The Enhanced Life of Rampage

Chapter 151 The Chef's Craftsmanship

Li Jinsui was quite talkative. After chatting with Chen Xi for a while, he didn't rush to mention the matter of recording the show. Instead, he took Chen Xi and the others to tour the old house.

After walking around and introducing each other, they finally arrived at a room that looked like an exhibition hall.

The door of the room was open, and after Chen Xi followed Mr. Li and walked in, he took a look around and knew in his heart: this is the meritorious service room of the Li family!

“As expected of a culinary family!”

Looking at the neatly arranged plaques, pennants, trophies and certificates on the wall facing the door, Chen Xi gave a sincere admiration.

"Hehe, my ancestors have practiced this skill from generation to generation since the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty. From the royal chef to the handyman in a small shop, regardless of the high level of achievement, they are almost all around the stove!"

After Li Jinsui said with a proud smile, his expression suddenly became gloomy, "What a pity! When the water is full, it overflows, and when the moon is full, it loses money. When we come to my place, we will die soon!"

After Chen Xi heard this, he asked in confusion: "Mr. Li, where are your children?"

"Ugh!"

Li Jinsui sighed before replying quietly: "After the two daughters got married, they are now taking care of their husbands and children! As for my ineffective youngest son, I have put all my energy into the management of the 'Hongfu Restaurant'." , how can there be any craftsmanship to talk about?"

That's what happened!
It was only then that Chen Xi realized the reason why Li Jinsui invited him to come and shoot. The revitalization of traditional Cantonese cuisine was on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was possible that he did not intend to find a suitable successor through Chen Xi's program.

Sometimes this kind of thing can’t be explained clearly by a “professional counterpart”. The difference between traditional Cantonese cuisine and the current mainstream Cantonese cuisine is that the former is similar to private ordering, and chefs often put in all kinds of effort. Make a satisfactory dish, while the latter is closer to commercialization, balancing the difficulty of production and efficiency. After all, in the final analysis, whether it is a restaurant or a hotel, it is all about making money!
Perhaps this is why Li Jinsui looks down upon the Cantonese chefs in his Hongfu Restaurant.

For this kind of thing, Chen Xi has no good solution. He can only comfort Li Jinsui with kind words at the moment, saying that he will do his best to help him find a suitable successor through the promotion of the program. .

After sighing with emotion, Li Jinsui smiled apologetically at Chen Xi, "I'm sorry, I usually don't have anyone I can talk to, but today I complained to you Chen Xi."

"Stop talking about this, let's go to the kitchen!"

After all, he is someone who has seen big storms. Although Li Jinsui is anxious, he also understands that this kind of thing is about fate, and it is useless to be impatient. He and Zhong Ling walked towards the kitchen of the old house.

Peng Wuwu and Zhou Erren each carried a camera and carefully recorded the scene from different angles.

"I also watched your show. You were supposed to be the one to cook, but this time because of my business, you have broken your rules!" While walking, Li Jinsui apologized to Chen Xi.

"You're being disrespectful when you say this. I'm showing off my skills in front of you. Isn't it ridiculous and generous? Besides, how many people will be envious of me being able to eat delicacies carefully prepared by contemporary chefs!"

After Chen Xi smiled and shook his head to express his indifference, he asked curiously, "Mr. Li, what ingredients are you planning to use today? What kind of dishes?"

"Snails are not as crispy as oysters, and Jiayu is the best in February. The winter solstice fish is raw and the summer solstice dog is delicious. Cantonese cuisine can be said to be the most particular about the ingredients, and it can also be said to be the least particular!"

Seeing Chen Xi and Zhong Ling's puzzled expressions, Li Jinsui explained with a smile, "I say it is the least particular, because the ingredients of Cantonese cuisine are extensive and exotic, and there are many varieties, including birds and beasts, wild vegetables and wild flowers, all of which can be eaten."

"It is the most particular, because different dishes have extremely strict requirements on the freshness of ingredients, the season of picking, and even the storage method. A little variable among them can often make the production of a dish Become anticlimactic!"

While talking, the three of them just walked through the winding bluestone path and came to the door of the kitchen.

This place is probably also Li Jinsui's usual operation room. A wide variety of kitchen utensils and condiments are densely arranged on the wide operation table. The kitchen appliances and the ancient wood-fired mud stove are all in one room. Don't have a mood.

