Punch: From third-rate anchor to top chef

Chapter 238
Although the audience didn't get Li Xiao's promise immediately, they at least gave a blank check, and everyone's emotions were no longer so excited.
And after all, buying tangerine peel is not an urgent matter. Many people are just interested in buying tangerine peel after seeing so many uses of tangerine peel in Li Xiao's live broadcast.

Many people who are now clamoring to buy, I am afraid that within two days, this matter will be completely forgotten.

This kind of thing is still the same as the promise many people made before they started dating, how vigorous they are when they say it, and how confident they are when they break it.

Responding to the demands of the audience, Li Xiao walked to the side of the workbench and picked up the red beans that had been soaked for 4 hours.

These red beans have been soaked with water one by one, and have been carefully washed before.

Of course, 4 hours is still too short for red beans, but Li Xiao does not want to make regular traditional sugar water, so 4 hours of soaking is enough to absorb water.

Li Xiao showed the red beans soaked in water in front of the live broadcast room, and explained,

"This is the red bean I bought this morning. It has been soaked for 4 hours. After absorbing the water, the body of the red bean has grown a little bit. Of course, this change is not very obvious, so it needs to be carefully observed. .”

"Usually we need to soak red bean paste for 10 hours to a day, so that the red beans can fully soften and absorb enough water, and the red bean paste cooked after soaking for a long time will be very soft and rotten."

"Of course, if the viewers don't have much time to soak red beans and want to eat them very much, then you can directly clean the dried red beans at home, put them in the freezer for 2 to 3 hours, and then take them out. The frozen red beans , it is also very easy to cook soft.”

"Of course, today we also don't need to use the freezing method. Today I will teach you a special red bean syrup."

While speaking, Li Xiao poured out all the water in which the red beans were soaked.

"Let's pour out the water used to soak the red beans, and then add fresh water, just enough to cover the red beans."

Then, he took out the newly bought grinder.

"In fact, most of the grinders, food processors and kitchen machines in the home have the function of stirring and grinding. We can pour the soaked red beans into the grinder together with water."

"Turn to the highest gear first, and break up the red beans as much as possible."

As he spoke, he poured all the red beans and water into the grinder, closed the lid and pressed the start button.

The pulverizer makes a rattling sound, but the sound is relatively small. After all, it is a high-end product just bought. Although it is a home use version, it is also sold at a price of up to 3000 yuan. After all, this pulverizer is a The same model used by Starbucks and McDonald's stores.

It's just that their store uses a commercial version, while Li Xiao's is a home version for civilian use.

The working efficiency of the grinder is very fast. It only took about half a minute. All the red beans have been crushed, but the red beans are still very large at this time, about the appearance of one red bean being crushed into three segments.

Li Xiao turned off the shredder, opened the lid, fished out a few pieces of red beans from the shredder, put them in the palm of his hand, and displayed them in front of the live broadcast room.

"The red beans have been crushed to this extent, and we can slow down the speed and continue crushing until the particles are completely invisible."

Li Xiao closed the lid again and pressed the slow switch.

This time the sound from the shredder will be much quieter, probably only similar to the buzzing of the radiator when the desktop computer is turned on at home.

After all, this shredder has two covers, which are not only safe but also reduce noise, which is quite good.

While the blender was stirring the red beans, Li Xiao didn't wait boredly, but walked to the stove.

He looked at the abalone viscera that had been cleaned by himself and had just been soaked in brandy. He hesitated, and retracted his outstretched hand several times.

Although he did see in the articles of different food bloggers and food critics that they had highly commented on these dark green viscera that looked like the poisonous sac of a poisonous snake.

It is said that the taste is very good, the taste is very special, once you eat it, you will never forget it, the taste is 10 times sweeter than eating abalone meat, it is the source of abalone, fresh and sweet.

Li Xiao even saw abalone sauce made from abalone liver on Taobao, and the sales were quite high.

Thinking of this, Li Xiao's heart was secretly relieved, thinking that his worries were really a bit like Ye Gong's, and he wanted to try, but was afraid of stepping on thunder.

It's like when I was in college, many young ladies added Li Xiao's WeChat, but he was always afraid to agree.

Sometimes it takes just one step to discover new worlds.

Such a high sales volume can be achieved on a public platform like Taobao, and the store has a full score of 4.9 points, and the reviews are also very favorable.

Many buyers are not stingy at all with their praise, frantically recommending this dark green abalone sauce to others.

Li Xiao retracted his phone, and his eyes fell on the abalone viscera in front of him again. He gritted his teeth. If we say that the tastes of those food critics and food bloggers are relatively unique, strategically located, they are very different from the tastes of ordinary people.

Then on Taobao, a shopping platform for ordinary people, these comments should prove that the abalone viscera is indeed edible, and it is quite delicious, otherwise there would be so many recommended comments.

He swallowed, and opened the saucepan.

