Food starts with noodles

An hour and a half later, Xu Zhuo came to the kitchen and turned off the fire.

But after closing it, he realized that his behavior might be a bit too arbitrary, so he took a chopstick and inserted it into the meat to check the situation.

The chopsticks were inserted with a little force, and after pulling out, there was no blood seeping out, but a smell of sauce, which indicated that the meat was cooked through.

However, if you want the sauced beef to be delicious, you have to continue soaking it in the stewed soup.

Xu Zhuo didn't take the beef out of the soup bucket, but continued to soak it in the stewed soup.

Cao Kun didn't ask any more questions now, because he knew that he would take the beef out of the stewed soup after the stewed soup in the pot cooled down naturally.

This is a more common way to braise beef, in order to make the beef more flavorful.

Whether this method is good or not, Cao Kun thinks he will find out before he gets off work tonight.

If it is possible, the beef stewed in this way will be used in the store from tomorrow, if not, then continue to think about it.

Anyway, Xu Zhuo has given him a lot of inspiration by doing it this time. Even if he thinks hard, Cao Kun feels that he can figure out how to make beef delicious.

Cough, it should be...

Chapter 1124 Xu Zhuo's Multiple Choice Questions

At seven o'clock in the evening, the braised soup had completely cooled down.

Xu Zhuo used a colander to take the marinated tendon meat out of the stewed soup and put it in a basin.

These marinated tendons exude a strong sauce and marinated flavor, and the color of the beef has become much lighter than when it was just marinated.

It has a bit of the ruddy feeling of beef, but it also has the light brown color that is unique to braised pork.

Anyway, it looks very appetizing and greedy.

However, the beef is not edible at this moment, at least not when the texture and taste are the best. It needs to be refrigerated overnight, so that it tastes better.

The reason to refrigerate is because after refrigerating, the temperature of the beef will drop further, and the aroma that originally wafted out will become restrained and absorbed into the beef.

The smell will become lighter, but you can feel the stewed and sauce aroma of beef when you eat it, and the more you chew, the more fragrant it becomes.

In addition, after refrigeration, the beef cubes will shrink further and become more dense.

This will make the beef more chewy and taste better.

"You mean, don't eat this beef today?"

Guo Xingwang stared straight at the beef in the basin, and licked his lips in disappointment. Today, because he was thinking about eating the beef, he didn't even eat much for dinner, so he just ate half a bowl of Liangpi symbolically.

At this moment, seeing the beef but not being able to eat it made him very greedy.

But Xu Zhuo's words are not unreasonable. Although the beef has been marinated now, the taste has not yet reached perfection.

If you eat this today, you will definitely regret it tomorrow.

But if you don't eat...

While he was still hesitating, Cao Kun took a marinated pig's trotter and stuffed it over: "Don't eat this, eat the pig's trotter, there was too much marinated this morning, there might be leftovers."

Guo Xingwang: "..."

From beef to pig's trotters, although they are all delicacies that I want to eat, the gap is too big.

But Cao Kun protected the pot of meat, if he didn't give it to eat, no one else would want to tear it off.

Thinking of this, Guo Xingwang took a bite of the pig's trotter in his hand: "Xu Zhuo, can you have it for breakfast tomorrow? You have to let me try it then."

Xu Zhuo nodded: "Don't worry, you will definitely have something to eat tomorrow, and I plan to let you check it out for me."

Guo Xingwang ate two pig's trotters in one go, and then he recovered and continued to work.

At 08:30, the evening rush hour ended, and there were only some sporadic and noodle-eating customers left. Xu Zhuo finished his work and drove back.

Although the beef was marinated today, Xu Zhuo was not very happy, but even more depressed.

Because if it is made in large batches, this braised beef method will definitely not work.

Among other things, the store can't afford to use light soy sauce alone.

A whole bottle of ten catties of meat is used. If it costs several hundred catties, how much will it cost?

Although the method of pickling and marinating is very good, it is only suitable for restaurants or stewed meat shops. It will not work if the sales volume is larger. It is not that it cannot be done, but that this method is too wasteful of materials.

We should find a way that is more suitable for commercial production.

At least one thousand catties can be made every day, so as to meet the sales and let Xu Xiaochu's sauced beef quickly open up the market.

But this kind of thing is easy to say, but the actual operation problem is big.

Don't say anything else, just say that you can't find a cauldron that can make a thousand catties at a time.

The biggest ones in the store are the two 500-liter sandwich pots used for making sheep's trotters and boiling sheep soup, but for braised beef in this kind of pot, it can only make a few hundred catties at most at a time.

Although [-] liters sounds like a lot, you can't fill it with meat, and you have to make room for the stew.

It can even be said that stewed soup occupies most of the space, and meat occupies at most half.

If you change to a bigger pot, you have to set up a special food factory, and everything is done with industrial methods.

But this also has a disadvantage, that is, if the sales volume is not good, not only all the investment will be lost, but it will even affect the business of Sifang Restaurant.

So you have to think clearly and not do it blindly.

This question troubled Xu Zhuo all night, until he came to the store the next morning, he was still thinking about it.

Whether to guard a store to make money and develop steadily, or invest in a factory, while the reputation is still there, while the store has a good reputation, first earn a wave of money and then talk.

To put it bluntly, this is a struggle between conservative and radical ideas.

