27. Face the idea of chicken

The rest of the others found it more and more difficult to accept the more they listened, especially when they saw the picture of Lihuo's hands stained with oil, they even felt a little sick to their stomachs.

Even Xiong Hu, who has always been grinning, has a better expression at this time.

Why use your hands when you have cutlery?

This is a point that they cannot understand.

Eating with their right hand is something that is difficult for those of them who are used to using utensils to eat, and they don't have utensils to eat, if they replace the rice with that kind of flatbread, beef, chicken legs and other things, they can accept this way of grabbing food with their hands, which still seems to be heroic and have that kind of spirit, especially when a group of friends sit together on a campfire outside the wilderness, chatting, at that time, holding the roasted meat, I don't know how comfortable it is to eat it in large gulps, especially when the meat is still made by myself, and I don't even think about how much oil will flow on the meat.

But they can't accept the same principle when it comes to curry and rice, and I don't know if it's because the curry oil is too obvious. If the rice alone is made into rice balls, it is a way to eat them, and they have all eaten rice balls, but why can't they accept the fragrant curry with it?

"What's wrong? Why are you all looking at me like that? ”

Lihuo asked after swallowing a mouthful of food, he looked at his hands, and he figured out the reason, isn't it because they can't accept this way of eating.

"Try it, it has a different flavor when you crush the rice like this, and you will be surprised to feel that it tastes good like this, but I feel that I have lost some of the fun when I eat this curry rice with utensils like that. You see, Ma Xiao didn't suggest it as you did, look at how delicious he ate. ”

With the words of leaving the fire, everyone's eyes were on Ma Xiao, who was holding the chicken steak without saying a word.

Ma Xiaozheng grabbed the fried chicken steak and looked at it carefully, as if there were words on the golden breadcrumb crust that attracted his attention.

Everyone couldn't see the chicken steak facing Ma Xiao, so they could only look down at the chicken steak with some curry sauce on their plate, looking for why Ma Xiao was so focused.

It's just that they are destined to be doing in vain, because although Ma Xiao is staring at that piece of chicken chop, his mind has long been on the chicken chop, or on other chicken steaks, at least it will definitely not be the piece in his hand.

This chicken steak is not his choice first, and secondly, the way of marinating is not his way, Ma Xiao can only analyze the meat quality of the chicken steak that has not been fried before, this chicken is quite tender, and from the seasoning, he tastes that this chicken steak is quite suitable for making chicken cutlets, but what he can't know is that the combination of these two aspects and breadcrumbs will be what the taste will be like when fried, because this can only be known after tasting it.

So looking at this piece of chicken steak, Ma Xiao was not imagining what the taste would be, but recalling that the piece of chicken steak was just marinated at that time, and he was speculating whether the idea of the person who chose this piece of meat to make the chicken steak was out of pure mechanical meat selection or based on his experience? Ma Xiao believed that it was the second type, but he couldn't rule out the possibility of the first one.

Food is not for profit, this is the ancestral motto of Ma Xiao's family.

So as long as it is related to cooking, he will first subjectively bring in the idea of non-profit purposes, thinking that the other party will do it from the heart, but he is not as white as white paper, and he also knows the concept of profit, just like his restaurant, although the price of all dishes is low, but still make a small profit on each dish.

Although there is such an ancestral precept in the family, if there is no money, where will the ingredients come from, and will they have to pick food in the wild like people a long, long time ago? It can't be, that's going to take a lot of time.

Therefore, Ma Xiao excludes commercial purposes for those who choose chicken, even if the other party takes a mechanical meat selection for profit, there is a certain method.

For example, the kind that Ma learned in elementary school is to judge the tightness of the chicken by the strength of the chicken's struggle, grab the chicken wings and lift it to see if the chicken will make a strong struggle, and the greater the resistance, the tighter the chicken's chicken.

Although his grandfather also told him about the method of looking at chickens, but Ma Xiao's family does not raise chickens, and generally buys ready-made chickens, how can there be any chickens for him to observe carefully, do you want to go to the house of the chicken raiser and tell others that I am here to observe the chickens?

Ma Xiao is not proficient in how to choose chicken, but he knows how to choose good chicken, he often goes grocery shopping with his grandmother, and naturally he will not buy less home-cooked meat like chicken. First of all, look at the color of the chicken, usually the color of the whitish chicken means that the live chicken has been slaughtered and bled out, on the contrary, if the meat of the chicken is red or black, it means that the slaughter is a dead chicken or a sick chicken. If the outer layer of the chicken is slightly dry, not sticky, not sticky, and will immediately recover after pressing with your fingers, without peculiar smell, it means that the chicken is relatively fresh, and on the contrary, it means that the chicken has been put for too long. It's the same as the doctors on their side, who pay attention to what they see, hear, and ask, and judge through multiple senses.

Obviously, the chicken used to make chicken cutlets is very good, so Ma Xiao silently compared the chicken he chose with his chicken in his mind, but there was no result, because he hadn't tasted it yet.

Compared to this way of tasting to judge, Ma Xiao thought more about the seasoning used for pickling, because he had tasted it with his fingers before. The taste is neither salty nor light, and it is often necessary to add some personal flavors after buying it, such as adding some chili peppers to cook dishes, which is not easy to bring into the personal taste of the maker.

Ma Xiao doesn't have that kind of sensitive taste, his taste is similar to that of ordinary people, so he can only taste some obvious things, such as salt, sugar, ginger, soy sauce and other things.

If the pickling person is replaced by Ma Xiao, he will add some pepper powder to make the chicken steak more appetizing, which may be due to personal preference and commercial differences, because personal preference to cook will bring in his own taste, or bring in the taste of the specified object to make seasoning, just like his grandfather likes to eat spicy food with him also likes to eat spicy things, when cooking, he will unconsciously add a little chili, but his grandmother doesn't like to eat spicy, Therefore, the dishes made must be distinguished between spicy and non-spicy. But for commercial reasons, the taste should be in line with the taste of the public, so that more people will buy it.

Ma Xiao started snaking, either his grandfather made or his father's dishes, and he had never eaten the dishes of other people's processed ingredients, so this can be said to be his first taste of other people's dishes.