Food starts with noodles

But now the accommodation is no longer available to the public, because Guo Shuying's apprentices come back in batches every year to learn cooking skills and participate in Guo Shuying's assessment.

In addition, Wangyuelou has many branches in Anhui, and the chefs and head chefs of these branches also come to attend training regularly.

The latter guest rooms are not enough for our own people.

So from the year before last, the room department has not been open to the public.

There are several courtyards in Wangyue Tower, connected by corridors, and there is even a large lotus pond with some koi swimming around.

Rows of hams and cured meats hung in the open space of the yard.

These hams were all supported by special drying racks. Xu Zhuo counted them. There were 36 hams hanging on each rack, and there were almost 20 such racks in the yard.

And besides these cured meats, there are other meats hanging out too.

He did a rough calculation, and the meat hanging in the yard alone was worth about 30 based on the market price of meat.

Really...

Big family!

Xu Zhuo felt that Xu's family was already considered a big family, but compared with Guo's family, it was really incomparable.

Impressed!

Came to the backyard of the backyard, the headquarters counted to the housekeeping department.

Guo Shanshan found a room with a balcony on the top floor for the two of them, then carried her backpack and walked down the corridor.

Yu Keke was very curious: "Shanshan, don't you live with us?"

Guo Shanshan said without turning her head: "Last night, the two of you made such a big noise in the middle of the night that I couldn't sleep at all... Is it a big deal after a long time?"

Yu Keke blushed for a while, stuck out her tongue at Xu Zhuo, and then walked into the guest room.

After putting away the luggage and changing clothes, Xu Zhuo followed Guo Shanshan to the catering department, ready to help.

On the way to the backyard just now, the system has already prompted that the random mission of Anhui cuisine's dilemma has been completed, and he has also successfully obtained the skill of killing soft-shelled turtles.

"I'll be busy in the back kitchen later, what are you two going to do?"

Xu Zhuo felt that it was not easy to come out with Yu Keke, so he went to learn how to cook without thinking, and felt a little sorry.

"You follow your example, don't worry about us, I will drive Ke Ke around later, and ask her some questions by the way, see you at dinner."

After finishing speaking, she pulled Yu Keke and ran outside like a gust of wind.

Xu Zhuo strolled to the back kitchen of Wangyue Tower, where more than 30 people were busy working. Seeing Xu Zhuo coming in, a middle-aged man smiled and said, "You are Xu Zhuo, right? Come on, wash these dishes first." gone."

He is Guo Shuying's apprentice, just now Guo Shuying told him to let Xu Zhuo stay in the back kitchen for a few days.

But Guo Shuying didn't mention Xu Zhuo's identity, nor did he say that Xu Zhuo knew how to cook.

Xu Zhuo didn't say much, he took the basket of vegetables and started washing them by the sink.

Just after washing, when he brought it over, a young man next to him who was slaughtering a soft-shelled turtle was a little curious after seeing Xu Zhuo, so he couldn't help but take a few extra glances.

As soon as he was distracted, the turtle in his hand took advantage of the loophole.

He opened his mouth and bit his tiger's mouth.

"what……"

The scream made Xu Zhuo almost throw the basket in fright.

"Hurry up, help me pull this thing off, it hurts so much!"

Xu Zhuo put down the vegetable basket, walked over, took the soft-shelled turtle from the man's hand, and motioned him to hold on.

Then Xu Zhuo pulled out a hair, and lightly poked the turtle's nostrils, and the turtle miraculously let go of its mouth.

"Yo, you know so much about turtles, where did you learn it?"

Chapter 677 Killing turtles, I am a professional

Regardless of the pain in his hand, the man looked directly at Xu Zhuo.

Obviously, he was very curious about Xu Zhuo's move.

Boss Xu naturally wouldn't say that it was a skill given by the system.

He smiled and said, "I've been killing this thing since I was a child, and I just know it better... You squeeze the place where the turtle has bitten, squeeze out the blood inside, and then apply some povidone iodine, be careful not to get infected."

The man said nonchalantly: "It's okay, I'm used to it. You said you killed turtles at home since you were a child? What does your family do? Why don't I know you?"

Xu Zhuo pushed that he was selling aquatic products, but this person didn't doubt it either.

After chatting for a while, he also found out that this young man was Guo Shanshan's distant cousin, named Guo Xingwang, who had attended a technical school for several years before, but failed to accomplish anything.

After learning from the pain, he decided to learn cooking from Guo Shuying.

I thought that I could learn faster by following my own people, at least I could go directly to master the spoon quickly.

As a result, Guo Shuying treated him equally and did not give him any preferential treatment.

Like other apprentices, I started to learn from washing vegetables.

Guo Xingwang washed vegetables for a whole year, and then cut them for two consecutive years.

This year, he can finally learn side dishes.

This is an inevitable step in learning to cook.

Because side dishes are related to the combination of dishes and the amount of weight. If you are not proficient in this step, even if you become a chef in the future, you will overturn due to lack of solid basic skills.

When he first started learning, Guo Xingwang also had a lot of resentment in his heart.

But the more he learns, the more he discovers his own shortcomings, and the more he feels the importance of solid basic skills.

For example, when he was learning to wash vegetables, he knew a lot about the vegetables of each season and the characteristics of each vegetable.

It will be much easier for him to cook vegetables in the future.

The experience of cleaning meat ingredients also allowed him to understand the differences between different parts of meat, and he has basically understood the method.

