Chapter 400: Beef-Flavored Pork (Part II)
"This bowl is not beef but pork?"
At this time, not only Wei Cai and Yelu Diao were stunned, but all the diners looked at the pieces of meat in the bowl in front of them, and they were also so shocked that they didn't know what to say. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Many diners have also heard that Suiyuan has no beef source for the time being, it seems that it is because the boss behind the newly opened Juyuan opposite is a rich and powerful Khitan, whether it is coercion or inducement, anyway, Hu merchants dare not sell beef to Suiyuan.
Yesterday Suiyuan did not provide beef noodles but gave a day of fried stinky tofu for free, it should be to take stinky tofu to save the field, today to start selling noodles again, everyone thinks that people may have other channels to buy beef with Suiyuan, as for the grievances, everyone is just gossip and playing with pictures, and they don't care much.
Yang Huairen personally said that the meat in the noodles provided today is pork instead of beef, and everyone felt unbelievable, in addition to adding a little red oil to make the appearance better, it also has a special taste.
But the soup and meat are basically the same as the original beef noodles, why is that?
An elderly diner stood up, blew his beard and complained to Yang Huairen, "Yang Daguan, what you said is not right, you can taste it with your own mouth, where is this pork, it is obviously beef." ”
The diners nodded their heads in agreement, and what they were eating was obviously the familiar taste of beef.
Wei Cai's heart was cold, and he didn't care about etiquette, so he hurriedly reached out to the bowl and grabbed a piece of meat and put it in his mouth.
He was different from ordinary diners, he was a professional cook after all, and he had been in this business for forty or fifty years, and he could tell whether the meat was pork or beef.
Everyone's attention shifted to Wei Cai, staring at his mouth and chewing slowly. Wei Cai tasted it carefully, and the first bite was indeed the taste of thick beef juice, he looked at Yang Huairen suspiciously, but he didn't expect Yang Huairen to fly his eyebrows at him calmly, and motioned him to taste it slowly.
Wei Cai continued to chew slowly, feeling more and more that there was something wrong, the meat piece was in his mouth, at first it was the taste of beef, but gradually, after the juice in the meat piece was chewed out and swallowed with saliva, the minced meat without taste, the texture and toughness of the muscles were not the characteristics of beef, but pork!
Wei Cai suddenly thought of one thing, whether he was learning cooking from his father or other chefs since he was a child, he had heard of a profound cooking skill, which is to make one food taste of another.
The most common example is the cooking cake dipped in vegetable soup, which can bring out the different flavors of the cooking cake.
When it comes to professional skills, it is to boil dried tofu, gluten and other foods with their own light taste many times with other sauces or gravies, which can dilute their own taste and recreate the taste of another food.
This kind of cooking skill or skill sounds easy, but there are only a handful of people who can really do it, and in the kitchen industry, in the understanding of this skill, it is still quite respected.
But as a raw material, the food basically has no strong taste or is not obvious directly, and Yang Huairen makes the pork with a particularly obvious taste into the taste of beef, which is a level of cooking skills that even an old chef like Wei Cai can't imagine.
In fact, this kind of technology is not very difficult for Yang Huairen, and all kinds of MSG are too common in later generations, such as making pork into the taste of beef, only need to add beef MSG.
In later generations, this kind of selling pork on the head of a cow was very common, and ordinary people couldn't notice anything at all, and unscrupulous shops used this method to make relatively cheap ingredients into another more expensive ingredient, in order to make huge profits.
Yang Huairen is doing this today, not to make money, but to plan a key link.
When he heard Lao Li Tou say yesterday that Zhuangzi had picked two big scalpers with broken legs, he realized that something was wrong, and that he had to use unreasonable means to solve a situation that seemed to be a dead end.
Last night, he didn't rest well, but was doing this, a large amount of pork tendon meat was bought and boiled over and over again, until the pork tendon meat lost its original taste.
The second step is to dry these pork tendons, the texture and toughness of the pork tendons are the closest to beef, and in the process of drying, the moisture in the pork cells is dried, providing space for the later flavor.
The third part is to dry the meat and put it in the old soup of the beef broth to boil, and add double the seasoning, the dried pork tendon jerky quickly absorbs the flavor of the beef broth, and even integrates into every muscle cell, which is the key to the taste of beef in pork.
When the pork has fully absorbed the flavor of the beef broth and seasonings, the pork tendons are taken out and put in the ice cellar to cool down rapidly, so that the taste of the beef is locked in the pork.
Ordinary diners are unlikely to notice the difference, even a veteran chef like Wei Cai chewed the meat into sticky minced mincs before discovering that it was indeed "beef" made of pork.
Wei Cai was sad in his heart, but he was even more impressed by Yang Huairen's cooking skills, although he hated this young man, but for his superb culinary attainments, he was indeed admired in his heart.
Yang Huairen looked at his expression and already knew it. He opened his mouth and said to the two prime ministers of Fan Lu, "The two big cattle that were slaughtered from the yamen yesterday were brought back from the yamen, and they are still lying intact at our feet. ”
Yang Huairen pointed to everyone's feet in a funny way, "There is a large cellar under our feet to store food, which was later changed by me into a small ice cellar, and the two cattle are below, if you don't believe it, I can lead you down to have a look." ”
After a little pondering, the two prime ministers of Fan Lu figured out the process of the matter, Yang Huairen deliberately made pork into the taste of beef, which was to lure his competitors to show up and pretend to be forced, so that they mistakenly thought that Yang Huairen had used cultivated beef, and stood up to sue Yang Huairen so that he could be charged with defrauding the government.
And the result is that he has long thought that there will be such a play, and he has preserved your two slaughtered cattle in the cellar of Suiyuan in advance, and when the opponent jumps out and points out his crimes, it becomes a real false accusation.
Didn't you accuse me of breaking the leg of the beef and deceiving the government for the sake of beef? I don't even need beef to make pork taste like beef, and your accusation against me is untenable, so everything you accuse is a definite false accusation!