The quick thawing that Xu Zhuo said is actually not a secret in the chef circle, at least in the back kitchen of the Sifang Restaurant, almost everyone knows it.

Let the frozen hard meat melt as quickly as possible, many people will think of soaking in hot water for the first time, which is also the first choice for everyone to pop up in their minds when facing frozen products.

However, soaking frozen meat directly in hot water will not only make the meat lose its tender taste, but also become fluffy and inelastic like a rag;

Moreover, hot water soaking will also increase the growth of fungi in the meat, destroy the water-soluble substances in the meat, and even cause the loss of a lot of nutrients and B vitamins.

So this is the most undesirable way to quickly defrost the meat.

In addition to hot water, some people use cold water to thaw meat, but this method is not very good.

First of all, frozen meat soaked in cold water can also cause poor taste, although it is not as serious as hot water, but if you want to eat tender and delicious meat, it is best not to use this method.

In addition, the efficiency of soaking meat in cold water is not very high, especially when it is halfway through soaking, the meat on the outside has melted, but the center of the meat is still hard.

Even if salt and white vinegar are added to the water to accelerate thawing, the effect is not very good.

The meat soaked in salt will be salty, which is easy to cause dehydration, and white vinegar will make the meat sour, affecting the final cooking.

Therefore, to quickly thaw the meat, you have to use a non-wet way.

For example, using aluminum basins or the kind of professional thawing plates sold online can make the meat thaw quickly.

Aluminum basin thawing is also called sandwich thawing method, the aluminum basin is washed upside down, the meat is placed at the bottom of the basin, and then another basin is placed to form a "basin bottom-meat block-basin bottom" placement method.

Aluminum has a very strong thermal conductivity, so it is possible to thaw it by heat exchange.

This method is very fast, and if there is a slight wind around, it will thaw faster, and in about ten minutes, a piece of frozen meat will return to its pre-frozen state.

In addition to aluminum pots, other aluminum products can also be used, such as pot lids, steamed casters and the like.

If you don't have these at home, then put the frozen meat in a plastic bag and soak it in a basin, although it is slower, but the thawed meat is much stronger than soaking it in water.

However, no matter what the way, it is just an emergency, and the best way is to refrigerate and thaw the method, a day and a half in advance, take out the frozen meat and put it in the refrigerator to thaw.

This is the best way to thaw and the meat is closer to the state it was in before freezing.

As for the legendary microwave oven thawing method, the effect of defrosting in the microwave oven is very bad, especially for large pieces of meat, which are often cooked on the outside, and the meat inside is still frozen.

Xu Zhuo has a thawing board at home, but there is no need to wash the aluminum basin.

"It's professional enough, you even have this thing, do you usually make frozen meat at home in the middle of the night and eat it yourself?"

Li Hao was very curious, Xu Zhuo could even turn out the thawing board, which was quite a feeling of Doraemon.

"Buy meat and send it, now the meat is cold chain transportation, sometimes after the freeze, people will send one or two thawing boards, there is a stack in the back kitchen, you want to go back and send you a piece. ”

Xu Zhuo cleaned the thawing board and put it on the board, and then put the frozen meat on it. Soon, the meat next to the thawing plate began to get moist.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Zhuo boiled a pot of water and poured it into a basin, then grabbed some vermicelli and put it in to soak.

Then, Xu Zhuo began to make peace.

The difference is that the dead noodles taste stronger and can be made into crispy beef patties, while the noodles are more soft and easy to eat.

As long as the beef patties with two textures are ready, they are very delicious, but it is a little too late to make noodles, so Xu Zhuo made them dead.

Instead of mixing the noodles with yeast water, half of the flour is mixed with hot water and half with warm water, which is the most suitable for pasta dishes such as pancakes, pies, and scallion pancakes.

After the noodles were reconciled, they were put aside to wake up, Xu Zhuo was idle, went to the utility room for a turn, and turned out two onions that I don't know how long they had been put in.

Now, all the ingredients for making a beef patty are complete.

Beef pie is a delicacy that can be found everywhere, and there are many ways to make it, such as puff pastry, crispy, fried, fried, baked, and baked.

