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Adam arrived at Alimentum at four in the afternoon.

Sylvia was holding a bouquet of tulips in her hand, and was instructing the waitress to remove the flowers from the table.Adam nodded and smiled and said good afternoon: "Good afternoon, Sylvia."

Adam took a second look as he passed by. The base of the tulip petals was white.When the buds are tightly closed, the top looks like an upside-down purple flame enveloping the white flowers.And when the petals unfold into cups, the purple fireworks are as light as feathers, standing in the air. "Isn't it beautiful?" Sylvia glanced at Adam.

Adam nodded, "I've never seen flowers like this. Someone sent them to you? You have a good eye."

"Really?" She held up the flowers to stick to her face, and smiled at Adam: "Do you mean flowers or people?"

The people and flowers are very beautiful, but Adam smiled and did not clarify.

Seeing that he was silent, Sylvia picked up a pure black vase and inserted a half-bloomed tulip into it.The vase is tall, covering most of the rhizomes, so that the viewer can concentrate on the charm of the flowers.Adam took the vase, and he touched the petals. The petals were cool and thick, soft and smooth like silk.When he looked down, he didn't smell anything.Silvia stared fascinatedly at the tulip in her hand and introduced: "This is not an ordinary tulip, this is the flame of Adonis (*Note [-]), and it is also the variety closest to the eternal emperor. Unfortunately, this does not belong to me, this It was designated as a gift to our big boss, Hongrui Dukas."

Adam was taken aback: "What?"

"Emperor Augustus? It is the most expensive flower in the world according to legend, the extinct tulip. At that time, only three plants were cultivated, and one was eaten as an onion (*Note [-]). Heartbroken."

"No, the one in the back, you said it was for Dr. Ducas?"

"Yes, but he never accepts flowers. We usually use them to decorate the dining room. This purple looks like the emperor's robes, and the guests will definitely appreciate it. Isn't it normal for Dr. Dukas to have suitors? After all He is still single and rich, and he looks good when he sits quietly. Many of our waiters come here for him. But I am not, I think you are more handsome than our boss."

When you find that he can lift a man with one hand, you will know that he is not gentle at all, Adam complained in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Wow, Sylvia, you are so knowledgeable, you surprise me every time .Is there anything you don't know?"

"So if we're dating, you'd better not just buy a bunch of flowers and send me off. I can see your thoughtfulness from a bunch of flowers."

"I will keep it in my heart. Ah, I should go." Adam smiled, returned the flowers to Sylvia, and walked quickly to the back kitchen.

Different from the busy but well-organized atmosphere in the front, the air in the back kitchen is almost frozen.Not only the atmosphere, everyone's movements stopped, like a stunned rabbit under the claws of a tiger.Adam shrank his head, hesitated for a moment, and swallowed the good afternoon when he reached his teeth.

Only then did Adam realize that the owner of the purple tulip that Sylvia was talking about was also standing in a corner of the kitchen, surrounded by Marcus, Gray, Little Jane and Tinno, they were discussing something with their heads down, and no one was talking except the five of them , most people even breathed lightly.Hong Rui was wearing a white chef uniform, buttoned up to his Adam's apple.The Hong Rui that Adam saw was always wearing a black sweater. When Hong Rui changed into a white chef uniform, he didn't look like the person who drank red wine with Adam that night.There was no expression on his face, no frown, no smile.When everyone is in anxiety, he looks calm in this way.Hong Rui tilted his head to listen to Gray's words, everyone looked up at Hong Rui, every expression of his touched everyone's nerves.

Suddenly, Adam thought of the purple flame again. The eternal emperor Augustus, the emperor who was listed as a god by the ancient Romans, carefully and strictly controlled the territory under his rule.

"What's wrong?" Adam moved to Simon and asked in a low voice.

Simon's eyes were still looking there, he turned his face and whispered in Adam's ear: "Adam Rose overturned the vegetable soup, the beets that were marinated in advance spoiled due to a power outage, and we lost the vegetarian appetizer."

After Adam heard this, he took another look at Hong Rui who was looking at all the available ingredients.Hong Rui shook his head, Gray's lips moved quickly, gesticulating something, but Hong Rui didn't nod.Adam took his own kitchen knife and walked to the small kitchen on the side to prepare the staff meal later.Regardless of what they plan to do with the evening menu, it's Adam's job to feed these guys and make sure they have enough energy to get through the night.

