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Chapter 301 Oh my god, it looks more like an apple than a real apple!Qiu Qiu, I have a sincere suggestion for you!

In the studio of the TV station, the recording of the program is still going on.

Xie Baomin was shaping the little apple. Seeing that Lin Xu had finished filling the apple, he said:
"Junior brother, go cut some carrots and insert a small piece of chopsticks in the middle. After the apples are formed, they cannot be placed on the chopping board. You have to pick them up with chopsticks. This way, when steaming, the apples will grow more round and beautiful."

Can you do this?

Lin Xu felt that he had learned another trick.

I didn't expect carrots to be used like this, and I didn't expect steaming round dim sum to be so simple.

If you want to steam similar things in the future, you can use carrots and chopsticks in a simple way.

But if you want to make it frequently in the store in the future, it is better to buy a special steamer.

Lin Xu has seen that kind of special steamer before, with non-slip stainless steel sticks welded on it, which can be inserted into the steamed dim sum to steam, and even steamed buns.

The high-pile steamed buns that were once quite famous in the Central Plains were steamed in this kind of cage.

Lin Xu took a few carrots and cut them at intervals of about five centimeters.

This thickness allows the chopsticks to be tied firmly enough, and at the same time has a certain weight, so that the noodles will not be tilted and overturned during steaming.

After cutting, take a disposable bamboo chopsticks and cut off from the ten centimeters of the head of the chopsticks.

Then cut a few times at the fracture to get a tip, and then insert it into the carrot, leaving the chopstick head on it.

To make this kind of temporary buttress, it is necessary to turn the head of the complete chopsticks upward, so as to effectively prevent the burrs at the fracture of the chopsticks from remaining in the fruit and causing damage to the oral cavity.

Of course, it is best to use a professional steaming product support, otherwise several carrots and a pair of disposable chopsticks will be lost in one steaming, which is too wasteful.

As soon as Lin Xu was done, Xie Baomin inserted a white pastry apple into the chopsticks with the big end up.

The apples are pinched so vividly that even the folds of the apple flower pedicles are made.

This is a test of Bai An's skills, because this kind of wrinkles not only need to be resembling, but the most important thing is that after the noodles are steamed, there are similar traces.

Otherwise, the noodles made will look similar in shape but not in spirit, which will affect the final appearance.

"What's the matter with this part, brother?"

"Use the tip of a bamboo stick to press the apple. Generally, the apple has five stripes, so it is enough to press it five times."

Xie Baomin talked about the technique of this step while doing it.

After pinching the stalk of the big end of the apple, he turned the apple over with the small end facing up, and first pressed it with the pointed end of the rolling pin to make a deeper straight hole.

Then pick up a bamboo stick like the one used to wear sausages, and lay it flat so that the straight hole made by the bamboo stick and the rolling pin forms a right angle of [-] degrees.

Use the tip of the bamboo stick to press down along the straight pit, and press down the surface around the pit, then gently turn it a few tens of degrees, and press it again.

Turn it around like this, and press it five times in total, and the edges and corners of the apple flower pedicle will come out.

Hold the noodle in your hand and pinch it a few times to shape the apple. The upper and lower pits should be more obvious, and the waist in the middle of the apple should be slightly thinner.

In this way, after steaming, it expands, just to show the shape of the apple perfectly.

The difficulty in shaping the dough is not pinching, but the ability to accurately predict how it will look after steaming.

To be able to do this is to be called a master.

After Xie Baomin pinched it carefully, he inserted the noodles into the chopsticks again.

The whole process is simple and fast, giving people a feeling of "just so", but Lin Xu is very clear that every step of this thing is not simple, and it takes experience.

If you get started rashly, you will definitely overturn.

If you want to practice in private, just overturn the car, it's recording a show at the moment, if the little brother mischievously cuts the scene of the overturned car in the later stage, it will be a lot of fun.

"Boss Lin, don't you want to try one?"

Seeing Lin Xu standing with his hands behind his back as a spectator, Zeng Xiaoqi asked curiously.

Wouldn't it save time for two people to do it?
Why didn't Boss Lin do anything?

Lin Xu smiled and said:

"Today, my brother is the chef, so I'll make a move."

Hearing what the younger brother said, Xie Baomin was not polite, and he handed Lin Xu a piece of dough that he had left on purpose just now:

"Isn't that cocoa powder? Knead it into the dough and make it dark brown."

Oh?
What does this step do?
Lin Xu took the dough and pinched it a few times. After the relaxation just now, the dough expanded again. After adding sugar, the yeast was really active.

