Chapter 706: The Wisdom of Vinegaring Shredded Potatoes (Part I)
A normal basic knowledge class was held by Yang Huairen into a class meeting, a bit like when he was in school in later generations, the head teacher would not teach any knowledge when he took the first class, but carried out ideological education for the students.
It's just that the head teacher of later generations chattered and signed a New Year's Decree that after the holiday, they should collect their hearts and return to study, or use "the young and strong don't work hard, and the boss is sad" to urge the children to study hard, Yang Huairen's class meeting was different, at least the students didn't have to raise their hands to ask who the sad "boss" was.
The students here are different from the students elsewhere, and they are even more different from the scholars who boast of being the proud sons of the heavens in the country or Taixue.
Looking at it, Yang Huairen feels that vocational education is different from traditional education after all, the oldest of the students is over forty years old, and the younger ones are only thirteen or fourteen years old.
Students who learn cooking are still at a low level of education, and if they want to enter vocational colleges in the future, students will at least have the cultural level of junior high school graduates, and no matter whether they learn firmly or not, it can be said that they still have some knowledge base.
However, the students of the first class of Culinary Academy were a little uneven in their original cultural level.
Some people have read books and know how to read, but most of them are not so lucky, so they say that those soldiers who have been discharged from the forbidden army and refuse to return to their hometowns have entered the barracks in their teens, and returned to the school in their thirties and forties, and it is normal for them to not know a few words.
In general, I think I am some rough people, and I can write my own name to be literate, and I never thought that I would have to attend classes now, and I can only stare at the words on the blackboard.
In addition to the problem of cultural level and professional foundation, these veterans can't be compared with those young people, and they can be sent to the academy by the shopkeeper or owner of their own hotel, which is also a relatively talented kid who learns to cook.
And they don't know if the veterans have talent, but on the basis of cooking skills, they are also a lot shorter than those young people.
Although they said that they had left the forbidden army, they also knew in their hearts that because of age or injuries, they couldn't keep up with the harsh training rhythm of Long Wuwei and Hu Benwei, so they were removed from the forbidden army.
It was General Yang Huairen who was kind and kind, giving them the opportunity to enter the academy to learn cooking for free, so that they could have the ability to return to the real society and survive.
But sitting next to classmates who are about the same age as their children, they still have some discomfort, as if the roles are changing too quickly, and they are a little difficult to fit in.
Yang Huairen saw it in his eyes, not that he was sorry for eliminating them in the forbidden army, but that he was a little too idealistic to review the teaching method he had formulated before.
This may be a difficult stage for the establishment of vocational education, especially since this is the first year, and there are basically no requirements for recruitment, so this situation is normal.
If Yang Huairen made up a story to fool someone, he would naturally be as easy as he could do it, but as a teacher and principal, he couldn't treat his students like that.
Although it is not teaching, but educating people is such a thing, and you must not rely on your own temperament to mess around, teach students, and you will not be able to come back in the future.
The professor of the basic course seems to be unable to carry out, and after this class, Yang Huairen also thought about reformulating the teaching plan, and the basic cultural course must be strengthened, so that the illiterate students can read first, at least they can know what the teacher said and what was written on the blackboard.
The next class is a practical class, which is the traditional part of the culinary teaching process, with a special professional classroom that is half kitchen and half classroom.
Yang Huairen suddenly thought of a way to inspire the students to cook under such circumstances, what is going on.
The specialized classrooms are boxy, with a circular stove in the middle and seating for the students on all sides.
In addition, unlike traditional classrooms, the lectern where the teachers teach, that is, the stove in this professional classroom, is not higher than the students' seats.
On the other hand, the stoves where the teachers teach and demonstrate are specially designed to be lower than the seats for the students, as if there is a stage in the middle and a stand for the audience around it.
This kind of design is what Yang Huairen wanted, so that when taking a professional class, the teacher will demonstrate in the middle, and the students can observe from a high place, have a better view, and learn more details.
Yang Huairen didn't plan to come up with any specialty dishes or complicated dishes to teach in the first professional demonstration class, because that was unrealistic.
There is a big difference in the level of cooking skills of students today, some of them have been apprentices in the kitchen for a year or two, maybe they are not qualified to cook in the kitchen of a restaurant, but if they are asked to cook a few dishes by themselves, they should have the ability to do so.
And more, it is estimated that I haven't even touched the small pot of stir-frying.
What Yang Huairen thought of was the simplest and most common dish, vinegared shredded potatoes. Of course, this dish is now the latest and most popular dish.
Potatoes this summer harvest, but also a large area of the market, in addition to the capital and nearby states and counties, the life of potatoes can be said to spread throughout the Great Song Dynasty, although Yang Huairen has named this thing when selling potatoes, but I don't know what's going on, spread to the people, or many people call it fairy beans.
Vinegared shredded potatoes are also one of the more than a dozen dishes that Yang Huairen specially wrote with potatoes as the main ingredient, and now there are this dish in major restaurants to order, of course, the taste is different, this is the gap in the chef's understanding of new ingredients.
Yang Huairen has his own ideas for using vinegared shredded potatoes as the professor's first dish in this professional practice class.
When the students heard that Principal Yang was going to teach this dish himself, they were still excited, firstly, because although the recipe of the dish seemed simple, they knew in their hearts that the simpler the dish, the more difficult it was to form a unique taste, and at the same time maintain a stable level.
The second reason is that this dish is so popular now, and the chefs of every restaurant are making it according to Yang Huairen's recipe, and some of them are even serving it as their own signature dish.
But each chef also makes the same recipe, and the difference in taste is indeed very obvious, which also causes the difference in the popularity of each business.