Most employees will have their second dinner between 5:6 and [-]:[-] p.m. The early shift employees can leave work early or stay for dinner, while the late shift employees need to rely on that staff meal to survive the intense night. city.

The truth is Adam doesn't mind having a staff meal, he knows a lot of people see it as unrewarding and a waste of time.Alimentum used to have a fixed staff menu.But since Adam has taken over the staff meals, he will make staff meals based on the ingredients that cannot be used up that day.This saves a lot of money in the kitchen.

There are tons of people who want to cook for Alimentum's customers because it's something they can put on their resume.But from Adam's point of view, everyone here is busy, but they can only see the small world in front of them. Only experienced sous chefs and chefs can cook the ingredients into dishes, but they are only performing the tasks in advance. Well written recipes.The chef here is more like the last assembler of the assembly line than a real chef - he doesn't mean to disrespect Hong Rui, he can understand why Hong Rui does this.Because the assembly line-like process can avoid mistakes caused by inexperienced young chefs, this is why Alimentum can continue to maintain a very high standard without mistakes.

Because all possible operation steps have been tested repeatedly in the experimental kitchen upstairs.Ting Nuo recorded the experimental parameters and steps, and screened the procedures according to the probability of error and consequences, and distributed the optimal process to each chef. The result was that every step must be strictly followed.

Cooking here has been broken down into small steps, the process of each step has been formulated in advance, and each step is repeatable and reproducible.All results also have visible and reliable inspection standards.People here are no longer dependent on intangible and deeply personal experiences.

This is a kind of progress - high efficiency and high quality, but in this way everyone learns very little, because no one sees the big picture, and the chefs will not understand why they must do this.Everyone mechanically repeated the pre-set tasks, day after day.

But it is not so particular about making staff meals. Adam can cut the ingredients into any shape he wants. He can cook dishes that are completely different from the menu, and his customers are very experienced chefs. Don't hesitate to mention Adam and point out his flaws. This is Adam's biggest gain in the Alimentum kitchen.

Adam pulled out his pre-prepared dish from the fridge, pork tenderloin and mushrooms.The pork tenderloin has been soaked in salt water in advance, and the seasoning is adjusted and it can be roasted directly in the oven.What is more troublesome is the seemingly inconspicuous mushroom.The chefs here use only the heads of the mushrooms to serve, and the slightly damaged mushrooms and roots are used to make the soup.Adam collected a lot of mushrooms. When he saw these mushrooms, he had some new ideas and planned to make a mushroom puree sauce that he had never done before.

The whole kitchen is quiet, and the small kitchen is next to the big kitchen, and the slightest noise inside will disturb the people in the big kitchen.

Hong Rui was about to say something, but was distracted by the sound of the knife across the cutting board when Adam was cutting mushrooms.Gray noticed the noise here, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, Chef, I'll make Adam Buchan stop right now."

Hong Rui didn't say anything, he walked into the small kitchen.There were bags of food bags that had been prepared in advance on the counter. Hong Rui asked, "What are you going to do, Adam?"

"Huh?" Adam was busy cutting mushrooms, but he didn't expect someone to come over, and it was Hong Rui.Adam jumped up in shock and nearly cut his own finger.He slapped down the kitchen knife and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that his fingers were not bleeding.

"Adam!" Gray reminded him in a low voice, don't be too busy answering the chef's question.

"Yes, yes! Chef!" Adam straightened up all of a sudden, put down the kitchen knife in his hand, and quickly replied, "I'm going to make a mushroom gravy for dipping in bread for everyone, chef."

Hong Rui didn't talk nonsense anymore, he directly opened the food bag containing the mushroom puree.Hong Rui took out a spoon from his chest pocket, dug a mouthful of mushroom sauce from the bag and put it into his mouth.Adam hurriedly introduced to Hong Rui: "Here are bananas, shallots, Madeira wine..."

Hong Rui interrupted Adam: "I know, you used three different types of fresh mushrooms, Tricholoma, shiitake, and oyster mushrooms, most of which are stems—the smell of the earth is stronger with stems. You also used dried mushrooms from Italy , but this part was ground into powder by you in advance. Thyme and black pepper were used for seasoning..."

Adam opened his eyes wide and stopped talking immediately. How did Hong Rui know that he also added powdered mushrooms?It was as if Hong Rui stood aside and watched the whole process.Adam suddenly began to rejoice that it was a good thing he didn't add milk.

