Chapter 237 Flying Snow in the Tianshan Mountains
Chapter 237 Tianshan Snow 2
"I understand." Peng Bai nodded and said, "You don't need to buy pork tenderloin. Wanqiang, go alone, just buy me a few taels of coconut powder."
Peng Junwei nodded and said nothing.
"Son, you have to remember that you should not underestimate any enemy. Even if you are much better than him, you must not underestimate the enemy. You must pay attention to the enemy tactical and despise the enemy psychologically. Do you understand?" Peng Junwei said to Peng Bai after Wan Qiang left.
"I understand, dad." Peng Bai smiled and nodded, got up and began to prepare the materials for the evening competition.
"Master, what are you doing?" The other two except Wan Qiang immediately became apprentices who learned cooking skills and asked Peng Bai humbly.
Peng Bai was pouring a bottle of salad oil into a basin of clean water at this moment. Of course, he just poured a few drops instead of pouring the whole bottle into it.
Peng Bai smiled and said, "The oil will not merge when it encounters water, but if it is placed in the refrigerator, because of the oil barrier, the water will turn into frost instead of pure ice."
Peng Bai put the clear water into the freezer in the refrigerator and said to the two: "Cooking skills are actually experience and thoughts. If a person only has experience, then the dishes he makes are the same, and there are few too many changes. It is impossible to distinguish the quality of any dish, the same ingredients, and the same cooking skills. So you must remember to make changes, and this change must be appropriate. You cannot just think about changing the taste of the dish, but change it from the process, so that the taste will change. If you only think about changing the taste of the dish, the taste of the dish will often disappoint you."
Wan Qiang quickly got the coconut paste back. This ingredient is very commonly used in Western pastry shops and cannot cost much money.
Peng Bai put the coconut rice dumplings into a mixture of honey and water to soak them. This action made Wan Qiang and the other two not know what Peng Bai was going to do.
The method of using coconut crumbs is made by sprinkling, whether in cooking dishes or making Western pastries. Sprinkling can keep the characteristics of coconut crumbs, which are soft like snowflakes. However, if Peng Bai does this, the coconut crumbs will be integrated into a mixture of honey and water. At that time, it will be called sugar water or honey water. What is the connection with coconut crumbs?
In the stunned eyes of the three of them, Peng Bai put the liquid mixed with honey, water and coconut into the freezer of the refrigerator, and froze with the liquid mixed with the oil and water.
"You will know the reason why I did this when the competition is in the evening." Peng Bai said with a smile, without explaining too much. Many things cannot be taught step by step. Some things need to be seen with eyes and thought with mind, so that they can learn new knowledge and gain new experience.
As night gradually approached, Mi Tiankuang, the owner of Zhenfenglou, obviously wanted everyone to see the production process clearly. In the afternoon of the same day, he found a construction team, erected two tables at the entrance of Pengbai Hotel, set up two stoves, and then put two sets of high-power searchlights at the entrance of Pengbai Hotel. When the competition was played, these two sets of searchlights could turn on, making Peng Bai and Zheng Lei look like stars in concert, and each step could be seen very clearly by everyone.
"Have you been looking for someone?" Mi Tiankuang looked at Peng Bai who was walking onto the high platform first, and whispered to Zheng Lei who was standing beside him and was about to go on stage.
Zheng Lei nodded and said, "I have called and they will arrive soon. Even if they don't, it doesn't matter. I have found a few hooligans. If we lose, we will smash their store."
Mi Tiankuang nodded with satisfaction. He really couldn't afford to lose in this cooking competition, and he never thought he would lose. All the follow-up work was one weight after another, tilting the results Mi Tiankuang needed toward him.
Tianshan Feixue is a famous dish. The method of making is to cut the pork tenderloin into slices, put it in oily, and set it aside, then cut the horseshoe fruit into small diced pieces, put it in a pot and steam it with the oily pork tenderloin, then add some seasonings to make it, so that the aroma of the pork tenderloin is emitted, use chopsticks to place the pork tenderloin into a mountain shape, and sprinkle with coconut paste.
The appearance of the flying snow in Tianshan Mountain looks like a snow mountain. The operation of horseshoe fruit is like ice particles on the iceberg, and the coconut lotus is like snow on the iceberg, giving people a refreshing feeling.
Zheng Lei started cooking this Tianshan Flying Snow in normal order. All the ingredients he chose were carefully selected. The pork tenderloin was made from the tenderloin part of the two-month pig. This pork did not require any modification at all. Just cut it into slices and cook it normally.