And because of the different eating habits in different places, there has been no result on the topic of where to eat the best beef patties.

Xu Zhuo looked up some beef patties on the Internet, and there were really all kinds of methods, but the ingredients at home were limited, and he was in a hurry to eat, so he did it in a way he understood.

It doesn't matter what the method is, as long as everyone thinks it's delicious.

Twenty minutes later, when the piece of beef gradually melted, Xu Zhuo took a kitchen knife and cut the piece of beef into cubes.

In fact, the efficiency of the thawing plate is not so high, and the beef has not completely melted, but this kind of half-frozen beef is best cut, so Xu Zhuo did not let the beef continue to melt.

Another reason is......

The other three people in the family didn't want to wait for a minute, and Li Hao even wanted to drive out to eat at this moment.

When people don't talk about being hungry, or when their attention is not on it, they don't feel anything.

But once you decide to eat, your appetite will gradually increase, especially after seeing the ingredients, and the hunger and urge to eat will hit you.

Then, the whole person will fall completely.

What late-night revenge ordering takeout, what revenge eating spicy, and what overeating are mostly related to this psychology.

In fact, this psychological phenomenon of human beings has been studied for decades, and it has been successfully applied to commodities.

For example, the propaganda that instant noodles must be soaked for three minutes before they can be eaten is a classic case of this psychological application in reality.

The reason why countless people fall in love with instant noodles is that the boiling water is poured into the noodle bucket and waiting for three minutes, which not only deepens the sense of anticipation in their hearts, but also raises the hunger in their hearts to the extreme.

Therefore, if I don't eat instant noodles for a while, I panicked in my heart, mainly because of the sense of anticipation for these three minutes.

After cutting the diced meat, Xu Zhuo chopped the noodles that had been soaked soft, and then boiled the oil in the pot, ready to fry the diced meat, which would taste very fragrant if the filling was made.

It fits perfectly with the hungry stomach of night owls in the middle of the night.

The pot was hot, and Xu Zhuo poured some peanut oil into it and added some lard to it.

If you want the fragrance to be enough, you have to add animal fat, and it stands to reason that butter should be added to the beef filling, but there is no such thing at home, so Xu Zhuo dug up half a spoonful of lard into the pot.

As long as it's fragrant and delicious enough, it doesn't make much difference between butter and lard.

As for health......

I chose to eat in the middle of the night, and I would consider this?

After the oil is hot, Xu Zhuo adds minced ginger and star anise to stir-fry until fragrant, and then pours in the diced beef for stir-frying.

After the diced meat is fried and changes color, Xu Zhuo adds salt, sugar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, five-spice powder and other condiments to the pot for seasoning.

Then pour a bowl of water into the pot, simmer for a while, and wait until the diced meat is rotten, then pour the chopped vermicelli into it, stir evenly and remove from the pot.

This is the minced meat vermicelli stuffing used in beef patties, which is also the filling of beef fried buns in many areas of the Central Plains at home.

After the filling was dried a little, Xu Zhuo sprinkled the chopped onion into it, stirred it well, put it aside, and began to make puff pastry.

Well, despite the shortage of ingredients and the tight time, Boss Xu still decided to make half a bowl of puff pastry, which is not only enjoyable to eat, but also more able to show cooking skills.

When making pancakes, scallion pancakes or other cakes, it is easy to eat with or without puff pastry, and no matter whether it is delicious or not, as long as you put puff pastry, it gives people the impression that you are very good at cooking.

With this in mind, Boss Xu made half a bowl of puff pastry.

In addition, prolonging the time for making cakes appropriately is also conducive to raising everyone's sense of expectation to the highest point.

At that time, this ordinary beef pie will not be blown into the sky by a few people?

Well, it's so much to make a late-night snack, maybe this is the adult world.

While lamenting the lost childhood, Xu Zhuo kneaded the dough neatly, rolled it into thin slices, and brushed it with puff pastry.

Finally, roll it up and divide it into small portions, which is ready to start making beef patties.