Hong Rui took another spoonful, grinding his chin slowly.He is considering something.Hong Rui turned his head to look at other materials on the table, and he saw the pile of half-cut mushrooms.

"We use this at night." Hong Rui turned to Marcus and said.

Adam didn't react, but he saw Hong Rui reaching out to pick up two bags of mushroom paste and a bag of mushrooms on his table.That was the dish he was going to use tonight, Adam didn't think about anything, he just wanted to keep his mushrooms, so he said without thinking: "That's what I'm going to cook tonight, you can't just take it away .”

Hong Rui stood where he was, raised his eyebrows, as if to say yes?That was an expression Adam had never seen before. It was cold and dismissive, as if seeing the other party's death imminent without knowing it.Hong Rui didn't waste a second. He turned his heels and left the kitchen, still holding Adam's food bag in his hand.The others also stared at Adam because of this sentence, as if he had said something terrible.Only then did Adam realize what he had said. Everything in this restaurant belonged to Hong Rui, including the ingredients in front of him of course.So Adam looked at Hong Rui who had already walked away, and tried to hide: "Master, the chef... I mean, this is the material for the staff meal. There will not be enough food for the staff meal tonight, Gray, you, can you give me some Any other ingredients? I'm running out of time..."

Gray stared at Adam as if he wanted to strangle Adam with his own hands.Gray has always known that Adam talks a lot, but he really didn't expect that Adam was still a talker at this time.

"Find someone to replace Adam for the staff meal tonight. We should miss the staff meal." Hong Rui gave orders to Marcus, then nodded to Adam from a distance: "Come with me." Marcus nodded and went immediately Arrange manpower.

Adam still hesitated, but he felt that if he asked any more, Gray would definitely strangle himself first.Seeing Adam following him empty-handed, Hong Rui said, "Take all the mushrooms. Is that mushroom soup? Bring the mushroom soup too."

Hong Rui's attitude towards Adam was very cold, as if he was ordering the unknown people in the kitchen casually, but no one thought Hong Rui was too rude.On the contrary, everyone looked at Adam with envy in their eyes.Ting Nuo even gave Adam a thumbs up in a corner that Hong Rui couldn't see, and mouthed "Good job." Adam smiled wryly, he still didn't know what he was going to face.

After Adam moved all the materials over.Except for Marcus, Gray, Little Jane, and Tinno, Hong Rui asked everyone to go back to work.Everyone went to their jobs, only chef Adam R left his position and walked to the other side.He glanced at Adam, dissatisfied in his piercing eyes.Gray noticed the look, and he walked over to talk to the chef of the same name for a while.The chef Adam walked to the small kitchen silently and took the place between Adam.

Hong Rui didn't seem to notice, he took a mouthful of mushroom soup with a spoon, but still didn't speak.His eyes turned back to the bag of Duxelles in front of him.

Hong Rui asked: "What was your original thinking?"

"Chef, I was going to put the mushroom puree in a small gratin bowl, sprinkle some sugar on top, and burn it with a torch to look like creme brulee. You can use it to spread bread. These mushrooms are chopped and mixed with Saute garlic and herbs for a mushroom salad.”

Adam knew Hong Rui's purpose.But Adam thought what he was doing was too simple to help.He didn't hesitate.

Hong Rui nodded, and analyzed to Adam very seriously: "Adam, the taste of mushroom puree is very layered, but it is not right to make creme brulee. The texture of creme brulee is dense and smooth, and the taste of mushroom puree There are grains on it."

"So it just looks like..." Adam murmured.Hong Rui raised his eyebrows and turned his head to look at Adam. Adam quickly lowered his head and pretended not to say anything and stood aside obediently.

Hong Rui continued: "But it's a good idea. You put it at the bottom, it's more like pickled mushrooms. I put a layer of mushroom-flavored parfait on top, and the top layer does what you want Caramelized. Served with toasted bread on the side.”

Hong Rui nodded after finishing speaking, then shook his head again, lost in thought.

"What's wrong? Chef." Marcus asked.

"Not enough, it's kind of monotonous, the mushrooms are the theme, but there's nothing to accentuate that because it looks like there's only one sauce."

"We can make a soup." Tino said: "We have done such an experiment recently. The vacuum centrifuge can dehydrate at low temperature and make any soup into a colloid. We pour hot water in front of the guests, and the guests can see a bowl Soup fresh from the oven, that would be fun."

