Happy Life in Siheyuan

Chapter 16 The Master of Cooking
After mastering and memorizing a vast amount of ingredients, Lin Tieniu began to learn the basic skills of cooking under the guidance of the three old men.

Including knife work, carving, ladle turning, pot turning, heat, material preparation, feeding, thickening, seasoning, plate arrangement, food cleaning and processing, etc.

To master these basic skills, the only way is to practice hard. It is impossible to become a master chef if you build a tall building on the ground without a solid foundation.

It's just that Lin Tieniu, relying on his extremely precise control over his body and his extremely sensitive spiritual perception, easily mastered these basic skills one by one, and reached a very perfect state.

Then, while learning culinary theory, he practiced to master the classic dishes of the world's three major cuisines.

Chinese Cuisine, French Cuisine, and Turkish Cuisine, these three major cuisines are recognized by the world as the three major cuisines. Their cooking methods and dishes have their own characteristics, which opened his eyes and made him admire them.

Human beings cannot survive without eating. Food culture is indispensable in any civilization in the world, and cooking skills have always been throughout the entire history of human development.

An ordinary pot seems to carry the fate of the entire human race.

Therefore, when he understands that no matter what kind of cooking method or dish, the ultimate goal is to make people feel satisfied and happy, he has become a chef without knowing it. A master chef.

Food has no fixed taste, and those who are palatable are rare.

In theory, anyone can become a master chef as long as they can perfectly master the basic skills of various culinary arts and have a sincere and delicate heart.

Whether or not they have mastered the culinary theories and classic dishes of major cuisines can only show whether each chef has a deep culinary background, and has nothing to do with the realm of culinary skills.

The most important thing in cooking is the ability to innovate. It is necessary to be able to adapt measures to materials, local conditions, and people. This is the standard for judging the level of a chef's cooking skills.

Lin Tieniu bowed deeply to the three old men, and with a thought, he returned to the courtyard house in an instant.

If it wasn't for his personal experience, it would be hard for him to imagine that he is already a master of ancient martial arts Taijiquan and a master of culinary arts.

Recalling Sha Zhu's frightened look when he was having dinner at Qin Huairu's house before, the corners of his mouth could not help but rise slightly, suddenly looking forward to going to the factory to report tomorrow.

Looking out of the house through the window, there were still some lights on in the courtyard. With his extraordinary hearing ability, he could obviously hear all the subtle movements in the courtyard.

Just as he was about to listen to the whispers of the residents, he suddenly heard a suppressed gasp.

He frowned, and hastily lowered his ears.

In the absence of danger, he doesn't like to listen to the corner, and now he doesn't know whether the person who is exercising is the aunt or the daughter-in-law, and it feels a little disgusting to think about it.

What's more, as a glorious traveler, is it necessary for him to do such a low thing?
After adjusting his ear strength to the level of a normal person, he walked to the front of the coal stove and started to light a fire to burn coal.

Although his body is now invulnerable to cold and heat, all evils are warded off, but in order to deceive people's eyes and ears, and to boil some water for drinking, he still wants to light up the coal stove.

In this era, there are mainly two types of coal burned by residents, one is coal pellets and the other is briquette.

Coal balls are relatively cheap, and are mainly made of raw coal mixed with slag and soil. When burned, the white smoke is very choking, and a long flue must be installed to discharge the smoke outside the house.

In comparison, the price of briquette is higher. It is mainly made of anthracite mixed with a small proportion of soil. Although the calorific value is low, it can contain the highest carbon content and the least impurity content. It burns with a short and less flame. Smoke does not coke.

Under normal circumstances, residents would choose more affordable coal briquettes as household fuel, but Lin Tieniu had not had time to apply for a coal purchase certificate, so he only asked Xu Guochang for more than a dozen briquettes at the second-hand goods store.

After a while, with his extremely skillful fire-making skills, the briquettes burned in the coal stove, adding a touch of warmth to the house.

He picked up the kettle and walked out the door, walked to the sink in the middle of the yard in the dark, turned on the faucet and took a pot of water, then went back to the house and put the kettle on the coal stove.

At this time, although there was already running water in Sijiu City, basically there were only a few public faucets in each courtyard building that could receive water, and the monthly water fee was shared equally among each household according to the population.

In addition, there is only one master electricity meter for each courtyard building, and the monthly electricity bill is directly shared according to the number of households. Therefore, for the issue of water and electricity, many residents of the courtyard building will have some conflicts.

It is precisely because of this, people of this age!You can't escape all kinds of trivial matters, and you can't do without human entanglements with your neighbors.

Lin Tieniu picked up the gurgling kettle, poured boiling water into the teapot on the table, and then went out to the courtyard to fetch a pot of water and put it on the coal stove. The water boiled slowly.

Then, he took off his cotton-padded jacket and trousers, got into the bed wearing only shorts and unlined clothing, and turned on the system to check ordinary products.

Although he can use happy coins to buy a lot of ordinary goods, but under the current policy of unified purchase and sales across the country, no matter what he buys, he must have a ticket.

Among them are not only common tickets such as food stamps, meat tickets, cloth tickets, oil tickets, cigarette tickets, wine tickets, candy tickets, pastry tickets, and bath tickets, but also more unusual tickets such as excrement tickets, urine tickets, and menstrual belt tickets.

It can be said that tickets are needed in every aspect of people's lives.

You can’t buy things if you have a ticket without money, and you can’t buy things if you have money without a ticket. Money and tickets correspond to each other.

Of course, if the transaction is carried out secretly in private, then there is no need to be subject to such restrictions.

Generally, there will be some very secret pigeon markets and ghost markets in cities. Some people will secretly conduct transactions in these markets, such as bartering, money bartering, ticket bartering, money In short, as long as the buyer and seller agree, the transaction can be carried out.

However, this kind of behavior is shady. Once someone discovers and reports it, they will be charged with speculating.

Therefore, if he wants to use the system to live a better life in this era, he really has to pay attention to it. No matter what he buys in the system, he must think about how to explain the source to others in advance, and don't accidentally Someone reported it.

However, he figured out a way to do it.

Because there is no restriction on human relations at this time, relying on his master-level cooking skills and various magical products in the system, it must be easy to make some big shots. At that time, he only needs to say that the source of the products was given by others Thank you, as long as the quantity of goods is not large, there is no problem.

What's more, he doesn't need to disclose all the purchased products to others, as long as he closes the door and enjoys it alone, he naturally doesn't have to worry so much.

　I wish the handsome men and beauties a family reunion on Mid-Autumn Festival, good health and joy, please recommend and add support!

　　


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