Chapter 284: Accidents
There are not too many cooks who come to the City Lord's Mansion to sign up, after all, in fact, the entire Yueyou County is not big, and there are no more than fifty chefs with a little ability in ten miles and eight townships.
Yin Youyue calculated, there were a total of sixty or seventy cooks who signed up, and she thought that there were so many types of food in her, so she simply asked for them all together.
Under the instructions of Steward Su, all the hired cooks were all standing in a courtyard and lined up neatly.
Yin Youyue sat on the steps and drank tea.
After all the cooks were lined up, she got up slowly and said to these people:
"You should be all the cooks in Yueyou County. Those who think that cooking themselves is not very delicious, but if they have any culinary expertise, they can raise their hands first, such as good knife skills and the like. Or if the cooking is delicious and the knife skills are also good, you can also raise your hand. I'm going to arrange for you to make more delicate food. ”
As soon as Yin Youyue finished speaking, a young man looked left and right, looked again, and cautiously raised his hand and said:
"County Lord Yin, the little one is the assistant chef of the Delai Inn, and I haven't learned how to cook too much, but everyone often praises me for carving things. My dad used to be a well-known carver in the city, but he had a hand injury and wanted to hand it over to me, but I liked to cook. Can I make more delicate food? ”
Seeing this, Yin Youyue nodded and said:
"Okay, let's put your knife skills to the test, if you pass the test, you can learn."
As she spoke, she swept around the crowd and asked:
"Anything else?"
Those people looked at others first, and then slowly raised their hands, saying that their knife skills should be okay.
One after another, in the end, two-thirds of them felt that their knife work was okay.
There are so many people, it has been a surprise to Yin Youyue, but when I think of the chefs of this era, it is not surprising that the knife work is amazing, for many chefs, the knife work is just their basic skill.
A good knife cook, for Yin Youyue, naturally the more the better, good knife skills mean that the ingredients are handled well, and the appearance of the food will be better.
She looked at the remaining one-third of the cooks who were a little embarrassed, and she could see their hesitation at a glance, she should be worried that the knife skills were not good and would be rejected by Yin Youyue.
However, Yin Youyue said the next moment:
"Next, do you knead the dough or make dim sum or anything like that, do you make something delicate and delicious?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several women hurriedly raised their hands, and a few men who looked more introverted also raised their hands in embarrassment.
Seeing this, Yin Youyue smiled:
"You don't have to be embarrassed, as long as it is a specialty related to food, it represents your ability."
As soon as he finished speaking, several more men quietly raised their hands, and Yin Youyue asked them all to step aside.
In the end, there were only six or seven lonely people left in the entire courtyard, no matter how they looked like they had no special skills, and they were going to be driven away.
However, Yin Youyue said:
"Are there any of you who are particularly quick at handling ingredients? Or is it stronger? Or is it a great seasoning? ”
As soon as he finished speaking, three or four people hurriedly raised their hands, and the remaining three looked thin at a glance, and immediately how could they be big.
The remaining three were about to cry, and one of them looked at the boy who was only sixteen or seventeen years old and hurriedly said:
"County Lord Yin, although I don't have anything more powerful, but I can do what you just said!"
The other two also nodded quickly, although they didn't have any special skills, but they basically knew some dishes and the like.
Seeing that these people were so anxious, Yin Youyue said with a smile:
"You don't have to worry, I just want to understand your basic situation first, so that it is better to arrange the division of labor of the types of food that will be made next."
Because there are a lot of people on the knife side, Yin Youyue simply asked Steward Su to give each of them a carrot, see how their knife skills are, and screen out half of the knife skills are better, these people need to make more high-end and beautiful food, including sashimi, salmon, sashimi, carved ingredients, etc.
Among the rest of these people, she divided into three categories, namely making dim sum, cooking dishes that are particularly fragrant, and making drinks with a flexible brain!
Next, it's time to give them special training, whether it's roast duck, barbecue or fried chicken, the most important thing is actually the taste, which is a test of cooking skills.
A hundred chefs, the same dish, can make a hundred flavors!
Where a dish can best reflect its value is whether it is good or not.
Therefore, this kind of food such as roast duck and fried chicken, Yin Youyue selected twenty people and asked them to make each of them according to her practice, and then let them be specially trained from among the delicious people she made from them.
Then there are cakes, which also test the talent for flour and other spices.
Yin Youyue quickly picked out five women who could make soft and fragrant cakes, and picked out people who were very clever and could put cream and fruit on the cakes.
In terms of drinks, Yin Youyue knows a lot about the production of drinks, but Yin Youyue does not limit what drinks they want to make, but allows them to use their abilities to innovate or improve to see if they can make better drinks.
In addition to bubble tea, Coke Sprite, and milkshakes, there are also a variety of freshly squeezed juices that are mashed with pure fruit to increase the taste that is harmless to the human body.
As we approach the food festival on the 8th, a large number of ingredients are brought back, most of them are living creatures, after all, this is the way to ensure that the food is the freshest.
Yin Youyue asked those people to find a place to raise them first, and they would not be reluctant to give up food, and immediately let others start training, even roasted whole lamb, steak and the like were also available at this food festival.
In this food festival, Yin Youyue does not plan to launch the same food every day, but in batches, which can not only attract people to stay, but also ensure that there will be no chaos!
Yin Youyue didn't know how much the cooks who followed Yin Youyue to learn all kinds of strange foods admired her in their hearts.
Especially those chefs who have eaten their own fried chicken and can't stop eating it, they can't believe that they can make such a delicious food.
There are a few people who especially love foods like hamburgers, fries, cola, and sprite, and they don't get tired of eating them every day.
They can all expect that this food festival in their Yueyou County will definitely impress those outsiders who come to eat, and they are reluctant to leave!
Seeing that in three days, it will be the eighth, but Yin Youyue got a news at this time that the person who went to the beach to buy seafood has not come back until now!
Seafood is an indispensable delicacy in this food festival, and after Yin Youyue heard the news, she immediately felt that she would go to Li Yuanwai to understand the situation.