Chef system

"Brother Yang, the matter has been settled, and that Yue Wei should never trouble you again."

Yang Chen returned to the hotel, and soon received a call from Han Xiangdong.He didn't expect Han Xiangdong to act so fast, so he asked curiously, "What did you do?"

Han Xiangdong smiled and said: "I didn't do anything, I just called their company's cooperative company and asked them to help. Now their company is probably too busy to take care of themselves! In two days, their capital turnover is not working well, and they should be going bankrupt!"

Yang Chen was speechless secretly, lamenting the energy of the Han family, it only took a single sentence to put a huge enterprise on the verge of collapse.

After talking with Han Xiangdong, there was a hasty knock on the door, and as if the door was opened, He Shitao stood at the door with a narrow face, rubbing his hands in embarrassment.

"What's the matter?" Yang Chen asked strangely, "Didn't you borrow the hotel kitchen to hone your cooking skills, why are you in the mood to come to me?"

He Shitao smiled embarrassingly, and said: "Actually, I encountered a little problem when cooking. I always feel that the taste is not right. I want to ask you, Yang Chen."

"That's it!" Yang Chen nodded, and said with a smile: "Then let's go to the kitchen and have a look."

There was no one else in the kitchen. It was getting late, and most of the chefs had already left work. Except for a few chefs preparing supper for customers, chatting with each other and yawning boredly, there was no one else.

He Shitao brought Yang Chen into the kitchen, and everyone couldn't help but look at him a few more times.From He Shitao's mouth, they knew that Yang Chen was also a top chef participating in the national food competition, and that he was the chef of only four Michelin three-star restaurants in the country, so they couldn't help being a little curious.

"Yang Chen, try this dish, doesn't it taste a bit strange?" He Shitao served a bowl of West Lake Vinegar Fish and said at the same time, "The fish used in this dish is fresh and live fish, and the heat and seasoning should also be without any Question, but I always feel that the taste is not authentic, please help me to take a look."

As an authentic Zhejiang dish, West Lake Vinegar Fish pays attention to freshness, smoothness, tenderness, original taste, and emphasis on flavor.Yang Chen took a sip, and tasted it carefully. Just as He Shitao said, there are indeed some problems with the cooking of this dish.It tastes really good at first taste, but after chewing carefully for a while, it will feel tasteless and lose the taste it should have.

"Yang Chen, how is it?" He Shitao asked expectantly.

Yang Chen thought for a while, and said: "The problem should still lie in the heat. Generally speaking, the vinegar sauce poured on it is completely mixed with the fish, and the taste in your mouth should be sweet and sour. But you The more you eat it, the less it tastes, it should be that the vinegar juice has been swallowed down the throat, and the fish has not tasted yet."

When He Shitao heard it, he suddenly realized, and hurriedly asked: "Then Yang Chen, where do you think the problem should be?"

"There are two problems." Yang Chen smiled, and said: "First, there should be some minor problems with the heat. Considering the size of your fish, it can only be cooked for 3 minutes at most , you should have cooked it for four to five minutes, so the fish looks a bit old and not tasty."

He Shitao lowered his head in embarrassment, and said, "I think the fish is a bit bigger, and I'm worried that it won't be cooked enough, so I cooked it for a while longer."

"In fact, it only needs to be cooked for 3 minutes, and it will be fully cooked after about 5 minutes, and the umami taste of the fish can be completely maintained."

Yang Chen smiled, and continued: "The second problem, it should be that there is something wrong with the vinegar sauce you prepared, probably because you put less sugar, which made the vinegar sauce not sticky enough to adhere to the fish."

He Shitao nodded again and again, but asked with some doubts: "Then according to what you said, how much sugar is appropriate?"

"There's no fixed number for this, it depends on the concentration of the soup." Yang Chen said, "How about this, I'll show you a demonstration, and you carefully observe how I do it."

"Okay, I'm really sorry to trouble you." He Shitao said excitedly, being able to observe Yang Chen's cooking up close was a rare opportunity for him.

Yang Chen walked to the side of the fish tank, flicked his hand into the tank, and he grabbed a grass carp out of the tank.

"Amazing!"

When the rest of the people saw this scene, their faces suddenly showed excitement.As we all know, the fish scales on the surface of the fish are too slippery, and they will slip away from the hand with any force. Yang Chen caught the grass carp casually, and this hand immediately calmed down several people.They couldn't help getting closer, wanting to see Yang Chen's cooking skills.

Yang Chen is not easy to be the only one, he weighed the grass carp with his hands, and said in a low voice: "This grass carp weighs about two catties, which is a bit bigger. In fact, to make West Lake vinegar fish, only one and a half catties of grass carp is enough."

As he spoke, he slapped the grass carp hard on the cutting board, and the grass carp rolled its eyes and passed out.

Quickly cleaned the scales and viscera of the grass carp, and Yang Chen obliquely cut out cuts about one centimeter apart and about two centimeters deep on the fish.

"The size of the knife depends on the size of the fish. If the fish is relatively large, it can be cut more closely and deeper; if the fish is small, it is better to cut it thinner."

While talking, Yang Chen prepared some other ingredients such as ginger and shallots.

Pour clean water into the pot, add ginger, shallots, monosodium glutamate, cooking wine, etc. as appropriate.

