Food starts with Mapo Tofu

Chapter 747 Xiao Jing's Question (ask for a monthly ticket)
Xiao Jing, as a food blogger, besides his own art hobby, eats.

Of course, even with this kind of freelance work, he still thinks that art is his old line of work. The reason why he does live broadcasts, explores stores, and cooks food is to make money for his hobbies.

Originally, he was just a local promotionalist, but now after cooking delicious food, he also discovered his deepest hobby.

That is to eat.

Especially meat.

"Look, I bought a big bowl of meat and served it with rice. I feel like I'm going to go home again today." Xiao Jing said while showing his food to the camera.

"However, these things need to be added by yourself. In addition to the four yuan for two bowls of rice, the rest of the lo mei will add up to dozens of yuan, so even if you come to eat, you can see what you like. Just order something.

Don't say that I showed so much at the time, but when I came here, I found out that this is not the case. Although we cook delicious food, we never engage in recharge. "

Xiao Jing felt that it was necessary for him to explain these things clearly. After all, there are many people who do not use their brains when surfing the Internet. tasty.

But even so, there are still many people who say that they have been recharged, but there is no way to prove this kind of thing, so they can only let them say it, and all Xiao Jing can do is to make it clear every time.

"Evaluating whether a food is good or bad basically depends on its color and aroma. I am not a professional chef, so I can't say anything that is too professional. I can only judge from a personal point of view. Whether it is delicious or not It’s just my personal opinion.”

Xiao Jing added one more sentence, now it is getting more and more difficult to explore restaurants, and with the entry of professional state banquet chefs, this industry has become more and more complicated.

Fortunately, Xiao Jing started thinking about transformation some time ago, and he is quite successful now.

It's just that the direction I want to transform now is still a bit hard, but no matter what I do, it is a kind of tempering and experimentation. Xiao Jing feels that what he is doing now is quite meaningful.

Back to the point.

After Xiao Jing finished the previous words, he was ready to eat.

"First of all, the color of these lo mei looks very bright. You see, there is an ineffective light shining under the light, which makes people very appetizing, isn't it?"

While talking, he picked up a duck wing to show off.

Sure enough, there was a brown light shining on it, and Xiao Jing couldn't wait for the soup to flow.

Then he leaned forward and took a bite: "Well, the taste is quite good. It's different from the ones sold in many small stalls. The taste is very rich. I don't know what seasonings are in it. I'll ask the boss later. Let's see if he can tell."

After eating the tip of the duck wing, he couldn't enjoy eating it with chopsticks, so he asked Feng Honghong for disposable gloves.

"That's right. You have to learn how to eat meat, otherwise you always feel that the process is wrong. Next, let me show you a show."

Xiao Jing first bit off the joints at both ends of the duck's wing, then put the whole duck's wing into his mouth, holding the two bones of the duck's wing with both hands.

Then pull it out, the top of the bone is clean, basically there is no meat left.

"Look at how my magic of disappearing duck meat has become?"

After eating the duck wings, he started to eat other things.

While eating, he said: "I feel that the length of the video this time should be longer, and I hope everyone can watch it."

Xiao Jing was eating deliciously over there. The guests who came later had something they wanted to eat, but they saw that there was a new window in Honghong Restaurant, and Xiao Jing was there with his hands together. On the table, it looked very delicious, so I couldn't help but ordered some lo mei.

After Xiao Jing finished eating, he couldn't help touching his stomach.

"Hey, I'm full again. It's really a simple and happy lunch. If you usually come to eat, I suggest ordering a rice and one or two kinds of lo mei. It's almost the same. If you have a big appetite, you can order some more Other dishes."

Saying that, Xiao Jing called Feng Honghong, ready to pay the bill.

"Auntie Honghong, your new braised pork is really delicious, what's in it? Can you tell me about that?"

After hearing this, Feng Honghong smiled and said: "How do I know this, you have to ask my son, but I don't think he would say such things. After all, we have just started selling. If you are really curious, I If you can call him, you can ask him."

"No need, Auntie, you can go ahead. Although I do have some questions, but there are too many people in the store now, I'll come back later and ask."

"it is good."

After more than two hours of opening at noon, almost all the lo mei made in the morning were sold out.

Everyone's enthusiasm for new dishes is still very high.

After the business was over, everyone was busy cleaning the kitchen in the back, while Chen Nian ran out to rest and drink water by the way.

When Xiao Jing came again, Chen Nian was asking Xiao Hua if she had any problems at work in the morning.

"I don't have a boss. I feel that this job is quite easy. Although it is very busy at noon, and I have to take care of both the inside and the outside, it is much better than when I was a waiter." Xiaohua said.

"That's good." Chen Nian nodded, looked up and saw Xiao Jing coming, so he stood up and asked, "Do you have some questions you want to ask me? I heard from my mother just now."

"That's right, Boss Chen, I do have some questions I want to ask, after all, I feel very delicious after eating this today."

Chen Nian smiled: "It's okay to ask questions, but I definitely can't tell you the formula. I hope you can understand this."

"It's okay, Boss Chen, I understand this, if it's inconvenient to say, then I won't ask, otherwise, if you have anything to say when making lo-mei, tell us all."

Chen Nian nodded.

"In fact, it is quite complicated to make braised pork. Because I am a commercial version, it is not very feasible to make it at home. The most important thing for braised pork is to ensure the freshness of the ingredients. I have a fixed supplier here. , the ingredients delivered every day are freshly killed, so the taste must be different from the frozen ones.

Secondly, the brine used to make stewed meat is also very important. We just started selling it today. After a while, the stewed meat will be even more delicious. At that time, I will adjust the types according to the preferences of customers.

In fact, if you want to make it at home, you can go to the vegetable market where the seasoning is sold and ask what seasoning people use. If you find it troublesome, you can also buy spice packets directly. Anyway, there are many on the market now.

