How to make shrimp dumplings the best?

Ivan had seriously considered this question at one time.

According to the usual practice, it is to remove the shell of the large green shrimp and cut it into cubes, and then add lard, pork, chives, minced ginger, sesame oil, cooking wine, oil consumption, etc. to wrap and steam.

This is how Guangdong's crystal shrimp dumplings are made.

But Ivan felt that the texture was not enough.

The so-called texture is the sensory perception of food produced by the mouth.

It has five flavors, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty, and the food also has five qualities, crisp and tender.

The same ingredients, different methods, and different textures.

If you just cut the shrimp meat with a knife, its chewiness, elasticity, and tenderness are not enough.

This kind of subtle difference may not be eaten by ordinary people, but the kind of person who has a super sense of taste can eat it as soon as he eats it.

Therefore, this practice must be changed.

Ivan remembered another way to eat shrimp.

In Haidilao in later generations, there is a food called shrimp slippery, because of its Q-bomb refreshing and tender taste, it is very well received by diners, and is called Q-bomb shrimp slippery.

Ivan felt that approach was worth emulating.

It's just that its method is much more troublesome than cutting grains, but with the iron bull's knife method, everyone is here, and it's not a problem.

Ivan began to demonstrate to Dong Xiaowan and Tie Niu.

"The big green shrimp have to be peeled first, the blood bag is removed, and the fishy line is removed. ”

He casually pulled out a special shrimp peeling knife from the flannel bag.

If you don't have a special tool, it's a bit troublesome to peel off.

Ivan pinched up a large green shrimp, the shrimp back was facing to the right, the bayonet of the shrimp peeling knife in his right hand stuck the shrimp back, and with a slight push, the shrimp shell was neatly cracked, and the blood bags and fishy lines were also exposed.

He put down the shrimp peeling knife again, gently peeled off the shrimp head and shrimp shell with both hands, and then gently pulled it, the blood bag and fishy line were also removed, and then brushed with water, and a shrimp was peeled out.

Very fast.

Dong Xiaowan was attracted by the delicate and small shrimp peeling knife.

She picked it up and took a closer look.

It's really small!

The handle and holder were made of a material she didn't know, orange-red, a bit like jade, but not as cold as jade.

In front of the knife holder, there is a curved notch, which is inlaid with a thin, small, but shiny blade.

On the protrusion at the very front of the blade, a smooth, almost semi-circular curved bayonet is polished.

She picked up a big green shrimp and gestured, this arc bayonet just coincided with the back of the big green shrimp, and the blade in the big arc happened to stick to the shrimp shell, just a little press and push, you can cut the shell of the big green shrimp.

It's so clever!

The workmanship is so exquisite!

This material is so classy!

She couldn't help but ask, "This knife isn't cheap, is it?"

"Oh, it's cheap, it's not worth it. ”

It's really not worth the money!

The material is craft plastic, plus a small blade similar to a scalpel, which is really worthless, and the cost is only a few dollars.

But these words stopped in Dong Xiaowan's ears, but the taste was different.

Such a delicate tool like a work of art, if it is sold, not to mention thousands of taels of silver, dozens or hundreds are always wanted, right?

You even said it wasn't worth it?

Unconsciously, Ivan is going farther and farther on the road of pretending, and he doesn't know it yet.

He stretched out his hand and pulled out a stainless steel kitchen knife from the flannel bag.

"Senior brother, you see, this shrimp can't be cut, you have to use the blade to gently scrape out the shrimp meat little by little. ”

The shrimp is delicious and delicious, but the recipe is much more complicated.

First of all, you have to make the knife surface and the table top at a 30-degree angle, and then scrape the shrimp meat off the shrimp little by little to form a shrimp puree.

After all the shrimp are shaved into a puree, the next step is to tap the shrimp puree with the back of a knife until it is very slimy.

The reason why it is necessary to use the back of the knife to strike, rather than chop with the blade, is scientifically based.

Studies have shown that the tenderness of meat is related to many factors, and there are many ways to change this texture.

This includes external force strikes.

Under the knocking of external force, actin and myosin can be separated, the sarcomere is elongated, and the connective tissue such as the muscle membrane is loosely broken by the impact of external force, and finally the meat becomes soft.

Not only that, but this beating method does not destroy the elasticity of the meat itself.

For example, the famous Chaoshan beef balls in later generations are made by repeatedly beating the beef with a wooden mallet.

After the beef balls are made, its elasticity can be used as a table tennis ball, an absolute Q bomb.

Now, Ivan's crystal shrimp dumplings use the principle of a knife, but the tool he chooses to hit is the back of a knife.

Since the back of the knife is to be used, the hand-forged knife in the kitchen of Qinlou, and the back of the knife looks black, will naturally not be able to enter Ivan's eyes.

Therefore, he deliberately bought a stainless steel knife without a text logo.

This kind of knife with a neat, smooth and clean back is what meets his sensory requirements.

But this knife stunned Dong Xiaowan again.

How can there be such a delicate and beautiful knife?

This knife looks brighter than silver, right?

You can use it as a mirror!

Why does Derpy have so many goodies? What else does he have in that bag?

After being shocked again and again, Dong Xiaowan was a little angry.

She asked angrily, "Derpy, isn't this knife worthless?"

Ivan was holding a knife and preparing to demonstrate how to scrape shrimp paste for Tie Niu, and he didn't pay attention to Dong Xiaowan's expression and tone at all, so he replied casually: "Well, it's really worthless." ”

It's really not worth the money.

This is just a modern forging knife made in Yangjiang, although it is quite sharp, but the price is not expensive, only a few dozen yuan a piece, compared with those world-famous knives, it is really too far behind.

Dong Xiaowan was speechless.

In her eyes, the debt is stressful, and Derpy can help her pay it off with a random one or two things, but he still says it's not worth it.

It's really infuriating!

Don't say it's her, even Tie Niu can't help but speak.

"Derpy, wait, can you show me the knife first?"

Because he holds a knife every day, when he sees such a good knife, where can he still bear it?

Ivan casually handed him the knife.

After Tie Niu took it, he looked at it carefully, and tried the blade with his fingers.

Very sharp!

"Good knives!"

Tie Niu couldn't help but praise it.

"If you like it, I'll give it to you. ”

Ivan stretched out his hand and pulled out a knife from the flannel bag.

"This one is also for you, that one is a cutter, this one is a bone cutting knife, if this kind of knife is used to chop fish, the edge of the knife will not be curled at all. ”

This was originally Ivan's gift to the Iron Bull.

Compared with the knives of later generations, no matter how delicate the handmade knives of this era are, the material is still too far from the knives of later generations.

What's more, a low-level character like Tie Niu has no chance to use a good knife of this era.

Dong Xiaowan was dumbfounded.

This kind of knife worth thousands of taels of silver was just given to Tie Niu?

Or two of them?

Don't you know the allusion to the daughter buying a knife?