Just as he was about to ask, Xie Baomin took the initiative to say:
"Just having an apple is not complete, you have to have a stalk, and a little part of the flower pedicle has to be stuffed in, so that it looks black and closer to a real apple."

Tsk tsk tsk, brother is really going to open up this time.

Even the stalk and flower base have been thought of. The apples produced in this way are completely indistinguishable from real apples, right?

He took the dough, kneaded some cocoa powder into it with his hands, and kneaded it repeatedly.

The cocoa powder is slightly dry, and it is not easy to knead into the dough. It has to be added a little bit, and the dough is kneaded into a brown color.

This kind of cocoa powder is also called chocolate noodles. Although it is a Western-style ingredient, it is widely used in Chinese food. For example, the common flower rolls, unless otherwise specified, use cocoa powder instead of traditional sorghum noodles.

The reason is that the color of cocoa powder is more beautiful, and it can be perfectly colored by mixing a little in the dough, while sorghum noodles need to be mixed in a lot to achieve the same effect.

In addition, sorghum noodles are rough, children don't like to eat them, and the price is also high.

Although the price of cocoa powder is also high, the amount of cocoa powder is small and the taste is delicate, which children like.

In today's family, everything really revolves around the child... Lin Xu sighed inwardly, and suddenly thought that his baby Shen was also like a child.

Then take the time to steam some Hanamaki for her to try.

If other people have it, our good baby must have it too.

Shen Baobao, who was sitting in front of the computer in the office and browsing autumn couple outfits, didn't know that her Xu Bao secretly planned to make delicious food for her.

After adding cocoa powder three times, Lin Xu finally achieved the effect his brother wanted.

Xie Baomin shaped all the noodles and fruits, brought the cage over, put the noodles in one by one, then covered the cage with a layer of plastic wrap, let it rest for ten minutes, and then steamed.

Regardless of making steamed buns or steamed buns, don't steam them in the pan immediately after forming.

Let it rest for a while, and the dough will rise more thoroughly and softer.

Taking advantage of this time, Xie Baomin started making apple stems.

Take a little brown dough from the noodle, put it on the chopping board and rub it with your thumbs, and knead it into a long strip with a big end and a small end, about two or three centimeters.

"Hey, this is thinner than a toothpick."

Lin Xu sighed in admiration. In the past, the senior brother always said that he was not proficient in the white case. At that time, he thought it was not good at all. Now it seems that this so-called incompetence is compared with the level of the red case, right?

The cameramen from the two TV stations came over, holding up their cameras and shooting with telephoto lenses.

The handle of this fruit is too thin, and it is not clear to use the camera that usually shoots video in the station. Relatively speaking, the camera + telephoto can take a clearer picture.

Make enough stems according to the amount of noodles, then set up the steamer and start boiling water.

After the water boils, there is no need to rush to lower the fruit, but put the twisted fruit stalk on the baking paper, then put it on the grate of the steamer, and start steaming.

The stalks are steamed in advance, and can be placed outside to dry a little to make the surface of the stalk harden, which can be inserted into the noodles more conveniently.

Moreover, it is slightly hardened after air-drying, and it is closer to the appearance of the real fruit handle.

The steaming of the fruit handle is very simple, about three minutes will do.

After taking it out of the pot, the fruit handle has obviously become thicker, and it is about the size of a toothpick now.

Take it out and put it aside to dry, then place the steamer filled with noodles over the steamer and start steaming.

"Steam for how many minutes?"

"Eight minutes, steam for eight minutes and it will be out of the pot."

Xie Baomin was not idle during the steaming, he took the beetroot he brought over, quickly peeled off the outer skin, then cut it into thin strips and put it in the basin.

As soon as it was put in, red juice slowly seeped out from the bottom of the basin.

"Brother, what is this for? For coloring?"

"Yes, it is used for coloring the pasta. High-end pastry is forbidden to use artificial coloring. Natural pigments must be used, so that the color will be more beautiful."

After shooting here, everyone can finally pause and take a breath.

Zhen Wensheng brought over two cups of tea:

"Before watching Boss Lin's cooking too much, we had the illusion that we were culinary masters, but today, Chef Xie came and beat us back to our original shape."

Lin Xu's videos are more homely, and considering the audience's acceptance, the method is relatively simplified.

Right now, as soon as Xie Baomin made the noodles, the gap immediately became apparent.

In fact, it looked okay at first, just like making dumplings at home.

But starting from the stuffing process, when he saw Xie Baomin wrapping 20 grams of dough with 20 grams of filling little by little with the part of the tiger's mouth, he felt that this was not a delicacy that he could challenge.

And when doing this step, Geng Lishan, who had been staring at it with great interest, gave Zhen Wensheng a popular science about Xie Baomin's stuffing technique.