Feeling the heat of the pan, Li Xiao scraped out a little butter and put it on the pan. The butter melted quickly and made a 'squeak' sound, and took it out from the chef's paper, the abalone viscera that had been drained.

Looking at the dark green viscera in his hand, Li Xiao swallowed again.

The abalone viscera is neatly placed on the pan, and the abalone viscera starts to shrink slightly the moment it touches the pan.

Soon wisps of white smoke rose from the dark green abalone viscera. Li Xiao fanned the white smoke into his nostrils with his palm and smelled it gently.

What came to his mind was the aroma of butter, the burnt aroma of abalone, and the aroma of wine from brandy.

There was no strange smell as expected, and the uneasiness in his heart was completely let go. It seemed that what everyone said was indeed true.

This looks very ghostly thing, but it is indeed edible.

In the live room
"No, no, does the anchor really want to eat this ghost thing?"

"The anchor is too awesome, what people can't do!!"

"The anchor is going all out for the live broadcast, can this thing really be eaten???"

Seeing more and more white smoke rising from the pan, Li Xiao gently shook the pan, and the abalone viscera on the pan neatly turned over with the shaking of his wrist.

This movement seems to be very simple, but an insider will definitely take a breath when seeing it. Most people may spend several years just practicing this rice cooker, and they may not be able to turn it so lightly.

Looking at the abalone viscera that had turned a little brown, Li Xiao heaved a sigh of relief, smelling that there was nothing wrong with it, and he didn't know what it would be like to eat.

When white smoke comes out from the other side, Li Xiao sprinkles fine salt and black pepper, and sprinkles a circle of brandy on the edge of the pan to let the aroma of the wine evaporate quickly. You will quickly flip the pan to let the wine Fragrance, salt powder and black pepper are thoroughly blended together.

Finally, Li Xiao poured all the abalone viscera from the pan into the plate and looked at the fragrant abalone viscera.

His eyebrows raised slightly, he couldn't believe it, but after a simple dry frying, the thing that looked like a poison sac could actually emit such a fragrance?

Putting the plate aside, his eyes fell on the stove next to him.

Li Xiao turned up the heat of the tangerine peel duck again and kept stirring it, completing the last step of collecting the juice.

Smelling the scent of dried tangerine peel duck in the air, Li Xiao already twitched his index finger. If he didn't want to finish the other dishes, Li Xiao might have picked up the chopsticks by now.

Put the tangerine duck on a plate and bring it to the table. You want to go back to the kitchen to take out the purple sand stew pot, dry-fried abalone viscera and steamed abalone.

After putting everything on the dining table, Li Xiao returned to the grinder. At this time, the red beans in the grinder had been completely crushed and turned into red bean paste.

However, since the red bean paste is still raw at this time, the color presented is light red, very light, and it does not look like puree made from bright red beans at all.

Pour the red bean paste into a stainless steel plate, and Li Xiao pointed the camera at the inside of the stainless steel plate.

"Now we have obtained a pretty good red bean paste, but it cannot be cooked directly at this level."

"Because although the red bean paste looks so fine, there are still many relatively large particles hidden in it that we cannot distinguish with the naked eye. In addition, the red bean shell is still very hard."

"At this time, we have to sift through the red bean paste and select some of the more delicate tissues."

He took out a stainless steel sieve and poured all the red beans in the bowl on top.

Before the red beans flowed out, Li Xiao quickly took a stainless steel pot and put it under the dense sieve.

The other hand is holding a silicone scraper, constantly pushing and scraping the red bean puree on the dense sieve.

The finer red bean paste quickly fell into the stainless steel pot through the stainless steel sieve.

Li Xiao lifted the stainless steel pot to let everyone see what's inside
"You can see that the weight of red bean paste has been reduced by about one-fifth at this time. You can imagine how many large particles are still in the seemingly fine red bean paste."

"Actually, if you have a lot of time, you can wait two or three times, so that the taste will be more delicate. But I don't have time here, so I can just deal with it once every other time."

"In the next step, we will add water. The amount of water is about three times the amount of red beans."

"Of course, if you want to eat thicker water, you can use a little less water, but at least it should not be less than twice the amount, otherwise it will be easy to burn dry."

"If you want to drink thinner, you can add 4 to 5 times the amount of water. Of course, it is not recommended to add too much water. After all, it is too thin and it does not look like red bean syrup."

"I prefer to drink normal, which tastes more delicious, so what I did this time was to add three times the water."

Li Xiao poured clean water into the stainless steel pot, put the stainless steel pot on the stove, turned on the fire and covered the pot, then turned and walked to the dining table.

as he walked he explained
"Since the red beans have been completely crushed, the cooking time will be greatly shortened."

"Originally, even if you use red beans that have been soaked for more than 10 hours, you need to cook them for an hour to make the red beans in the pot soft and rotten."

"But now after the red beans are completely smashed, we only need 15 to 25 minutes to get a bowl of delicious red bean syrup."

