I work as a chef in the university cafeteria

"If I do it alone, I can't actually do much."

Ma Guoqiang shook his head, but he couldn't hide the pride on his face. He said with a smile,

"However, the two large trays of white sugar cakes I made are all sold out, especially those girls who came late and didn't buy them, so they are a little reluctant to leave!"

This is the most worthwhile thing he has said in such a long time!
The meat buns and vegetable buns he made in the cafeteria in the past actually taste pretty good. When he opened a bun shop in the urban area, many people rushed to buy them every day.

It's a pity that compared with Jiang Yu's soup dumplings, those steamed buns he made look too ordinary. Although they can be sold, it's because the soup dumplings are sold out!

Therefore, Ma Guoqiang was still a little bit uneasy, and always felt that he was a role in eating and drinking in these seven canteens.

For a man in his 50s, this feeling is really not that good.

But it's different now, the white sugar cakes he made are very popular even in Seven Canteens!

You see, isn't this self-worth reflected?
At this moment, Ma Guoqiang's face was flushed, as if he had a second spring, and his whole body was a little excited. He said eagerly,

"Boss, since the white sugar cake is so popular among the students in the cafeteria, can you arrange another person to make it with me?"

"Who do you want to help you?"

Jiang Yu glanced at him and asked with a smile.

The key to making sugar cakes is the deep-frying process. As for the preliminary steps of mixing glutinous rice dough and making sugar cake bases, they can indeed be handed over to others.

"Feng Yueqing, Xiao Feng."

Ma Guoqiang probably thought about this matter for a long time. Hearing Jiang Yu's question, he didn't even think about it, and just blurted out,

"Xiao Feng is a young man who works hard and has a flexible mind. Besides, making white sugar cakes is not difficult. If I teach him a few times, he should be able to learn it."

Feng Yueqing?
Oh, it's that young man from Jianning City, Xiaoxiang Province!

Jiang Yu suddenly remembered that the key reason why he was so impressed with an apprentice was that Feng Yueqing usually didn't talk much, but worked very hard.

I still remember that in order to be able to stay, he rushed to help the part-time workers clean the canteen without saying a word, which made a group of part-time students a little at a loss.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help but smiled, and said, "Okay, as long as he is willing, then you can watch the arrangement."

"I arrange?"

When Ma Guoqiang heard this, he shook his head again and again, "Boss, you have to arrange this matter, how can I be the master?"

"That's fine, I'll arrange it."

Jiang Yu laughed, raised his hand and beckoned a part-timer to come over, and asked him to call Feng Yueqing over.

Feng Yueqing didn't know what was going on, but when he heard that the boss was looking for him, he quickly put down his work and ran over:
"Boss, are you looking for me?"

"Well, Xiao Feng, you have been working in the Seventh Canteen for a while, and you must want to learn something here, right?"

Jiang Yu didn't play around with him, and said bluntly,
"Now I have an opportunity. Uncle Ma needs a helper to make white sugar cakes. Would you like to help him?
Don't worry, as long as you do well, Uncle Ma will definitely be willing to teach you.

I called you here just to ask if you would like to learn? "

When Ma Guoqiang saw that the boss had said so, he also nodded and said with a smile:

"That's right, if you do well, I'm sure I won't hide it. I also need to find someone to pass on my pastry making skills. I can't bring it into the coffin. That would be a pity."

"I, I am willing to learn!"

Feng Yueqing froze for a while, then nodded suddenly, his face was full of excitement.

He thought that the boss was looking for him because he had made some mistake. He was a little uneasy at first, but he didn't expect that the boss was planning to find a master for him!

This, this is simply a great thing that fell into a trap in the sky, it almost knocked him out!
That's right, he resigned from a big restaurant in Jianning City and came all the way to the Seventh Canteen. He originally hoped that one day he could learn cooking skills from Jiang Yu's side.

It's a pity that Jiang Yu opened another high-end restaurant on the second floor of the cafeteria not long after he joined the No. [-] cafeteria, so he hardly had time to cook in the kitchen on the first floor.

As a result, Feng Yueqing's good wish to learn cooking from Jiang Yu and create a world by himself in the future was shattered before it even started.

Although a little frustrated, Feng Yueqing did not give up easily.

Because he believes that opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. Although he is still doing odd jobs, he still does it very seriously and works very hard. Help with washing vegetables, chopping vegetables, etc.

Now, isn't this opportunity coming?
Although what I want to learn is not the cooking skills I dreamed of, nor is it learning from the boss Jiang Yu, but Feng Yueqing is no longer a fledgling and a fool who doesn't know anything. How can you not know, others are willing to teach you. Great kindness, when will I get myself to pick and choose?
What's more, he has also tasted the buns and white sugar cakes made by Ma Guoqiang. Although they are not as amazing as the meals made by the boss, they are at least better than the pastries made by those breakfast shops on the street, both in appearance and taste A notch or two!

