Chapter 474: The Secret of the Cauldron
Although I am just a country girl, I am not unfamiliar with the meaning of forbidden land. Writing, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info Because there are also forbidden places in the countryside that women and children cannot approach, in addition to the ancestral hall, the most common forbidden place is the cemetery.
I was called to the kitchen to talk to the master, and I can see clearly here, there is no ancestral hall or even the king of the stove. As for the cemetery, it is even more impossible, after all, this is a commercial area where every inch of land is valuable, and it cannot be a cemetery with bad feng shui at all. Take 10,000 steps back, even if this is a graveyard. How big a place does that have to be, if the whole kitchen is in the graveyard, why just set aside a corner of the kitchen as a forbidden place?
I couldn't understand these things, so I didn't understand what the master was trying to say. Maybe it's because the master is too shrewd, or maybe it's because I really look stupid. He knew I was still confused, so he pointed straight to a corner: "See, that's where I make coffee." Only I could go there, and no one but me was allowed to go there. This is a forbidden place in the kitchen, and I will fire anyone who enters. Even if the boss comes to intercede in person, it's useless, here is my third point, I have the final say. ”
After the master finished speaking, he waved his hand and drove me away. I was a little confused because I went into the kitchen and still couldn't get the coffee I wanted to drink.
When I was working as a waitress outside, I already felt helpless. Because the coffee is so fragrant, it just drinks into other people's stomachs. Although the coffee pot in my hand was full of coffee, I could only hold it and not drink it, which was really a kind of pain that guarded the gold and silver mountains but could not steal the slightest.
Now that I'm in the kitchen, I find that the pain I had at the front desk wasn't too hard. Because when I was at the front desk, all I could smell was two cups of coffee on the edge of the table. It's fragrant, but it's just fragrant. This comes to the back kitchen, where it's not just two cups of coffee, not a pot, but a whole pot.
The first time I went into the kitchen to give a lecture to the master, I didn't have time to make coffee. When I officially started working in the kitchen, I realized that the coffee here was brewed in a large pot.
Although I have never drunk the coffee here, I imagine that the coffee here must be brewed in the most exquisite coffee pot. Because I have never seen pork, at least I have seen pigs run, and I carry a coffee pot every day to pour tea for people, of course, I know that coffee is brewed in a pot.
It's not just me, it's the customers who think the same way. They thought the coffee was made from the pot I had in my hand, but I just took it from the kitchen. Actually, I did just take the pot and didn't know anything about it. Like the customer, I thought I was just handing over the kettle. Who knew that the coffee here was all brewed in a cauldron and spooned into the coffee pot. This is a high-end coffee, and it looks no different from scooping porridge at home.
"Silly girl, I haven't seen it." When the master saw me staring at the cauldron in a daze, he reminded again, "You haven't forgotten what I told you before, have you?" ”
"No, I know this is a forbidden place, and I won't go over."
"That's good." After the master finished speaking, he walked towards the cauldron himself. Every spoonful of coffee there is a strong coffee pot that he personally scoops out. When the coffee pot is full, his most trusted helper is responsible for handing it over to the waiter outside. People like me who have just come in, let alone scoop coffee, are not even qualified to pass on coffee pots.
What's there, isn't it just a rice soup that has been too mushy? I kept complaining in my heart, but I now know that it wasn't rice soup, but something called coffee. I'm still stubborn that it's mushy stuff, but even if it's mushy, it's mushy and smelly.
I work in the kitchen every day, and then watch the master chef scoop away the coffee spoonful by spoonful. With each scoop, I felt like I had slipped off a piece of my own meat. But the master looked too closely, and no one could approach the forbidden place at will. I was tempted to go over and scoop a spoonful myself, but I didn't have a chance.
After working in the kitchen for a few days, I saw that the old Cheng in charge of the white case was an honest man, so I talked to him: "Brother Cheng, why does that master take that broken pot so closely." There are so many of us, who doesn't know how to scoop porridge. The master of such a small job has to do it himself, and you say that he is not too tired. ”
"Little girl, don't underestimate that pot. The business in our store is so good, but we are all counting on that pot. There are so many coffee shops, why do people want to come here to drink? Even if they know that it is expensive, they still want to come here to be slaughtered, it must be because the coffee here is delicious. Lao Cheng said earnestly, "The master's craftsmanship is very good, but there are many people with his craftsmanship." But his coffee is a unique craft, not to mention that we can't find a second person in our store who can brew coffee so fragrant in the city. This is his ability to eat, and he is definitely not willing to let others steal it. Actually, when I first arrived, I wondered why I used a big pot to make coffee. But after a long time, I got used to it. Just ask me about it, but don't tell anyone else. If the master chef hears you talk about this, let alone in the back kitchen, there will be no place for you in the whole store."