But my own formula basically uses more than 20 kinds of spices. The proportion of each spice is different, and the time to add it is also different. Except for the spices, the time to marinate each ingredient is also different. Anyway, the homemade version is online. You can find it if you look for it, and most families now actually have their own way of doing it. "

Xiao Jingjing nodded: "Boss Chen, I actually have another question, I don't know if it's convenient for you to answer, but I heard that many shops will add additives when making lo-mei, so that their lo-mei can be made more delicious." It becomes very fragrant, and the fragrance can spread far and far when it is opened on the street.

So how do we usually distinguish between these when eating lo mei? "

"Well, in fact, many stores use additives for various reasons such as good sales or inventory. There is nothing to say about this, but if the fragrance you mentioned is particularly strong, it may be used in it. Added ethyl maltol, pork balm, duck balm or complex phosphates.

But sometimes it is not necessary to add this kind of additive to braised pork that smells particularly fragrant. If the spices are properly proportioned, it can be spread far away. A few 500 meters can still be done.

Because most of the people who make lo mei will add spices such as cinnamon, star anise, clove, lemongrass, rosemary, thyme, etc., and these spices are all flavor-enhancing types.

But if you want to tell whether there are additives added, you can smell it before you eat it. If the fragrance floating in the air is particularly strong, even a little rushing, feel it carefully and it is a bit irritating, or in the After eating the lo-mei, the aftertaste is endless in your mouth. Of course, it is normal for the lo-mei to have an aftertaste, but if you drink water and rinse your mouth, there is still an obvious fragrance, and it is even disgusting that you feel that there is With that kind of smell, it means that [-]% of it contains additives that increase the fragrance and have strong stability.

In addition, if the color of the lo-mei you bought back has not changed after being placed for several days, if this happens, synthetic pigments such as sunset yellow and lemon yellow may be added to it.

Of course, there is also the aspect of anti-corrosion. The lo-mei with preservatives can guarantee that it will not deteriorate for half a month or even a month. In fact, the country will allow certain additives to be added, such as potassium sorbate, dehydroacetic acid, sodium lactate, etc., but Generally speaking, those merchants will use sodium benzoate because it is cheap.

However, although our country's supervision on food is not small, there is still no way to reach small and medium-sized braised vegetables and braised meat restaurants.

However, it is also very simple to identify. After buying the lo mei, open it outside and keep it exposed to normal light and sunlight. Generally speaking, meat without preservatives will start to deteriorate within three hours.

If you leave it out for a whole day and it's fine, it's likely that preservatives have been added to it. "

In this way, Chen Nian talked for about seven or eight minutes before finishing his speech.

"Oh, so there are so many tricks in it. In this way, isn't the additive harmful to the human body?"

Chen Nian thought for a while: "You can't say that, because if you are serious, there are additives in the seasonings that are usually used at home. As long as they are used within the scope allowed by the country and abide by the country's food safety regulations, then no problem.

But this is only the brand side or food factory under the supervision of the state can basically do this. It is hard to say if it is a mobile hawker or a restaurant. It all depends on one's conscience. "Chen Nian said with a smile.

"Of course, even if I'm a major in this field, I still eat snacks from roadside stalls when I go out. After all, I've already eaten those things, so how can I care so much about whether I'm healthy or not?
I can only control myself not to let go of those messy things, but I don't shy away from going out to eat them. "

"Understood, Boss Chen."

"Then can I send all the things you just said? Do you need to cut something in the middle?"

"Send it, it's okay, because this is the phenomenon that exists now, and people who should use it will use it no matter what. Even if I don't tell you, there are a lot of them on the market, and someone will always buy them."

"Okay, then I'll send it."

Chen Nian doesn't shy away from these things, and he doesn't worry that doing so will offend his peers. Anyway, jealous people have already started to be jealous. In the past few months, many people have reported, but Chen Nian is doing his own thing. Leave them any clues, whether it is from the perspective of health and hygiene, or from the perspective of fire protection, or from the perspective of personnel certificates, the heart of the old man would rather make things a little more complicated and spend more money , and can't come up with irregularities.

So even if they report it, it won't help.

"By the way, one more thing I want to add is that additives are not poison as many people think, and there is no need to fear them like tigers, because it is not additives that should be blamed, but those who use additives indiscriminately. people."

After Xiao Jing got the answer he wanted, he went back.

In the part that Chen Nian narrated just now, he planned not to cut a single knife, but just put it down the whole way.

Although as long as this topic is mentioned, it will definitely attract some controversy, and some people will even attack themselves or Chen Nian.

But no matter what, as long as someone can listen to it.

Even if not that much.

After all, Boss Chen, a person in the related industry, is not afraid of these things. What is there to be afraid of when he is a self-media?
In this way, after they rested for a while at noon, Chen Nian asked his apprentices to prepare the ingredients for the evening, while he himself went outside to make braised meat.

Now he only makes a slightly spicy flavor. After all, this is in Chengdu, and it is still necessary to take care of the tastes of most people.

As for the non-spicy one, he plans to talk about it later, anyway, it will definitely sell better if it is spicy now.

It's just that although it has been done in the morning, it is still not possible to directly put the ingredients in the brine for stewing in the afternoon.

Because of aging, you need to get some old brine out, and the ingredients must be boiled in boiling water at the beginning. After boiling for 5 minutes, take it out and clean the blood foam on it, and drain the water.

And that pot of stewed aging also needs to be dealt with again.

It is necessary to scoop out the dregs inside, and then take out the separately wrapped spice packets.

Put it back in when you need it.

And when marinating again, you have to observe the color of the material. If the color is not enough, you need to add the sugar color made in advance.

(End of this chapter)