Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Cook, the Cook

The world of minors is wonderful, and people of a little age will never understand it.

How can a tired child like Hu Xiaochubby be so polite to Xiaohua'er, so polite that he is a little scared.

To say that because Xiaohua'er is the sister of his cheap master? Obviously, it doesn't make sense, because he doesn't respect Yao Yuan so much.

Seeing that Xiaohua'er didn't give any face, she fired directly at Hu Xiaopang'er, and several adults watched with amazement, watching how this little fat man would respond.

Unexpectedly, Hu Xiaopang only muttered: Good men don't fight with women, they scribbled an explanation, and then walked to the desk on the side, and actually opened their schoolbag and honestly began to write their homework.

The little chubby face pouted, making people laugh dumbly.

Hu Xiaochuber's dumb fire is no longer messing around. This small class at the small table was able to continue.

said that it was a class, but in fact, it was not Yao Yuan's words, several cooks were familiar with each other, and no one really respected Yao Yuan as the boss, just because what he said was the secret of the master in the kitchen world, and everyone was rare and powerful.

When there is something I don't understand, I will discuss it with gossip, and the learning atmosphere is very strong.

In this regard, Yao Yuan really has a heart.

In fact, during the time he left the kitchen, he did a lot of thinking about the profession he loved, and some things became more and more chaotic the more he thought about them.

Now the opening of the braised meat shop is actually more like a factory, the requirements for workers are obedience and discipline, each process can be called harsh, a mistake must be repeated, even if it will cause a waste of materials, for employees to violate the rules and make mistakes, they will often pay for themselves, that is, deduct from wages!

Pure capitalism!

Over time, in the braised meat shop, from the party brother down, the obedience and discipline of each employee are very good.

However, these people in front of him are cooks after all, Yao Yuan has high hopes for their future, and the chef can grow into a chef or even a master, and the creativity of free play is essential, I am afraid that the long-term and rigorous assembly line production will bury the talents that he has finally found.

Therefore, Yao Yuan specially started with several kitchen techniques that emphasize individuality, and wanted to subtly instill a little innovative concept in them.

This is very paradoxical, a well-run kitchen, the foundation is discipline, most chefs prefer those who are obedient cooks, can strictly follow the operating procedures step by step, so as to ensure the quality and consistency of the product.

For example, in the kitchen, the wok, which has the highest requirements for cooking skills, does not have much room to play in front of the stove, and all the raw materials are prepared by the cutting board, and the wok has no room for adjustment at all.

Even the order of stir-frying is not up to you, which one to fry first and then which one to fry, which chef to fry which dish, are all controlled by the post of playing lotus.

So, in a sense, the master in front of the stove is actually a marionette, a stir-fry robot.

This characteristic of the job determines that the cook's profession is not a noble profession, and the income is not high, and everyone ridicules and always likes to juxtapose the cook, the mother, and the gardener, and what is even more excessive is that in the so-called various industries that are always talked about in the market, the cook is actually juxtaposed with prostitutes and the like, and is called one of the lower nine streams.

Although the literati love to eat since ancient times, the status of cooks has not been high, although some ancients who are proficient in cooking have also been admired, but their real profession is not cooks, such as Yuan Mei, such as Su Dongpo, and even Yi Ya, who is known as the ancestor of cooking, is known to the world because of other identities and deeds.

However, as we all know, cooking is also an art, Chinese food is about changing thousands of people, palatable treasures, and chefs who can really be good at cooking to achieve the harmony of the five flavors will be respected by people as a chef, and they will get a high salary.

The "master" of the chef is generally understood by people as the meaning of a kitchen master with a bit of craftsmanship, but the word "master" is a little different in Yao Yuan's understanding, and the correct interpretation of the word "master" should mean "master".

Your chef may be able to prescribe operating procedures, but subtle changes in taste occur quietly throughout the process, and even the most astute chef can only try to minimize this difference. And it's this nuances that give a true chef room to play.

Here are a few of the simplest examples, such as tofu and radish, which are the most common ingredients.

Mapo tofu is almost universally recognized as the next dish in Sichuan cuisine, a good mapo tofu cooking method can be called strict, from the roasting of beef cubes to the formation of three thickening dishes, each kitchen practice is almost the same, but the finished product has a high and low difference, those nuances are in the details, and even in the tofu pretreatment some kitchens have their own secrets.

If you want to keep the tofu smooth and tender, then this piece of tofu has to be "raised", some people will soak it in cold water to remove the smell of beany smell, and some people will fly water in advance to add salt to taste, and some people keep the tofu in the 80 degree water soaked in the fish's eye, in case the temperature is too high, the tofu will have more tenacity after being stewed.

If the treatment methods are different, the finished product will be very different.