"You should pay attention, the amount of this discretion should be based on the amount of soup. You should know how much each ingredient should be. For example, if you put too much cooking wine, the taste of the wine will cover up the freshness of the grass carp. Taste, affect the taste."

After the soup boiled, Yang Chen put the grass carp into the pot.When the water boiled again, he said: "Generally speaking, if you use a relatively small grass carp, you can stop the fire now, but this grass carp is relatively large, you can cook it for another minute."

After 1 minute, Yang Chen turned off the fire, let the grass carp suffocate in the pot, and started to process the soup.

Stir-fry ginger until fragrant, add rice wine in turn, cook fish soup, and then add balsamic vinegar, sugar and salt.Suddenly, a sweet and slightly sour aroma escaped from the pot.

"It smells so good!"

Everyone leaned over their heads, shrugged their noses, and smelled the fragrance intoxicatedly, "I usually cook this dish, why doesn't it smell so fragrant?"

"You think you are a famous chef like Yang Chen!"

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Yang Chen adjusted the heat, observed the soup in the pot, and said: "Actually, every condiment has its own characteristics, and at what temperature can the best taste of the condiment need to be deeply understood. And When so many seasonings are mixed together, there will be more changes, and whichever seasoning is more or less will have a certain impact on the taste."

Everyone listened attentively. They usually cook, and no one would tell them such things. If they want to make a delicious dish, they can only slowly figure it out.

"In the soup I'm making now, I put about two grams of minced ginger, ten grams of oil, 250 milliliters of fish soup, 70 grams of vinegar, and 10 milliliters of rice wine... For the heat, I use medium heat..."

As the sugar melted, the dark brown soup became extremely thick. Yang Chen leaned over and smelled it, and felt that it was ready, so he put the grass carp on a plate and poured the soup on it.

"Try it and see how it tastes?"

Yang Chen brought the plate to the table, and everyone was awakened by him. Looking at the West Lake vinegar fish exuding an enticing aroma, the gurgling sound of swallowing saliva continued.

He Shitao picked up the chopsticks and picked up a piece of fish first. He saw that the snow-white fish was stained with thick brown soup, which looked extremely attractive.

After eating it, it is also very different from the general West Lake vinegar fish.At the beginning, the soup and fish had different tastes, but as he chewed, the soup and fish were fully mixed together.The extremely umami taste of the fish and the sweet and sour taste of the soup form a brand new delicacy.

He Shitao couldn't help but feel that the West Lake vinegar fish that Yang Chen made could only be regarded as the real West Lake vinegar fish after it was eaten in his mouth.

"How?" Yang Chen asked with a smile.

He Shitao sighed: "Yang Chen, your bowl of West Lake vinegar fish is really delicious. Compared with the one I made, it is really a heaven and a hell. After eating this dish of yours, I am really worried that I will never eat it in the future." I don’t dare to cook West Lake vinegar fish anymore.”

"Is it so delicious?" The other chefs felt itchy when they heard it, but it was Yang Chen's cooking, and they were too embarrassed to go up to eat it. They all looked at Yang Chen eagerly, hoping that he would allow them to taste it.

Seeing the expressions of these chefs, Yang Chen couldn't help but feel a little funny, "Stop standing there too, how about a taste?"

Hearing this, several chefs rushed up immediately, picked up their chopsticks and picked up the bowl of vegetables. No one could eat less than two bites, and there was only one fish bone left on the plate.

"It's delicious, it's really delicious!" A chef repeatedly sighed.

Another young chef licked the corner of his mouth and said intoxicatedly, "When can I make such delicious West Lake vinegar fish, I must cook this dish every day."

Yang Chen said to He Shitao again, "Do you remember everything I said just now?"

"I remember clearly." He Shitao nodded and replied.

Yang Chen nodded, and said: "Well, you can make one yourself. If you follow what I said, it shouldn't be a big problem if you want to make a plate of authentic West Lake vinegar fish."

Although He Shitao's cooking skills are not as superb as Yang Chen's, they are still remarkable. After Yang Chen's guidance, the West Lake Vinegar Fish that he cooked did not reach Yang Chen's level, but he also overcame the difficulty of chewing more and more. The shortcoming of being tasteless is not much worse than the authentic West Lake vinegar fish.

"Yang Chen, thank you so much this time." He Shitao said sincerely.

"You're welcome." Yang Chen waved his hand and was about to leave when a chef from Tengfei Hotel suddenly stopped him and said expectantly: "Master Yang, I also have some problems in cooking, can you please advise me?" ?”

"No problem." Yang Chen readily agreed to the chef's request. As a chef, he would only fall further and further behind others if he was complacent. Only by constantly discussing and learning skills with other chefs can he improve his cooking skills.Although he has obtained the inheritance of God of Cooking, the culinary knowledge he has acquired and the dishes he can cook are relatively old-fashioned. Many current dishes are not in the inheritance, and he needs to learn and develop by himself.

When he came out of the kitchen, it was almost midnight, and the chefs still had many questions, but seeing that it was too late, they were too embarrassed to keep asking him, so they let him go.As for He Shitao, because there was still a game the next day, he went back to his room early to sleep.

After half a night to answer these chefs' questions, although most of their questions are very common, there are also a few chefs who can ask a few refreshing questions, even Yang Chen can gain a lot.