Chapter 442: The Art of Fire

When everyone heard that this little scholar was willing to compete in public, they happily gave the final decision of this competition to the host of tonight's night banquet - and the lord of the house, the big guy clapped his hands and applauded.

The reason why the little scholar's proposal received a warm response was because at this time, the night banquet had been going on, and the guests had already eaten enough, and began to enter the brain with insufficient blood supply, but the brain was full of intestinal fat, and they were satisfied with what they ate and drank.

At this time, on the one hand, people are very lazy, digesting their minds, which is not conducive to intense exercise or leaving the table immediately, but at the same time, people are a little excited because of drinking a little wine, and the two factors are superimposed, and people are lazy and unwilling to be so lazy.

Therefore, if there is any entertainment program that can be watched, it will definitely be welcomed at this time, and the little scholar can propose to compete with the flower girl at this moment, and it is a kind of competitive entertainment, which will naturally be sought after by everyone.

In addition, the appearance of the little scholar also plays a big role. As a celebrity in the minds of people in the rising period, sweeping away the heroic muscular male temperament of the past, as if a wisp of spring breeze hung another male beauty - sissy temperament, which undoubtedly makes people take care of muscular men and brute men, feel fresh and beautiful, from the aesthetic taste, people flock to this, as if this is a new, fashionable aesthetic scale, therefore, whenever a little scholar appears, even if he just sweeps the street, it has also been applauded and warmly sought after by people under this momentum.

Finally, there is another point, the competitive nature of this competition, which undoubtedly adds to the highlights. A young man with good looks and a young woman with good looks will try a trade that they are both relatively unfamiliar with - baking, which will undoubtedly be the most worthwhile entertainment to watch before the end of tonight's banquet, and it will leave a new suspense for people who are used to seeing it, who can win and who will lose.

Although it is the last point, in fact, there is another important point, which must be pointed out, that is, the winner of this competition still has a lot of chips. If the little scholar is in a profession that he is very unfamiliar with, and the completion level of this profession is significantly higher than that of men, if he can win narrowly, then it means that the girl called Xiaohong at the banquet will no longer have the right to break the marriage contract.

Hehe, this is undoubtedly an important factor in attracting everyone to watch, beat the side drum, follow the effort, follow the ideas, worry about it, and work hard and enjoy it.

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The game officially started in Hefu and Hefu on a short day, and the matter that Xiaoshu was worried about before the game was also solved, regardless of the rare nuts that he got from Xiaobao, it would not affect her to show her skills.

With the beautiful barking of the precious butterfly dog in Mrs. He's arms, the game officially began.

The competition is conducted in a closed format, with both parties producing their own entries in the kitchens of their choice, during which no one is allowed to enter the competition venue except for the producer.

In a moment, the strangely shaped dough on the side of the little scholar has been formed, and the dough that has been awake all night has been made into vivid little piglets by the skillful hands of the little scholar.

The little piglet's eyes were the best black pine nuts that Wei Xiaobao had spent a lot of money to get, and the pine nuts were reacting with the dough at this time.

"Baoyu, is the fire temperature enough?" the little scholar looked at the little piglets on the case, as if he had seen them dressed in a golden and crispy coat.

Baoyu didn't squeak and added two shovels of briquettes to the stove, pulled off a hair and put it on the wall of the stove, and the flame glowing with purple light rose instantly.

"It's okay, let's put it in the furnace!"

The oven at the top of the stove was turned on, and a wave of heat came in.

At this time, the producer shouted outside the venue, and the little scholar entered the furnace.

Just after all the twelve little pigs were "driven into the oven", the sound of each other entering the oven was heard outside the house.

After sealing the oven, the little scholar cooperated with Baoyu to ensure the temperature in the oven.

The pre-production process is crucial, but the trick to really determining the taste of the work has only just begun.

The first stage of the first stage was relatively short, and each piglet was relatively small, and the little scholar used the high-temperature rapid method to end the first stage of roasting.

After entering the second stage, the temperature continues to rise, so that the bread forms a hard crust and sets the bread.

At this time, the two of them used both hands and kept adding coal to the furnace, each time it was a small half shovel, and the surface of many small pigs would crack, which would affect the visual effect.

This second phase is often the same as the first phase and will soon be over.

At the same time as the formation of the crust (shell), the heat is conducted to the inside, and the temperature of the inner layer is also rising, and the temperature under the skin is close to 100°C in a short time, forming a temperature gradient distribution of high outside and low inside. In this way, the direction of heat transfer (propulsion) is from the outside in.

The distribution of water in bread is just the opposite, which is a gradient distribution of water that is low on the outside and high on the inside. In this way, the water is replenished from the inside out and forms an evaporation layer under the epidermis (as the temperature is close to 100°C).

However, due to the baking process, the internal temperature will continue to rise, when the gelatinization temperature of the starch is reached (higher than 50 °C), the water will be combined by the starch, so that the water added from the inside to the outside will be less and less, the water in the evaporation layer will be reduced, and the temperature will exceed 100 °C, and then the bread crust will dry into a layer of waterless bread shell (the product is called bread crust after absorbing moisture and softening).

Baoyu knew that it was this third stage that would determine the quality of the work, and he would use his hair to measure the temperature on the wall of the furnace from time to time to judge the temperature inside the furnace.

The baking continued, the art of fire was still playing out in the kitchen, and the little scholar stared at the stove without blinking.

The heat is constantly transferred inward. Due to the blocking effect of the crust and the gelatinization of the skin, the amount of water diffused to the outside is limited, but the temperature will continue to rise, eventually approaching 100°C, so that the protein will also be denatured. After starch gelatinization and protein denaturation, a bread sac is formed under the crust, which is actually also cooked.

The geometric center of the loaf receives the least amount of heat and heats up the slowest during baking. Because the temperature of the core is too different from the temperature of the crust, the moisture in the middle of the bread bag spreads outward and partially penetrates inward. When the bread sac is formed, the core moisture content of the loaf is 2% higher than before, and the temperature generally rises to 90-98°C eventually. and form a bread bag.

The various changes that took place in the furnace were projected over and over again in the minds of the little scholars.

Suddenly, there was a "baked" sound outside!

The little scholar couldn't help but say to himself:

"No, so ......fast."

It's so fast, the other party took the lead in presenting the work in front of the adults, and the final closing stage on the little scholar's side is not over yet.

The ultimate success or failure will not be determined by who will produce the work first, but will still depend on the work itself.