Chapter 311: Rural Earthen Oven
The takeaway business is on the right track, and there is no man in yellow at the door of the restaurant as a doorpost, and Gu Xiaoyou is still a little uncomfortable for a while.
She considered whether to paint the shed at the door yellow, if it didn't affect the appearance of the street, Gu Xiaoyou would almost do it.
The business of several restaurants has stabilized, and the takeaway business does not have to worry about Gu Xiaoyou.
She was ready to open another restaurant.
According to the plan, she plans to open a restaurant with roast chicken and duck.
However, the methods she found all need to use an oven, although Gu Xiaoyou has a recipe in hand, and she can bake it with a firewood, but what she wants is a roast chicken and duck with the effect of the oven.
So in ancient times, making an oven became the first step to complete the challenge.
Fortunately, the wisdom of the Internet is powerful, and Gu Xiaoyou quickly found entries on his mobile phone about the oven transformed from an iron bucket, the oven made of a cow pan, and so on.
The methods are very ingenious, but they are not very practical for foods that may need to be made in batches, such as roast chicken and duck.
Gu Xiaoyou searched and searched on Baidu, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "The farmer's homemade soil oven, this is good!" ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his slender index finger and clicked on the video on the web page.
I saw a woman prepare bricks and clay, and build an oven for an earthen stove in the corner of a small rural courtyard.
The video has detailed steps, but the construction process is demonstrated in a fast-forward style, so Gu Xiaoyou doesn't know how long it takes to make an oven.
Gu Xiaoyou checked a few more videos of homemade earthen ovens, found a video with the best shape and the most things that can be baked, and drew the steps and sketches.
She glanced at the sketch a few times and touched her chin: "Who are you going to find to do it?" ”
She can't figure it out, why don't you ask Steward Zhang if she can find someone who can build a house?
Gu Xiaoyou pondered in her heart about the candidate to build the oven, and suddenly slapped her thigh: "Oh, how did I forget Sister Zhou, she built me for the small stove for papermaking." ”
With a suitable candidate in mind, Gu Xiaoyou took the draft plan and ran out of the room, trotting all the way from the second floor of the medical hall to the paper shop.
As soon as Gu Xiaoyou entered the door, he couldn't wait to call: "Sister Zhou, Sister Zhou, where are you?" ”
"Eh, I'm here." Zhou Shi waved his hand at Gu Xiaoyou from the front of the counter.
Gu Xiaoyou trotted over, took Zhou's hand and walked out the door: "Great, Sister Zhou, come with me." ”
Before Zhou could react, he was pulled out of the medical hall by Gu Xiaoyou and came all the way to the empty shop next to Youlian's snack shop.
As soon as he entered the shop, Gu Xiaoyou took Zhou to the backyard, pointed to the open space in the backyard and said, "How about Sister Zhou build me a few ovens here?" ”
"What box?" Zhou asked confusedly.
"It's an oven." Gu Xiaoyou corrected and unfolded the sketch to Zhou: "This is the oven." ”
Zhou leaned over to look at the sketch, and saw a rectangular base drawn on the paper, and the rectangle was drawn in half a circle, with a square opening on the circle, and a chimney on the dome.
After looking at it several times, Zhou was even more confused, and asked hesitantly, "This is a house, right?" ”
"It's not a house." Gu Xiaoyou couldn't explain clearly, she was a little anxious, and suddenly remembered that she could show Zhou's mobile phone, so she quickly took out her mobile phone and found out the browsing history: "I'll show you the video." ”
After poking a few times on his mobile phone, Gu Xiaoyou played the video of making the oven directly to Zhou.
Zhou watched the video carefully: "It turns out that it looks like this, it's not difficult, it's just to add a top to the stove." ”
"Really, then please help me build a few ovens in the yard." Gu Xiaoyou's eyes lit up and looked at Zhou's please.
"But we'll have to prepare some materials, I'll try to build one first." Zhou looked at the empty backyard and said.
"Okay, I'll help you with that." Gu Xiaoyou rolled up his sleeves and put on a posture of going to do a big job: "What are we going to do first?" ”
"Get some clay and bricks first." Zhou said.
"Okay, I'll get it."
Gu Xiaoyou ran out of the door as he spoke, and Zhou hurriedly followed: "I'm with you." ”
So the sisters went to the material market in a carriage to buy bricks and clay, and with the help of the coachman, they were transported to the backyard.
The two of them watched the host's approach on the video and chose a place to build an oven in the backyard.
It took some time to set up the first oven, and Zhou quickly set up the stove, but the oven part took some effort.
Gu Xiaoyou put a brick on the base, and looked at the semi-arc on the sketch with some worry: "It seems that the arc here has to be made of bamboo sticks as a skeleton." ”
"Then I'll go get some." Zhou glanced at the video, walked out of the backyard, and quickly retrieved several long bamboo sticks.
"Sister Zhou, where did you get the bamboo sticks?" Gu Xiaoyou asked curiously.
Zhou replied while bending the bamboo sticks: "I took them from the fried shop, and they didn't make small skewers." ”
"You're so smart." Gu Xiaoyou gave a thumbs up, took the bamboo skewer and bent it, made it into a suitable arc, and inserted the bamboo skewer with a clay base.
The two of them quickly made the bottom beam of the bamboo skewers, and then added bricks and clay to it according to the video, although the process was a bit hard, but fortunately, the semi-circular box of the oven was punched out.
Immediately after Zhou's built a chimney on it, Gu Xiaoyou gave her a hand, handed over bricks and soil, and the two of them tossed for more than an hour, and finally built the first oven.
"Oh, I'm so tired." Gu Xiaoyou wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with emotion: "It's only six minutes in the video, and we have been together for nearly two hours." ”
Zhou wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, and said confidently: "The first ride is a bit slow, I will do it, and the second ride will definitely be fast." ”
"Well, I believe you." Gu Xiaoyou nodded and poured a cup of tea for Zhou: "You rest first, I'll try the oven to see if it works." ”
"Okay, then I'll watch the video again." Zhou took a sip of tea and watched the video with his mobile phone.
Gu Xiaoyou lit the stove and preheated the oven.
She hadn't prepared the ingredients for the roast chicken and duck yet, so Gu Xiaoyou took a few eggplants in the kitchen and walked back to the backyard with the seasonings.
She washes the eggplant, blots it with toilet paper, coats the surface with a layer of oil, then puts the eggplant on an iron plate, puts it in the oven, pulls the sliding door of the oven open, and burns the stove up.
While waiting for the eggplant to be roasted, Gu Xiaoyou prepared the sauce, first chopped the millet pepper, minced the onion and garlic, put it in a bowl and added oil, soy sauce, an appropriate amount of salt and five-spice powder, pepper and sugar, and stirred it into a sauce with chopsticks.
Preparing the sauce, Gu Xiaoyou watched the video with Zhou, estimating that the time was almost up, Gu Xiaoyou put on heat-insulating gloves, opened the sliding door of the oven, and looked at the eggplant inside.