This technique is called "pinching peaches". It is to use the tiger's mouth to pull up the dough little by little, tighten it, and just enough to make the dough into a point.

It looks just like a peach.

Xie Baomin took the tea and took a sip:
"In fact, I also want to cook home-cooked food, but the leader has spoken, let the previous videos show the professionalism and high-end quality of Diaoyutai, and even asked me to make noodles. I can only do my best."

Lin Xu and Zeng Xiaoqi were delighted to hear it.

If we hadn't attended the meeting, we would have believed you.

Director Liao did call the roll, but it was Chef Qiu's name, what are you talking about here?
Lin Xu cried a tear of sympathy for Qiu Zhenhua in his heart.

I don't know how he would react if he knew that the dishes were cut off by his senior.

Originally, Chief Chef Qiu wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and was as elegant and easy-going as a university professor, but he met his brother, the emissary of bandits and the incarnation of hooligans.

What a pair of enemies!

No, not a couple... Reminiscent of Guo Weidong, Song Dahai and others, the senior brother has quite a lot of enemies.

Fortunately, they are all of the same sex. If the other chief chefs were female, the senior brother, a playful scumbag, would definitely be beaten to death by writing a small essay.

Eight minutes passed quickly.

Shooting continues.

Xie Baomin did not directly lift the lid of the pot, but turned off the fire on the stove first to prevent the surface of the noodles from shrinking due to the sudden drop in temperature when the lid was suddenly lifted.

Wait for a while after turning off the heat, and then lift the lid.

A steam mixed with the aroma of noodles floated out of the pot.

The small apple on the chopsticks has doubled in size, and its color is slightly yellow, like the white apples that can be seen everywhere in the market.

Careful observation shows that the surface of the apple is oily and slightly shiny under the light.

This is the reason for putting lard in the dough.

"beautiful!"

Zeng Xiaoqi couldn't help admiring.

Originally, she was full of Demoli stewed fish and ground delicacies at noon, so she didn't plan to eat noodles at the moment, but seeing this shape, Zeng Meili suddenly felt that her stomach could be a little more burdened.

Well, such a cute little apple, it's a pity not to eat one.

Looking at the shape of this little apple, Geng Lishan couldn't sit still:

"This technique is really beautiful and professional. When pinching, several places seemed to use too much force, but after steaming, I found that everything was just right."

He got up and stood in the distance, looking at Little Apple expectantly.

If it wasn't for the shooting at the moment, I really want to go in and observe it from a distance.

Xie Baomin took the steamed noodle fruits off the chopsticks one by one and put them on the baking paper, then picked up a piece of brown dough that was left over from making the handle before and stuffed it into the flower pedicle.

It is more like an apple if it is stuffed in black.

And the small holes pierced by the chopsticks affect the appearance a bit, so just plug it with dough, it will look more beautiful and complete.

You don’t need to stuff too much dough, just a little bit. When stuffing, use a toothpick to push in a little bit. It can’t be too deep, otherwise it won’t look like an apple.

After stuffing it in, put the baking paper on the cage drawer, put these white and yellow apples on them, put them on the stove and steam them for another two minutes, and steam the dough at the flower base.

After two minutes, take it out of the pot again and take it out to dry.

Xie Baomin poured the oozing juice from the beets in the pot into a bowl, put on disposable gloves, picked up a small brush, and started to color the apples.

This is an important step in making noodles.

Dip in some bright red beetroot juice and give the brush a little shake to let the excess drip into the bowl.

Then use a brush to lightly brush over the apples.

When brushing, brush from top to bottom, and the brushed area cannot be repeated, because it can't be done in one pass, so don't worry about the depth of the color.

Xie Baomin explained the main points to Lin Xu while he was busy:

"You can't use a hair brush, but use a plastic brush, so that you can get the feeling of the red Fuji apple, which looks more real than pure red."

Brother, this must teach me.

Lin Xu took it seriously.

If you didn’t learn from the cooking learning cards today, then go back and try according to these points. After accumulating so much white case experience, it’s time to try to create new products.

Xie Baomin brushed it two or three times, deliberately leaving a little blank when he brushed the flower pedicle.

Under the background of the surrounding red, the blank space left has a slightly blue feeling, which is exactly the same as a real apple, even more real than a real apple.

After the juice from the beetroot was brushed, the only sound left was the sound of breathing.

Even a few photographers were completely stunned. They didn't expect it to be so apple-like, especially the vertical stripes on the surface, which are no different from the real Red Fuji.

Finally, insert the slightly dried stalk into the top hollow of the apple.