Peng Bai watched Zheng Lei quickly cook the Tianshan Flying Snow, and took out a piece of ordinary pork tenderloin that could be bought in any vegetable market without any concern. He cut the pork tenderloin into two centimeters thick slices of meat with the most common method of cutting vegetables. Then he gently beat the pork slices with the back of the kitchen knife, and added a small amount of salt to rub it. This is because Peng Bai chose ordinary pork tenderloin. The pork tenderloin is the strongest place in the pork, and it is all refined meat. This meat does not taste greasy, but it is definitely not that simple to taste. Generally, when the pork tenderloin is cooked by stir-frying, it will be cut into thin slices of meat during the cooking process, so that the meat can be cooked quickly. Other cooking methods are generally mainly cooked and fried, so that the taste of pork tenderloin can be reflected.
The thickness of the pork slices used in Tianshan Feixue is about two to three centimeters, which should be considered as the thickness of cooking and frying. In the process of making Tianshan Feixue, the first step is to over-oil. It is necessary to note that the oil cannot be used to over-oil, otherwise the pork tenderloin will become golden. The over-oil is to coat the pork with an oil film. During the subsequent steaming process, high-temperature heating can make the pork tenderloin more easily cooked under the action of the oil film and absorb the taste of horseshoe fruit more easily.
After Peng Bai treated the pork tenderloin, he chose to drizzle oil instead of putting the pork tenderloin in a oil pan to coat the pork tenderloin with an oil film.
"Hmph! A layman, it is very unique to over-oiling this way. Peng Bai, I know, is the same person. However, over-oiling, the pork tenderloin cannot be coated with an oil film. It will be deformed according to the cut during the steaming process. At that time, it will be difficult for you to place it well." Zheng Lei had already put the pork tenderloin and horseshoe diced pork into the steamer for steaming. Now there is nothing to do anyway, so Zheng Lei began to observe Peng Bai's cooking process. When he saw Peng Bai pouring 30% oil on the pork tenderloin slices, he sneered in his heart.
Peng Bai didn't know what Zheng Lei was thinking. After years of cooking learning and training, he was able to cook his own characteristics in different ways. He had made this Tianshan Feixue several times before. After eating it, Le Xiaodao repeatedly praised Peng Bai's unique cooking method, and it was more in line with the name of the Tianshan Feixue.
After pouring oil for a minute, when the oil in the pan became 70% hotter, Peng Bai stopped, placed the oiled pork slices on a plate, then cut the horseshoe fruit into the diced horseshoe fruit, and then put the horseshoe fruit ginseng in the pork slices, as if making a Western sandwich.
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"Hmph! A big fire will destroy the taste of horseshoe fruit and make the horseshoe fruit soft. Only by using low heat and the time must be controlled within five minutes, the taste of horseshoe fruit will remain a part of the crispy and taste more refreshing." Zheng Lei disdainfully commented on Peng Bai's steaming method in his heart.
Peng Bai steamed the plate over high heat for less than three minutes and then took out the plate, then put it directly into the freezer of the refrigerator for rapid freezing.
"Damn, are you wrong? Do you think this is making ice cream?" Zheng Lei cursed in his heart. If Peng Bai's approach was full of loopholes just now, at least Zheng Lei could understand where Peng Bai's loopholes were. But now, Zheng Lei has no idea what Peng Bai is doing.
Peng Bai adjusted the temperature of the freezer to minus forty degrees Celsius, then froze for one minute and took out the plate.
Peng Bai took a clean plate, used chopsticks to push away the diced pork diced horseshoe, and then picked out the pork tenderloin slices. Because the oil was not completely oily, the pork slices had become curved when steamed, but Peng Bai didn't care. He placed the deformed pork slices randomly on the large plate, and placed them very casually, as if he was doing something casually, rather than competing for cooking skills.
After the arrangement was completed, Peng Bai grabbed the horseshoe diced rice from the plate with his hands and scattered it on the pork slices mountain, and then took out the two basins of frozen hard ice that he had put in in the afternoon from the freezer.
Peng Bai picked up the kitchen knife and started to hang frost in front of the knife with the part of the kitchen knife.
A fluffy of ice fell, covering the pork slices mountain in the real snow and ice.
"Finish." Zheng Lei scattered the coconut fruit on the meat mountain and shouted loudly. He had finished making it.
"I'm done too." Peng Bai wiped the kitchen knife clean and said with a smile.
Because Peng Bai reduced the hype step, it was almost done at the same time as Zheng Lei.
"Wow! It's so delicious! Chef Peng's cooking skills are really not a good idea. This tastes like a dessert, but it also has a faint salty taste."
"Yes! A little bit of salty and sweet taste, I didn't even think there was any conflict between these two extreme tastes."
"This is the best pork tenderloin I've ever had, it's so delicious."
"In this season, I can eat dishes like ice cream, and the heat disappears in an instant."
Everyone came forward to taste it and gave a very high evaluation of the Tianshan snow cooked by Peng Bai. If it were not for the Tianshan snow of Peng Bai in comparison, Zheng Lei's Tianshan snow might have been praised by everyone, but now everyone has tilted the balance of victory to Peng Bai.