This almost determines the future direction of Sifang Restaurant and even Xu Zhuo himself.

If you want to open a food factory, you have to take good care of the quality control, otherwise, once the word of mouth collapses, Sifang Restaurant will inevitably collapse.

But how many companies have fallen on quality control.

The pressure of profits, management loopholes, and even the loss of talents will all lead to a decline in quality control.

Can you do this well on your own words?

Full of doubts, Xu Zhuo opened the door and came to the restaurant.

As soon as I entered, I heard bursts of admiration coming from the kitchen.

"Fuck, this beef is really indescribable. It's so delicious. After eating this beef, I realized that the ones I ate before were... all paper shells."

Guo Xingwang's voice came from the kitchen. He probably wanted to say it was the same as shit, but finally changed the word.

After all, you are talking about eating by yourself, so you have to be careful not to scold yourself.

Xu Zhuo approached the kitchen and found that the cooks from the morning shift were surrounding Cao Kun, tasting the beef made yesterday.

And Cao Kun took a kitchen knife and cut the beef into three forms: beef slices, beef cubes, and hob cubes.

As they ate, they discussed which way to cut the beef was better.

To say that it can reflect the quality of beef, it is the thin beef slices, the shreds of meat are clearly visible, and the tendons in the middle are completely transparent, which makes people want to take a bite.

Xu Zhuo took a piece of beef and tasted it, it tasted really good.

It's a little cold in the mouth, and the taste is very light, but after chewing twice, the aroma seeps out from the cracks in the meat, so that the more you chew the meat, the more fragrant it becomes. smell.

Not only is it delicious, but the meat is very chewy.

Although it is sliced ​​with top wire and is very thin, it does not have the feeling that it will fall apart when you chew it, but it is a bit tough.

After eating the beef slices, Xu Zhuo tasted the beef slices again. Compared with the beef slices, this one was more chewy, with a better texture and a stronger meaty taste.

But it is this kind of square cut, if it is too big, it will not be chewable in the mouth, and if it is too small, the meat will appear a little broken.

And this kind of square shape is the most laborious to put on the plate, no matter how you put it, it will look like there is very little meat, so Xu Zhuo was the first to eliminate this form.

He picked up the hob again and tasted it, which was a good size, and because it was in the form of a hob, it was easy to arrange on the plate, and it would look like a lot on the plate.

But there are also disadvantages, that is, the hob beef is easier to eat, and it is more difficult to chew.

If people with bad teeth eat it, they might be disgusted.

In the end how to choose?

Xu Zhuo was caught in a tangle...

Chapter 1125 Enlighten Cao Kun

Xu Zhuo didn't struggle for too long, because Guo Xingwang gave a suggestion that got the best of both worlds.

"Let's just write the recipes. Anyway, we use electronic recipes, so it's okay to have a few more dishes. One is sauce-flavored beef slices, and the other is sauce-flavored beef cubes. Whichever they like to eat."

That's not bad.

The original dish was five-spice beef, which was on the verge of being withdrawn from the shelves. Now it is replaced with sauce, which can be regarded as a break from the former.

After the matter was settled, Xu Zhuo pulled Cao Kun aside and asked the question in his mind that had tortured him all night.

As the saying goes, among the three cobblers, the best is Zhuge Liang.

Now that I can't think of a good solution, let's brainstorm and listen to everyone's opinions first.

Of course, Cao Kun's opinion is relatively the most important, because if he quits, although the stewed food department of Sifang Restaurant will not stagnate, it will also be affected.

So in order to show respect, Xu Zhuo listened to his opinion first.

But Cao Kun's reaction was a bit strange, mainly because he looked sluggish and lacked energy.

It's like playing all night in the Internet cafe last night, and now I'm working hard to go to work.

Ok?

What's happening here?

homesick?

It shouldn't be, Cao Kun just went back last month and took his mother to the hospital for a physical examination to make sure nothing happened.

If you're not homesick, is there something on your mind?

Xu Zhuo thought about it, Cao Kun's income is pretty good now, his monthly salary includes commission and bonus, these miscellaneous things add up to almost [-] yuan.

In addition, he is relatively frugal, so it is estimated that it will be absolutely no problem to buy a small apartment in the provincial capital next year.

In this case, the idea of ​​remarriage will definitely be moved.

Have a suitable partner?

But it's not like, if you have a partner, you won't spend all day in the store studying brine.

Moreover, several waiters at the front desk tried to introduce him to a partner before, all of them were divorced in their thirties, and some of them didn't even have children, but they were all rejected by Cao Kun.

The reason is that he hasn't decided whether to settle down in the provincial capital or return to Rongcheng in the future.

Another point is that because his marriage with his ex-wife was in turmoil, he lost confidence in his marriage.

So I have no intention of getting married yet.

However, in the dead of night, everyone will be thinking about this aspect. Cao Kun wouldn't be secretly dating online, would he?

Various thoughts flashed through Xu Zhuo's mind, but they were rejected again.

"Brother Kun, what's the matter with you? Do you have something on your mind?"

After guessing for a long time, he felt that something was wrong, so Xu Zhuo decided to cut straight to the point and have a good chat with Cao Kun.

As a result, Cao Kun forced a smile, and said weakly: "It's okay, it's okay..."

Ok?

Is it all right?

It's almost time to write the word "something wrong" on your face now, okay?