What is the most important homework for a chef to cook?

Naturally, it is fire power.

If the knife skills are not good, you can avoid the dishes that require higher knife skills, and there is no carving skill and pastry modeling?

But if you don't control the fire power well, you can't do anything, and the sashimi of the island country doesn't need to think about the fire power, but you eat sashimi three times a day and try it, you can't kill it!

Although this 'simmering lake fresh' is a fusion of knife skills, fire skills, and chef ingenuity in one furnace, in the final analysis, it is still a control of fire power, after all, it is the water in the pot, simmered through the houttuynia egg biscuits, or heated by the ashes of the pot ash of the Chai He cauldron, which is more complicated.

Except for a few 'unspeakable nobles' who are qualified to eat his 'simmered lake fresh', Ling Zhenfeng has never made this dish more than ten times even at the state banquet, which can guarantee that Zhou Dong is the first time to see it, but Zhou Dong has seen it so many times, so he said the time when this dish was cooked!

Ling Zhenfeng has repeatedly confirmed, Zhou Dong said fifty-seven seconds, the error should not exceed one second, this is still due to people standing behind him, I am afraid that the observation of the fire is not clear enough!

"No wonder even an unruly genius like Huai Liangren gathered around him, and Yan Yi, the senior disciple of the abbot of Lingyin Temple, also lingered in Chu, this son's cooking skills ...... It's almost demonic!"

Ling Zhenfeng suddenly felt a little apprehensive in his heart, he wouldn't lose this competition, right?

It has to be me, my precious kitchen knife......

Fifty-seven seconds, Ling Zhenfeng quickly took out the Houttuynia cordata egg roll from the pot with the technique of picking chestnuts from the fire, and after cutting it with a knife, a hot fresh fragrance suddenly came to his face, and the fish fillets inside curled slightly after being heated, but the pieces were as white and clear as beautiful jade.

After dividing these fish fillets into several porcelain plates, Ling Zhenfeng first glanced at Zhou Dong before smiling: "Mr. Bai, Chef Huai, please taste it." ”

Everyone has a plate of fish fillet, and even the dragon god has not been left behind, and now in Ling Zhenfeng's eyes, the dragon god is a 'comrade of the propaganda mouth', which is the same thing to be valued.

"I'll try it!"

When Zhou Dong praised Ling Zhenfeng just now, Huai Liangren was a little unconvinced, and he had been holding back, just waiting for him to find fault at this time, took the porcelain plate, quickly sandwiched a piece and sent it to his mouth, just chewed it, he was stunned, turned his head to look at Zhou Dong and said, "Can fish still be made like this?"

"Nature is possible, but that's what fish should taste like. ”

Zhou Dong was savoring it, and under the opening of the perfect-level tasting skill, he didn't find any fault with this 'simmering lake fresh', and some only secretly appreciated it, "What a Five Lakes Fish King, I estimated that he had a ninety percent chance of winning, but now it seems that it is only about eighty percent."

If you put aside the comprehensive strength and don't consider it, just talking about this simmered lake fresh, I'm afraid that it already has the level of a grandmaster?"

The dragon god beside him had already made a sound similar to moaning, it was so delicious, it was simply moving, this kind of emotion was like the first time I ate Goubuli, egg cakes, and boiled fire!

He is a food writer, and he is not a professional chef, so naturally he can't use professional language to evaluate it, if he has to say it, it is two words - pure!

Why did such two words pop up, but even he couldn't say it clearly.

"After the fresh entrance of this simmered lake, it is like tasting raw fish tart, fresh and sweet, and its fragrance is only right, in fact, this is the taste that our ancient fish trevel and the sashimi of the island country are striving for......

Baiwei Shengsheng ate with a smile on his face, and the two dimples suddenly became deeper: "Many people love to eat sashimi, but there are also many people who can't understand the meaning of the existence of this dish, and its meaning is actually to preserve the original tenderness, freshness, sweetness and sweetness of the fish as much as possible, and at the same time remove the fishy smell that occurs because it has not been cooked and pressed with various side dishes and spices."

Whether it is the old sauce dipping sauce in ancient China or the mustard soy sauce used in island countries, they are all born for this purpose.

Because sashimi is not cooked, these seasonings do not penetrate deep into the fish and affect the original flavor of the fish, but does it really have no effect at all?

Not only that, but it's huge!

But in this simmering lake fresh dish, I saw a genius and outstanding chef who suppressed this influence to a minimum, almost zero!

Is that an exaggeration?

After all, he was the president of the Zhou Dong Food Aid Association, and the dragon god instinctively wanted to refute, but when he thought of the taste just now, he closed his mouth again.

Carefully recalling the feeling just now, this old guy with two small dimples really seems to be right?

