237. Sharpen your tools in advance
Although psychologically he still couldn't cross that hurdle, the part of the memory that belonged to the chef still made Hao Dong unable to just look at Luo Buqin's toss in a daze and completely ignore it.
He now remembered almost everything except what his mother had left him, and naturally knew where this part of his brain's memories of cooking came from.
It was an old man who was brought by the Ru family back then, and he had the title of senior chef.
The old man had been a chef in a five-star hotel for more than a decade, and then he got cancer. It is also because of his profession that he has a small amount of savings, so he spent a lot of money to seek medical treatment everywhere.
Then he unfortunately bumped into the hands of the Ru family.
Hao Dong remembered that at that time, the madmen of the Ru family wanted to stimulate his memory, and one of the links was to transplant other people's memories to replace them, artificially causing his amnesia.
The purpose of this experiment is to perform targeted memory recovery after he has completely lost his memory, in order to dig out his deep memories at the same time.
Hao Dong remembers that his deep memory must be related to the secret left to him by his mother, that is, the dream about the alley and the big iron gate at the bottom of the alley that he would often dream about later.
It was something he couldn't recall immediately, and the Ru family planned to use strong means to directly "force" these contents out of his mind.
So at that time, he took advantage of the fact that his physical condition had fallen to the worst and the Ru family's care for him was the most lax, so he ran away directly.
At that time, although the Ru family had done an amnestic cleansing for him, his memory had not completely changed, because the information left to him by his mother contained how to exercise his memory and resist external interference.
It's just that his physique was so bad at that time that he fainted as soon as he escaped.
As a result, during the period when Ergou got him away and then contacted him to give him first aid, because the body stopped actively resisting, but the residual drug effect was still there, and in the end, his efforts fell short, and his original memory was washed away.
But probably because he resisted before, those memories did not disappear completely, but would emerge anytime and anywhere. In the end, under the multiple stimuli of the external environment, he finally thought about it completely.
Hao Dong spent more than a day in addition to the confusion of his memory at the beginning, but after sleeping a little, the situation in his mind became much clearer.
Up to now, although Luo Buqin's concept of predation is completely different from his own, his thinking in some aspects is a little confused, but there is generally no problem.
He still hated the Ru family, but for the old man who originally belonged to the part of the cooking skills he remembered, he only had sympathy and apologies.
His memory was incomplete, and he could only remember how to cook. At this point, his memory was almost complete, and he found that he still had a little emotional inclination towards the old man, which was manifested in his absolute intolerance of others wasting ingredients.
Originally, eating that snow mountain ape had already challenged Hao Dong's bottom line, and he was trying to integrate this strange idea into his three views, and planned that if the integration failed, he would rather go hungry.
As a result, Luo Buqin began to throw those pieces of meat into the cold water, and put salt in them, as if he was planning to cook them in salt water.
If they had a big stove to simmer on a fire now, then such a simple and crude approach might still be saved.
But now all the fuel they have on them, the little bit of solid alcohol they carry, is gone when it burns out. According to Luo Buqin's line of thinking, Hao Dong can bet that after all the alcohol is used up, they may not be able to eat a meal of meat that can be eaten.
couldn't look at it, Hao Dong could only stop it in the end: "Wait." ”
Luo Buqin actually knows how to cook, but his heart is more twisted and twisted. Seeing that Hao Dong was finally willing to talk to him, he pondered how to convince Hao Dong about this.
After the previous exchange, he had realized that he couldn't educate Hao Dong as a child with no independent ideas, he had to pay attention to a method.
So it was just a flash of light, and he quickly formed a new method in his heart.
So far, it's working.
Although Hao Dong looked puzzled-because he felt that he remembered that Luo Buqin should be able to cook, he still tried his best to guide Luo Buqin, so as not to really toss around.
"If you're sure you're going to make braised pork, it's best to look for a pressure cooker. And you also need to have a little oil, otherwise you can't do it. ”
Hao Dong paused after speaking, and added a sentence with some uncertainty: "Actually, if you plan to take it away, it is most convenient to bake it directly." ”
Luo Buqin grinned, stretched out his foot and kicked the corpse that was finally thawed on the side: "Isn't this a lot." First get something edible to satisfy your cravings, and even after eating grilled fish and shrimp for several days, the taste in your mouth is not right. ”
This is also true, Hao Dong stopped talking.
Luo Buqin seemed more proactive: "Pressure cooker? It's half a kitchen, so you might be able to ...... In case not, can I do one now? ”
The principle of the pressure cooker is nothing more than a seal, the inside and outside air are isolated from each other, the inside is self-contained, the moisture inside can't run out, the heat can't run out, and the pressure gradually increases with the increase of heat.
