Out of respect for the people who came quietly this time, even if he didn't think it was necessary, the person in charge of the Beijing office of the chef association sat down at the reception desk of the office and waited for the guests to come in through the door.

So when Lao Chen took Yi Baitang into the reception room separated from the kitchen by a small patio, he originally planned to let Yi Baitang go directly into the kitchen, but when he saw his top boss at a glance, he was almost shocked: "Old Xu, why are you here?" The one in the back—"

The old man known as Xu Lao interrupted Lao Chen's words with a wave of his hand, and his eyes had already fallen on Yi Baitang, who came in later.

At the first glance of Yi Baitang, he felt that the other party was a little familiar, but where was it familiar...... I don't seem to be able to say it for a while.

Xu Lao secretly wondered for a moment, and in the end, he could only blame the fact that beautiful people are more likely to have the eyes of passers-by.

He said to Yi Baitang, "Sit." ”

This is a very traditional tea room.

There are not too many furnishings in the tea room, there is a total of one wood-carved tea table and a few wood-carved chairs.

Yi Baitang sat down opposite Xu Lao, his purpose for coming here was very simple, so he was not polite, and said directly: "I need a loan." ”

Old man Xu was businesslike: "Okay, what mortgage do you want to use." ”

Yi Baitang: "Sauce." ”

The sauce, although it is more out of the way, is not impossible...... Xu Lao pondered for a while and said, "No problem. Do you bring finished products or freshly made? ”

Yi Baitang said again: "Ready-made." ”

This answer made Xu Lao's sense of Yi Baitang a little better.

You must know that after the chef industry was recognized by the state, the chef association came into being, and from the beginning to help many chefs successfully start a business to now being prevented by various chefs in every possible way. Although it was once because the president who was in charge of the association at the time cheated for personal gain, and even used his position to steal secret recipes, at least most of the presidents across the country were dedicated to helping chefs.

It's just that the problem of trust is the most fragile thing, and once it is damaged, it is destined to be difficult to make up for it.

He smiled slightly, bowed his head and said, "Okay, there are all kinds of common ingredients in the kitchen, and if you need uncommon materials, you must have prepared them." Since he is sitting here, he also made the rules clear, "There is no high-tech filming equipment in the kitchen, and no one will go in when you are cooking in it, all the various spices in it are all disrupted, no one will check them one by one, and you don't have to waste too much, but we also understand the small loss." ”

Speaking of this, Xu Lao took a sip of tea and continued:

"When you're done, I'll assess the value of the sauce you've made, and usually the chefs will lend you a temporary loan of how much I do, and the loan needs to be repaid in installments, but no interest - you know?"

Yi Baitang continued: "It's clear. ”

Isn't this young man a little afraid of being introverted?

said a big call, but the other party counted a total of three sentences from the beginning to the end of the punctuation less than ten words, which is really a pity for words......

Thinking like this, he took a closer look at Yi Baitang, but was stunned to find that the other party didn't seem to be afraid of talking less, but a soul wandering foreign object, and he didn't listen carefully to what he just said!

At this time, Yi Baitang turned his eyes to him again and asked:

"Finished?"

Xu Lao was angry: "It's over!" ”

Yi Baitang nodded and got up from his seat: "I'll go in and make the sauce, a total of an hour and ten minutes." ”

But the things in the kitchen are clear.

Xu Lao was slightly deflated: "Okay, you can go." Seeing Yi Baitang simply turn around and leave, he suddenly remembered one more thing, "What's the name of the sauce you want to make?" ”

Yi Baitang: "Sauce." ”

Xu Lao: "Sauce? I'm asking—"

But at this time, Yi Baitang had already entered the kitchen, and Xu Lao only woke up after the question was not answered for a while:

Wait, what the other party just meant was that he didn't name the sauce at all!

What chef is stingy with a beautiful name for something he crafts?

This guy ...... This little one!

Is it really reliable?

What did Xu Lao, who was sitting in the tea room, think, it didn't matter to Yi Baitang at all.

He only sighed in annoyance at the bottom of his heart when he listened to the other party's tirade just now.

I obviously know something, but I have to listen to others repeat it, which is a waste of time.

But the wasted time has passed anyway, when standing in front of the stove, facing a stove with hundreds of spices, Yi Baitang squinted his eyes slightly, and took a comfortable breath, he had already forgotten about this qiē.

It's still the ever-changing cuisine that is the most interesting =w=

This time, the sauce that Yi Baitang intends to make zuò is a variant of hot pot sauce.

Most hot pot restaurants have a sauce table, on which some basic sauces are placed, and each diner who comes here mixes these sauces according to their own taste, which can be regarded as taking care of the taste of different customers.

