Xia Yu was cleaning a large wooden barrel. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

This wooden barrel, also called rice retort, popularly known as rice bucket, the traditional cooking utensils of the Han nation, popular in all parts of the south, made of cedar wood sticks. Now the one that Xia Yu cleaned is enough to be a person tall, and he can barely surround it with his hands.

Wash carefully inside and out with a brush. Strangely, Chiyo Aichi, who was nearby, smelled a faint scent of honey, and the water used to clean the barrel did not seem to be pure water.

This thing was made by Xia Yu himself.

What, you say carpenter work?

In fact, a few months ago, when he was pondering the wood mold used in the recipe of "Big Magic Panda Tofu", Xia Yu developed his carpenter skills almost perfectly, and the so-called practice makes perfect is such a thing.

The live camera focused, and Nagi Thistle was also looking at the teenager cleaning around the wooden barrel, and then, I saw him reach in and click out the layers of compartments woven with bamboo strips.

The so-called bamboo strips are bamboo skins, the camera is coming, the layers of bamboo strips are all holes like beehives, just when the audience is talking about not knowing what the use of this barrel and bamboo strip layer is, Xia Yu told them with practical actions-

Use a small bowl to scoop up the shiny "star rice".

"Wow-"

The rice grains poured into the bamboo basket, making a pleasant sound, and then, Xia Yu smiled and stroked the palm of his hand, and the rice mountain was suddenly flattened, and a scene that made people's eyes widen appeared.

A grain of rice has penetrated into the small hole between the bamboo skin!

The palm of the hand stroked again, more rice grains were firmly embedded in the hole, and when I looked at it, each grain of rice was separated, not falling and being stuck, densely distributed on the bamboo strips, and the excess rice was carefully picked out by Xia Yu and put on the next layer of bamboo strips.

In this cycle, Xia Yu's face was focused, and he was serious and had no distractions.

Off the field, Zhu Qing was stunned and muttered: "No wonder he carried me behind my back yesterday and chattered in the villa warehouse, it turned out that he was making these strange things!"

His eyes swept to the bamboo strips, and then he looked at the traditional cooking utensils, the rice retort.

Zhu Qing couldn't help but close his white palms, his eyes were full of exclamation, admiration, and chuckled: "My nephew, there are really a lot of ghost ideas in my head!"

Who's to say it isn't.

Even if they didn't know what the 'rice retort' was, Dojima Silver and Caiba Ichiro couldn't help but look at each other when they saw Xia Yu inlay the rice grains on the bamboo strip net.

"Star rice" needs to be separated from the problem of cleaning and cooking, which has been cleverly solved by gadgets.

"Damn, that's wonderful!"

In the guest seat, Jin Tianxian slapped his thigh and cheered unconsciously.

Tulip's eyes flickered violently, and she said with a hint of excitement: "This is indeed a tool to skillfully control the "Star Rice". If it is made of bamboo, it has no taste and no pollution, and even if the "star rice" is fragile and fragile, it will not be tainted during cooking. ”

Indeed,

Bamboo is a magical thing, and it can be used directly to make bamboo rice. Of course, when Xia Yu gets the recipe of "Tofu Trio" in the future, he also needs to prepare a bamboo knife to cut the tofu so that the tofu does not smell of iron.

"This teenager ......"

"I didn't expect the problem to be solved like this!"

"That kind of cooking utensils, there's an old air to it. ”

Judges' speeches, IGOs, and gourmet judges.

The chief judge in the center, Shinichiro Furukawa, also showed unspeakable appreciation.

Listening to the admiration of the judges next door, Erina Nagikiri on the sixth chair quietly clenched her pink fists, and her cheeks flushed with a flush that seemed to be excited and excited.

Good start!

"Humph!"

Nagi thistle finally withdrew her gaze, her face ugly.

"It's just a preliminary control, wait for the cooking session, see how you control the heat-" Sweeping the stone pimple stove next to Xia Yu's cooking table, and then looking at the traditional bellows resting next to it, Nagi Cutting Thistle's expression was indescribably weird, like mockery, like disdain.

Blindly retro? Pursuing these common people's cooking utensils, trying to use such cooking utensils to cook elegant dishes in line with modern art? Don't joke with me, just stop in moderation!

Nagi thistle's face was faintly hideous.

"It's not a modern culinary art!"

"Let me tell you what essence cuisine is, what is the art of cooking!"

Click.

Thinking about it, the nagini thistle had green tendons on his forehead, and when he twisted the stove valve, the dark blue flame burst out, burning the pan again.

"Woohoo ......"

Bacchus onions are heated, and wisps of alcohol volatilize to form smoke during cooking.

Rumble!

Suddenly, a whole pot of sauce burst into flames, and in the midst of the burning pillar of alcohol, the golden sauce in the pan gurgled and bubbled, like boiling golden magma.

Cease fire.

Closing the lid, Nagi Cutting Thistle no longer paid attention to the sauce, but moved to the cutting board, touched the snake meat, at this time, the previous nitrogen spray of freezing, over time, slightly dissolved, the hardness is just right, so Nagi Cutting Thistle took a sharp Western-style knife, gently cut it, a two finger wide, one finger long pink snake meat detached out.

It took more than ten minutes to cut the two pieces of snake meat into segments, then take the conditioning basin, and only sprinkle it into the white wine to marinate, without the need for extra condiments to grab the flavor. While gently grasping and pinching the pink snake meat with her fingers, Nagi Cut Thistle did not forget to observe the opponent's situation.

During this period, Xia Yu also started her cooking process without hurrying.

At least a dozen layers of bamboo strips are paved with "star rice".

Layer by layer, the bamboo compartment is embedded into the rice bucket, and the camera gives a close-up of the internal structure of the rice bucket at the right time, which immediately attracts exclamations.

There are protruding wooden card slots on the inner wall of the barrel at half-finger-width distances, which explains why there is a row of wooden nail rivets arranged from top to bottom on the outside of the barrel.

Another hostess, Yuki Watanabe, stepped forward and handed over the microphone: "Chef Xia, can you introduce the cooking utensils you use?"

"No problem. ”

Xia Yu had just finished loading the bamboo strips, and was about to close the wooden lid, when he heard the words, he patted the wall of the barrel, and said with a calm expression: "This thing is an ancient cookware that has been used in China to this day, and it is still widely used in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou today. It's just that the exterior is like a wooden barrel, and the actual internal structure is mostly made of bamboo strips......"

As he spoke, he stepped forward, easily picked up a heavy barrel one person high, and motioned for the camera to follow.

So the bottom of the barrel is shown in the picture.

A layer of hollow bamboo strips is the bottom plate.

"Of course, I have improved this thing myself, and it is my own special cooking utensils for "Star Rice", which is very different from traditional rice retorts, as long as you know what the situation is. ”

Shrugging his shoulders, he moved the barrel, which had been closed with the lid closed, to the stone pimple stove.

A large iron pot had already been set up on the stove, and the barrels were placed in the iron pot like a steamer.

Then, add water!

"Because the rice is steamed through water, the water surface must not touch the bottom bamboo strips...... Xia Yu explained as he poured water into the iron pot with a bucket.

"But in that case, won't the rising steam push the rice grains out of the holes in the bamboo strips?"

Yuki Watanabe shrewdly asks a question.

"That's a good question!"

Xia Yu saw that the water mark was about the same, put the poke down, looked back at the camera and said, "This is the variable I want to control!"

"Tools, after all, are just tools. ”

"Chefs must not be under the illusion that they can rely on tools to solve everything, and that tools will replace cooking skills. ”