After the fish fillet is entered, it doesn't seem to be like a cooked ingredient, just like the salmon fillet cut by an extremely clever chef with fine knife skills, and Chudu grass carp is a freshwater fish, which is naturally more delicate and sweet than sea fish, and there is no need for soy sauce mustard.

Except for the faint salty taste, the delicate touch of the fish and the light freshness of the fish, there was no longer any peculiar smell, and the dragon god subconsciously blew up, and the end of his nose suddenly smelled a tempting fragrance, making him suddenly feel that his mouth and tongue had become the most delicious food in the world......

Bai Weisheng looked at Zhou Dong and said with a smile: "If you only look at this 'simmered lake fresh', Lingyu King should be worthy of his name.

If I had to give it a score, I would give it a full score on weekdays! Because this dish is close to the way of food, there is already some meaning of 'returning to the roots', what do you think of Chef Zhou?"

"Hehe, Master Ling's simmering is the real simmering method,

Through the houttuynia egg cake, simmer the fish fillet with the residual heat of the ash to make the fish fillet seem to be cooked or uncooked, and it is actually borrowed from this kind of fire to make the fish fillet reach a critical point, and after a little bit it becomes an ordinary cooked food, and a little less is just a better sashimi, and the grasp of this point is called simmering!

What is especially rare is that in order to maintain the original taste of the food, Chef Ling did not use onions, ginger, garlic and some common spices, but took several kinds of fish to neutralize each other, and used Houttuynia cordata to remove the fishiness, which is much more clever than forcibly suppressing the fishy smell, which makes me very impressed......

"It's really an award, Chef Zhou can be regarded as my bosom friend. ”

Ling Zhenfeng's eyes fluttered when he heard it, Zhou Dong was the comment of an expert in the circle, and there were many differences between the evaluation made by Baiweisheng from the perspective of a gourmet.

As the saying goes, it's hard to find a confidant, but you have to calculate other people's precious kitchen knives, is this too much? Ling Zhenfeng was rarely ashamed, and felt a little sorry for this young grandmaster.

"But there's still one thing I don't understand......

Zhou Dong looked at Bai Weisheng and said, "Mr. Bai said that you can give full marks on weekdays, what does this mean on weekdays?

Huai Liangren was very anxious when he heard this, and said in his heart What are you doing talking about this, do you have to lose to be happy! Yan Yi looked at Zhou Dong with a smile, and was very comforted in his heart, isn't this chef Zhou in front of him his fate?

Long Dashen's observation angle was completely different, and he secretly gave a thumbs up: "Good guy, this is a faint X, Master Xiao Zhou is amazing, you even have mastered the current trend of online literature?" This is good, I don't need to design the bridge, the bridges are all ready-made!"

"Hehe, haven't you met Chef Zhou on weekdays?"

Bai Weisheng smiled: "So of course, the chief judge has to taste Chef Zhou's craftsmanship before deciding, and Chef Zhou won't let us wait too long, right?"

Zhou Dong smiled and shook his head, this was the first time he felt pressure since he got the series.

Ling Zhenfeng is the chef of the National Banquet in the end, and he is a master of studying fish dishes all his life, but this time he did not practice in advance with the back kitchen, and only relied on basic skills to fight, although he estimated that he had an eighty percent chance of winning, but he couldn't stand this dish Ling Zhenfeng played extraordinarily, and he had already touched the essence of the kitchen.

"I'm going to make this grilled fish near the lake, and I'll temporarily set up a bonfire by the lake, so if you want to watch and give advice, let's go together." ”

How can such a thing as grilled fish be made in the kitchen? Naturally, it is wonderful to be close to the mountains and rivers, and watch the campfire being blown by the mountain wind while grilling fish.

Zhou Dong wants to get out of the back kitchen and go to the lake to cook grilled fish, which takes into account the environmental factors of cooking and dining, and can be regarded as attaching great importance to Ling Zhenfeng's opponent.

Ling Zhenfeng smiled, feeling very comfortable in his heart, Zhou Dong's performance of 'respecting' the opponent made him feel very face-saving, and at the same time, he secretly admired it in his heart, worthy of being a young grandmaster, even if it was to make a grilled fish, he also took into account the convenience of the location, just this idea is not something that ordinary chefs can have.

Zhou Dong circled around Sister Ajie Lake for half a circle, and finally stopped at a place where the lake and bay forked.

Half of the mountain wall is broken into the lake, making the lake on the inner side of the mountain wall more quiet and stable, the water flow will not be affected by the waterfall above, and at the same time, there is a long water vapor over the mountain wall to permeate the sky above this lake bay, bringing a lot of nameless weeds and even wild medicines on the mountain wall.

Many people wonder why they often lose their appetite when they eat at home, but when they go out for a picnic or picnic, they eat everything deliciously.

