Chapter 718: Skillful, Persistent, and Sincere
"What's the difference?"
Li Fuzhen is very curious about this, in her opinion, this kind of stir-fry, it is really difficult to see what cooking skills and level, whether it is those Chinese or Western foods she has eaten, they all look exquisite and extremely complex.
And fried beef is obviously not related to exquisiteness and complexity
Jester explained with a smile as he did it.
"Actually, cooking this thing, although I haven't really entered this industry, but after all, my family's family cooking skills, words and deeds, naturally understand a little, my grandfather told me before, cooking this thing, my talent is not enough, at most I can be proficient in skills, will not reach the point of obsession......"
As he spoke, Jester used the knife technique of cutting the pig diagonally with a horizontal cow and a fish, and cut the large piece of beef into thick and even slices.
And Li Fuzhen listened to Jester's chatter, and he was a little difficult to understand, so he frowned and asked: "What does it mean to be proficient in skills and persistent in ......?"
"Huh."
Jester laughed lightly, and he also explained directly: "In fact, the more clever the chef, the most famous dish they are at, it is not a dish that is too complicated, it is generally a very ordinary dish, but it can make these ordinary ingredients produce the power to turn decay into magic...... For example, the fried tofu with soy sauce that Zhang Dongguan made for Qianlong back then, or the toast slices with soup that Eckfi made for Wilhelm II, these are all famous dishes left in history......"
While explaining, Jester's hands did not stop, he picked up two eggs at the same time, and then broke the eggs, took out the yolk, leaving only the viscous and transparent egg white, and added the cut beef.
“…… After cutting the beef, use the egg whites evenly. Then marinate it for two to three hours, which is a secret recipe that has been handed down since ancient times, because egg whites are rich in gray matter, which can make the beef smoother, and the egg whites themselves have aroma, making them more delicious when fried. Hearing Jester explain to himself like this, Li Fuzhen also nodded a little as if he didn't understand.
"But there is one thing to note, I see that many people like to use some salt or soy ......sauce when marinating before stir-frying beef," Li Fuzhen saw a puzzled look on his face when he talked about soy sauce. Jester immediately understood the reason for the other party's doubts, although Korean cooking is in the same vein as Chinese cooking, but Koreans mainly learn northern cooking, and soy sauce is generally used more in the south.
In the north, soy sauce is called soy sauce.
"Soy sauce is soy sauce......" After Jester explained, Li Fuzhen showed an understanding look.
“…… The reason why you can't add salt or soy sauce is because it has been marinated in salt and soy sauce. The beef will shrink, and the result of shrinkage is toughness, and no one likes tough meat......"
Jester said. While greeting Li Fuzhen, he went to the living room to watch TV first, because now is not the time to cook, and the beef must be marinated for at least two hours before the official cooking can begin. And Li Fuzhen was also thinking about what Jester told her about what she was good at skills and the like.
"So...... Have the two you just said reached the point of attachment you said? ”
"Haha!"
Jester couldn't help but laugh when he heard Li Fuzhen ask like this.
"Those two...... However, the great figures in the history of Chinese and Western cuisine have not only reached the point of obsession. I'm afraid that their understanding of cooking has gone beyond the scope of skills and reached the realm of the Tao, and the so-called sincerity in the Tao is probably what they are talking about......"
When Jester said, there was also some admiration in his tone, in any industry, people who have achieved the pinnacle are worthy of praise, and he also knows how difficult it is to be able to achieve the cooking industry without a road ahead.
It's much harder than him copying games.
The two people Li Fuzhen said in his mouth are Zhang Dongguan, who made fried tofu with tempeh for Qianlong mentioned by Jester just now, and is also the rumored maker of the Manchu Han seat, and the other is the originator of modern Western food, August, who is respected by the Western culinary community as 'the king's chef, the chef's king'. Ecofi.
"Sincerity?"
When she heard this, Li Fuzhen once again showed a puzzled look, what she didn't understand before, Jester hadn't explained to her yet, and as a result, there was another term that she didn't understand very well.
“…… Sincerity ......"
Jester suddenly found that he didn't know how to explain it to Li Fuzhen, so he could only think about it slightly, and combined it with his own language to talk about his understanding: "Actually, it's the same as what I said before, this is a kind of magical power, which can cook some seemingly ordinary ingredients into delicious foods that can't be possessed by top-level ingredients, such a means is called sincerity......
There is nothing wrong with this interpretation.
However, Jester was afraid that Li Fuzhen would not understand, so he continued to explain: "...... You see, let's first say that Zhang Dongguan's fried tofu with tempeh is fried tofu with soy sauce, which couldn't be simpler, and then look at Ekofei's toast slices, toast slices, just bread slices, there is nothing more ordinary than this, these two things, who can't do them? But it's this kind of stuff that they make delicious ...... that no one else can get at all."
"Make the impossible possible...... This is probably the so-called sincerity of the Tao......"
When his grandfather mentioned the triple realm of cooking to him, he only said that he was proficient in skill, persistent in his heart, and sincere in his heart...... As for what exactly these three mean.
His grandfather didn't say it, although Jester asked at the time, but his grandfather's answer was very direct.
"These things can only be comprehended by oneself."
"Making the impossible possible......
After listening to Jester's explanation, Li Fuzhen felt a sense of surprise, she chewed this sentence carefully, and suddenly felt a kind of look that although she didn't understand what it meant, it seemed to be very powerful, and Jester just smiled and didn't continue to say anything, in fact, he didn't know if he understood it correctly, maybe it was just some skin.
The two talked to each other for a few more minutes.
Jester looked at the time, the beef was almost marinated, so he smiled at Li Fuzhen: "Almost, I'll finish the beef." ”
And Li Fuzhen also followed behind Jester and returned to the kitchen. (To be continued......)