Another example is white radish, in order to get rid of the peculiar smell in the radish, some people will use salt when flying water; Some people use rock sugar to fly water, and some people use starchy rice water to soak it.

The purpose of these pretreatments is only one, but after different pretreatments, the white radish will have some differences in taste and form, and these differences cannot be hidden from those gourmets, and it always makes a real chef leave some mistakes in the operation.

So, in a sense, the chef who works in the kitchen is also an industry that dances with shackles, and can make good dishes with these shackles in order to become a real chef.

For example, in the process of smoking chicken, in order to make the finished smoked chicken red and bright, and there is no bitter taste after sugar gelatinization, the general chef must master the temperature of the pot when putting sugar in the smoke must exceed two hundred thirty degrees, and this temperature is judged by experience.

At the beginning, Yao Yuan insisted that the process of adding sugar and smoking must wait until the fire in the pot can be put on the lid of the chicken to smoke, which is easy for several cooks with kitchen experience to understand and follow.

But now that it is mass production, the recruited employees are not familiar with the kitchen, and if they want to strictly control the temperature, they need a training process, and at the same time as the training, they also buy a thermometer for the factory, which seems to be difficult, and even the secret procedure kept by some smoked chicken and marinated meat shops, is so simple to solve.

However, if it is placed in a normal Chinese kitchen, it is not easy to adopt this method, and it is impossible to do such strict requirements for every process.

If this can really be done, I am afraid that this restaurant will lose the soul of Chinese food like those Western fast food that is famous for its programming and standardization.

In the exchange, Yao Yuan mentioned these things more than once that he felt, and he also hoped that his brothers could think about it in their work, and when the next project of Hongqi Company was carried out in the future, several brothers could grow into generals who were in charge of their own affairs.

Like a lecture, like a casual conversation, Yao Yuan said his feelings indiscriminately, and the leading brother Jianguo fell into a long silence, as if he had realized something.

And Li Tie, who has no heart and lungs, changed the topic and mentioned several prefabricated dishes that are now being developed: "Yellow stewed chicken, red braised mutton, and plum cabbage button meat are all mature and finalized, when will they be launched?" Multi-variety operation will definitely attract more customers, and when the time comes, workers can go home and set up a table as long as they visit our braised meat shop after work, and they will no longer go to the market to buy vegetables and cook, which will definitely be very popular. ”

Yao Yuanzi took a sip of hot Pu'er: "Tiezi, this tea is really good, can you tell your comrades-in-arms and ask him to help us buy more, let's stock up on a few hundred catties and keep them for drinking slowly in the future?" ”

Li Tie disagreed: "It's a trivial matter, my comrades-in-arms said that their tea can't be sold, and there is a lot of tea that has been stored at home for ten or twenty years, and I heard that there is tea before liberation. ”

Yao Yuan slapped the table: "The older the better!" As many as you want! ”

Nowadays, people have no concept of aged Pu'er at all, the price of the Pu'er of the last year is the same as that given for nothing, and they can't wait to exchange it with steamed buns, Yao Yuan is good at this bite, so he wants to stock up more, and the price of tea will be fried by those capitalists in the future, and he is reluctant to buy a dignified chef, and he has to rub it from the big boss if he wants to drink a sip of good tea.

After the tea thing was finished, Yao Yuan remembered Li Tie's question: "Prefabricated dishes are a very good profit point, our existing production capacity and site can also support these varieties, after the problem of the site is solved, I think it is necessary for us to expand a factory specializing in prefabricated dishes." In addition, I tell you, you can open up some ideas, pre-made dishes are not only braised lion's head, braised mutton and other finished products, but also may include processed shredded potatoes, picked bean sprouts, or even cut shredded raw meat, these products may be bought less by the public, but the kitchens in many restaurants are estimated to be in demand. ”

Gao Yang pouted: "Yuan'er, this is enough to choke, where is our profit point?" This thing must not be able to increase the price, and the most you can earn is the labor fee for picking and washing vegetables, right? ”

Yao Yuan pointed out the window with his hand: "Gao Yang, you have to think like this, how many people outside are unable to find jobs now, and how many jobs can be provided for these jobs that are not very technical and can be done by individuals?" Let's recruit more laid-off workers, this can be regarded as a contribution to the country, isn't it? In addition, do you think, if we can do this, will we still buy from the vegetable market? Do you have to find the source to buy? Do you know how much difference there will be between the local price and the wholesale price and then the retail price of vegetables? ”

Everyone was shocked by Yao Yuan's ambition, and they all fell silent, and began to make calculations in their hearts.

At this moment, the door was slammed open, and the whole city crashed in like a potato: "Good news! And one more bad news! Which one do you want to hear first? ”