • How don't you know about 4000 now, huh?

  • Uh, she, uh, equal.

  • Send out a general sense.

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  • A how it how it is that someone.

  • Once it reaches 50 degrees Celsius, the soybeans are mixed with different concentrations of salt and water and then put into clay urns to ferment, show one to home and took a boot.

  • So that won't be a woman said Taiwan that she or he found this.

  • However, um mhm.

  • The Taiwan climate is so hot that the fermentation happens faster.

  • This is Lisa.

  • She sells Taiwanese sauces to the American market.

  • So the heat captured by the terracotta vats is really important to how it ferments.

  • And I think you know, they use, um Some of their bats are like three generations old, and because of the capillaries in the clay material, it just continues to absorb flavor and nuance.

  • So, like each, that generation also kind of creates, like a different level of complexity and flavor.

  • This is how a multi bean and salt transformed into soy sauce should be done by how that goes down.

  • You want to, uh, being paid 20 and how it just seems like, you know, I went to the whole no majority to lie.

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  • The the, uh, there are many ways to use soy sauce.

  • Soy sauces with a higher sugar content are better as dipping sauces and darker, more concentrated soy sauces are used to add color to dishes and are great for braises in the middle.

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  • Okay, now, and those the whole general question because it had, uh, Taiwan, the turkey sleeping out itself.

  • So it inside?

  • Nah, not just your white telephone.

  • Now, enjoy that.

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soy sauce.

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