Studio

"Wait, there seems to be something wrong, will the boiled sugar water still be soft and rotten? Isn't it completely rotten before cooking?"

"I've never seen this kind of sugar water, it looks like a ghost."

"Wait, isn't this what the rice porridge I make for my baby looks like?"

"The eldest sister upstairs really said that it is like the kind of packaged rice cereal that children eat. It can be eaten directly in powder form and heated with water."

"The first few dishes are okay, but the sugar water in the back is a dark dish, right?"

"Laughing to death, the Internet is still bragging about how good this anchor is, and now it's exposed."

"It's too early for you to draw conclusions, let's see when the time comes."

"Anyway, I don't have much hope, and my family doesn't have the money to buy such an expensive grinder."

"As I said just now, in fact, the ordinary grinder or kitchen machine in our home can crush and grind it, which is very convenient. Besides, as for whether it is dark cooking, everyone will know when we eat sugar water after eating."

While talking, he conveniently placed a large bowl of rice, which exudes a strong rice fragrance.

The reason why this rice is so fragrant is not only because it is steamed, but also because the rice used is the finest Xiangshui rice.

In fact, ordinary people cannot buy authentic high-quality Xiangshui rice.

Of course, Li Xiao is also an ordinary person. Logically speaking, he can't buy it. Even if he is willing to spend money, he can only buy ordinary or even fake Xiangshui rice.

But he just met two extraordinary people. After Li Xiao tasted the rice in [Neighborhood] a few times, he couldn't forget it.

So when Li Xiao left, he had the cheek to ask the squad leader for a few bags of Xiangshui rice for Daya Festival.

I have to say that it is worthy of the legendary tribute rice. The aroma and taste of the rice is much better than that of ordinary rice.

And because the current season happens to be shortly after the rice enters the warehouse, it is still very fresh, without the depression of old rice.

Sitting on the dining table with the meal in hand, Li Xiao readjusted the camera position.

Looking at the relatively rich dishes on the table, he licked his lips, but he soon discovered his omission.

I actually forgot to cook, so I quickly got up again, opened the refrigerator, took out a bundle of choy sum, washed it carefully, and patted two pieces of garlic. Immediately put in the cabbage that is soaked in water. The reason why the water is on the green vegetables is that they are worried that the cabbage will turn yellow or burnt if it comes into direct contact with the high-temperature pot surface.

Feeling the heat coming from the pot, Li Xiao had no choice but to give another thumbs up to the former owner of this villa.

Due to the special transformation, these two seemingly simple stoves are not ordinary household stoves, but fierce fire stoves. The firepower is more than double that of ordinary household stoves. With enough firepower, cooking time.

Especially food like green vegetables, once heated in a pot for a long time, it will become old and yellow, and the freshness and sweetness of green vegetables will be lost in constant friction.

In less than 2 minutes, a plate of steaming garlic choy sum is ready.

Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, Li Xiao couldn't help secretly giving himself a thumbs up. There are vegetables, meat, seafood, and soup, perfect! !
The audience in the live broadcast room couldn't help drooling when they saw that there were not many types of dishes, but they were very complete.

"Anchor, I'm also a young lady of Longding Huating, but I'm a resident of the second phase, and I just didn't cook today, can I go over and have a meal?"

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"This dish looks super delicious, but the host actually said it's a home-cooked dish?"

"Miss upstairs, don't you know that our administrator is the anchor's little girlfriend? She has a very small mind, and you still dare to recommend yourself to have a meal. It's beyond your imagination."

"Is this called home-cooked food? I thought home-cooked dishes are yellow, yellow, and black, black and not autumnal, and they are called home-cooked dishes in lumps?"

"One minute of silence for the big brother upstairs."

"My family's home-cooked dishes are always one dish, stewed randomly, and all the meat and vegetables are thrown in at once. I can't finish this meal and add some new dishes to continue eating."

"Are you sure it's your own? Why does it sound so scary??"

Li Xiao almost laughed out loud when he saw the audience's misery. Fortunately, he is a professional and qualified anchor, so he usually doesn't laugh out loud unless he really can't help it.

Although he laughed out loud, he immediately pressed his microphone to prevent the audience from hearing his laughter.

It's a pity that he forgot that he still had a portable head-mounted camera on his head.

Seeing the shaking of the second shot and the faint laughter, the audience immediately stopped doing it.

"What is he doing? He's actually laughing. Aren't we adding salt to our wounds?"

"I'm shaking and cold!! The anchor is too much, I'm still staying up late, watching your live broadcast makes me so sad."

Li Xiao had no choice but to apologize in a hurry, so as to appease the poor children's severely injured hearts.

After finally drawing everyone's attention back to the dining table, he opened the lid of the purple soup pot, and a burst of hot air mixed with a strong smell of meat came out of the pot.

Li Xiao leaned his head to the side of the pot and took a deep breath. The smell of wild boar meat was very refreshing, without the fishy smell of farmed pork, and it also had a strong aroma of tangerine peel.

(End of this chapter)