However, before doing this, Xu Zhuo first put the pan on the stove to preheat, and then he flattened the dough and rolled it into a thicker round cake.

Wrap in the meat filling, seal it, and press it into a cake shape, and the beef pie is ready.

After the pan is heated, brush the bottom of the pan with a layer of oil, then put in the cake blank, cover the pan and start to cook over low heat.

"I'm finally getting better, I'm hungry. ”

Yu Keke stood aside, staring at Xu Zhuo's movements the whole time, even Twilight couldn't attract her attention at this moment, and her mind was full of food.

At this time, Li Hao probably felt that no one was watching Twilight, so he turned off the video, replaced the highest-rated "Tip of the Tongue 1", and clicked the play button.

When the familiar melody echoed in the living room, Sun Panpan also ran over to urge Xu Zhuo to hurry up.

She was so hungry that she couldn't stand it anymore, and she complained that Coco was too greedy and didn't keep some snacks at home.

When the beef patty is baked, it is much simpler.

As long as the two sides of the cake are seared until golden brown and crispy, it is a sign that you can enjoy this late-night delicacy.

"From tomorrow onwards, I must maintain a good routine and diet, and I can't eat in the middle of the night, let alone eat such a greasy pie, otherwise I will ......"

Sun Panpan took a bite of the pie, and was interrupted by Li Hao as soon as he said this: "Will you show a happy and satisfied smile?"

Sun Panpan kicked him: "There is so much nonsense, don't eat it, give me the remaining half, you wait for the next pot." ”

After speaking, she forcibly snatched the half of the pie that Li Hao had left, and the key was to show an expression of a victim.

Li Hao: "......"

Women are incomprehensible creatures.

Before Yu Coco eats it, he deliberately posted a photo of a pie in the circle of friends, and at this time, he must be poisoned, and tell those who stay up late with practical actions that swiping his mobile phone in the middle of the night is not good for his health.

Sure enough, as soon as it was sent out, someone posted a comment expressing their protest.

Yu Keke grinned, took a bite of the beef pie in his hand, and then glanced at Boss Xu, who was still busy in the kitchen.

This is probably what everyone calls happiness.

The family has money, her husband has a good face, and there is no burden, this simple and unpretentious life makes Yu Keke sometimes doubt what the meaning of life is.

Is life going to be so boring forever?

As she ate the pie, she wondered if it was time to develop a hobby, even if it was a hobby.

Just as he was thinking about it, Yu Keke found that there was a new dynamic in the circle of friends, and when he clicked on it, it was Meng Liwei who sent a comment.

"Wow, you guys are making pies at home quietly, waiting for me, Jiajia and I will be there soon!"

It didn't take long for Meng Liwei to call and ask Li Hao to open the security door of the building.

At this time, Xu Zhuo had just finished making the pie, and the original plan was enough to eat, but if there were more Meng Liwei and Zheng Jia, Xu Zhuo thought about it and felt that it would be safer to cook hot and sour noodles again.

Save everyone from having a good time, and then go out to eat a big meal, which is not only bad for your health, but also if you sleep too late, you can get up tomorrow morning and say it.

Xu Zhuo doesn't have the skills of hot and sour noodles, but this thing is not difficult, take a look at the tutorial a little, and then combine the ingredients at home......

In fact, there are no ingredients to speak of, but if you make hot and sour noodles, the ingredients are secondary, as long as the seasoning is passed, the noodles will taste very good alone.

A big guy once said that as long as there is vinegar and chili oil, even if there is no powder, you can find the feeling of eating hot and sour noodles.

It feels like Xu Zhuo doesn't know how to find it, but there are vermicelli, vinegar, chili oil at home, and an onion just leftover, in this case, what kind of bicycle do you need?

Soak the vermicelli until soft, so that it is easier to cook when you cook it again and it will not be sticky.

As soon as the vermicelli was soaked in water, Xu Zhuo began to season it.

He put salt, sugar, light soy sauce and vinegar and a small half jar of chili oil in a basin, then poured in some warm boiled water, stirred well and set aside.

