The story of a cook

Chapter 223 Kitchen Hygiene
Two days later, the business picked up a bit, and I was really busy working on a cutting board. Chef Wang urged me to find a cutting board. I called Guo Day and asked him if he wanted to do it.The National Day is about to do it, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I have to earn some money.

So the National Day came here as a chopping board.

National Day's knife skills are really bad, and I don't know what he has been doing all these years.As the saying goes, a connoisseur will know if it is there as soon as he stretches out his hand.You can tell what it looks like when you cut vegetables with a knife on National Day, which is better than that of an apprentice, and it is one piece worse than a hand-made chopping board.

"National Day, what have you been doing all these years?" I asked.

Guo Qing said: "Hey, don't mention it, I'm not a dry chef. I haven't done much cooking in the kitchen these years, just playing."

I said, "This place is not busy, let me help you, and see if you can make people die in a hurry."

National Day smiled embarrassedly and said, "Well, it's time for the Chinese New Year. I haven't earned a penny this year, and I have to go home to celebrate the New Year. I can't ask my family for money."

I shook my head and started to help him.

Don't look at the fact that you can't work on the National Day, it's quite clear that you have a good relationship with the people in the front desk and back kitchen within a few days.There are a few waiters at the front desk. I don’t know what their surnames are. He knows everything.The relationship with Zhao Gang is also good, and they began to call each other brothers in a few days.

People have their shortcomings and they must have their strengths. This sentence is true. The National Day does have a way of handling interpersonal relationships.

Commuting with National Day every day.The two of us rode bicycles and chatted. It took about 10 minutes to arrive at the place before I felt cold, which was also very good.

National Day asked: "Do you know what our pastry has to do with Chef Wang?"

I said, "I don't know, my colleague."

Guo Qing said: "You can't see it wrong, the relationship between the two of them is not ordinary, they are not ordinary soldiers."

I said, "You know everything about it in the first few days. It's like a mother. It's better to have that time to practice knife skills and chop vegetables."

Guo Qing said: "You don't know about this, third child, do you know, where to work, the first step is to understand the relationship between the people inside, who is good with whom, who is with whom, who is with whom Who is not in the same group, who is what, you have to understand, otherwise you don’t know how to die.”

I laughed and said: "I don't have the time to fix that. It's a waste of time. If you have the time, it's better to think about food."

Guoqing said: "You can't just work with one mind. You know you are not the third child. Sometimes you have to work hard, or you will suffer in vain. You fry your own dishes without looking at other people's chefs. Why are you busy here? If you don’t even look at it, it’s because they don’t want to talk to you, you’re not one of them.”

I said, "I wasn't with him at all."

"Look at Chef Wang, he seems to be quite honest, but in fact, that kind of person is the most perverted, and he has always wanted to get in touch with our noodles, but our noodles don't want to be with him." Guo Qing said: "Miandian is also quite capable. , I don’t say I’m with you, I don’t say I’m not, just hang him like this, and there will be a lot of capital at that time.”

I said, "The pastry family has children, don't talk nonsense."

Guoqing said: "What's wrong with having children, and having children is still blocking the iron." Then said: "You know, now you say who has no iron, men without iron, living is not as good as turtles, women without iron, it is better Be a lady."

I laughed and said, "Then you are one too."

"You think I don't want to. The main reason is that we have no money. You have to have money to be a Tiezi. A man has to be willing to spend money on a woman. If you don't spend money, whoever will sleep with you? Why don't you go home and sleep with your old man in your arms?" Well, don’t worry about it.”

I said: "If you don't just see the matter between Chef Wang and Dian Dian with your own eyes, it's better not to talk about it if you don't see it with your own eyes. "

"I'm just talking to you, if others don't." Guo Qing said.

I said: "It's enough to talk about it, just take it as a joke."

I don't pay much attention to these things, it's all gossip, so I just listen to it as a joke.

"Third son, the waiters in front of you are just like your relatives. If they look good, they look good. If you don't know, you may think they are models from somewhere." I don't like to hear about the relationship between men and women. The National Day began to change the topic.

I said, "It's just been a few days, you're even familiar with the waiter."

Guoqing said: "Hey, you didn't even look at who I am. I thought I was a handsome guy who fascinated a lot of people back then, but in the past two years, my daughter-in-law is so strict that I dare not go out for leisure. If you don't have a wife, it's still the same. Believe it or not, if I want to flirt with a little girl, I can get it within three days, and she has to do it voluntarily."

I said: "I believe that you have lost your talent here, and you should go to West Tower. There is a shortage of talents like you in West Tower. It is really good if you go, and maybe you can talk to a rich woman to support you for the rest of your life."

Guo Qing said: "That's not bad, I just have a wife, if I don't have a wife, I might go to Xita, contact a rich woman and let her take care of me."

