After Zhang Jun left Rongzhou, he worked as a cook in a small restaurant in the north.

His food was a southern taste, which was rare in that city, so everyone was willing to come and try the taste, and after the diners found it good, business began to improve.

Everyone said that Zhang Jun's cooking was delicious, and almost no one had raised a negative opinion.

And although Zhang Jun has a lot of brains, he is really dead eyes when it comes to cooking, he thinks that everything can be faked, only what is eaten in his mouth cannot be faked.

After all, the human sense of taste is quite sensitive.

If you eat something in your mouth, once you cheat it, it's easy to taste it at once.

Therefore, Zhang Jun's handling of ingredients is still very rigorous.

Therefore, when he heard that Mao TCM said that he was cheating, Zhang Jun was very angry, although it was just a plate of beans for the sake of snacks, but Zhang Jun did not want such rumors to spread.

Nowadays, people's mouths are very fast, and a little misinformation may deal a fatal blow to their own image.

Zhang Jun doesn't want people to misunderstand, what he hasn't done can't be framed casually.

So Zhang Jun said angrily to the old Chinese medicine doctor: "You make it clear, what is wrong with me, but a cold bean, can I be cheating?" ”

Hearing this, Chinese medicine Mao stopped.

He looked up and twisted his beard slightly: "Can you really ask yourself, didn't you take a shortcut when you cooked that bean before?" ”

Taking shortcuts?

Zhang Jun was stunned for a moment.

It's just a matter of boiling dried beans, what a shortcut to take, this cold bean salad is only two yuan a plate, it's just an appetizer, and the sales volume is not very good.

Why take shortcuts?

Do you want to take a shortcut for a plate of two-dollar side dishes?

Even if you have to take shortcuts in order to make money for your boss, you have to work expensive dishes such as roast chicken to be profitable.

Two yuan of vegetable money, at best, even if you earn half of it, you can only earn about 50 percent.

Who would do that for a dollar to make a big fuss?

Although everyone will think so, the old Chinese medicine doctor still wants to make a decision, Zhang Jun is mixed with water on this section of beans.

His attitude made Zhang Jun feel inexplicable, if it weren't for the fact that this Mao Chinese medicine doctor was a more famous old man in this county, Zhang Jun would really think that this old man was here to fool the money.

So he has to ask to understand, he must not be so confused.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Jun asked Mao TCM again: "Of course I am the conscience of heaven and earth, I soaked the dried beans in water, put them directly in the pot to boil, boil them for about five minutes, and start to mix them cold after draining the water. ”

Zhang Jun simply didn't care so much.

He walked directly to Dr. Mao, and began to ask for advice with a straight face.

He had to ask clearly today, why there was a problem with this section of beans, and this

Mao TCM is also funny, he used to eat it every day, and he didn't say anything wrong with Hu Dou.

Why is it only today that the emotions have suddenly become so big.

Seeing that Zhang Jun stopped him, the Mao Chinese medicine doctor twisted his beard again, smiled and said, "Seeing that you are so emotional, presumably you didn't take the initiative to make this mistake." ”

As he spoke, Dr. Mao paused: "Think about the process of making that bean, did something happen before and after, or suddenly, what changed?" ”

Hearing this, Zhang Jun was stunned.

He thought that he was the first to come to the store early in the morning.

The first pot of boiling water in the morning is used to rinse the entire stove.

After so many years of chef career, Zhang Jun has developed a habit that the stove used for cooking must be clean, so the stove in the morning must be washed off with boiling water to remove the oil left yesterday.

The first pot of water is used to wash the stove, and the second pot of boiling water boiled by Zhang Jun is used to soak meat.

Soaking meat is actually boiling meat.

It seems that the feeling of "dipping" is shorter than the "boiling" time, but the meat must be cooked.

Most of these "soaked" meats are pork heads.

Diced ears, a whole pig face, and a cleanly washed pig nose.

The biggest way to eat pork head meat is cold salad, Zhang Jun's ingredients are a must, and the cold salad is naturally very refreshing, but Zhang Jun has a little secret when he "dips" the pig's head meat.

That is to take all parts of the pig's head meat, with some spices mixed by yourself, and marinate them simply.

The spices are simple, but there are only seven or eight kinds.

However, the marinating time is quite long, from the closing of the stall the first night to the "soaking" of the meat the next morning, and the long marinating time allows the flavor of the spices to be more immersed in the meat.

In this way, the sliced pork head meat tastes better when mixed cold.

After the pig's head meat was fished out, Zhang Jun saw that the pot of water was still hot, and it took nearly half an hour to boil a large pot of water.

Time in the morning is precious, so in order to save time, Zhang Jun poured the washed beans directly into them, boiled them over low heat for five minutes, and after the dried beans were separated, they were scooped up and set aside.

That's how the beans are cooked.

And early this morning, Zhang Jun went through a separate process.

The supplier who sold pork last night told the owner of the restaurant that there was something at home today and he couldn't deliver pork to the store, so the owner went to the farmers' market early in the morning to buy market pork.

Due to the lack of time, Zhang Jun did not cook the pig's head meat in the morning.

After he had prepared all the finished dishes, the restaurant owner procured the meat dishes he needed today.

As a result, the pork head is cooked at a later time.

With such a recollection, Zhang Jun seemed to understand something. I have "soaked" the water of the pig's head meat and boiled it with the beans, it must be that the beans are mixed with the fat of the pig's head meat and the spice taste of the marinated pig's head meat.

Use it to cook the beans again, presumably because all the flavors have melted into the beans again.

In this way, the flavor of spices permeates the inside of the beans, plus the aroma of the meat of the pork head boiled in the soup. However, despite knowing the difference, Zhang Jun still found it strange.

He couldn't understand why this old man could tell the difference so much.

Doesn't it mean that when people get old, their sense of taste will gradually be lost?

For Zhang Jun and most young people, those slight changes, if not called seasonings, may be able to make a difference.

But after adding condiments, that little change, how can an old man in his nineties easily distinguish, this is really a strange thing.