I am Qinxing No.1

Chapter 530 Spring bamboo shoots are paper, but lack knife skills (two in one)

Lu Tianming raised his eyebrows together: "Oh, I would like to hear more about it."

He has spent his whole life researching road dishes, but this improvement of smoked bacon was created by a flash of inspiration one day. He really doesn't believe that Zhou Dong is so good. He can find his recipe after eating two slices of bacon. secret?
Zhou Dong nodded, and took another piece of smoked bacon and put it into his mouth. With the legendary skill activated, this piece of bacon was peeled off and pushed back in his mouth layer by layer, and no secret could be kept.

"It's such an amazing idea. It's worthy of being a master chef of Lucai. Admire, admire!"

Zhou Dong looked at Lu Tianming with a smile and said, "Bacon can be divided into two categories.

The bacon in the south of the Yangtze River is generally not smoked, but only baked with salt. Although this kind of bacon tastes delicious, it uses too much salt, which is terrible.
Because this is the need for antisepsis, no skilled chef can bypass it, so this kind of Jiangnan bacon cannot be steamed and eaten, it must be boiled.And more water is needed, otherwise there is no way to remove the excessive salty taste, but in this way, too much fat will be lost, and the taste will be difficult to guarantee, which is a pity.

The other type is bacon represented by Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hunan and other places. The bacon in these areas uses less salt, which does not make people feel like eating pickles. Therefore, in order to preserve the quality, it must be smoked.
This brings a new problem. If the smoke is not enough, it will not be able to last for a long time, and it is not considered a road dish; if the smoke is too long or the smoke is thicker, the smoke will be too large, and it will criticized by diners.After all, what diners hope to eat is a touch of smoke, not smokey smoke. "

Lu Tianming was taken aback when he heard that: "You actually have research on Lu Cai?"

Shi Buyu sneered coldly: "Old Lu Chi, you will know after a long time, this guy seems to be very proficient in all kinds of food, and the old beggar can lose to him in making pearl, emerald and white jade soup, can you believe it?
Not to mention the smoked bacon, I am very good at it. "

Lu Tianming glanced at him with a sneer: "Just you? Is the bacon you cook also eaten by people?"

Zhou Dong smiled and said: "Master Lu is right, compared to your craftsmanship, I am afraid that the bacon made by others is really not something that people eat.
Because of another chef, who would use the method of double smoking to process bacon?
Your bacon is first washed with mountain spring water, then baked with 'a little' salt, and only smoked with pine wood after the salty taste enters the skin.

Ordinary chefs often choose the best old pine wood to light, and use thick smoke to smoke the whole piece of bacon until the skin turns black, and then hang it up to let it dry.

But the bacon produced in this way is not only not good in appearance, but also needs to be cut off part of the blackened surface layer when eating, which is not only a waste, but also discards the most essential part of the whole piece of bacon, which is really a pity."

Lu Tianming's eyes tightened: "Go on."

"However, your treatment method is completely different. You only use a small amount of pine wood in the first smoke, and stop immediately when the bacon gradually turns dark red.

Ordinarily, because you are smoking, you must use less salt. The result of insufficient smoking is that you cannot guarantee the shelf life, but you hang half of the smoked bacon in the most cloudy place in the mountains to be cured, because the air is humid enough. , the bacon will enter a natural curing process during the wind curing process. How should I put it, this is a bit like the smoking method of Spanish ham
But your method is much more complicated. When the bacon is half cooked naturally, it is also the easiest time to taste, and you start the second smoking, and this 'second smoking' process is the most critical . "

Speaking of this, Zhou Dong stopped and looked at Lu Tianming again: "This is also the step that I admire the most.
If I hadn’t tasted the smoked bacon you made, I wouldn’t be able to guess the material you used for the second smoke. It should be the most precious and most representative smoked material in early spring, right?
At the same time, it is also the most luxurious smoked material!
Now I really sympathize with those ignorant people. Your smoked bacon is only sold for two hundred and eighty-one dishes, which is really cheap. In my opinion, it should be sold for two thousand and eighty-one dishes!
If I'm not wrong, Senior Lu, you should have just made bacon, and you hoped that someone could share your cooking skills, so you sold it to them 'cheaply'. I didn't expect them to miss the opportunity. Obviously, they are a group of people who don't know how to eat. The mallet. "

Lu Tianming said in a muffled voice: "It's not entirely a stick, they should be from a noble family in Kyoto, otherwise they would not know that the 'old bacon' is the most expensive, and they also saw that my bacon is from the old days. It’s a new product, so I thought I was a fraudulent profiteer.”

