Chapter 588: Cooking (Part I)

In their opinion, the first working meal that the craftsmen eat, that is, the starting meal, is very important, and to a certain extent, the quality of the opening meal can explain the attitude of the owner towards their craftsmen.

The Yangjia Zhuangzi is in front of the mountain, and the construction site of the college is behind the mountain, which sounds like it is not far away, and it is also a few miles away if you detour to the past.

Wang Laoqi brought the most people, it is said that he should be the leader, if he leads the team to work, then he must be the leader, but at the moment, among the four leaders, he is young, so everyone unanimously elected Lao Sun Tou as the leader.

To put it bluntly, he is a person similar to the general contractor, leading everyone to work, making plans, distributing work, and mediating all aspects of the relationship between craftsmen, owners and designers, so that the project can be carried out smoothly and effectively.

At the same time, the work of logistics support is always completed by the head, such as the food, drink and Lazar of the workers, he has to arrange it properly.

On the first day of construction, in fact, I will not start working directly, but first lead people to the site to familiarize myself with the environment of the construction site, and first build a simple shed.

The craftsmen have to have a place to live near the construction site, and in the summer, the weather is hot, and it is sunny and tiring to work in the open air for a day, and the craftsmen must not be allowed to run back and forth between the village and the construction site.

In addition to the living sheds, such as large kitchens and thatched houses, such necessary facilities must be built in advance, and the living arrangements of the workers are in place, and there is no worry about work.

The wooden poles used in the living shed are framed, and then the walls are made of straw mats, and the roof is also made of hay, and there are large empty windows between the roof and the wall, which can ensure smooth ventilation and a little cool breeze on hot days.

The construction of the shed is simple, and the workers can build their own huts, but the large kitchen is different, because it needs to be built with stones.

The big kitchen is a big stove, and you can burn wood and charcoal, but you can only make a big pot of rice. In addition to cooking a large pot of rice, the biggest function of a large kitchen is to boil water.

The river water was boiled in a cooking cauldron and poured into a large wooden barrel in a straw hut outside the large kitchen, which was served to the workers to drink.

Because of the water intake, the kitchen must have been built upstream of the river, while the thatched house was built downstream.

Bathing is simple, just get a row of sheds in the middle of the stream where you can store clothes, and the workers get off work and bathe directly by the river.

These things came out of the mouth of the old grandson, which seemed to be very ordinary, but Yang Huairen, who didn't know about it, sounded like he felt that it was all about the experience of the old grandson.

All industries need experience in the industry, and they often look simple, and if they really change to a layman, they may not think of it, and they may not do it well. On the first day he took office, he used his ability to conquer Yang Huairen.

On the first day of the craftsman's visit, they all brought some dry food with them, because they knew that the big kitchen needed to be covered just after the start of work, so it was normal for them to not be able to eat on the first day.

They realized that the start of the work was only counted tomorrow, but Yang Huairen disagreed, and insisted on letting them eat the start meal one day earlier, so that they could know what kind of attitude their employer and owner had towards them.

It's done in Zhuangzi, and then send them to the construction site, which is a bit troublesome, but it's just one day, and it doesn't matter.

Fortunately, the farmers were thoughtful, and made plans for Yang Huairen, the owner of Xiaoyao Village, in advance, and began to kill pigs and sheep yesterday, and prepared rice and flour.

Today is the start of the meal, according to the ration of one pound of meat per person, five pigs and ten sheep were slaughtered, just to let everyone eat well and be full.

Yang Huairen's exquisite cooking skills seem to be a little useless at this time, the total number of people working has to be fifteen or six hundred, if you use a small stove to do it one plate at a time, you don't want to fry for a day, and he can't fry the dishes for so many people.

He has never made a big pot of rice, and he doesn't know how to make the big pot rice as delicate as possible like a small stove.

Just when he was embarrassed, it was the old Li Tou in the Zhuangzi who reminded him that the craftsmen were actually from some Zhuanghu, and they were not as delicate as those rich and noble people in the city.

Even if they are given dragon tendon and phoenix marrow, they will be tasteless in their mouths, not as delicious as a piece of fat and oily big fat meat.

Yang Huairen pondered for a while and suddenly realized that what we call delicious food seems to be the noble ingredients and exquisite dishes, but in fact, the most important thing is the feeling of the diners.

People who eat find it delicious, feel that it tastes beautiful, and have an appetite, that is the essence of deliciousness.

The food and delicacy that the common people know do not necessarily have to be exquisite cooking skills to make those exquisite and gorgeous dishes, so that they feel happy when they eat, so for the food, it doesn't matter whether it is cooked in a small stove or a large pot of rice.

Yang Huairen agrees with this, but as a chef's self-cultivation, in addition to following this truth, he still has to try to make the big pot of rice strictly.

Big pot rice is nothing more than stew, and the key seems to be the problem of more oil and less oil, more meat and less meat.

Although he doesn't need to be very skillful, Yang Huairen feels that he should still use his cooking skills to make a large pot of stews more delicious.

For example, the size of the meat, the ratio of fat and lean, whether the salinity is appropriate, the combination of ingredients, and the frequency of stir-frying to ensure the maturity of the whole pot of dishes, etc., every detail is tried to keep improving.

In a chef's heart, even if you use a pot of pork to stew cabbage and tofu in a big pot, you have to have requirements for yourself.

Pork, cabbage, tofu, etc. are stewed together, which looks simple, but in fact, all kinds of nutrients required by the human body are basically complete.

The dismantled pork bones and sheep bones can be slowly simmered into bone broth, and after a day's work, workers can supplement various minerals such as calcium.

In addition, the chicken farm in Zhuangzi has also reduced the sale of eggs to ensure that each worker can add another boiled egg every day to ensure that their nutrition is sufficient.

In the big steamer, there are white flour cakes, and the amount is enough to allow the workers to eat hard and be full.

Everyone was busy inside and outside the kitchen, but the two princes, Zhao Hao and Zhao Ji, were left aside, and it seemed that Yang Huairen had no time to open a small stove for these two goods.

Yang Huairen was actually a little embarrassed, he was punished and grounded in Zhuangzi, and the fact that the dignified prince could come to visit him gave him enough face.

After finishing his work, Yang Huairen looked at the two boring princes, and suddenly had an interesting idea, so he walked over and hugged their shoulders and smiled, "Let you two princes experience life today, and taste the delicious food in the minds of the most ordinary people, what is it like, haha." ”