In fact, this is the magic of nature, when you go out of the house, away from the haze, and breathe the fresh air in the mountains, even the food you eat will naturally become more delicious, and if it is a food made in the wild, it will be even more amazing, and all kinds of magical molecules in nature will add luster to the food, which is also the basic content of the 'environmental theory' of molecular cuisine.

I dug a small soil pit by the lake, first threw down a few ordinary firewood to burn the soil pit hard, removed the possible peculiar smell in the soil, and then removed the firewood ash and replaced it with the prepared old pine firewood...... Zhou Dong is very skilled, like a road chef who has been cooking outside for many years.

In fact, since learning about the information about 'Road Kitchen', Zhou Dong really wanted to try it, 'The best scenery is on the road, that is because there are the best chefs on the road', 'The bad scenery is in the scenic spots, that is because the scenic spots have professional chefs who slaughter people', a good road chef is not the most beautiful scenery on the journey?

Zhou Dong didn't mean to build a grill, the grill is only suitable for grilling whole lamb and pork legs or something, not suitable for grilling fish at all, the master who is best at grilling fish naturally wants to skewer the fish on the grilling fork, but Zhou Dong did not use the BBQ common barbecue fork, but took a wooden branch of the right thickness and soaked it with water, ready to be used as a tool for grilling fish.

The dragon god was very curious, and couldn't help but talk to Huai Liangren: "Great god, isn't there a ready-made roast fork now? Why did Master Xiao Zhou abandon it and use wooden branches to pierce the fish?"

Huai Liangren looked at him, and didn't want to answer this kind of common-sense question, but this 'great god' made him feel very comfortable, so he smiled and said: "The kind of grilled fork you said is okay for grilling a sausage, but grilling fish will only ruin this delicacy."

This is because the steel fork heat transfer is too fast, if you use the steel fork to bake, it is easy to burn the inside of the fish, the grilled fish is the most particular about crispy but not burnt, but also to be crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, you grill the fish inside, can this fish still be eaten?

You don't have to worry about this problem when you use wood branches, and you have a more uniform taste when you use pine wood to burn and roast pine branches, but in order to prevent pine branches from being ignited by fire, you need to drench them with water before penetrating the fish. ”

"So that's the case, I didn't think that grilling a fish also has such a big knowledge?"

Long Dashen secretly remembered in his heart, this is all hard goods, the best can be used to fool readers, and if you have the opportunity to take your sister out for a picnic or something in the future, you can also pretend to be an X or something, it seems that you will have to go to Master Xiao Zhou here in the future to 'experience life', it is really long!

After Zhou Dong started the fire, he began to deal with the two grass carp, and he didn't see him remove the scales first, but just cut open the belly of the fish and removed the internal organs, and then cleaned it by the lake.

In the internal organs of the fish, except for the edible swim bladder, everything else should be discarded, and the fishy tendons should also be removed.

If you don't remove the internal organs and fish blood that should be discarded, it will cause the taste of the grilled fish to become astringent and bitter, even if you sprinkle a lot of chili noodles and cumin noodles and suppress them, diners will only end up with the taste of chili peppers and cumin, so it is better to eat the seasoning directly.

As soon as Zhou Dong started washing the fish, he immediately attracted the attention of the dragon god.

Even a seemingly simple thing like washing fish has become absolutely not simple in the hands of Zhou Dong.

Long Dashen found that before Zhou Dong started to wash the fish, he first inserted his hand into the lake water to try, and it was inserted quite deeply, once it was not enough to reach the position of the root of his arm, and he suddenly felt strange again, and couldn't help asking: "Ladies and gentlemen, what is Master Xiao Zhou doing?"

This time it was Ling Zhenfeng who answered him, and Ling Yuwang smiled: "The lake water is different from the tap water introduced into the kitchen, it is originally divided into levels and has a temperature difference, and this Sister Lake was originally a hot spring, but the waterfall flowing above is cold water on the surface, and a cold and hot will inevitably produce a more turbulent water flow and fault temperature difference.

If you don't pay attention to the difference in water temperature when washing the fish, it may have an impact on the meat quality of the fish.

A good chef has a lot of things to do, from killing the ingredients to cleaning the ingredients, and Chef Zhou is obviously more particular, so he will personally test the water temperature. ”

The dragon god was in a daze when he heard this, and I finally understood that the grilled fish I used to eat was fake......

Suddenly, I remembered a question: "No, the vitality of the fish seems to be very strong, many fish are still alive after being killed and put in the oil pot, and it is useful for Master Xiao Zhou to knock them out?"

Huai Liangren said: "The fish is not a pig, a cow or a sheep, and its memory is only seven seconds, as long as it is knocked out before killing it, even if it wakes up after a while, it will not know that it has been killed.

You pay attention to Lao Zhou's technique, now that the fish has woken up, he is cleaning the fish while simulating the trajectory of the fish swimming in the water, so that the fish thinks that he is still alive and will not affect the meat quality because of fear. ”

"I'm going, and this kind of operation?"

