162 Fighting Odor with Stink (2-in-1)
The tofu Wu in Fengqi Village is a rare conscientious merchant in this era.
He got up early in the morning and started to be busy, the brine consumption of stinky tofu was the fastest, and his family's business was good, according to the calculation of a batch of brine and the sales of his stinky tofu in half a year, he would prepare a new brine at most three days apart, so that it would not be out of stock after half a year.
Stinky tofu is divided into two factions, the stinky tofu in the south looks like black charcoal, but it is not too stinky; if the traditional stinky tofu in the north is washed away from the brine, it looks white and tender, but it can stink out of the wind for three miles.
Even the way of eating is different, the stinky tofu in the south needs to be fried, and after it comes out of the pot, it is added with spicy sauce and coriander to enhance the taste, basically there is not much smell after it comes out of the pot; the stinky tofu in the north is soaked in fermented stinky brine for at least three days, and the more it is fried, the more stinky it is, the more stinky it is, and the stinky and smelly fragrance is what it says.
Moreover, the stinky tofu in the north can also be eaten cold, and the diners with heavy tastes do not even wash the brine stained on it, but directly pour sesame oil, soy sauce, chili oil, and garlic paste to eat, but it has a unique flavor.
Tofu Wu This is a family craft, do business with conscience, will not be like some black-hearted merchants actually use some 'unspeakable things' to pretend to be the brine of stinky tofu to deceive consumers.
Therefore, his family's business is very good, and wholesalers come directly to the village every day to pick up the goods. Relying on selling stinky tofu, he built a two-story small building in Fengqi Village, although the upstairs and downstairs stinked, he often smiled and said to people What do you know? This is the most fragrant taste in the world!
Tofu Wu will be tempeh, edible alkali, shiitake mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, salt, liquor, tofu brain according to the ancestral secret recipe after the mixture, pour into the already empty brine urn.
These old urns are good things that he has used for more than ten years, once the old brine in it is used up, it will be immediately used to ferment the new brine, more than ten years down, just like the best purple clay pot that has been cultivated for many years, it is simply a treasure, and others will not sell it for much money.
Someone once jokingly said to Tofu Wu, I am afraid that your more than ten years old brine urn can be poured directly into the water, and it can also produce good brine, right?
Tofu Wu sneered, he didn't dare to be better than the real good brine, and it was a hundred times stronger than those things that used 'dirt' as brine!
Every time I mention those black-hearted peers who have mothers and no fathers, Tofu Wu is angry, these bastards should all be struck by lightning!
After a busy half a day to get the new brine, Tofu Wu lay on the rattan chair under the grape trellis, and there was lotus white and pig's head meat on the small table at hand, drink a sip of lotus white, eat a piece of pig's head meat, and then suck a sip of the stinky tofu floating in the air, this is beautiful...... I couldn't help but hum a ridiculous country tune, they are all brothers and sisters or something, and I don't care if I am in my fifties.
"This old commotion, how old are you still singing this ......"
Li Xiuchen looked at Zhou Dong behind him, and his face was slightly red: "Old Wu, there is a guest." Oh, your smell is really punchy!"
"It's the village chief, what's wrong with my smell, this is the standard smelly fragrance, do the people in the city like it...... Who is this little brother?"
Tofu Wu looked at Zhou Dong and felt that this young man was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.
"Why, forgot? Isn't this Xiao Zhou, who made porridge for Grandpa Zhu, speaking of which, the people in our village owe a favor! Your Wu family didn't suffer less from the benefits of the Zhu family back then, right?"
"Oh, I said, it turned out to be Brother Zhou, look at my brain...... Brother Zhou, come to two or two?"
Zhou Dong smiled: "You are older than my father, so call me Xiao Zhou." Uncle Wu, I have something to do with you, so I won't drink the wine. ”
According to the rules of Chudu, if it is an elder who has a very good relationship with his father, and he is older than his father, it should be called 'big', if this is not the case, it will be called an uncle, these days I am familiar with Li Xiuchen, and Zhou Dong also calls him Uncle Li.
Tofu Wu smiled: "What's the matter? If you want to eat stinky tofu, Uncle will give you a few catties!"
"No, I just want some stinky tofu brine, and I don't need too much, just a few taels. ”
On the serious issue of distinguishing the smell of fragrance, human beings are sometimes confused, and many times it is psychological.
Take stinky tofu as an example, if you hide stinky tofu in the house of a buddy who loves to eat it, and then hide the truth, that guy will be disgusted and look around for the smell. But once he knew that it was the smell of stinky tofu, his heart immediately relaxed, and then how to smell and be happy, it was so fragrant!
How stinky can the stinky tofu in the north be? It stinks so much that some unscrupulous merchants use 'unspeakable dirt' to marinate stinky tofu, and diners can still eat it with relish.
