Omniscient and Almighty

Chapter 17 Cooking Comparison Experiments

But when the phone rang and went off, off and on, off and on, and then waited until the third ring, Zhang Lao, who had just had time to make a cup of tea, picked up the phone casually, but he didn't deliver it. Next to my ear, I heard a roar coming from the phone: "Damn it, old man Zhang, how dare you hang up on me!"

After listening to this with a smile, Zhang Lao put the phone on the base again, beep beep beep beep...

He hung up the phone again.

hung up again...

The bell rang again, after two or three rings, Mr. Zhang picked it up, and this time he brought the phone directly to his ear.

"Hey, old man Zhang, is what you said just now true?" A breathless voice came from the other end of the phone.

Xiao Mian, if you don’t believe it, you won’t be cured!Zhang Lao grinned, and the old man made a face in the room by himself, and then said into the microphone: "I think back then, I was also a man of gold and steel, who swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, how could I lie to you, a mere scumbag and wild old man. If you don't believe me, come and see for yourself. That little guy will probably be around in the near future, and it will be hard to say after a long time."

"You think I dare not go over? Wait for me!" The other end of the phone seemed to be accumulating anger.

"Come here. From tomorrow onwards, I'm going to teach that little guy a lesson. When you come over, let him hang and beat you." Zhang Laoyun said calmly.

The other end responded with a hey, and then hung up the phone.

This kind of interaction is naturally unknown to Xu Guangling. After parting from Mr. Zhang, after returning to the rented place, Xu Guangling took a hot shower as a routine, then put on his pajamas, and started fighting again in the room. Tai Chi.

This time his movements were very slow, and he did it one by one.

That is to say, after finishing a form, he will stop, and then conduct self-disassembly and analysis of this form, imagining why there is such a movement and what effect it has.In this way, after thinking about it again and again, I started the next move.

After dismantling the 36 forms one by one, Xu Guangling closed his eyes and meditated for a while, then opened his eyes, and then performed the 36 forms completely from beginning to end.

The whole morning passed like this.

It was the rumbling stomach that reminded Xu Guangling of the passage of time, and then he went to the bed and picked up the phone, a little surprised but not very surprised to find that the time was already one o'clock in the afternoon, well, it's time to treat his stomach.

what to eat?

Xu Guangling thought for a while and decided to stick to potatoes.

After passing through Baidu yesterday, after knowing that potatoes contain [-] kinds of amino acids, which are "umami substances", Xu Guangling really wanted to cook potatoes alone to see what kind of taste it is.Today is just right, it's a test.

Taking out the remaining half of the three potatoes from yesterday, Xu Guangling made three treatments for the three potatoes: one is to cut into shreds, the kind of shreds yesterday is also the kind in the dream thin shreds; the second is to cut thick shreds, which are not very thick, which is the way he used to cut potatoes when frying shredded potatoes; the third is to just cut potatoes in half.

Then cook.

Put the potato halves on the steam rack and cook them by steaming.

The two kinds of shredded potatoes are boiled separately.

Not long after, this sumptuous "one dish and two soups" was ready. When Xu Guangling sat at the dining table, there were three bowls in a row in front of him. From left to right were steamed potato cubes and thick shredded potatoes. Soup, shredded potato soup.

And Xu Guangling tasted them in this order from left to right. Of course, he also ate.

Steam potato cubes.

Soft, slightly rusty feeling.It's delicious, and it's a good food to fill up on an empty stomach.But that's all.Because of his foresight, Xu Guangling deliberately tasted its "fresh" taste when eating it, but found that it was rare, but it was not obvious.

Or it can be said that if it is not deliberate, it is easy to ignore this freshness.

What is going on here?

Next came the shredded potato soup.

After eating the steamed potato cubes, Xu Guangling deliberately got up and moved around, and then even rinsed his mouth to clear his mouth before he began to taste the thick shredded potato soup.This time the result was obvious. Xu Guangling could feel the freshness of the soup just after he ate it.

In fact, Xu Guangling seems to have cooked potato soup before, but did the potato soup at that time have any umami taste?Xu Guangling couldn't remember.

And this not remembering is itself the answer. ——If you don’t remember, it means that there should be no special and deep impression at that time.

It is not difficult to understand why this is the case. First, Xu Guangling's culinary skills at that time were extraordinary, or to put it bluntly, he was only a cook but had no skills. The potatoes I bought are probably not very good.

In fact, according to the observations at the potato stalls in the vegetable market yesterday, the potatoes he bought in the past may not be very good.

This "may" needs to be removed.

Just not great.

The probability of buying good potatoes is extremely small. From the actual situation, it is estimated to be even smaller than the probability of winning the lottery. It can basically be ignored.

Then there is the same sentence, a clever woman can hardly cook without rice.

He was neither a "smart woman" nor "good rice" at that time, so how could he make good rice?

After a little thought about the reason, Xu Guangling slowly finished the bowl of potato soup, and then proceeded to the last bowl, shredded potato soup.

It was a direct transition, without gargling or anything else, but even under such circumstances, Xu Guangling still felt that the umami taste that had been raised by at least two ranks permeated his mouth.Why two steps?Because Xu Guangling felt that one was not enough.

To put it simply, there is more than one grade difference between the two!

Well, the result is already obvious. From the perspective of umami, the steamed potato cubes are completely defeated by the thick potato soup, and the thick potato soup is completely defeated by the thin potato soup. ——Is that because the potatoes are ground into powder, and the shredded potato soup will be completely defeated by the potato powder soup?

Xu Guangling thought that he might try it in the future, but it's hard to say what the result will be.

There is a possibility that the shredded potatoes are so thin that they may not be much different from potato flour in terms of umami release.Or even if there is still a difference, that subtlety is no longer easily tasted by the human tongue.

Whether this is the case is temporarily doubtful.

After this comparison, Xu Guangling also came to a preliminary conclusion: if you want to fully present the "taste" of cooking ingredients, you should chop them as thinly and thinly as possible.Or at the same time, the problem of taste should also be considered to obtain an optimal comprehensive value between the two.Then, on the basis of this knife work, consider the control of the heat during cooking.

I am afraid that I will forget it in the future. Of course, forgetting is unlikely, but negligence is very possible. Xu Guangling also specially created a section in his notebook to record this sentence.

At this moment, he didn't realize what this sentence meant to him.

(End of this chapter)