Long Dashen stared at Zhou Dong who was cleaning the grass carp by the lake with wide eyes, and saw that he was holding a fish in one hand, the head of the fish was in the right position, and he was paddling back and forth in the lake......

"Damn, Lost Fish Dafa?"

The dragon god's gaze at Zhou Dong began to be full of fear, and he felt that Master Xiao Zhou was not like a chef now, but more like a wizard.

Even Ling Zhenfeng was a little confused, it is said that even if the memory of the fish is insufficient, at least it should still feel pain, it is impossible for the chef to kill the fish like slaughtering a pig in a meat factory, so that the second brother of the pig will go to Huangquan before he can react, it is impossible to achieve true perfection,

You can see the jubilant appearance of the two fish killed by Zhou Dong shaking their heads and tails, as if you are now erecting a dragon gate in the lake, and they can both jump to show you!

But who knew that Zhou Dong had a steady stream of mysterious power injected into the fish body in his hands, and he didn't know how much appreciation value was consumed, and he forcibly turned these two Chudu grass carp into the happiest 'dead fish' in the world.

What everyone sees is only the surface, in addition to the blessing of the legendary vegetable washing skills, Zhou Dong is also very knowledgeable about the choice of water layer when washing fish.

Because it is not far from the waterfall, the cold waterfall water and the hot spring water of Ajie Lake cannot be completely integrated, and there is an obvious hot and cold junction about two feet below the water surface, which is also the location of the initial fusion of the two water quality.

He immersed the two fish a little above the junction, not only to ensure that the fish would not be overdone by the cold water, but also because the water quality here has been initially integrated, both the mineral content and the pH value are the most suitable.

Baiweisheng and several chefs nodded secretly, and they couldn't understand the mallet of the dragon god, but they felt unfathomable, but they didn't dare to ask more, and they blew it in the book, saying that Master Xiao Zhou's method of washing fish is in line with the laws of heaven and earth, and can collect the essence of the sun and the moon, and readers will definitely shout 'really fragrant'.

Zhou Dong washed the fish about five minutes, this time is short, it is difficult to completely remove the dirt of the fish body, long will make the fish lose its umami, must be just right, after the fish is taken out of the water, do not use any cutting board, the left hand holds two fish, the right hand picks up the 'chef Zhou's kitchen knife' and begins to quickly remove the scales,

The two fish were stacked in his left hand, and the fish below were still trembling slightly because of muscle memory, and even the fish above were not very stable, but they did not hinder the speed of his knife at all, and everyone looked carefully, only to see that the kitchen knife in his hand could always fine-tune the angle with the trembling of the fish body when it was not allowed to be released, and suddenly he was secretly surprised in his heart, Zhou Dong's knife skills were not only perfect, but superb. Even if it's a legendary god chef, I'm afraid it's just that. But I didn't know that Zhou Dong's perfect-level knife skills corresponded to the god-level knife skills in reality, and their eyesight was not bad.

"Grilled fish need to be scaled?"

The dragon god has been doing the mallet for so long, and finally raised a more professional question.

That's right, grilled fish actually doesn't need to be scaled, the scales can not only conduct heat to make the fish cook faster, but also protect the inner layer of fish from being burned.

The dragon god just doesn't understand, even he can understand the truth, why does Master Xiao Zhou seem to not know?

And none of the chefs who were watching raised any objections, but stared intently at Zhou Dong, who was removing the scales, with appreciation and shock in his expression, but there was no doubt.

"It's not scaling, it's scaling. ”

Huai Liangren glanced at the great god of the dragon, and the bad people also called him 'great god', so they explained it to him again.

"Scaling? Is that different from scaling?"

"Of course there's a difference. ”

Yan Yi rarely said: "Ordinary people grill fish and keep scales, just to use this layer of fish scales to conduct heat and protect the fish meat from being burned, and when it is really time to eat, it is actually necessary to remove this layer of scales, but in this way, this layer of fish scales will be wasted." ”

"Oh......"

The dragon god still didn't understand, and said in his heart that this is not a waste? Although I heard that people in some areas eat fish scales, but after all, they are a minority, isn't this thing just for throwing away?

"In fact, the essence of the fish body, there are also thirty percent in the scales, it is a pity to lose it like this, Chef Zhou is using extremely fine knife skills to cut off the surface of the fish scales, this layer of fish scales is mostly hidden dirt, even parasites, without any edible value,

But when you cut off the scales, the rest of the fish becomes the most wonderful thing you can be......"

"Good stuff?"

The more the dragon god listened, the more confused he became, and his heart said What's so good about this?

"If you look at it, you'll know that Chef Zhou's grilled fish is probably on the scales of this fish, and it should be called 'scaly grilled fish'. ”

"Grilled fish with scales?"

The dragon god is more and more puzzled in his heart, what the hell is this?