This kind of stinky is definitely the same as the large intestine of pigs, but if you give Mr. Guo sashimi to the large intestine, he will vomit, and give him stinky tofu to eat, he will drink two taels deliciously; there are really not many northern men who don't like to eat stinky tofu, let alone people like Lao Guo, who are used to walking the rivers and lakes and have suffered a hard life.
What is this not a psychological effect?
Zhou Dong also understood this truth by chance.
The large intestine sashimi he made was first changed with garlic, and then the pickled smell in the large intestine was removed as much as possible with the perfect washing skills, and finally the intestinal wall and casing were removed with the best knife skills, leaving only the middle intestine meat, and then the taste was physically controlled by icing and cooling the ......
Can the sashimi of the large intestine stinky tofu after such treatment still stink tofu? And the smell of the two is so similar, why does Lao Guo have such a big reaction to the pig intestine?
To put it bluntly, it's a psychological problem.
Zhou Dong came to find stinky tofu marinade, just to attack the stinky with stink, and at the same time use the 'familiar taste' of stinky tofu to soothe Lao Guo's injured soul.
I'm really about to be moved by myself, and I've started to study people's psychology as a chef, am I easy?
"You want my brine?"
Tofu Wu was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhou Dong with some vigilance.
The brine of this stinky tofu is his family's ancestral secret recipe, don't look at the materials used are all road goods, in fact, the treatment and proportion of various materials are very particular.
If it is an ordinary consumer or even a peer who sells stinky tofu, he will not care, I believe that no one can see through his secret recipe only by the finished brine, but the young man in front of him is different, and his cooking skills are about to become a myth by the villagers.
"Look at your little bit of interest, do you think anyone will be worried about your family's secret recipe?"
Li Xiuchen glared at Tofu Wu and said, "Xiao Zhou told me that he was going to use your brine as a dipping sauce."
You just steal the fun, you can't imagine that your tofu Wu's stinky tofu brine will actually become a dipping sauce for sashimi, right? This belongs to the overall improvement of your stinky tofu's grade!"
Tofu Wu was dumbfounded: "It's really fake, I still know about sashimi, that thing is very expensive." Xiao Zhou, what kind of sashimi are you doing?"
"It's not expensive, it's a large intestine sashimi. ”
"Intestine sashimi? I really know this, I'm a tightrope too. I also heard that Mr. Guo also came to the mushroom house in the past two days?
I understand, Xiao Zhou, your idea is very wonderful, this is called fighting stink with stink.
I'll give you another three catties of stinky tofu, and when you get the dipping sauce back, it will be better to put some mashed stinky tofu in the saucer, and you can also fry some stinky tofu first, so that this stinky fragrance will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people first, Xiao Zhou, what do you think of this idea?"
"High!"
Zhou Dong gave Tofu Wu a thumbs up, Fengqi Village is really talented, if it weren't for Tofu Wu's reminder, he didn't expect this trick.
Fry some stinky tofu first, this is called improving the environment, which is equivalent to giving Lao Guo a psychological hint first, which is already the category of psychology, and it is really a master in the folk!
Lao Guo was very desperate, and that pitiful gaze made Teacher Huang a little unbearable: "Lao Guo, this is not like you, isn't it just a plate of sashimi with large intestines?"
"You don't come. ”
Guo Yigang: How smart is that?
What kind of cooking skill is Zhou Dong? Even such a diligent master has to rely on 'a whim' to find a rut now, and he has found a rut in the village, isn't this just catching a blind man? I'm afraid that the thing I got back is not as good as the first time!
As soon as I thought of this, Lao Guo's stomach turned over the river and the sea, no, Lao Guo, I can't eat the loss in front of me, and I can only sacrifice my beloved disciple if I can't do it......
Xiao Yueyue shuddered suddenly, peeked at the master's gaze a little strange, hurriedly shrunk his neck, and quietly hid behind Uncle Yu, still muttering: "The master can't see me, can't see me......"
"Zhou Xiaochu is back, what is he holding in his hand?"
Zhou Dong had stinky tofu wrapped in opaque oiled paper in his hand, and the marinade was also sealed in a glass bottle, but the stars didn't see what it was, he just nodded at everyone, and went into the kitchen.
It didn't take long for an enticing smell to come out of the kitchen, making the eyes of the northern stars like Guo Yigang Yu light up: "Stinky tofu!"
As for Teacher He Cheng Yuqi and others, they really rarely eat this kind of northern stinky tofu, and at first they felt that the taste was a little rushed, but as the smell in the air became stronger and stronger, they finally set things right and found the strange fragrance from the smell on the surface.
The Buddha said: Incense is stinky, stinky is incense, Buddha is dog shit, dog shit is Buddha......
"This dipping sauce ......"