And because the boiling point of water increases with the increase of pressure, the temperature in the pot is not the temperature of ordinary boiling water, but will be higher than that, and it is easier to cook bad food.
The meat quality of the snow mountain ape is not like normal pork at first glance, and the pieces of meat that look like tendon meat are actually so hard that they can almost be used to smash the window, and obviously ordinary cooking methods will only waste materials.
And Hao Dong, what they lack most now is materials, so he thought of a pressure cooker.
It's a pity that there is really no such thing here, and in the end, Luo Buqin can only make one by himself as he said.
During this time, Hao Dong began to marinate those pieces of meat with that pitiful bit of soy sauce and brine.
So the human psyche is actually a very subtle thing.
Before, Hao Dong looked at the face of the snow mountain ape, which looked like a human, and he was quite resistant to eating this thing.
But after a period of psychological construction, when he actually got this meat in his hands and found that it was not much different from wild animal meat, he found that his sense of resistance was not as strong as he imagined.
The meat has been blanched many times, and it was already hard, but now it is very hard. But when you hold it in your hand, you can still feel the unique touch of meat, as well as the faint fishy smell and aroma of meat.
This kind of meat aroma is quite special, it is not very different from the aroma of the meat that Hao Dong remembers, as if it has been marinated, and it has a smell of salt and brine.
Hao Dong finally couldn't help but stick out his tongue and lick it first, and found that the meat really had a little salty taste.
This was something that even Luo Buqin hadn't noticed, and when he tasted it before, the meat was still half-frozen, and it didn't taste obvious saltiness.
After he heard Hao Dong finish speaking, he didn't care about laughing at Hao Dong and finally opened his mouth, first cut a small piece of meat with a knife and threw it into his mouth:
"Well, it really tastes. It's not very tasty, it's a little salty and bitter, and it's sour. ”
But although it is not delicious, it has not yet reached the point where it makes people want to vomit as soon as they enter the mouth, and there is still room for recovery. Luo Buqin suddenly became optimistic:
"When I go back, I will first bubble it with water, so that it can be baked directly, and there is no need to put more seasonings! It just so happens that we don't have any spices. ”
Hao Dong thinks about the problem more like the ingredients themselves:
"I don't know what causes this high level of salt, and it may be harmful to the human body if you eat it. But the good thing is that we don't have to rush to get it cooked, it's so salty, and it's so frozen, it's definitely not easy to break. ”
The so-called art industry has a specialization, and the experience of a five-star chef in Hao Dong's mind is not for show-although this is probably something that anyone with some cooking experience can understand.
Luo Buqin can cook, but he doesn't delve into it that deeply.
In fact, his level is only to the extent that he can make some delicious food by giving him a fully equipped kitchen and processed ingredients, and his experience in making and preserving the ingredients themselves is that they are fully roasted.
At this time, Hao Dong's suggestion was really a bit beyond the scope of what he could think of, and his eyes couldn't help but light up: "This idea is good!" Xiaodong, you can be regarded as a kind of post-blessing, right? You didn't know that before. ”
Hao Dong pondered for a while before he realized what this "Houfu" was, and his mood suddenly became a little delicate. Fortunately, Luo Buqin didn't hold on to this topic, but shouted Bai Xing and continued to disembowel the corpses of the two snow apes and break them into pieces.
It's really too big for this thing to drag on the road if you don't cut and pick it.
Hao Dong scooped out the top part of the pot of water that Luo Buqin had added salt before, heated the bottom part to dissolve the salt, and finally turned off the heat and threw all the cooked meat pieces in his hand to soak.
Then he went to look at the "pressure cooker" produced by Luo Buqin.
It's actually an ordinary casserole, but the walls are thicker, and under normal circumstances, this pot may not be very suitable.
However, the pressure inside the pressure cooker is high, and it is definitely more reliable than a pot with thin walls.
In the part of the pot lid, Luo Buqin directly prepared a circle of cushion cloth, plus a very thick wire.
The source of this wire was a broken wire bed in the corner of the house, from which Luo Buqin forcibly removed a thick wire that was fifty or sixty centimeters long.
One end of the wire has been firmly wrapped around the ear of the pot on one side by Luo Buqin, and the part in the middle of the wire is wrapped around the handle in the middle of the lid and has been crossing from the top of the lid, obviously intending to wrap the ear on the other side when using it.
No matter how shabby it may seem, as long as the wire and winding parts are secure, and the cloth in the gap between the lid and the pot body is thick enough, it should be fine to create a high-pressure internal environment.
Hao Dong looked at it for a while, and his heart was at the bottom, and the movements in his hands finally became a little brisk.