"Let's make four main dishes today! Roast suckling pig, Wenchang chicken, Shenjing roast goose, boiled shrimp, just happen to have all kinds of meat, it is also very suitable for you young people, and then make soup and vegetables, you How do you see it?" After Li Jinsui finished speaking, he looked at Chen Xi with a consulting look, "Or tell me what you and Xiao Zhong don't like, I still have a relatively complete range of ingredients here, and you can change it to other dishes.”

"No, no! Just come as you see fit. We are not picky eaters, not to mention that you are the master of cooking!"

Chen Xi was terrified, and immediately shook his head to thank the other party for his kindness.

joke!

The dishes made by the chef himself, what else is there to pick and choose!
"Hehe, that's fine, the old man won't be polite to you! You wait for a while, I have pre-processed all the ingredients yesterday, and we can have dinner in a short time."

Li Jinsui nodded to the two of them and said no more.After putting on the chef's uniform and top hat quite formally, he walked to the sink and began to wash his hands meticulously, and the look on his face gradually became more formal.

It was at this time that Li Jinsui showed the aura of a strong man standing at the top of the culinary art world, calm and focused, and his image was very different from the old man next door who was full of smiles when chatting before.

Nodding silently to Peng Wuli and Zhou Zhou, indicating that it was time for the critical shooting, Chen Xi took Zhong Ling and walked gently to the side of the desk, and began to carefully observe Li Jinsui's operations.

For a while, apart from the occasional noises made by Li Jinsui, the kitchen became extremely quiet. It was obvious that everyone had entered their respective roles and was just waiting for the master chef to show off his skills!

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The soup seemed to have been stewed before Chen Xi and the others came, and bursts of tempting aromas wafted through the cracks in the lid of the purple clay pot in the kitchen.

It smells so good!

After Chen Xi swallowed subconsciously, he took a deep breath.

"Smell the aroma and taste, can you guess what soup it is?"

Li Jinsui put a roast goose that had just been hoisted from the firewood stove on the chopping board, and asked Chen Xi with a smile while changing the knife.

After seeing that the other party noticed his actions, Chen Xi simply took another deep breath openly, squinted his eyes and considered it for a while, and then said uncertainly: "It's light and distant, without any fishy smell, it shouldn't be cattle or sheep." Meat doesn't seem to have the same aroma as fish. In addition to what you said before, it's obviously not pork, chicken, goose, and shrimp. As for the specific main ingredient, I can't guess, but there must be yam among the auxiliary ingredients. I can still smell it!”

"Hehe, although there are some suspicions of trickery, but the guess is quite accurate!"

Li Jinsui nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "It's yam and tuckahoe pigeon soup. You probably haven't eaten pigeons much, so you can't smell that unique smell. It's similar to the smell of chicken soup, but it's a bit lighter than chicken soup. At the same time, there is a hint of delicate sweetness!"

"The essence of suckling pig and roast goose lies in the roasting process and the mastery of the heat. They should have been made in front of you. Unfortunately, it was too time-consuming, so I made them in advance. Later, I will show the shots at that time to you." Make a copy, and see if there is anything worth inserting into the show."

While Li Jinsui was talking, he neatly changed the roast goose on the chopping board into small pieces. The slight crisp sound when the blade touched the goose skin made people appetite greatly, and a thought came to his mind involuntarily: "This The roast goose must be charred on the outside and tender on the inside!"

"The suckling pig needs to wait for its embryo to cool first, and then temper and bake it, so that it will have the taste of 'crispy skin but not dry, oily but not greasy, delicate meat but not sticky'."

Chen Xi was dazzled by watching from the sidelines, and secretly rejoiced in his heart that it was lucky that there was no one in charge!

Although I said that my cooking skills have been soaring these days, at any rate, I have come to the category of "kitchen idiots", but my family knows their own affairs, and without the strengthened pot, can my cooking skills reach the level of domestic housewives? The average level is still unknown, let alone compared with Li Zongshi!
When he came this time, Chen Xi originally planned to bring the pot and shovel from the studio, but Zhong Ling stopped him in the end, and the reason was very simple.

"Are you going to shoot variety shows, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?"

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After staring at Li Jinsui's movements for a while, Chen Xi finally understood why their lineage had been reduced to such a desolate state that they couldn't even find a successor.