Therefore, the more he was exposed to these, the more he felt that there was a lot to learn.

"You said that you have been killing turtles since you were young. Come on, kill this turtle and let me see. I just want to learn how to kill this turtle."

After Xu Zhuo acquired the skill of slaughtering soft-shelled turtles, he originally thought he was going to perform in front of Guo Shuying.

Unexpectedly, the person watching his performance was Guo Xingwang.

He was somewhat disappointed.

It's just that I haven't used this skill yet, and I haven't killed a turtle before, so Boss Xu wanted to try it out, and see how different it would be to kill a turtle with the skill.

There are many tutorials on the Internet about killing soft-shelled turtles.

Most of them tease the turtle with chopsticks, and when the turtle bites the chopsticks, quickly chop off the turtle's head with a knife.

But today this soft-shelled turtle can't do that.

"The soft-shelled turtle stewed in Wangyuelou must be whole, and the head cannot be chopped off..."

Guo Xingwang reminded Xu Zhuo, and stood aside with great interest, watching Xu Zhuo kill the soft-shelled turtle without beheading it.

Xu Zhuo was very calm.

Among the skills he acquired, there are several ways to kill turtles.

The chopping of the head just mentioned is the first method, and there is another method to start from the back.

This method is also adopted by most restaurants.

It is much simpler than the method of beheading and killing soft-shelled turtles.

He grabbed the turtle by the tail and took the turtle out of the basin.

Then turn the turtle over so that its back is down and its belly is up.

The soft-shelled turtle was not used to this, so he stuck his head out immediately, wanting to find out.

Xu Zhuo took the opportunity to put the turtle's head on the bottom of the basin. The turtle's neck and head were all pressed by the turtle's shell, making the turtle unable to move at all.

At this time, Xu Zhuo took a sharp knife and pierced through the outer edge of the turtle's belly, and then cut open the turtle's belly along the skirt.

Guo Xingwang next to him was dumbfounded.

"Fuck, is it... so simple? It feels easier than killing a chicken."

Xu Zhuo cut most of the turtle's belly to separate the shell from the belly, then suddenly opened it to dig out the internal organs.

In addition to the internal organs, the yellow fat in the turtle's stomach should also be removed, because this kind of fat is more fishy and the taste is difficult to remove.

If it is cooked in a pot, the whole pot of food will be full of fishy smell, making it difficult to swallow.

After removing the fat, Xu Zhuo took out the turtle gall from the internal organs, squeezed the gall into an empty bowl for later use.

Then, he set up the pot and started boiling water.

After boiling the water, Xu Zhuo found a hook and hung up the turtle's head, which helped to drain the blood from the turtle's body.

"Why do you keep your bile? Make wine?"

"What do you boil water for now? You don't necessarily have to cook now."

"If you hang it like this, can the turtle blood be drained? It is said that the smell of turtle blood is very strong."

Guo Xingwang was on the side, asking questions like a curious baby.

Xu Zhuo didn't have time to explain to him, but let him watch first.

When dense bubbles appeared in the water in the pot, Xu Zhuo turned off the fire.

Put the soft-shelled turtle back in a clean basin with its belly up, and then he took the water in the pot and poured it into the basin.

After being scalded for more than a minute, he lifted the turtle and began to clean the outermost layer of the turtle.

This film is very thin, but dirty, and has a strong fishy smell, so it must be removed.

The soft-shelled turtle not only has a membrane on its back, but also a membrane on its belly, which is relatively thick.

So when the hot water was first poured, Xu Zhuo turned the turtle's belly up, so that the film on the belly could be easily removed after being hit by the hot water.

Because the soft-shelled turtle has just been scalded, when the skin is peeled off, the soft-shelled turtle is a little hot on the outside.

Seeing Xu Zhuo's careful look, Guo Xingwang couldn't help but said, "Rinse with cold water before uncovering, be careful not to burn your hands."

Xu Zhuo smiled: "That's not okay, this layer of film has to be peeled off while it's hot, if you use cold water, this layer of film will stick to the soft-shelled turtle again, if you want to get it off again, you can only use a little bit of steel wool to remove it. wipe it up."

Guo Xingwang muttered a few words: "I didn't expect to learn so much from killing a turtle. If you weren't here today, I really wouldn't be able to do it."

Xu Zhuo didn't speak.

If it weren't for the nonsense on the way, I got this skill.

He is probably staring at the soft-shelled turtle right now.

Not to mention the fishy film on the skilled turtle tearing fish, I'm afraid he doesn't even know how to cut it.

After cleaning the outer film, Xu Zhuo took the soft-shelled turtle and put it in clean water, washed it inside and out twice, and deliberately opened the cover to soak for a while to remove as much blood as possible.

After untiing it, he dried the water inside and out of the turtle, and then took the bile squeezed from the bowl just now, and prepared to smear it on the turtle.

Guo Xingwang had never seen such a situation before, so he was immediately taken aback.

"What the hell are you doing? It doesn't hurt to smear bile on it, stop now!"

Chapter 678 Participating on behalf of Moon Tower?

Xu Zhuo stopped what he was doing, and said to him with a smile: "Turtle gall is not bitter, on the contrary, it has a faint fragrance, so turtle gall is also called fragrant gall."

Guo Xingwang was a little unconvinced: "Women's sweat is still called fragrant sweat, doesn't it still smell like sweat?"

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