I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 360 Pointing out 'backward'

Zhou Dong suddenly discovered that Yan Xiang had changed. This middle-aged, white-faced, frivolous man now smiled like an innocent boy, his eyes were filled with an irresistible thirst for knowledge, and suddenly he was born from the experience of the world. The old hand has become a blank sheet of paper waiting for him to write on.

"King Zhou Mian, I wonder if I can ask you to give me some pointers?

You are the King of Chinese Noodles, and I have learned a lot about it. In fact, I have long wanted to visit you and ask you for advice! "

Yan Xiang walked up to Zhou Dong's side lightly, filled his glass with wine, raised his hands in front of him, bent his waist slightly, and his eyes were filled with a sincere look of asking for advice.

Zhou Dong nodded. Now that all the big words have been uttered, he was going to show his skills. Now that Yan Xiang is here to invite him, it's just a matter of time.

Wu Tingze frowned and said, "Old Wu, when did you say such a thing, why didn't I know?
The wine is getting cold, why not ask Chef Zhou to taste my wine first! "

Wu Tingze was very displeased that the fifth child directly conceded defeat without formally 'fighting' with a sincere and respectful expression on his face.

He believed that his rose dew would definitely save some face for the brothers, and it would be too embarrassing for the fifth child to do so!

Zhou Dong laughed and stood up: "The wine made by Master Wu is naturally not bad, but it can still be warmed when it is cold. I'd better go and see Master Yan's sweet-scented osmanthus first. I hope it is well preserved and there is no frost. .”

"Don't worry, King Zhou, the sweet-scented osmanthus is wrapped in three layers of oiled paper, with moisture-absorbing tissue sandwiched in between, so it won't stand up to frost."

Yan Xiang greeted Lu Lu with a smile on his face: "King Zhou Mian, be careful, the threshold is a bit high, so don't stumble over it."

Seeing the appearance of the fifth child, the most comforting thing is Xiong Buer. How long has it been since I saw the fifth child so stable and sensible?Even the gaze that looked at Zhou Dong became softer.

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The old tavern occupies a small half of the space on the first floor of Shiweitian. The back kitchen is not closed indoors, but a semi-circular yard circled behind the building, with a wall in the middle, half for the old tavern, and the other half for the old tavern. It's the site of Chef Xu Guanghui.

I don't know where I got the news. As soon as Zhou Dong entered the yard, he saw Xu Guanghui poking his head over the wall: "Chef Zhou, long time no see, why are you free to come to the old tavern?
I'm still waiting to go to your private room to eat boiled cabbage, but I don't know when it will open? "

Zhou Dong smiled: "Come on, Chef Xu, you climbed so high, you have to be careful?"

Looking at the height of the wall, one could tell that Xu Guanghui was probably stepping on a ladder. Zhou Dong was secretly surprised that the relationship between Shiwei Tianhou Chef and the five Laoxionggou brothers seemed not very harmonious. Sometimes just nodding slightly to Xiong Buer as a greeting.

"Okay, I'm quite busy here, so I won't greet Chef Zhou. If you have time later, don't forget to come and sit with me."

Xu Guanghui shrank his head back.

This little episode made the faces of the brothers except Xiong Buer not very good-looking. Know how to bury us behind our backs.

Yan Xiang was all about his business, he led Zhou Dong through the grape trellis in the middle of the courtyard, pointed to a few pieces of oiled paper spread beside a shallow well and said, "Look, King Zhou, these sweet-scented osmanthus flowers are all being untied. I should be doing the right thing, right?"

Zhou Dong saw that the yard had good geomantic omen. This shallow well should be connected to the ground veins. It belongs to the kind that is warm in winter and cool in summer. In summer, the well water is cool enough to be used for watermelon and beer. In winter, the well warms up. You can feel the warmth by the well, just like the air-raid shelter I used to go to when I was a child.

The grape trellis is just half-covered above the shallow well, and the winter sun shines through the dry yellow vines, making them mottled and broken.

Four or five sheets of thick oiled paper were spread under the grape trellis beside the well, on which there were some buds that seemed to have not yet opened, and slightly dry yellow osmanthus flowers, obviously using the temperature brought by the sun and the heating from the wellhead to cool down. thaw'.

"This Yanxiang seems to be a little more frivolous than the other brothers in Laoxionggou. Unexpectedly, he is very careful in his own craft."

Zhou Dong nodded, feeling that Ruzi can be taught.

"Using the heating from this shallow water well and the sunshine in winter to thaw these sweet-scented osmanthus is actually a very safe method.
There are not many chefs who can do this now. They either directly use hot water or simply use a microwave oven. You can have this patience and be called a "fine heart", which is a good case! "

Yan Xiang made Zhou Dong very satisfied, thinking about his few students, the fat man wanted to be lazy but he had to work hard due to the pressure of his girlfriend, at least not at this stage; Carefulness is still half a point worse than Yan Xiang; as for the Su brothers, I was scolded by myself only yesterday. The punishment went to the back kitchen to wash the dishes!

"Well, good, very good!"