Too much trouble!

According to Li Jinsui, a roasted suckling pig takes a total of twelve hours from ingredient processing to final serving!And the time spent in the oven for baking is minus ten hours!

This is obviously a bit out of place in today's business-rich era!I probably won’t have any chance to stand out except during festivals or entertaining friends and family for homemade meals!
Otherwise, how would you get your money back?Even selling a roasted suckling pig for 1000 yuan is not enough!

If I have the time, I will set up an electric oven, hang more than a dozen small suckling pigs in it, and hang around in a constant temperature state. In an hour or so, I can batch out more than a dozen fragrant and crispy finished products. Fee that thing!

What's more, there is no such condition in today's cities. In many places, for the sake of safety and environmental protection, open gas fires have to be replaced with induction cookers, let alone wood-burning ones?And it still burns for more than ten hours!

Not very realistic!

In general, between traditional techniques and contemporary Cantonese cuisine styles, one is slow work that strives for excellence, and a slight deviation means imperfection; the other is a batch assembly line that focuses on efficiency, the taste is about the same, and the most important thing is to be fast!

It’s hard to say who is superior and who is inferior. If you really want to talk about it, maybe one is feelings and the other is reality!
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While pondering and feeling, Li Jinsui had already fished out twenty or thirty alive and kicking prawns from the pool next to him. After sitting down on a small pier, he picked up one casually, pinched the head and tail and moved it a few times. , I just inserted the toothpick along the gap of the second thin shell where the back of the shrimp is close to the head, and after slightly picking it out, a black shrimp line was picked out.After pinching it with your hands and moving upwards, the whole shrimp line was pulled out intact.

Seeing his skillful operation, Chen Xi's hands suddenly felt itchy, and he moved forward with a smile, "Mr. Li, let me help you!"

"Hehe, okay!"

After Li Jinsui responded cheerfully, he motioned for Chen Xi to come over with a horse tie, and explained to him while operating: "It is more difficult to thread live shrimp than dead shrimp, and the main operation lies in these few bending movements." .”

"You see, there are also skills when pinching the tail. When pinching the tail, you have to gently move the section of the shrimp shell at the end. The tail end of the shrimp line is here, so that the shrimp line can be better separated from the meat. , including these sharp bends have the same effect!"

"As for picking the thread from the gap in the second section of the shrimp shell, it is because if it is too close to the head, the thread end is not long and cannot be held firmly; If it flows into the flesh under the shell, such shrimp will have a fishy smell and a bitter taste."

After listening to Li Jinsui's explanation and watching it three times in detail, Chen Xi felt that he had a good grasp, so he picked up a toothpick from the desk and began to operate.

5 minute later.

"Ah, oh, oh, what a waste of food! Don't choose, go to the side and wait to eat!"

Li Jinsui drove Chen Xi away with a beard and a stare!
It's really difficult.

Chen Xi picked four of them, and the threads of the four shrimps were all broken from where the toothpick penetrated. In the eyes of Li Jinsui, who pursues perfection, such ingredients that have penetrated into the meat are naturally no longer available!
At the same time, Chen Xi, a little helper who is not helpful, can no longer ask for it!

If we keep doing this, we will not have much to eat today!
Chen Xi stood up resentfully. Feeling that he had gradually figured out the trick, he walked to the side of the pool without giving up. He was about to catch some of them and practice his hands again, but Li Jinsui stopped him again.

"Prodigal stuff! Go back to Beijing and go to the vegetable market to buy it yourself! I have been vomiting for more than three days, so don't spoil my things!"

"..."

mean!

After secretly cursing, Chen Xi reluctantly gave up the plan of taking action again, walked over to Zhong Ling's gloating eyes, and once again stood aside as an audience.

As the person in charge of food on the show, I was actually deprived of the right to start this episode!

There is no room for reasoning!

It seems that I should still be a spectator with peace of mind, and wait for a while to taste the craftsmanship of King Chef.

Still unconvinced, Chen Xi secretly made up his mind: After I go back, I will go to the vegetable market to buy a few catties of it to practice my hands!
Isn't it just rubbing, inserting, picking, and pulling?

It’s like no one knows how to say that!
I'm a skilled trader, okay?

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(End of this chapter)