Such a pastry master is willing to teach himself skills, if he is still coy, he is really stupid!

To put it bluntly, even if I really don't have the chance to learn Jiang Yu's cooking skills in the future, if I learn Ma Guoqiang's pastry skills, I will definitely make money.

Even if he doesn't plan to stay in No. [-] Canteen in the future, with this ability, he can go out and open a steamed stuffed bun shop, a noodle restaurant, etc., which is enough to support himself!

Feng Yueqing was tossing and turning in his mind, thinking about things after he learned his skills, when Jiang Yu nodded and said to him:

"That's fine. From now on, you can work hard with old uncle Ma, and use more snacks. Don't let old uncle Ma down."

"Well, boss, don't worry, I will definitely work hard."

Feng Yueqing came back to his senses in an instant, nodded vigorously, turned around and bowed deeply to Ma Guoqiang, and said seriously,

"Uncle Ma, thank you for giving me this opportunity to learn. If I can't do well, you don't have to be polite. Just beat and scold me. I promise I won't complain."

"It's over, Xiao Feng, we are colleagues, there is no need to do this."

Ma Guoqiang was taken aback when he heard this, then waved his hands and said cheerfully,
"In the future, as long as you do things with your heart, I will definitely teach you what I can teach you. As for whether you can learn well, it depends on your own ability."

Having said that, Ma Guoqiang was very useful in his heart.

This kid has a bit of eyesight, if you want to learn skills, you have to lower your posture, otherwise, who will teach you the skills of begging for food?

Of course, even if it is the same as what he said before, he will definitely teach, but what to teach and how much to teach depends on Feng Yueqing's own performance.

……

After arranging the manpower needed by Ma Guoqiang, Jiang Yu didn't bother about it anymore. He made a cup of tea, walked out of the kitchen, and prepared to rest in the "abandoned" box on the first floor for a while.

I got up early this morning, and when I got downstairs, I was called by a phone call from Pan Jingchen, and then I ran around, busy, and I haven't had time to take a breath until now.

Originally, it was a good day to rest today, but who would have imagined that this rest day would be more tiring than going to work?
Jiang Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he sighed inwardly, and stretched out his hand to push open the door of the box.

As soon as the door opened, he froze.

Good guy, I was still thinking in my heart before, why didn't I see the little old man Jia Dequan in the kitchen, I thought he was out to bask in the sun again, but I didn't expect that he had already gone to the box to rest!
"Hey, Xiao Jiang, didn't Xiao Wu say that you went out? Why are you back?"

Jia Dequan didn't fall asleep, but just leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest. He woke up suddenly when he heard the sound of the door opening.

"Well, something happened to a friend this morning, so I went there."

Jiang Yu nodded, and after closing the door, sat down on the sofa opposite, took a long breath and said,

"I've been running outside for most of the day, but I'm exhausted."

Jia Dequan asked with concern: "Is your friend okay?"

"It's all right."

Jiang Yu smiled at him, suddenly remembered something, and said to Jia Dequan,

"By the way, Lao Jia, yesterday afternoon, someone from the Famous Chefs Committee of the Huaxia Cuisine Association called me. They really planned to invite me to participate in that performance event."

"Didn't I tell you a long time ago, do you think I'm bluffing you?"

Jia Dequan curled his lips and said,

"For performances like this, well-known chefs are usually invited. Otherwise, how can we attract others to watch? Moreover, there is more than one person participating in the cooking show.

So, don't think about it, the Famous Chefs Committee will never hold any special activities because of a certain person. In our Great China, we lack everything, but there is no shortage of chefs! "

"Then I'm not so arrogant. No matter what the celebrity chef committee is, it's impossible to hold an event for me alone."

After hearing Jia Dequan's words, Jiang Yu couldn't help laughing, he tentatively said,

"But what you mean, since they will invite several chefs to participate in the cooking show, it doesn't really matter whether I go or not, right?"

"For the celebrity chef committee, it really doesn't matter, because if you don't go, someone will go, and many people can't go if they want to go. After all, this is a great opportunity to show off their cooking skills, and they might become famous. ?”

Jia Dequan gave Jiang Yu a sideways look, and said in a rather unfriendly tone, "What's the matter, what do you mean, you don't plan to go?"

"Go, go! Why don't you go? Don't tell me all about it. This is a good opportunity to show yourself, and you might become famous."