A noodle fruit that can't see any flaws is officially made.

"Wow, today was an eye-opener for me."

When she first started making, Zeng Xiaoqi deliberately put a beautiful red Fuji apple in the cabinet.

Take it out now and put it together with the noodles made by Xie Baomin. Except that the noodles are smaller, the other details are exactly the same.

Even the patterns are the same, and even the patterns of the noodles are clearer.

Lin Xu was also shocked by the appearance.

Later, I will hide two of them and take them back. If Baby Shen can't eat such a cute noodle, he will probably be able to talk about it all night.

The noodles are hot when they are colored, so the juice of those beetroots dries quickly.

After Xie Baomin had finished coloring everything, he placed a shape on the plate, and this excellent-looking noodle fruit was finally finished.

"Brother, this skill is really amazing."

"In noodle making, this kind of glossy fruit is considered entry-level, while high-end noodle fruits such as walnuts and kiwis really test your skills."

Xie Baomin waved his hand modestly, then said to Zeng Xiaoqi:
"Try it and see how it tastes."

Zeng Xiaoqi held the little apple in her hand and squeezed it, it still had the softness and elasticity of a steamed bun.

"I'm not willing to eat it. I really want to find a transparent box and put it on my desk. This is simply art."

Xie Baomin said while cleaning the stove:
"It's just a bean bun, why don't you want to eat it?"

"Then I'll try it for the audience."

Facing the close-up camera, Zeng Xiaoqi slowly opened the small apple in her hand. The outside was a layer of soft dough, and the inside was a brown semi-liquid filling.

Take a bite, the crust is similar to the taste of butter buns, the aroma of lard and the milk flavor of custard powder are well mixed.

As for the stuffing inside, it has a strong apple flavor, with a little sweet and sour taste, which is both delicious and amazing.

The shape of an apple, the taste of an apple, but it is a dessert.

This simply makes people admire the magic of Chinese pasta, which is not pasta, but magic.

She took two bites, boasted a few words to the camera, and then ended the filming.

As soon as it was over, the surrounding staff, such as director Xiaowei, operator Xiaosui, and Geng Lishan Zhen Wensheng, all surrounded them.

Everyone was amazed at Little Apple, feeling like they were dreaming.

Lin Xu was holding a disposable lunch box and had just packed two small apples when the door of the studio was pushed open, and Qiu Zhenhua in casual clothes walked in.

Seeing the small apples in everyone's hands, the veins on Qiu Zhenhua's forehead stood up.

Sure enough, I didn’t guess wrong, this dog really made noodles, and it was the apple I was going to make this time. If it wasn’t for murder and breaking the law, I would have...

"Qiu Qiu, are you here?"

When he was furious, Xie Baomin walked over with a small apple:

"It's just finished, and you give a review. Didn't Director Liao say that the chefs of our Diaoyutai must unite outside and maintain the reputation of Diaoyutai, and we can't do things that make outsiders laugh."

Qiu Zhenhua:? ? ? ? ?

Did you educate me like a dog?

The reputation of Diaoyutai must be maintained, he glared at Xie Baomin, then looked down at the little apple in his hand.

I have to say that this Apple has really done a good job.

Not only is it vivid, but it also fully displays the characteristics of Apple.

After breaking apart, the soft outer skin and the filling inside gave Qiu Zhenhua the expression of breaking open the noodles he made.

He stared blankly, then raised his head to look at Xie Baomin:

"Remember when I did it last time, you still asked questions, and it was done to perfection? Since when did you make the white case so well?"

Xie Baomin showed a helpless expression on his face:
"It's not that my daughter-in-law likes such cute little snacks, so I practiced a few more times..."

several times?

You're not only showing off your talents, but also spreading dog food like a mother, right?
Qiu Zhenhua suddenly had the idea of ​​Sheng Yu and He Shengliang.

He tasted the noodle fruit, looked at Xie Baomin and muttered helplessly:
"Dog, you showed your face. What do you want me to do when I do it? Repeat, Little Apple?"

Xie Baomin watched the excitement and said without thinking too much:

"Don't, don't, it's not a joke. You have such a high level of pastry, and you have enough experience. I will give you a sincere suggestion. You should just make lion cakes."

Qiu Zhenhua: "..."

Lion wake up cake?
The difficulty is ten times faster than that of Little Apple, right?

Your suggestion is very good, don't give me any advice next time!
Even if I boil water next time, I won't burn it in front of you again. It's so infuriating that dogs steal things from masters and masters so hard to guard against.

Recalling that Lin Xu's talent for learning is also very outstanding, Qiu Zhenhua couldn't help but sigh:
"This door is a fucking evildoer!"

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