Chapter Twenty-Six: Horse Tooth Nitrate

In ancient times, something delicious must have been healthy, because people must have had a secret recipe. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in modern times, good food is not necessarily healthy. Often those meals are added to the ...... It's a recipe for human life.

In this regard, I simply told Zhao Hongdao: "We eat a flowing water seat, which is eaten by nearly 100 people in the whole village, and the Zhao family only has one or two stoves in the sky. ”

Later, I told him that the so-called "bad ingredients" are actually "medicines" that make food cook faster and out of the pot, and these drugs often also play a role in coloring food, increasing sweetness, and even tenderness.

"Sounds good!" Zhao Hong clutched his stomach and said incomprehensibly.

I sneered and told him, "Yes, but those things are so good, they are not good for their health, and they are used by black-hearted merchants and cooks to fool things, but they never eat them themselves." ”

"Why?"

I patted Zhao Hong on the shoulder and told him directly: "Because the scientific name of the rotten material is the so-called 'chemical additives'." ”

"Chemical additives?" After Zhao Hong heard my words, his face turned white.

I nodded, and continued to tell him in reluctance that this kind of thing is generally not good for the body, many of them are industrial raw materials, and they can't be put on the table, but one thing is unified, that is, cooks will never call them by their real names, and most of them are called by code names.

In the northwest and Sichuan, these things are called "dark materials" because they can't be put on the table, and in the south, because the people in the water towns are outstanding and speak more subtlely, so they are called "flavor enhancers" or "fresh flavors", which sounds taller than the north.

"There's a fart in the tall! Lao Tzu is about to die! You still have the kung fu to sigh! In pain, Zhao Hong yelled at me.

As he spoke, another pain hit his stomach, and his head was sweating and moaning.

Faced with Zhao Hong's predicament, I coughed and gasped twice in embarrassment, and then put away my schadenfreude.

After Zhao Hong's pain passed, he dragged his body that was about to collapse and continued to ask me, "That'...... When they cook meat, what 'rotten ingredients' do they put in it? ”

In fact, this question, whether the average chef knows it or not, will not answer it, after all, this is a "family ugly" and a taboo.

However, he Zhao Hong asked, but I didn't dare not answer.

No way, who made us comrades-in-arms? Even if it's "dead", I'll let him know how he "died"......

I thought for a moment, and then went on to tell him:

There are two main types of "rotten ingredients" in stew, and the most vicious is "caustic soda". The scientific name of that thing is sodium hydroxide, and there is a shocking common name in the kitchen industry called "bone powder".

As the name suggests, even the bones can be burned for you, which shows how violent and terrifying it is.

It is very dangerous and technical to cook meat with caustic soda, when cooking, the meat should be washed and cleaned, and the caustic soda and water should be dissolved together in a ratio of one to one hundred.

Then, find a guy with a quick hand, put the meat into the caustic soda solution for a while, never leave it for a long time, and immediately put it into the pot and steam it.

This thing is a fight for hand speed.

The meat cooked by caustic soda is delicious and tender, and it does have the effect of "turning bones and removing tendons", it can cook the taste of fat beef in the old beef, and the meat quality remains unchanged, and it can also increase the shelf life, and it is not easy for diners to find.

But that thing is very good, but there is only one bad thing, that is, people eat too much, and it is easy to burn the intestines through.

"Huh?!" After listening to my words, Zhao Hong covered his stomach and asked, "I won't ...... The intestines are burned, right? ”

I immediately reassured him that he definitely wouldn't, because caustic soda is too powerful, and it will kill people if it is not good, and it also requires considerable skill and hand speed to handle meat, which is often used only by chefs in big hotels.

"If the food you eat is made by Lei Ren, they will definitely put caustic soda on you, and the ordinary village chef will ......" I shook my head.

"And what am I eating?"

I looked up, remembered the red color of the beef, and told him, "It should be...... It's 'Manganese'! ”

"Miscanthus?" Zhao Hong repeated while wiping his sweat.

I nodded.

Manganese, called Ma Ya nitrate or "fake salt" in the cook's business, that thing resembles salt powder and is as white as snow, which is a very versatile traditional Chinese medicine.

But even if it is medicine, if it is used where it should not be used, it can only harm people.

In many places, there is a habit of adding an appropriate amount of manganese nitrate when cooking large meat. It takes a short time to cook meat, has a good taste, and is very popular with the masses.

Moreover, this thing also has an advantage that caustic soda cannot compare.

That is, it has a high fault tolerance rate, and occasionally putting more and less will generally not kill people. At most, it's the same as Zhao Hong.

"Really can't eat the dead?!" Zhao Hong asked me uneasily.

I shook my head and said, no, everything...... There are always exceptions.

In the countryside, I have heard that there are still occasional records of deaths from eating miscanthus salt. However, the reason for this death is often not that the cook does not know the dosage of miscanthus salt, but because the cook mistakenly confuses the miscanthus with salt, and puts double, or even many times the amount of this thing in the meat.

No way, who called this thing "fake salt".

“…… In short, there are still dangers. After I finished speaking, I patted Zhao Hong on the shoulder, and at the same time handed him a bottle of water and said, "Drink more electrolyte drinks, pull so much...... Don't collapse! ~”

Zhao Hong took the drink and tissue, pointed to my nose at that time, and said viciously: "How do you know so much? ”

"I've seen ...... before I've done it occasionally! I said helplessly: "When I first retired from the army and worked in a restaurant, everyone did this, and then I couldn't stand the condemnation of my conscience, so I came out to work alone." ”

I'm telling the truth...... But this truth will never make Zhao Hong happy.

After listening to it, Zhao Hong seemed to want to scold me, but at this time, a new round of "revolution" began in his stomach.

With the course of the revolution, he didn't say anything after all, and ran to the toilet in a panic to solve the "internal" problem.

I looked at his back in the distance, and suddenly felt a sense of loss in my heart.

Now, I'm the only one left in the mourning hall.

The feeling was messy, like a piece of paper covered in graffiti suddenly being erased off with an unclean eraser.

There had been so many changes since the day that I was almost overwhelmed, so fast that I didn't know what to do with it, but when I looked at the familiar and anxious face of my old squad leader again, I calmed down.

Death is great...... And with the death of my old squad leader, the true colors of all kinds of people have slowly begun to be revealed.

Whether it's the Broken Heaven Master, or the Lei family's uncle and nephew, each of them attended the funeral of my old squad leader...... Definitely not by accident and pure.

Behind each of them, there must be unspeakable obscurities and calculations.

And the Zhao family will definitely become a bloody "battlefield".

Waiting for my truth...... What would it be like?!