But the sauce that Yi Baitang is making now can't be blended in this way.

Because it requires a simple processing in addition to the different materials, and when the materials are added and the simple processing is done, it will ...... It becomes the base sauce of a new dish!

Yi Baitang began to put all kinds of materials.

First of all, the cooked beef that is the base is crushed with a food processor, and it happens to be available here.

Then there is the second layer of flavor, Fuling's mustard is the freshest, and Shaoxing's soy sauce has a unique style.

Then, there are all kinds of condiments, peanut kernels, cooked sesame seeds, cashew nuts, and pine nuts are all minced in a food processor, sugar, oil, sesame oil, and cooking oil are fried in the pan according to the amount of the first two, but if it is just that, it is just a variant of beef sauce.

That's when the real changes begin.

Yi Baitang calmly added a large amount of water and began to boil it over a fierce fire.

Then open the backpack, take out the things you brought one by one, divide them into two parts, one part is washed directly into the pot and boiled with the existing sauce; The other part is washed, broken in a food processor, and added to the pot.

At this time, the sauce in the pot is boiled, turn to a simmer on high heat, simmer the juice for an hour, and then reduce the soup over high heat.

One qiē is finished, the time is fifty-five minutes, and there are fifteen minutes left.

Yi Baitang cleaned up the kitchen, put the sauce on the plate, and carried it across the patio to the reception room, exactly an hour and ten minutes before he entered the kitchen.

But at this time, the living room was empty.

Whether it was Lao Chen, who brought him in before, or Xu Lao, who was talking to him, there was no trace.

Yi Baitang's own sauce was placed on the table in the living room, and he sat down and waited for Xu Lao.

His eyes fell on a large orange tree in the courtyard, and after a moment, he thought blankly about how to make marmalade more delicious.

And at this time, there was only an interval of sliding doors, Xu Lao looked at Yi Baitang, who had come out and was waiting for him, and helplessly looked at the distinguished guests who came here secretly.

He lowered his voice: "You're old-"

The guest said, "Go, taste it." ”

Xu Lao: "Are you with you?" ”

The guest laughed: "It must not be delicious, don't eat it." ”

Xu Lao: "...... you want to be so sure, you should go, what are you doing with me!" still has a face of "I don't want to, I won't see him", people who don't know still think that you don't dare to see him......

Xu Lao slandered in his heart, and in the end, he couldn't help what happened to this distinguished guest, so he could only pull the door and enter the living room by himself, and when he pulled the door, he didn't forget to carefully cover the situation behind him, and he was an old man who was obviously not fat should have squeezed out of the crack in the door, and then, he met Yi Baitang's turned gaze.

Embarrassed.

Xu Lao coughed: "I left a little just now, come, let's taste your new sauce." ”

As he spoke, he walked up to Yi Baitang and sat down, first glanced at the form of the sauce, and there was no form, just the color and viscosity of the same oil. The sauce is probably like this, and it can't make any flowers anyway.

Out of importance, Xu Lao asked again: "Is this sauce you innovated really have no name?" ”

Yi Baitang glanced at Xu Lao and said casually: "Then it's called Breath Fresh Sauce." ”

The name...... You might as well just call it sauce.

Xu Lao, who took out the chopsticks from under the table, was speechless for a moment, but still probed the tip of the chopsticks, dipped a little bit from the plate, and put it in his mouth to taste.

Well......

Basic beef sauce taste.

Although it is fresh, delicious and fragrant, it still tastes like beef sauce.

What is it called breath fresh sauce, isn't this beef sauce? Do you think that if you take a new name, a cow will become a horse? Naive!

Xu Lao was a little displeased.

He was about to put down his chopsticks and send out the little guy here in the future, but at this time, the sauce in his mouth had completely melted, and the taste that had been covered by fresh and salty suddenly rose in his mouth, like something that had been covered but worked tirelessly and always worked hard finally broke through the ground!

No, wait, what is this taste ......?!

Around the same time, there was another knock on the door of the chef association's office in Beijing.

It's time again, it's really lively today!

Lao Chen, who was guarding the door, followed the sound to open the door, probed outward, and after seeing the person standing outside the door clearly, he suddenly smiled:

"Who did I say, it turned out to be Mr. Shi, why did Mr. Shi have time to come here today?"

Shi was always a middle-aged man with a big belly standing outside, he stroked his protruding beer belly, squinted and smiled: "Isn't it a month or two since I came?" I wondered if the time was almost up, and I wanted to come and see if there were any chefs who could put valuable recipes......"