After three minutes of roasting, Li Yi turned on the oven and took out the roast chicken that exuded a billowing aroma.

"Wow!"

Jiang Xin and Sun Li let out an exclamation in unison.

The roast chicken, which is already full of marinated aroma, is grilled in the oven until the fat on the skin is tightened, and the aroma becomes more and more intense, which is extremely attractive.

"Let me show off first!"

Jiang Xin was already drooling, and she wanted to clamp the chopsticks after taking them, but Li Yi blocked the chopsticks with a fence.

"Don't worry, just a while."

Li Yi scooped out the roast chicken and put it on the shelf in the pot.

Cover the pot and bring to a boil over medium heat.

Everyone present was very curious about seeing smoked chicken for the first time.

Especially Zhao Jinmai, he looked at it very carefully.

"This way you can make smoked chicken?"

Zhao Jinmai watched with great interest.

"Yes, it's called sugar smoked."

Li Yi explained: "To put it bluntly, it is actually to use the caramelization reaction to color the ingredients and increase the flavor.

When white sugar produces caramelization reaction, two types of substances will be produced, one is the dehydration polymerization product of sugar, which is commonly known as caramel or sugar color.

The other category is degradation products, mainly some volatile aldehydes, ketones and other gases.

If you cook it with a lid like this, there is not enough oxygen in the pot, so there is no way to create an open flame.

The sugar in the pot can't be completely burned, and smoke with a caramel aroma will be produced.

When the smoke adheres to the ingredients, it gives the ingredients the color of caramel and the aroma of caramel. ”

"It's amazing!"

Sun Li listened in amazement: "People in the past didn't know these principles, how could they invent this method?" ”

"I just used the theory of modern chemistry to explain this process, and the ancients had their own theories and experience summaries."

Li Yi said with a smile: "Although the theories are different, they all have the same goal, and they are all to make delicious things." ”

"That's amazing."

Sun Li was amazed, and then asked, "Eh? So when did this sugar smoking method appear?

I remember that sugar was very precious in ancient times, and most people didn't have that much money to use sugar to smoke meat, right? ”

"That's right!"

Jiang Xin added on the side: "I read some information before filming, during the Kangxi period, a pound of sugar was worth 100 yuan, and at that time, beef was only 7 or 80 yuan a pound, and sugar was more expensive than meat." ”

"Sugar has always been expensive in ancient times."

Li Yi said with a smile: "During the Tang Dynasty, the price ratio of milk and rice was 15:1.

However, with the increasing output of sucrose, the process capacity efficiency is also getting higher and higher, and by the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the price ratio of Fuzhou Province, sucrose and rice can be reduced to 5:3 or even 2:1.

Sugar as a smoker to make bacon also appeared at this time. ”

"So the sugar smoke appeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty?"

Sun Li asked in surprise.

"Yes."

Li Yi joked: "It's almost the era when Zhen Huan lived." ”

"So coincidentally?"

Sun Li laughed in surprise, and then said with satisfaction: "Then I must try it later." ”

As he spoke, white smoke began to seep out of the rim of the lid.

Seeing this, Wu Lei hurriedly reminded: "Brother Yi, it's smoking!" ”

"See."

Li Yi nodded, but didn't move, just explained: "It's white smoke now, and the color of the smoke will start to color after it turns yellow." ”

As he spoke, he waited quietly, and after a while, the smoke seeping from the cracks in the lid of the pot had turned pale yellow.

Seeing the smoke change color, Li Yi directly turned off the fire.

After quietly counting ten, Li Yi lifted the lid of the pot.

The billowing yellow smoke dispersed, and everyone gathered around the stove immediately covered their noses and retreated.

The smell of this sugar smoke is a little strong, and the smell is a little choking.

The yellow smoke rises and is quickly sucked away by the range hood, and the roast chicken in the pot also reveals its full appearance.

At this time, the roast chicken has turned into a golden color, and the whole body is shiny and attractive.

Li Yi took out the roast chicken and put it on a plate on the side.

Master Cai stepped forward with a camera and took a close-up.

In the live broadcast screen, the golden roast chicken attracted the audience to marvel again and again, and the screen was full of drooling emojis.