Peng Bai smiled and accepted everyone's praise. In fact, this victory was expected by Peng Bai. Years of experience in cooking dishes made Peng Bai understand that a dish should not only be cooked deliciously, but also pay attention to the season and the preferences of the people who taste the dishes, and more importantly, it is the hearts of the people.
According to normal circumstances, the human heart is not related to the dishes at all, but if you look carefully, you will know that the human heart is more delicious than the dishes and more important than other points that need to be paid attention to. If the people's hearts are in a way that the dishes you make are not as good as the other party, but if you can win the people's hearts, then everyone thinks you are good, and no matter how capable the other party is, it will be useless.
This corresponds to the couplet - the first couplet: If you say you can do it, you can do it, and if you can't do it; the second couplet: If you can't do it, you can't do it, and if you can't do it, you can't do it.
Now Peng Bai's dishes are obviously popular, and this is also what Peng Bai has accumulated here during this period. Why did the original owner of this restaurant have a bad business? It is not that the simple dishes are expensive, nor that the dishes taste bad, but that the original owner of this restaurant has not grasped the customer's psychology.
Now the customers around are all outsiders, and they have a kind of rejection of locals. Furthermore, although the original boss did not raise the price of the vegetables, Peng Bai set the price of the dishes much higher than the original boss. However, in terms of the types of dishes, Peng Bai captured the customers' greed for the dishes. He used to spend five yuan, which was at most two vegetarian dishes. Now he could buy at least two meat dishes for five yuan. Invisibly, Peng Bai's income increased, and the number of customers coming to eat increased. At the same time, Peng Bai also won the hearts of these customers.
Moreover, these waiters and these three chefs are the same, but after Peng Bai's guidance, not only the quality of the dishes has improved, but the attitude of the waiters has also become much better than before. Of course, these customers do not want to see Peng Bai's hotel go bankrupt and do not want to spend extra money to eat delicious food.
So, now the Tianshan Flying Snow made by Peng Bai is better than Zheng Lei's. Even if it is not delicious, if these people are asked to judge, Peng Bai will also win the final victory.
Zheng Lei and Mi Tiankuang's face immediately became very ugly after hearing everyone's evaluation of the dishes. If they were allowed to continue like this, they would definitely be the two of them who failed in the end.
Zheng Lei took out his cell phone from his pocket and was about to call the people in the kitchen to rescue him. Several people separated and walked into the circle of the competition.
When Zheng Lei saw the people coming, he happily greeted them.
"Boss, you are finally here. If you don't come again, I'm afraid I'll beg for a living in the future." Zheng Lei greeted him and said happily.
"Let me introduce this. This is Xi Menlin, a special chef at the kitchen door. These are also special chefs at the kitchen door. I think you ordinary people must have no vision or taste. If you listen to you, then are the things in street stalls better than those in five-star hotels? Let's get out of the way, let the experts at the kitchen door comment on the advantages and disadvantages of the dishes!" Zheng Lei turned around and said loudly.
Everyone showed an angry expression after hearing Zheng Lei's words. However, no matter how angry this anger was, they still dared not speak out. After all, Mi Tiankuang is a local, and the non-local fight is a creed that all migrant workers from other places abide by. After all, a strong dragon cannot defeat the local snake!
Peng Bai looked at the people who came and the kitchen door. There was no doubt about this, but Peng Bai was not unfamiliar with these people. This place was under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Alliance. Peng Bai had met these people several times. They were all Le Xiaodao's confidants and subordinates.
"You guys, don't be fine!" Peng Bai didn't feel afraid at all and said to the visitor with a smile.
Ximen Lin was stunned at first after hearing Peng Bai's words, then showed a surprised expression. He quickly stepped forward and bowed: "So it's Master Peng! It's been a long time since I saw you, how are you doing recently?"
Several people brought by Ximen Lin also stepped forward and bowed and greeted him.
Peng Bai nodded slightly as an answer. Peng Bai still didn't take these people seriously. Peng Bai was not surprised why the two sides were already on the opposite side, and these people were still so respectful to him.
When Peng Bai was in power, the suggestions made to the elder of the kitchen were approved by the elders and promoted to other regions. Just using the percentage of annual net profit as a reward for employees, these people in charges and ordinary employees received great benefits. These people are naturally grateful to Peng Bai. Furthermore, before entering the kitchen door, everyone had the dream of youth and had the women they loved deeply, but after entering the kitchen door, their emotional life was limited. Although this was the kitchen door to allow the people in the door to concentrate on studying cooking skills, for ordinary people, love will not be cherished when they are not available, but when they can never have it, they will have a strong impulse. Coupled with Peng Bai's reputation in the kitchen door, although Peng Bai has become an enemy of the kitchen door and a person who wants to get rid of it, these people still respect Peng Bai very much.
Chapter completed!