In fact, if you have garlic, it will taste better if you put some minced garlic, but unfortunately there is no one at home, and Xu Zhuo is also very helpless.

Bring water to a boil, put in the soaked vermicelli after the water boils, cook on high heat for a few minutes, then directly scoop it into the basin with the sauce, and finally sprinkle with minced onion and stir it, and the hot and sour noodles are done.

A strong sour smell wafted out of the kitchen, making Li Hao, who was eating pies, feel excited: "This smells so good, what are you doing?"

In this way, one person ate two pies and a bowl of hot and sour noodles, and everyone's hunger was alleviated.

If you want to say it's delicious, this hot and sour noodles are really average, no crushed peanuts, no minced garlic, no coriander and other side dishes, but a group of people get together and eat it, which feels pretty good.

It's like when I was in college, a group of brothers in the dormitory rushed to eat instant noodles.

Zheng Jia didn't eat, she just accompanied Meng Liwei over, after all, this is the boss's house, and she can't be too presumptuous.

While everyone else was eating hot and sour noodles with a pie, Zheng Jia began to report to work.

She first talked about the restaurant, but Xu Zhuo didn't care too much, everyone did their own duties, as long as they did the work at hand, there would be no big problem.

And recently, the old man has been in the store to suppress the formation, if there is anything, he would have informed Xu Zhuo earlier, and it is impossible to wait until now.

However, when Zheng Jia talked about the online store and the Xu Xiaochu brand, Xu Zhuo came to the spirit.

Recently, he has been waiting to do a live broadcast to help his brand bring goods.

"The online store has all the formalities and design, and it is ready for operation. As for the brand Xu Xiaochu, it has also applied for a patent, but it needs to be reviewed. ”

As for other aspects, the packaging has also been designed and started to be printed in batches, the express delivery side has also negotiated the delivery fee, and even the kitchen has quietly begun to stock up.

Xu Zhuo took a sip of vermicelli, since this is the case, let's prepare to start business.

It's also time to test your ability to carry goods......

On January 1st, New Year's Day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Zhuo posted a Weibo: "Congratulations to Xu Xiaochu on the official launch of the brand, which contains some delicacies made by the marinade department and dessert department of the back kitchen of Sifang Restaurant, you can place an order to try it." ”

Then there was a link, and even Xu Xiaochu's cartoon logo was not released.

True?? Straight man propaganda.

Zheng Jia and Tang Xiaoying looked at Xu Zhuo with some concern: "You're too perfunctory, aren't you? Other celebrities are more sincere than you in advertising, what if there is no sales?"

Xu Zhuo smiled: "I bought all the ...... by myself without sales"

After speaking, he went to participate in the Central Plains cuisine seminar initiated by Zhao Jinma. The so-called seminar is actually taking advantage of Yu Peiyong's presence and everyone touting each other.

The sedan chair is carried by everyone, and this normality will naturally not be exempt from vulgarity in the chef circle.

Xu Zhuo arrived at the venue and was just about to see if anyone commented on Weibo, but found that the comment area was full of the word "liar".

What's going on?

Gone wrong with the online store?

Thinking about it, the online store has just opened, there must be this or that problem, he quietly slipped out of the venue, and was just about to call Tang Xiaoying to ask what the situation was, but Zheng Jia opened it first.

"Boss, boss, our online store is sold out, and all the goods are cleared in less than ten minutes, you are too powerful, right?"

Immediately afterwards, Xu Zhuo heard the system's prompt sound again.

"Ding, the main channel on the host line has been successfully opened, it will be sold out immediately at the opening, complete the hidden task [Broaden the channel], and reward D-level home-cooked food - braised cake shreds, fried pulled noodles, fried rice cakes, mutton powder, congratulations to the host!"

This prompt tone made Xu Zhuo a little confused, and gave four dishes of food at once, why was the dog system suddenly so generous?

The four authentic delicacies in the southeast, northwest and northwest are all delivered to the door, is this a happy reward for skills buy one get one free during the New Year's Day?

However, as soon as he thought of the urine sex of the system, Xu Zhuo frowned.

It was as if he saw a wave of missions coming at him......