"This chicken is so delicious to look at!"

"It's beautiful! This color is stunning! ”

"It's amazing! Smoke for a while, there is such a big difference in color? ”

"Awesome! It looks much better than the one at the door of my community! ”

The scattered people also came back and looked at the smoked chicken curiously.

"This color is awesome!"

Sun Li sighed in her mouth, and then stepped forward and lowered her head to smell the taste.

"Huh? It really tastes like caramel! ”

She looked up in amazement.

Zhao Jinmai also stepped forward to smell it, covered his mouth in surprise and said, "This is the taste of smoked chicken!" It smells so good! ”

Jiang Xin looked at the shiny roast chicken, and her saliva couldn't be stopped.

"Can you eat it?"

She looked at Li Yi with blank eyes.

"That's it."

Li Yi said, washed his hands under the faucet on the side, and stepped forward and said, "I'll help you tear it open so that it's easy to eat." ”

As he spoke, he came to the roast chicken, grabbed the two legs of the roast chicken, pulled it gently, and broke it, and the two chicken legs were removed.

He didn't have any strength at all, just a slight pull, and the chicken leg was already boneless.

This is followed by chicken wings, chicken head, chicken neck, and then chicken breast, chicken back, and chicken belly.

The old chicken, which has been stewed to a crisp and boneless point, is like a piece of tofu, which has been easily crushed and divided into small pieces.

After dismantling, Li Yi took a small plate, took out a chicken wing, put it on it, and retreated to the side.

"It's okay, let's eat!"

As soon as Li Yi's words fell, Jiang Xin rushed to the plate directly with chopsticks.

Although she just came here today, her enthusiasm for food is no less than Wu Lei's.

Wu Lei took out his chopsticks here, and Jiang Xin had already picked up the chicken leg and put it in his bowl.

"Keep chickens under your hands!"

Wu Lei shouted, and also rushed to the front, holding another chicken leg with one chopstick.

However, Zhao Jinmai's chopsticks also reached over from the side, and at the same time clamped the chicken leg, and the two immediately started a fierce tug-of-war competition.

Li Yi, who retreated to the side, watched them scramble with a smile, and handed the plate with chicken wings to Liu Yifei.

Among the parts of the chicken, Liu Yifei's favorite is the chicken wings.

Taking the small plate, Liu Yifei smiled and tasted it with chopsticks.

When the chicken wings entered, the unique aroma of caramel and grease made her can't help but light up.

And Jiang Xin had already exclaimed: "Wow! This one is delicious! The meat is so rotten, it's directly boneless! ”

The chicken leg in the bowl had already been bitten by her, and what she was holding in her chopsticks was no longer a chicken leg, but a bare chicken leg bone.

The rest of the meat fell into the bowl, and it was all boneless.

"It smells so good!"

Sun Li also tasted a piece of meat, and was immediately shocked.

She chewed the chicken in her mouth, and couldn't find the right adjective for a while, so she could only sigh at a loss of words: "This is the best chicken I've ever tasted!" ”

"It's good to eat if you like it."

Li Yi smiled.

"Is this roast chicken?"

Sun Li was aroused with curiosity: "But this is not the same taste as what I bought online!" ”

"Freshly cooked and vacuum-packed are certainly not the same taste."

Li Yi explained with a smile: "This kind of roast chicken, just out of the pot is the best, but it is the limit when it is put overnight, and the vacuum packaging is ten days and half a month at every turn, although it is sterilized at high temperature and will not deteriorate, but the taste will still change." ”

"How is this done?"

Sun Li asked earnestly: "Can you teach me?" ”

When Li Yi heard this, he thought about it for a while, and asked her: "Have you watched the previous episodes?" ”

"Yes."

Sun Li nodded and smiled: "Didn't I say it?" I'm a big fan, I've watched every episode of the show, if you don't believe me, you can test me. ”

"Then I'll ask you."

Li Yi smiled and asked: "If you want to marinate the meat, what is the next sentence?" ”

"Eight ingredients plus broth!"

Sun Li replied without thinking.

"Not bad."

Li Yi smiled: "Knowing this sentence, making roast chicken is much simpler." ”

5

(End of chapter)