When Jiang Yu saw his appearance, he didn't dare to tease him, but he quickly put on a embarrassed expression, and said hesitantly,

"But Lao Jia, I want to go. I don't care if I'm famous or not. At worst, it's just a trip to Tanzhou. But the problem now is that I don't know how to cook at all. ah!"

"What's so difficult about a cooking show?"

Seeing that Jiang Yu was worried about this, the expression on Jia Dequan's face suddenly relaxed a lot. He waved his hand and said with disdain,

"To be honest, I don't like this thing very much, especially those who step on broken glass to cut vegetables and walk on stilts to pull noodles. Is this used in cooking in the kitchen?
In my opinion, this so-called cooking show is pure nonsense. It has nothing to do with cooking except to attract people's attention!

So, if we want to play, let's play the real thing, and play with those fancy things, there is a fart for it! "

When Jiang Yu heard it, he suddenly regained his spirits: "What's the real deal?"

If you say this, then I won't be sleepy!

"For example, in the area of ​​knife work, you cut a radish into the shape of a fishing net. Have you never seen it? Or in terms of carving, you have seen the sculpture of watermelon and radish, and the sculpture of Eight Immortals crossing the sea with tofu. Have you seen it?"

Speaking of his major, Jia Dequan couldn't help showing a hint of pride on his face. What he said was the result of his decades of hard practice in cooking. How can ordinary people compare with it?
He glanced at Jiang Yu who was sitting across from him, and said proudly,

"As for the others, there are still people of all ages. If you are willing to learn and make a delicious dish to please me, then I will reluctantly teach you!"

Carrots cut into fishnets?Tofu carved out of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea?
Jiang Yu had never even heard of these things, but he had no doubts at all, this is definitely a culinary "unique skill" that can shock a group of people's jaws!
Yesterday, when Bai Zhentian, director of the Office of the Famous Chef Committee, introduced what cooking performances were, Jiang Yu thought of Jia Dequan at the time, thinking that he would ask him if he had any suitable cooking performances when he had time. He thought A master figure like Jia Dequan must have hidden a lot of "unique skills".

Sure enough, his guess was not wrong at all, and Jia Dequan said anything casually, which Jiang Yu had never even heard of.

At this moment, when he heard that Jia Dequan just asked him to cook for him, he didn't even think about it, and he responded directly:
"No problem, just tell me what you want to eat!"

"Really? Then I won't be polite!"

Jia Dequan was also very satisfied to see Jiang Yu being so "on the road", so he thought about it and said directly,

"Okay, then I won't make things difficult for you. I will leave dinner to you today. I only ask for two dishes. One is steamed lion head and the other is Lizhuang white meat. As for what else you want to eat, you can Just watch it for yourself.”

Jiang Yu smiled and nodded: "Okay, no problem."

"Let me remind you, these two dishes are also a test of knife skills. If you don't do it right, hehe, then I won't teach you those 'unique skills'."

Jia Dequan picked up the cup on the coffee table and took a sip of water, "hummed" twice, leaned back on the sofa, and said with a proud face,

"These two dishes are different from the ones you ate in those restaurants. As for the difference, don't you young people all know how to surf the Internet? Check it out yourself!"

Jiang Yu: "..."

Hey, little old man!It even got pulled up!

Forget it, who told you to have the real thing in your stomach, I will bear it!

After resting in the private room for a while, chatting with Lao Jia, seeing that it was almost five o'clock, Jiang Yu stood up from the sofa, ready to go upstairs to cook.

Lao Jia said that these two dishes are different, so there must be something different. I have to go back and study the recipes in the food system to see what is different.

Just as he was about to go out, the mobile phone in his hand rang suddenly. Jiang Yu picked it up and saw that it was Liu Xining calling.

It was almost time for dinner, and he didn't need to think about it, there was a high probability that Liu Xining was planning to come over for dinner with Pan Jingchen.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look at Jia Dequan and asked:
"Old Jia, the upstairs is closed for business today. How about I go upstairs to cook in a while, and we can eat in the private room later?"

Jia Dequan said with a smile: "It doesn't matter where I eat, as long as I have something delicious."

"I have two friends coming over, I'll cook a few more dishes, do you mind eating together?"

After speaking, Jiang Yu added, "The two girls have special identities, so they must be kept secret."

Jia Dequan froze for a moment, then glanced at Jiang Yu with meaningful eyes, and said with a smile:

"I don't mind, I don't mind, it happens that I can check it out for you!"

"..."

Jiang Yu was speechless, what kind of check, I am a serious friend!
He didn't bother arguing with the little old man. This kind of thing really became more difficult to explain, so it's better to save some saliva.