The so-called old bacon refers to bacon that has been cured for ten years, 20 years or more. The longer the time, the higher the price.

Of course, this kind of bacon is not healthy enough, but the deliciousness is not as good as freshly made bacon. This is also a simple way to judge the quality of bacon; but if you use this method to measure Lu Tianming's craftsmanship, it is really not good. Know the goods.

"Secondary smoking?"

Shi Buyu was taken aback when he heard that: "I said why does it feel a bit special? It turns out that you, an old road idiot, did something wrong!
Hey, Little Chef Zhou, you said that the smoked materials he uses are very precious, even extravagant?This is strange, after all, Cordyceps sinensis and ginseng Polygonum multiflorum are not used to make smoked materials, right? "

Huai Liangren and Yan Yi also set up their ears and waited for Zhou Dong's answer, but Lu Tianming didn't speak, just smiled at Zhou Dong.

It seems that the young master chef named by Mr. Shang really has two brushes. Not only can he beat the old stone in cooking skills, but his eating skills are also at the level of the god of food. It's amazing, but he really doesn't believe that Zhou Dong can figure out what the smoked material he used in the second smoke.

Because even he himself came up with the idea of ​​using this kind of smoked material in a flash of inspiration. Since it was obtained temporarily, how could it be easy for others to find it?
"Senior Lu, as the saying goes, 'No bamboo makes one vulgar, no meat makes one thin, if you want to look good and not thin, you'd better have a bowl of bamboo shoots and roasted pork'.
I used to think that the only Chinese cuisine that can balance the two is the pickled bamboo shoots in Shanghai cuisine.

Today I know that the food that can really balance the two is your 'smoked bacon'! "

Lu Tianming's face immediately changed when he heard the words: "How did you know? It's impossible!"

"Hey, old lu idiot, can you do it?
He even won against me, and the old beggar is willing to be his second cook, what is impossible?
But Chef Zhou, don’t you mean that the old Lu Chi used it.”

"Isn't it!"

Zhou Dong smiled wryly and shook his head: "That's spring bamboo shoots!
Compared with winter bamboo shoots, spring bamboo shoots are more tender and full of vitality. They are one of the most precious mountain treasures that nature bestows on mankind!

Who would have thought that someone would dry such precious spring bamboo shoots alive and then use them as fuel?

This is really too extravagant!

But although it is extravagant, it will not make me feel sorry, because these spring bamboo shoots really make the most delicious smoked bacon.

When we tasted it before, we always felt that this bacon has both the delicious and thick taste of bacon, and also has an indescribable fresh taste, as if we will not get tired of eating as much as we eat. In fact, this is all thanks to the spring bamboo shoots. ! "

I rub!

Both Huai Liangren and Yan Yi were dumbfounded, my good fellow, a magic chef is a magic chef, he can really make a fuss, just wasting precious spring bamboo shoots like this?
Fortunately, this senior Lu doesn't cook western food, otherwise, who can guarantee that he won't burn black truffle to bacon?That will drive all the chefs who cook western food crazy!

Lu Tianming let out a long sigh: "It's amazing, no wonder the old beggar lost to you, he really didn't feel wronged when he lost!
Old beggar, I still have to thank you, I never thought that I would have the opportunity to meet a bosom friend after living in Huashan for three months, it's all thanks to you! "

Shi Buyu was taken aback for a moment: "Old Lu idiot, wait a moment.
I said you don't have a fever, right?What Huashan!Here is Taishan!
Your road dementia is getting more and more serious, this is not okay, you can't run around in the future, otherwise you may become a missing person one day. "

"Taishan?"

Lu Tianming looked puzzled: "Old beggar, are you sure? Am I lost again?"

Zhou Dong smiled wryly and said: "Senior Lu, Old Shitou is right this time. This is indeed Mount Tai. We came to Taishan to look for you this time, and we want to ask you face to face about something."

"Yes, yes, I remembered, this is Mount Tai!

Hahaha, fortunately, the distance from Hua Shan is not too far, so it’s okay. "

Lu Tianming laughed loudly: "By the way, what do you want from me?"

"Senior Lu, we are trying to restore a lost delicacy - 'Paper Wrapped Fried Chicken',
The focus of this delicacy is the paper used, but it is not the baking paper commonly used by many chefs today, let alone the toilet paper used for salt-baked chicken.

I also heard from Old Shitou that you have done a lot of research on the 'food paper' used in this paper-wrapped fried chicken, so I came here to ask for advice."

"Hahaha, old stone, you have today too?"

