534 Stuck on Knife Skill
It is really hard for Gu Yanan to understand why he has to make a "paper-packed fried chicken" and also to make paper by himself? Naturally, it is even more difficult to understand why he needs to use spring bamboo shoots to make this kind of paper?
Moreover, the spring bamboo shoots north of the Yangtze River are not suitable for use, so they must be used in the south of the Yangtze River. After asking Zhou Dong, they realized that this was a new product to be prepared for the breakfast department, and they were immediately enraged.
Well, for Chu Duren, who likes to eat all kinds of fried foods and beef soup and mutton soup early in the morning, it should be no problem to use fried chicken in paper wraps to make breakfast. But even if she can find food on various food apps, is it so troublesome to use it?
And Zhou Dong, how much does it cost to sell this delicacy? If it is too cheap, we will lose money. Are you happy to do this kind of business that loses money and gains publicity?
When he heard that this delicacy would be ‘teached’ by Zhou Dong, Shi Buyu and Wugong Masada, two great chefs, "joined" to launch it in the Chudu breakfast department, Gu Yanan's mouth was wider than Liu Changqing.
She felt that the Jiuzhou Dingshi Breakfast Department was so luxurious. If this news spread, would Chu Du's breakfast colleagues collectively go to the Jiuzhou Dingshi Breakfast Department to protest?
Isn’t this the way to do business competition? Isn’t this playing ‘God Chef Dumping’! It’s simply unfair competition!
Of course, Master Chudu Breakfast, who has long been used to being submissive, should not have the intention to protest. The breakfast industry is different from high-end catering. The advantage of geographical advantages can greatly offset the gap in craftsmanship. No matter how popular the Jiuzhou Dingshi Breakfast Department is, it is impossible for people who are more than ten or even dozens of kilometers to come to have a bun in the early morning. It may be possible once or twice, but no one can stand it over time.
Gu Yanan just felt that Zhou Dong was too exaggerated. She had to make fried chicken and made paper. It seems that no chef has done this before in China Qinxing? However, her father's long-distance phone call directly dispelled all her questions. The old antique on the phone simply said: "Satisfies all Zhou Dong's requirements! No doubts are allowed!"
"Don't worry, dad, I, as the CEO, can't care about Chef Chou...
He asked Liu Changqing to prepare the ingredients in just one word. Now he should have returned to Chudu.
Well, I'm about to go over and want to see how they use spring bamboo shoots to make paper...
What! You are coming next week and try Zhou Dong’s ‘paper-packed fried chicken’?
OK, I discussed with Liu Changqing that Zhou Dong had too many rules, and even I had to queue up for breakfast!
Of course, you can't queue up. If you have bad legs and feet, how can you stand for a long time? If he doesn't give this face, I will be anxious with him!"
Gu Yanan smiled bitterly when he put down his father's phone call. The legend of this industry is really true. What is the president and general manager? At most, he would manage the logistics work for the chefs, not to mention that the chef also brought two assistants of the chef.
She is not easy to be the president...
When Gu Yanan came to the breakfast kitchen, she was told that the top spring bamboo shoots that Liu Changqing brought were not here at all. It is said that when he arrived in Chudu, he was sent directly to Zhou Dong's courtyard.
So they rushed to Zhou Dong's house again, and saw Zhou Dong and Shi Buyu, Wugong Masada, Huailiangren Yan Yi and others sitting in the yard drinking tea. There was also an old man with squinting eyes. The old man glanced at her, not knowing whether he had opened his eyes or not, but he ignored her anyway.
Zhou Dong looked at Gu Yanan: "Mr. Gu, why are you here?"
"I'm curious. I heard that someone wants to use the top spring bamboo shoots to make 'paper-packed fried chicken', so I want to come and have a look. Why, isn't it welcome?"
"Haha, welcome...but Mr. Gu, you came early, so this bamboo shoot has to be dried for a few days before it can be used. If you want to see it, it will take three days later."
Zhou Dong smiled and said, "Let me introduce it. This is the famous Lucai master, Senior Lu Tianming. He has become a contemporary chef with Lucai. The recipe for spring bamboo shoots and papermaking is thanks to Senior Lu's advice."