Jane said, "I will wrap the soup cubes with edible gold leaf. When the soup melts, there will be broken gold flakes scattered in the bowl."

Marcus also suggested: "We also have white truffles, which can be used to garnish the caramel, so that the mushrooms can be highlighted."

Adam was dumbfounded when he heard that, and they turned his original idea into a completely different design in just a few words.

He could almost imagine the dish being served, the clear water turning into a thick soup in front of him, and the gold flakes flowing under the light.The guests ate the soup and bread spread with mushroom sauce, topped with white truffles, luxurious and highly ornamental.

Hongrui nodded and said, "Then let's do this. Marcus, you ask Sylvia to redesign the menu, replace the original one, and then add some Madeira wine and onions to the soup. The soup alone is not enough flavor .Tinno you and Jane to prepare the soup cubes. I told Adam how to make mushroom creme brulee."

At this time, it was less than two hours before the evening market opened at 6:[-].

Adam thought he would start by cutting mushrooms, but Hong Rui stopped him. Hong Rui asked Adam to cut bananas, shallots, garlic, and thyme, and mixed these spices with Madeira wine, red port wine, white port wine, and brandy Thicken together in a pot to a thick slurry.

In addition, put the butter in the pan, fry the mushrooms until they are browned, and then transfer them to another container.In this container, put the fried mushrooms, filter the concentrated wine, and the mushroom soup together to make an emulsion-like thick soup with a food processor.

During the period, Hong Rui also tasted the pot of mushroom soup that Marcus was in charge of.While Adam would love to see how the vacuum centrifuge works, he has more important things to do right now.

"This step is the key." Hong Rui instructed Adam: "Before the final mixing step, the egg and mushroom soup mixture must reach the same temperature. Put them in food bags separately, and a constant temperature water bath at 50 degrees for 10 minutes is enough , don't let the water in."

They crack the eggs into the mushroom puree with a hand mixer.Add the melted butter at the end to let the water and oil combine.

This fluffy layer of parfait is carefully poured over the mushroom puree in a separate container and sent to the oven together.

Once again, they borrowed the blast freezer from the upstairs kitchen—that cools baked mushroom pudding into shape in half an hour.At six o'clock, Hong Rui and Adam took the mushroom pudding out of the blast freezer and waited for it to return to room temperature.

Sylvia walked in with a stack of papers at this moment, her neckline was buttoned neatly, her makeup was fresh and fresh, and her bright red lipstick made people feel that everything she said must be very important.

She handed over the menu and asked, "Chef, the menu is ready. Can you see it?"

Hong Rui took over the newly prepared menu. This dish is defined as mushroom soup and mushroom creme brulee sauce.They used the simplest vocabulary to describe, and the color number is one color lighter than other fonts—you can’t see it if you don’t look carefully. This is to avoid attracting guests’ interest in this dish.After reading it, Hong Rui nodded and said, "Try to delay the guests, we need 15 minutes to start."

Sylvia agreed without hesitation: "No problem, chef." She took the menu without looking at Adam, stepped on her high-heeled shoes and walked out, full of energy like a soldier going to the battlefield. general.

Little Jane and Tinno walked over carrying a long box and put it on the side of the counter.Xiao Jian opened the box with a serious expression and let Hong Rui have a look: "Chef, the soup is ready."

"Wow." Adam had never seen these people so creatively come up with an idea and have it on the dinner plate in two hours.

He observed them with curiosity as if he had never known these people before.

They have 10 minutes to open and everything is almost ready.Hongrui asked Adam and Ting Nuo to eat something, and he himself went to the warehouse to choose tableware with Marcus and Jane.

The pork tenderloin was roasted a bit old, but Adam didn't mind.He made sure he had enough calories with a quick filling of potatoes and a handful of nuts.He couldn't wait for the night to come soon.

*Note [-]: Adonis is the deity of plants and the lover of Eros.The legend is a very beautiful man.

*Note [-]: There used to be a tulip frenzy in the Netherlands.At that time, the richest young lady got married, and all her dowry was a tulip rhizome, which shows how expensive tulips are.Forever Emperor Augustus is a legendary breed.Because the flower bulbs are attacked by viruses, the flowers that bloom are extremely gorgeous.According to the records, it should have a white base, a red flame, and a blue base of the flower.It was very rare at the time, and one plant was in transit, its root ball was eaten by a sailor as an onion, and the poor sailor was also sentenced... The flame of Adonis is the closest description, it is close to the emperor , but it is purple.