Dare to cook

Chapter 78
"Are you okay?" Yao Yu supported Lu Chenyu and asked,
Just like many goofy plots.

When the heroine is about to fall down, the heroine helps her up.

Then the four eyes met, the tenderness was like water, the sparks collided, blah blah...

however,
God, however, doesn't seem interested in watching people put on a greasy and crooked dog blood drama.

Just when Yao Yu was supporting Lu Chenyu,
Thunder and lightning flashed in the sky, and the originally big raindrops turned into torrential rain, hitting the head and face.

The beating made Yao Yu and his gang run away with their heads in their hands, like wolves running like dogs.

fortunately.

When the rain became heavier, they had already descended the mountain, and they were less than 50 meters away from the gate of the tea plantation.

There is a row of two and a half storey small houses at the gate of the Plum and Bamboo Garden.

That's where the tea garden owner used to fry tea.

Yao Yu and his party were forced by the rain, so they had to run to this row of small houses to hide from the rain.

When everyone ran under the eaves, many people's clothes were wet.

The guide sister Zhi of the tea garden hurriedly opened a tea room and said, "It's raining too much, everyone, come in first to take shelter."

Everyone entered the house, Zhao Fenyang and Zhu Xingchen wiped the rain from their faces while sucking their teeth:
"This weather forecast is unreliable! Didn't it say that there has been no rain recently?"

"Fortunately, we went down the mountain early, otherwise we would have been drowned."

Yao Yu also took out two packs of tissues from his coat pocket, took out two by himself, and stuffed the rest to Lu Chenyu and Yao Chan: "Wipe off the water on your body quickly, don't catch a cold."

This burst of rain was very fierce, and it seemed that it would not stop within ten minutes.

Yao Yu wiped the rain off his body, and began to look at the layout of the tea room.

This is a large rectangular room, somewhat resembling a warehouse.

In the fried tea room, there is a neat row of dry firewood against the wall.

In the middle of the fried tea room, there are three stoves made of blue bricks, with three oversized iron pots sandwiched on them.

Yao Yu went to the iron pot and lifted the lid to have a look. He found that the pot was very deep and could be used to stir-fry at least ten catties of tea at the same time.

Roasting tea can be said to be a very technical job.

The freshly picked tea leaves need to be fried on low heat and dried slowly to store them for a long time.

There are various techniques for folk tea frying.

Different tea leaves, different regions, and different seasons have different methods of frying tea.

If all of them are listed, it can even be compiled into a handbook of hundreds of thousands of words of fried tea.

"Brother, are these big pots used for frying tea? Why are the three pots different in size?" Yao Chan asked beside Yao Yu.

Yao Yu also had nothing to do, so he opened every pot and looked at it.

他 说:

"These three pots have different purposes. The one on the far left is the largest and is the raw pot. The one in the middle is the Erqing pot, and the one on the right is the cooked pot."

"Stir-frying tea is a very long process. It cannot be done overnight."

"At each stage, the heat and method used for frying are different. Therefore, different pots are needed to distinguish the processing."

"The raw pot is the pot used to cut the tea leaves. The fresh tea leaves should be fried until they are dark green, and a lot of water has been removed before they can be poured into the Erqing pot."

"The Erqing pot is mainly used to continue killing greens and kneading the tea leaves. The temperature of the pot is lower than that of the raw pot."

"After frying the tea leaves in the Erqing pot until they are sticky to a certain extent, you can pour the tea leaves into the cooking pot."

"At this time, the tea has less moisture, and the volume of the tea will shrink further, but the texture will be more tender. When the tea is roasted in the cooked pot, the temperature of the pot is lower than that of the Erqing pot."

"Tea leaves are not cooked until they are cooked in these three pots."

"Only tea leaves that have been roasted through these steps can be packaged and sold."

"Of course, what I'm talking about is only the tea-making process of green tea like Longjing. If it's black tea or oolong tea, the tea-making process is even more complicated."

Yao Yu talked eloquently, and directly explained the tea making method of West Lake Longjing.

On the side, the others were dumbfounded.

The guide sister of the tea garden praised: "This little brother knows a lot! You have worked in the tea garden before!"

Yao Yu smiled and shook his head:

"No. But I have seen the master cook tea, so I know something."

"Cut, who knows if I searched beforehand, and deliberately showed off my knowledge in front of my sisters." Yang Rui beeped softly, and Zhao Fenyang and Zhu Xingchen deeply agreed.

On the contrary, Chen Li's focus was different.

After Yao Yu popularized the knowledge of fried tea, Chen Li said:

"This firewood stove is really good, similar to the one in my hometown in the countryside."

"Brother Yu, if we can cook dinner with a wood-burning stove at night, it will definitely taste better than cooking with a gas stove."

Zhu Xingchen also said:
"That's true. Some dishes, such as braised pork and braised pork knuckles, taste better when cooked in a wood-fired stove than in other ways."

"It's a pity that firewood is not allowed in urban areas now. Otherwise, I really want to put two firewood stoves in the back kitchen."

Yao Yu smiled and said:

"The smoke from burning wood is very high. Even if the health department allows you to use a wood stove, you have to fully upgrade the smoke exhaust equipment in the kitchen."

"Otherwise the cooks under your command will be smoked to death sooner or later."

……

The mountain rain comes and goes quickly.

After more than ten minutes, the clouds collected and the rain stopped, and the sky showed some signs of clearing up again.

The tea leaves picked by Yao Yu and others on the mountain have been taken away by the guide girl of the tea garden.

For those tea leaves, Plum Bamboo Garden will arrange experienced masters to fry them as soon as possible.

After the tea leaves are roasted, the tea garden will mail the tea leaves to the address left by Yao Yu and others.

After coming out of the tea garden, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.

The air in Meijiawu is very fresh after the rain.

Everyone wandered along the road, discussing what to do next.

Someone proposed to have afternoon tea, and then play a board game to pass the time.

Some people think it's better to go directly to Song Ziyi's house and prepare the barbecue party in advance.

At this time, Zhao Jingxi saw a pottery studio in front of her, and suggested, "It's still early, why don't we do handmade pottery!"

"Doing pottery? It seems very interesting." The other girls were moved when they heard it.

As a result, the opinions of Yao Yu and other rough men were ignored gorgeously.

Everyone went directly to the pottery studio.

This pottery studio is not small, with more than 200 square meters.

Looking at the interior decoration, it should be a new store that has been open for less than three months.

The main business project of this pottery studio is to help tourists customize various tea sets and ceramic products.

In general pottery studios, there will be simple pottery diy courses for people to experience.

Of course, except for the super busy ones.

After Yao Yu and others entered the pottery studio, they found that there were three people busy in front of the workbench.

One of the men with natural curly hair saw Yao Yu and the others come in, so he got up and said, "Hi, may I help you?"

Zhao Jingxi looked around and said to the man:

"Excuse me, are you the owner of this shop? We want to do some handmade pottery here, is it convenient?"

(End of this chapter)