"What, another contemporary chef?"
Gu Yanan's butt and thighs were about to touch the chair, but when he heard this, he stood up again: "Hello, Senior Lu, I am Gu Yanan from Jiuzhou Dingshi."
I thought this was great. The rare creatures like the Chinese God Chef in our Jiuzhou Dingshi are just like the cabbage on the side of the road. I just pulled one out of it...
Lu Tianming looked at her with a smile: "President Gu, please sit down. I'm here to be a guest for a few days. When the spring bamboo shoots are made, you have to leave. It's different from the old stone."
It means you don’t have to be surprised. Chef Zhou is amazing. I didn’t agree to join Jiuzhou Dingshi. We are not a guest-host relationship, and we don’t need to make porcelain.
Zhou Dong's mission of subduing the three divine chefs to receive the 'chef-level recipe' did not change because of Lu Tianming's arrival. It is precisely because of this reason. Lu Tianming seems humble, but in fact he is more noble and arrogant than Shi Buyu. Even if he agrees with Zhou Dong, he will not easily join him. After all, he is a god chef in the world. How can he be conquered by saying that he can be conquered?"
Gu Yanan sat for a while and felt uncomfortable all over. She couldn't understand what these people were talking about, so she couldn't even get in. So she simply got up and said goodbye and agreed to come back three days later.
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Cai Lun's papermaking method is more complicated than the industry of modern paper mills. It is probably divided into shearing, fermenting, beating, suspending, copying, shaping, drying, etc.
When Cai Lun first studied papermaking, in addition to bark and hemp wisps, the raw materials also used rags, rotten fish nets and even the residual floss left when making silk cotton, etc.... And these raw materials were naturally abandoned by Lu Tianming. "Paper food" is the entrance. It not only needs to ensure taste, but also absolutely non-toxic, so the only materials that can be used are spring bamboo shoots.
To be precise, it is spring bamboo shoots with varying degrees of drying, and even includes tender bamboo shoots that have been kept fresh.
"Whenever you want to make paper, you must have pulp and fiber tissue.
Pulp can ensure the flexibility of paper, and the fiber structure is the skeleton of paper, and no one can be made into paper.
The most difficult thing about this kind of 'spring bamboo shoot paper' is that it can only be made with spring water and spring bamboo shoots, and at most it can only add a certain amount of glutinous rice flour to it."
Lu Tianming glanced at Gu Yanan who had arrived as scheduled, picked up a spring bamboo shoot that had been dry for three days and said, "Brother Zhou, please see, after three days of drying, the fiber tissue in it has been highlighted, and the thickness is like a human capillary, but we have to peel it out..."
"There are also these spring bamboo shoots that have been dried for one day, two days, and have not been dried at all. They can be fermented and cooked directly in the pot. When the bamboo pulp is slowly cooked, I will add glutinous rice flour when appropriate, and then quickly beat them.
But these are just preparations. Whether it can be successfully produced depends entirely on my sword skills.”
Lu Tianming smiled and said, "I heard that Brother Zhou was phoenix danced in the sky with one hand. Even Lao Wu Palace was deeply impressed by you, and he wanted to worship you as his teacher. I am ashamed of such sword skills."
These days, he exchanged his cooking skills with Zhou Dong. The deeper he went into Lu Tianming, the more he lamented that Zhou Dong's cooking skills were as profound as the ocean. If he had doubts before, he had already recognized Zhou Dong's identity as a divine chef, so he became Zhou Dong called him a senior, and his name was Zhou Dong, and his name was so messy.
Standing next to him, Masada Wugong, immediately said, "Lu Sang, you can rest assured that Master Zhou's sword skills must be fine, it's a great success!"
Zhou Dong smiled bitterly and said, "Senior Lu, don't praise me for now, you have to tell me what I should do?"
"Be absolutely fast, and you only have one chance!"
Lu Tianming smiled and said, "If it fails, we have to buy spring bamboo shoots again. I'm afraid we will have to wait for a few more days.
To be honest, I have failed at this step for hundreds of times and I have lost all confidence.
Chapter completed!