Zhou Dong looked at Yanxiang with a smile, as if senior Xingzun looked at a hardworking and good student.
The Laoxionggou brothers were a little stunned. What kind of eyes did Chef Zhou have? He seemed to like Lao Wu quite a bit?
"But it's not bad. Although you are much better than ordinary chefs in 'resolving flowers' like this, you still can't solve the fundamental problem."

Zhou Dong shook his head slightly and said: "Compared with warm water and microwave ovens, this slow method of 'removing flowers' can reduce the generation of water vapor, and it is winter now, the air is dry, and there is heating in the well, as long as you use your heart Careful, the osmanthus that is unraveled is also top-grade!

But even if you work so hard and get the right time and place, there will still be a flaw. "

Yan Xiang was slightly startled: "I used this slow solution method to prevent water vapor from forming, but even if I was careful and used various conditions, I still couldn't solve the problem that the sweet-scented osmanthus would lose its fragrance during the 'thawing' process. "

"Since you have found a problem, find a way to solve it.

If the bone of lard osmanthus cake is lard, then its soul is osmanthus. If the fragrance of the flower is compromised, can this dessert still be eaten? "

Zhou Dong smiled and said, "Do you have any sweet-scented osmanthus that hasn't started to thaw? Bring some if you have any.

In addition, help me prepare some application things. "

Yan Xiang hurriedly said, "King Zhou Mian, please tell me."

"A large iron pot, the bigger the better, with a matching cage and a stove that can match it,
In addition, you need a bucket of pure water. I think the water in this well is very good. In addition, prepare some ice cubes, preferably made by an ice maker, not frozen in the refrigerator. "

Zhou Dong thought about it carefully and said: "There is also brown sugar, the kind made from sugar cane with more than 90.00% five percent, high-gluten flour, glutinous rice flour, first-class high-quality flour, the trough for making cakes, and the mallet for making cakes. Do you have a hammer made of pine wood?"

"Of course, they are all ready-made. They are the ones I have used for many years."

Yan Xiang thought for a while, "must up" his courage and said: "King Zhou Mian, do you want to use steaming method?
This...I'm afraid it won't work, how big is the water vapor? "

The most taboo thing about osmanthus osmanthus is that the water vapor is too large, which will make the fragrance of the flowers lose faster, which is worse than the method of "removing flowers" used by Yan Xiang before, and it is not much better than those cooks who use warm water and microwave ovens to thaw. go.

Zhou Dong chuckled: "You may have forgotten that I also have a nickname called 'Shocking Pot',
When doing white cases, half of the work is done on the steamer. "

"Yes, King Zhou Mian is right!"

Yan Xiang could only nod his head again and again, although he couldn't understand how Zhou Dong could use a steamer to avoid the water vapor from affecting the sweet-scented osmanthus, but he didn't dare to ask.

The beggar master said that the methods used by the chef who can make the "dead tree bloom" are simply beyond his comprehension, just follow along.

Soon everything was ready. Zhou Dong first mixed the high-gluten noodles and glutinous rice flour, and kneaded the noodles while adding water. In just ten minutes, a pot of 'Sanguang' standard noodles was ready.

Others couldn't see anything yet, but Yan Xiang's eyes tightened.

High-gluten flour and glutinous rice flour are not the same strength. It is not easy to blend together perfectly. He has been in this business for 20 years, and it takes at least half an hour just to make this bowl of noodles. To achieve satisfaction, it depends on the performance on the spot.

It's only been ten minutes, and that's it?

Yanxiang pressed the dough lightly with his finger, and the moment he withdrew his finger, the indentation of the finger disappeared, and the dough was as smooth as if it had never been pressed by anyone. Zhou Dong, he remembers very clearly that when the god beggar master made this lard osmanthus cake in front of him, it took a full 10 minutes to reconcile!

"Using a steamer to thaw the sweet-scented osmanthus may not necessarily have water vapor, the key depends on the control of the firepower and the hot soup in the pot!"

As Zhou Dong said, he put the sweet-scented osmanthus on the cage drawer, and laid a layer of hemp eyed cage cloth underneath.
These cage cloths are all carefully processed by Yanxiang, and they are only washed with clean water, and then placed in a place away from light and dust to dry naturally, without any peculiar smell.

At this time, the water in the pot was barely warm enough, far less than [-] degrees, and there was no steam coming out, but the heat had already begun to seep upwards, and the 'frozen' sweet-scented osmanthus bloomed faintly Because of the heat, it began to vibrate slightly.

Zhou Dong stretched out his right hand and passed over the sweet-scented osmanthus. It seemed that he was testing the temperature of the pot with his hands. In fact, the legendary vegetable washing skill was fully fired, and the energy light spots that ordinary people could not see with the naked eye secretly flew into the sweet-scented osmanthus.

"This swallow item is really not simple. I actually preserved these sweet-scented osmanthus without any flaws. Although they seem to be 'frozen', in fact, no water was added during the freezing process. As long as I don't make mistakes, I can make these sweet-scented osmanthus 'Resurrected' again, perfect flowering!"

Zhou Dong glanced at the pale sun through the grape trellis entwined with dead vines, feeling a little smug in his heart.

After all, not every chef has such 'defying' means
(End of this chapter)