After turning around and leaving the box, Jiang Yu answered the phone.

Sure enough, as he expected, Liu Xining probably also followed the Douyin account of "Jiang Daqi Canteen", knowing that Dining Room No. [-] is closed for the past two days and is not open for public, so she called to ask, they How about dinner.

Jiang Yu didn't say much, just let her take Pan Jingchen directly to the second floor of the Seventh Canteen.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yu went to the side dish room in the kitchen on the first floor, selected some ingredients to be used, and found a part-time student to take all the ingredients with him to the kitchen upstairs .

The second floor is closed today. Not only are there no waiters upstairs, but there are also no apprentices who help wash and chop vegetables.

However, just cooking for three or four people, Jiang Yu can easily handle it by himself, and he won't look too busy.

Jiang Yu dealt with it first, of course it was Li Zhuang's white meat.

Lizhuang white meat, the full name is "Lizhuang knife-edge garlic white meat", which belongs to Sichuan cuisine and is a traditional delicacy in Lizhuang, a famous historical and cultural town in Sichuan and Sichuan.

Just looking at the name, it seems that there is not much difference from another classic dish in Sichuan cuisine "Garlic White Pork", but after carefully understanding the recipe of this dish, Jiang Yu realized that there is a big difference between the two.

Among them, the biggest difference lies in the exquisite knife skills embodied by Lizhuang Bairou.

Cooked "two-knife meat" needs to use a slender knife blade to enter the knife from the pig skin, and slice the pork into meat slices of uniform thickness. The sliced ​​meat is about 20 cm long, 10 cm wide, and only 1 to 2 cm thick. [-] mm, thin and transparent.

When eating, pick up one end of the sliced ​​white meat, shake the chopsticks lightly, the meat will be rolled into a ball with the chopsticks, and then dipped in the prepared dipping sauce, the mouth will feel fragrant and smooth, fat but not greasy, chewing Slag, endless aftertaste.

To put it bluntly, this is a dish that tests knife skills.

There are also requirements for the ingredients used in Lizhuang white meat. It is not just any kind of pork.

The so-called "two-cut meat" is the part of the pig's buttocks after the first cut.

The "two-knife meat" of each pig is only more than three kilograms. The meat of this part has no bubbles and less chopsticks, and the taste is very good. The fat and thin are well-proportioned and very beautiful.

Jiang Yu cleaned a piece of "two-knife meat" that was about 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide that he had specially selected downstairs, and put it in a pot of cold water to boil it while removing the floating blood foam. The purpose is to remove the fishy smell.

Every time the water in the pot boils, Jiang Yu adds a spoonful of cold water to cool it down, keeping the water temperature at about 90 degrees Celsius, so that the meat is heated evenly.

After cooking like this for about half an hour, Jiang Yu stabbed the meat with a bamboo stick and found that no blood flowed out, which indicated that the meat was cooked.

Afterwards, he fished out a whole piece of pork and soaked it in cold boiled water to prevent the pork from "skinning" and affecting the knife skills of the subsequent slices of meat.

Next, it's time to show the real "technology"!

Jiang Yu took a deep breath, took out the large piece of pork that had been soaked in cold boiled water, and put it aside to drain the water.

Then he took a clean white towel and spread it on the chopping board. After the water on the meat was slightly dry, he put the meat on the white towel to prevent slippage when slicing the meat.

In addition, the towel has another function, which is to absorb the water that seeps out during the process of slicing the meat.

After making preparations, Jiang Yu fetched the kitchen knife, took a deep breath, then bent down, opened the palm of one hand, and gently pressed it on the pork, and with the other hand, turned the knife edge of the kitchen knife inwards, making it horizontal Hold it horizontally, enter the knife from the pig skin first, and then go down into the meat of the blade bit by bit.

During this process, Jiang Yu was so concentrated that he even stopped breathing.

Because the whole piece of meat is too big, after the vegetable blade goes in, it is almost impossible to see how far it has been cut, so it is almost impossible to enter the meat with the blade. One mistake, either the thickness of the meat slices is different, or the middle cut Broken flesh.

No matter which of these two situations occurs, the dish is actually considered a failure.

Although Jiang Yu has never cooked Lizhuang white meat before, his knife skills have always been good, especially now that his culinary skills have reached the level of a technician. For things like sliced ​​meat, as long as he has done it a few times, he will do it again in the future. It will only get smoother.

However, this was the first time he had sliced ​​such a large and thin piece of meat, he still didn't dare to be careless.

It's a trivial matter to make a fool of yourself and be laughed at by Lao Jia. If the little old man refuses to teach him those "unique skills" because of the unqualified cooking of this dish, it will be a real loss!