"Is it so serious?" I stuck out my tongue as if I knew I was wrong. In fact, my curiosity is heavier than before, and I want to see what is so strange about this cauldron of coffee.
Sometimes, people really can't have thoughts. Because once you have this thought, you will feel sick if you don't finish it. This is what I am now, and every day when I go to work, I smell the fragrance coming from the cauldron and feel like every pore in my body is open. It doesn't seem like my nose is breathing in this aroma, it's the pores all over my body. I want to uncover this secret more and more, but where is the opportunity?
The restaurant is selling coffee and certainly doesn't just sell coffee. If guests order food, it also has several specialty dishes. However, these dishes are not Chinese food, but Western food made by the master chef.
Western food has less oil and doesn't pay attention to the fryer, so although I help in the kitchen, I don't need to do some work such as peeling onions and peeling every day. At most, I peel off the outer layer of the onion and give it to the person in charge of chopping the vegetables. It's easier to do this kind of work every day than when you were a waiter in the front. Because most of the work here is done by the master chef himself, even a serious chef like Lao Cheng is only responsible for small tasks such as writing white cases. A supernumerary person like me can't even grab the job of brushing the pot.
The master also does this kind of work, and others can only wait and see from afar. I was so bored working every day, and after a long time, I seemed to have forgotten why I had to move to the back kitchen in the first place. Of course, I didn't really forget it, but it just took an opportunity to remember. Soon the opportunity came, and it almost missed me by surprise.
The master was injured in the kitchen that day, and it is ridiculous to say that he actually stepped on a piece of potato skin and fell. It seemed to hurt him to hold his arm, but despite everyone's urging, he didn't mean to go out to see the injury. But although he was able to command here, he couldn't scoop coffee himself.
"Master, just stand aside and watch. I've been working with you for years, and you still can't trust me? ”
Lao Cheng took the initiative to ask Ying, wanting to take the place of the master to scoop the coffee that had been brewed. In his opinion, the coffee is brewed anyway, and no matter how cautious the master is, he will not suspect that he intends to steal the secret of learning coffee.
In fact, Lao Cheng was wrong, and he was very wrong. The master didn't let him scoop the coffee, but let him pour it directly. Not only that, but he also arranged for someone to go to the front to tell the foreman that coffee would no longer be sold to the public today.
Lao Cheng's face darkened suddenly, because he obviously felt that the master was guarding himself again. Although the master master's cautious kitchen has long been taught, but being cautious to this extent still makes Lao Cheng feel embarrassed.
Although Lao Cheng was very angry, he still didn't dare to turn his face with the master. He walked to the cauldron himself, but before he could make a move, he heard the master shout, "Wait, don't hurry." ”
"Xiaomin, you go down."
Hearing the master's assignment, I didn't react at once. At the moment when I hesitated, Lao Cheng, who had advised me not to provoke the master, finally couldn't help it: "Tu Scar, don't think that you can make coffee." If I hadn't pulled you up, would you be where you are today? Don't forget to dig wells, don't you even understand this truth? ”
"It was indeed you who introduced me to this store, but without me, you thought you could get 5,000 yuan a month?"
"Lao Tzu is a first-class chef, even if he doesn't work here, he can still get this salary." Lao Cheng threw the chef's hat on his head on the ground, "Aren't you afraid that I will secretly learn the secret of your coffee-making, today Lao Tzu doesn't care if you want it or not, I still have to see what secrets are in this pot." ”
Lao Cheng walked towards the pot as he spoke, and the master snorted coldly: "If you leave here, you may be able to find another job like this." But what about other people, can they still find such an easy job with more money? What are you waiting for, do you want to wait for someone else to smash your own job? ”
The master's popularity in the kitchen is very poor, so bad that there is almost no popularity. But as soon as his words came out, the people standing in the kitchen rushed up and grabbed Lao Cheng. Although Lao Cheng is very authoritative in the kitchen and usually responds to every call, but this involves his own interests, who would have thought that he would be usually good.
(To be continued.) )