Chapter 20 What is cooking?
When Lin Yi was a child, he followed his grandfather to help people cook, but in fact, he mainly followed him to mix some delicious food.
The hospitality in my hometown is all flowing water seats, at least thirty or forty dishes must be served at a full table, including cold dishes, hot dishes, whole chicken and whole fish and other big dishes, as well as all kinds of dim sum, all kinds of staple food, all kinds of sour soup, sweet soup, etc., a banquet to eat, not to mention it takes an hour or two, and it is even said that according to the old rules of the past, this kind of flowing water table can basically be eaten in one breath from noon to the dark sky is considered rich.
However, Lin Yike didn't plan to be so rich today, after all, now that the living conditions are better, everyone can't eat too much.
There are two tables in total, each table is about ten people, and one table has more than 20 dishes.
When he returned to the store at three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhuang Qiang began to prepare, fortunately, there were many people, plus the people from the old store, eight people worked together, and in less than two hours, the preparation was completed. Lin Yi asked Zhang Xiaohai and Liu Yanqiu to take the waiters to the opposite side to continue the business - the ingredients purchased that day had to be consumed, otherwise most of them would not be able to be saved for tomorrow, so they could only be thrown away, which was too wasteful.
The rest of Li Xueqiang followed Lin Yi into the kitchen and began to prepare the evening meal.
The first is four cold dishes.
As a chef, especially the chef of the flowing water table, you must learn to coordinate the rhythm and order of cooking, for example, you must do the dishes that are not afraid of being cold, and the dishes that need to be eaten while they are hot should be done later, you can make semi-finished products first, and if you need to return to the pot at any time to finish, you must prepare them first, and if you need to cook for a long time, you must go to the steamer in advance. For example, the light taste should be served first, otherwise the strong flavor of the dish will be eaten, and then the light taste will taste the same as chewing wax, and after serving a few greasy dishes, you will have to come to some light and crisp to clean up the taste buds, and serve a few fresh and salty dishes, and you have to pair it with some desserts......
And so on and so forth.
Lin Yi adjusted the cold dish and set up the oil pot again.
Often, the more delicious the dish, the more complicated the process becomes, and it has to be cooked repeatedly in several ways. For example, crispy chicken is steamed and then fried, while white pork is fried and then steamed......
Fried meat, fried fish, and croquettes, Lin Yi worked hard for an hour before he finally completed the process of "pre-frying", and it was already time to get off work, and from time to time customers came in to eat, but they were politely rejected by the waiter who stayed at the door - it will not be open tonight.
It wasn't until Fang Jiayi, Chu Yuanyuan, Xiaopang and a few other old customers who gave red envelopes at noon arrived that they were finally allowed to enter, and a few guys ignored the waiter's polite invitation to sit down and drink tea, and they all ran outside the glass partition in the kitchen one by one, watching Lin Yi cook with great interest.
They have already been conquered by Lin Yi's snacks, but now it is the first time they have seen Lin Yi making "dishes", and their interest is not ordinary. And at first glance, I feel completely kneeling!
The word skill actually contains two meanings, skill is just a technique, and art is to sublimate technology into art, there is no doubt that Lin Yi is not showing cooking skills at the moment, but real cooking skills!
Whether he is holding a kitchen knife or a stir-fry spoon, every movement is as elegant and rhythmic as a dance, which makes people feel pleasing to the eye and even relaxed after watching it, and what is more beautiful is the slight rustle of the kitchen knife cutting the ingredients, the sound of oil bursting every time the ingredients enter the pot, and the sound of gold and iron flying every time the stir-fry spoon is intertwined and is like a piece of music......
Unconsciously watched for another hour, the old shop opposite had already sold out of ingredients, and the stall closed early, so Lin Yi asked the waiters to call the owners of several other shops to come over for a banquet - although they still didn't have stalls, but the peak period has passed at this time, just leave a few guys to watch the door.
Soon the personnel arrived, and Lin Yi ordered the food to be served!
First of all, there are cold pastries, which is called pad hunger, let the guests eat something first, so that they will not be too hungry, so that they can slowly taste the deliciousness. Then four cold dishes as an appetizer.
And Lin Yi, who is a chef, is really busy at this time, and the next four hot dishes are serious stir-frying, which must be cooked and eaten, and the food must be served quickly, otherwise you will fry one here, and the guests will only have empty plates left, and your next dish will not be out of the pot yet, so it will be embarrassing.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of banquet cannot have only one chef, that is, Grandpa Lin Yi also had two partners, and the work of washing vegetables and washing dishes was arranged by the main family.
Fortunately, there are only two tables, and Lin Yi himself is also very good at work, and after obtaining Yi Ya's divine thoughts, he has improved even more, and he can catch up with Zhang Xiaohai and Li Xueqiang. The four hot dishes were all out of the pot quickly, and then a clear meatball soup and a hot and sour belly soup were made, and then it was time for the big dish.
Lin Yi also reduced the types of dishes by half, but whole chickens and whole fish are indispensable, and there are also hard dishes such as braised elbow and steamed white striped pork. Fortunately, all of these have already been steamed or fried, and they can be served after a program, and there is not much time wasted.
"Okay, let's all go over and eat, there are two soups at the end, just make them when everyone is almost finished." Lin Yi beckoned Zhang Xiaohai and Li Xueqiang out of the kitchen together, but was stunned to find that Rao is fast enough, and he couldn't resist the fast eating of these guys!
In fact, being a chef is a very thankless task, often you are busy here at noon, and by the time you finish cooking, the dinner table has either been eaten up, or the dishes that come up first have already been cold.
Poor Lin Yi is now facing the first situation, not to mention the four cold and four hot dishes at the beginning, even the four big dishes that have just been served have been eaten most of them, so that Lin Yi is a little suspicious of whether he has miscalculated? Don't make it embarrassing if everyone can't eat enough in the end......
"Brother Lin, come and sit," Sister Song said, "It's so rich......"
"Oh, Brother Lin, it's no wonder that a few of our businesses belong to you for good business, this taste is really unreasonable! The chef I recruited should be half the level of yours, and I will definitely have to gain three catties a day......" The owner of the thin little fried shop rubbed his stomach and shouted.
"Brother Lin, how do you make this sweet and sour carp sauce?The taste is simply amazing, definitely the best I've ever tasted in my life......" Chubby shouted, burping by the way.
"Handsome boss, how many dishes are there, I really can't eat ......"
When Fang Jiayi saw Lin Yi, she said in a loveless tone, but the chopsticks in her hand were uncontrollably sandwiched with a braised elbow......