I said, "Okay, let me tell you that you are still climbing smoothly. If you put all this effort into serious work during the National Day, you can do anything. You are so smart."

Since the National Day came to the kitchen, the kitchen has become much more lively, and the eloquence and communication that have been spent outside for the past two years during the National Day were not in vain.Everyone likes him very much and is willing to chat with him.

Chatting is chatting, work still has to be done, who will pay when you don’t do work.

The chopping block that went home came back, and the chopping block that left the job left after returning.The cutting board is the remaining cutting board for the National Day and returning home.

The chopping board's surname is Zhang, and his name is Zhang Jun. He is a nice guy, he works hard, and he is clever.

A few days after I came back, I became very familiar with National Day and started calling them brothers.

The reason why Zhang Jun came home sounded like news at the time.His mother gave birth to a second child, and he had a younger sister.This matter is not a big deal now. My brother in his 20s has a newborn sister who is too late for others to envy.At that time, the family planning policy was not allowed to have a second child, and if you gave birth, you would have to pay a fine.After I heard this, I was very curious, but then I thought that I was not the same. When my eldest sister was 20 years old, my mother gave birth to me, and I was relieved.

There are two major dishes in the restaurant, seafood and home-cooked dishes.

Every day, Chef Wang stir-fries food when he comes, and stays in his dormitory when there is no food.

The dormitories for the staff are in the backyard of the hotel. The backyard of the hotel is a row of bungalows with more than a dozen rooms. Each room is cleaned up and used as dormitories for the staff.From the point of view of the staff dormitory, it is better to be a public unit. The staff dormitory is one room per person, which is very comfortable and convenient to live in.

There are not many people living in the dormitory. There are chef Wang, Zhao Gang, and Zhang Jun in the kitchen. There are four waiters at the front desk, and there is a passer. The rest, like me and Guoqing, live in the dormitory and go home.

When I have nothing to do, I help prepare for the National Day. I cut the shredded meat, sliced ​​meat, and meat sections in advance, and put them in separate bags and put them in the freezer. busy.As for the National Day knife work, if you don’t prepare it in advance and cut it now, you probably won’t be able to serve it.

I cut meat, and cut vegetables on National Day, and the two of them worked quickly.After finishing the preparations, he was nowhere to be found. He either went to the pastry room or the cold dish room, or he didn't want to stay in the hot food room.After I finished helping the National Day, I went to help Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun was mainly in charge of seafood, so I helped him clean up the seafood.At first he was too shy to ask me to help, but later he saw that I was not airy, so he always went to help him, and he got used to it.

There are not many types of seafood, but some simple small seafood, including shellfish.Most of the things I cleaned up were squid, ink fountain, smallmouth fish, pedal fish, etc., and these were always cleaned up quickly.

After helping Zhang Jun to see if there is nothing to do, I moved a small bench to sit on the stove. When I was sitting, I used scissors to cut red dried peppers and shredded dried peppers for preparation work, and sometimes fried seasoning oil.There is common seasoning oil in the kitchen, but it’s not good. The seasoning oil I use is fried by myself. Every time the seasoning oil is fried, the pastry chef will come and wait with the seasoning jar. After frying, she fills up a jar and takes it away.Since I fried the seasoning oil myself, both Zhao Gang and Mian Dian no longer use the common seasoning oil, saying that the oil is tasteless.

Sometimes Zhao Gang and Mian Dian would go to the stove to do their homework. At first they came to my stove, but then they stopped.

When Zhao Gang saw that the pasta was not coming to my stove for manual work, he asked, "Sister Mian, why don't you use Master Tan's stove?"

The pastry chef asked Zhao Gang, "Why don't you use it?"

The two laughed at the same time, and the pastry chef said, "I'm sorry to use the stove of Master Tan, it's too clean, and I can't clean it up to his level after it's used up."

I said: "It's okay, use it as you like, don't clean it up after you use it up, just leave it there and I'll clean it up."

To be honest, my cooking stove is really clean, there are almost no oil spots, and there will be no oil on my work clothes when I turn around the stove.Including the ground, you can sit directly on the ground. The ground has never been mopped. I always squat on the ground with a rag to wipe it. It is clean and comfortable to look at.Of course, there will be oil and dirt when cooking.

Zhang Jun is responsible for the sanitation at Chef Wang's side. Zhang Jun told me all day long, "Master Tan, you have to clean up so cleanly. Chef Wang always asks me to clean up the stove just like yours."

I said: "Cleaning up is not just for cleanliness and good looks, it is mainly because the stove is out of oil to prevent fires."

Indeed, the kitchen is clean without oil stains, especially the stove without oil stains, which greatly reduces the chance of fire.

The Rose Hotel wouldn't catch fire if it weren't for the oil stains accumulated over the years on the stove, at most the hose burst like Yangchun, and it wouldn't burn the entire stove.

It's all lessons learned.

(End of this chapter)