After hearing Zhou Dong's words, Lu Tianming laughed again: "Don't blame God Chef Zhou, I'm not targeting you.

To tell you the truth, I did some research on 'eating paper', but I just found the right direction. When I mentioned it that day, a few of them couldn't hear me, and they said I was heresy, weird Skillful, I was so angry that I didn't want to talk about it!
Why, old stone, do you think of me now?
Leaving aside the matter of God Chef Zhou, shouldn't you confess your mistake to me face to face? "

"Old lu idiot, did you give me a face?"

Shi Buyu was furious, in front of the younger generation, why do you still have to ignore others?
Is it wrong to say that you are heretic?There are thousands of Chinese dishes, how many of them can really use the so-called 'food paper'?

If you put your energy into this kind of path, what is it if you don't go crazy?
But now I really can't compete with Lu Tianming, now he is Zhou Dong's second chef, the chef came to ask him for advice, but you, the second chef, started to fight with him first, does Qinxing have such a rule?Although he claims to be an old monster of Qin Xing, he is more disciplined than the younger generation of Qin Xing.

"All right, all right, who let the old beggar ask for anything from you?

I was wrong!You old road idiot is right, I take back what I said at the beginning, is this done? "

Lu Tianming laughed loudly: "It's done, it's done, I'm happy to let your old beggar admit his mistake face to face.

Chef Zhou, I have to thank you for speaking up, for letting me out of this sulking! "

Zhou Dong couldn't say much, so he just smiled and said, "Senior Lu was joking, you should, you should."

"It's really cumbersome to make this 'food paper'. First of all, it is real paper. If you want to get it, you have to make it yourself!"

"Make it yourself?"

Zhou Dong frowned unconsciously. This is a cross-industry business. Do you have to go to a paper mill to order it?
Lu Tianming laughed and said: "That's right, you have to make it yourself, because modern paper mills don't have this kind of craft at all.

To make this kind of paper, you must follow Cai Lun's ancient papermaking method. The disadvantage is that it is more cumbersome, but there are also advantages. Since it is Cai Lun's ancient method, it does not need some modern papermaking equipment.

In fact, I have studied 'food paper' for many years, and I have basically mastered the method, and now I am mainly stuck on papermaking materials."

Zhou Dong wondered, "Could it be that this papermaking material is very precious and hard to find?"

Lu Tianming shook his head and said, "It's not hard to find it, but it's hard to make 'food paper' out of it."

"Oh, I don't know what exactly is the paper-making material Senior Lu mentioned?"

"It's far away in the sky, but it's close in front of us." Lu Tianming said with a smile, "You said this papermaking material yourself just now, did you forget it so quickly?"

"what?"

A flash of inspiration flashed in Zhou Dong's mind: "I see, is it spring bamboo shoots?"

"It's spring bamboo shoots!"

Lu Tianming nodded and said: "So this 'food paper' can also be called 'bamboo shoot paper', it is made with spring bamboo shoots in Cai Lun's ancient method.

But this is just the direction I have researched for many years. Although it is definitely not wrong, it is too difficult to use spring bamboo shoots to make thin paper. I try countless times every spring, but the results are all failures. "

Nima, spring bamboo shoots are used to make paper?
Now Huai Liangren and Yan Yi are both thinking of a sentence - 'you city people really know how to play, we can't keep up'.

"Shouldn't it be?"

Zhou Dong frowned and said, "Although I don't know much about papermaking, I've heard that Cai Lun used wood materials such as grass and bark to make paper.
Bamboo shoots are actually bamboos, which are rich in fiber components, and theoretically it is feasible to make paper, isn’t it?”

In fact, I want to say that it is the reason for the lack of professionalism?
Although you are a master chef and want to make paper, shouldn't you ask an experienced paper maker to help?
"It's not a technical issue."

Lu Tianming knew what Zhou Dong was thinking at a glance, and said helplessly: "I have studied edible paper for many years, and when it comes to making paper with ancient methods, it is no worse than the current paper-making masters. The problem is actually the bamboo shoots.

Using spring bamboo shoots to make paper is too tender, and the paper cannot be produced without enough fiber components; but it is too old to make paper. The paper produced is rough and hard, and it is disgusting to wipe the buttocks, but can it still be imported?
So to choose 'semi-ripe' spring bamboo shoots, now I have mastered the method of selecting materials, but there is one thing missing."

Zhou Dong hurriedly said, "What's missing?"

"Knife skills are superb, surpassing the knife skills of contemporary master chefs!"

　This chapter is not easy to split, two-in-one is updated, and finally I can watch TV beautifully after dinner, oh yeah!

　　
　
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