Lao Guo looked at the people who were happy to eat fried stinky tofu, and secretly swallowed his saliva, but after thinking about it, he was still ready to follow Zhou Dong's proposal, first bitter and then sweet, and then talk about it after passing the level of intestinal sashimi!
The dipping sauce is much richer than before, not only soy sauce and sesame oil, but also mashed stinky tofu foam and diluted stinky tofu brine......
Not to mention, this familiar taste made his stomach that was still tumbling a lot just now, and he actually raised a trace of appetite.
Pick up a piece of sashimi from the intestine and look at it in the sun, isn't it clean?
He is also a chef, so he can naturally see at a glance that this is a masterpiece of top-level knife skills.
To cut off the inner wall and casing of the large intestine of the pig that has not been completely thawed, leaving the flesh-colored and crystalline intestine meat, and each piece of intestine meat is the same size and thickness of two thumb covers, which at least requires a special chef to have knife skills?
What a good knife skill and beautiful sashimi, why didn't I see it before?
Filled with brine and stinky tofu foam, Guo Yigang sent a piece of large intestine sashimi into his mouth, and this time he was actually looking forward to it.
With a light bite, the stinky fragrance was suddenly filled, and the stinky tofu foam and brine, and then inhaled a few mouthfuls of the aroma of fried stinky tofu, Lao Guo suddenly felt that he had found a rut!
It's a little delicious!
Why do you say that? The most attractive thing about stinky tofu is actually the smell of stinky aroma, and the taste is average, which can be compared to Zhou Dong's carefully selected sausage meat?
Stripped of the inner wall and casing, the pieces are as thin as cicada's wings and chilled by ice cubes, and they are really smelly and fragrant, and the taste is first-class, and the bite is creaky, like the head of a top-notch jellyfish.
Lao Guo also understands now, it was just his psychology before, and he always likes to associate randomly, and he almost missed the deliciousness!
Now that the smell of stinky tofu seduces and creates momentum, the stinky fragrance has become a trend, and it is suddenly perfectly integrated with the only remaining trace of peculiar smell of the large intestine sashimi, and he also puts his mentality right, and immediately discovers the beauty of this large intestine sashimi.
The smell of the whole hospital is insufficient, only the large intestine leaves its name, the natural ingredients must be useful, and the vomit and fragrance come back!
Compared with stinky tofu, this large intestine sashimi has both the stinky aroma of stinky tofu and the taste that far exceeds that of stinky tofu.
And there is another kind of beauty in this stinky fragrance, there is a slight smell when you first taste it, and it is fragrant in an instant, if you chew a few more bites, it is more and more fragrant, and finally the mouth is full of fragrance!
There is no smell, where does the fragrance come from, there is no bitterness, where does it come from sweetness, there is no girl, where does it come from~ wolf?
To be a qualified diner, you still have to understand some dialectics, where is there any absolute smell in this world?
People who don't eat durian say that durian stinks, and people who love durian can't help but drool when they smell it.
The same is true for stinky tofu, and even more so for large intestine sashimi.
"Brush, brush!"
Lao Guo's speed is getting faster and faster, if the first piece of large intestine sashimi is still hesitant, the back is simply afraid that people will rob him of his delicious food, and in an instant, he ate more than a dozen thin pieces of large intestine sashimi, and he was still a little unsatisfied, looking at Zhou Dong and said, "Brother, is there anything else?"
"Congratulations to the host for completing the legendary skill breakthrough task and obtaining the legendary vegetable washing skill that only the current kitchen god can have!
At the same time, because the host can break the taste change when completing the task, attack the smell with the smell, and turn the smell into incense, since then it has reached the supreme realm of 'no distinction between fragrance and smell', in order to reward the host, the accompanying skill of the legendary vegetable washing skill is not only the same as the legendary level, but will also be the most practical legendary skill.
Although this skill has nothing to do with cooking, it is inextricably linked to food, and I hope the host can make good use of it......"
A program is a program, there is no emotional intelligence at all, what is the meaning of 'no distinction between fragrance and smell'? Are you scolding or praising people?
Zhou Dong said angrily: "Can you not be so verbose, what is this accompanying skill?"
"Congratulations to the host, you have also gained the Legendary Brewing Skill......"
"Winemaking?"
Zhou Dong was happy in his heart, his father didn't like anything else in his life, he just liked to have a few drinks, but now there is a flood of fake wine on the market, and a slightly better grain wine will cost hundreds or even thousands of yuan a bottle.
Dad obviously didn't lack money, but he was reluctant to buy these good wines, he bought a bottle of Wuliangye for his dad a few days ago, and was complained that he wouldn't live, so he forced him to retreat.
If you master the brewing technology, not to mention to make money, it will be a problem to get some good wine for your father?
And this is a legendary winemaking skill, isn't he the god of wine?