Mantra

Chapter 95

In ancient times, delicious food must be healthy, because people must have secret recipes.

But in modern times, delicious food is not necessarily healthy.Often those meals are added...a recipe that kills people.

In this regard, I simply told Zhao Hongdao: "We eat the flowing water mat, which is eaten by nearly a hundred people in the village, and Zhao's family only has one or two stoves in the sky. Hurry up to complete the task, it is inevitable to be tricky, add some 'bad ingredients' to make the meat stew faster."

Later, I told him that the so-called "bad ingredients" are actually "medicines" that speed up the cooking of food, and these medicines often also play a role in coloring food, increasing sweetness, and even freshness.

"Sounds good!" Zhao Hong said puzzledly, clutching his stomach.

I sneered, and told him: "It's good, but those things are good, but they are not good for your health. They are used by unscrupulous businessmen and cooks to fool things, but they never eat them themselves."

"What?"

I patted Zhao Hong on the shoulder and told him directly: "Because the scientific name of the bad material is the so-called 'chemical additive'."

"Chemical additives?" Zhao Hong turned pale after hearing what I said.

I nodded, and continued to tell him helplessly, this kind of thing is generally not good for the body, and many of them are industrial raw materials, and they can't be used on the table, but there is one thing in common, that is, the cook will never call it directly Their real names are mostly code names.

The "bad material" in my mouth is the name for "ripening" chemical additives in Hebei. In the northwest and Sichuan, these things are called "dark material" because they cannot be used on the table. In the south, they are also called "dark materials" because of the water town He is an outstanding person, and his speech is more reserved, so it is called "flavor enhancer" or "fresh fragrance element", which sounds taller than the north.

"There's something for being tall! I'm going to die of pain! You still have time to express your emotions!" In pain, Zhao Hong yelled at me.

While he was speaking, another burst of pain hit his stomach, and the pain made his head sweat, and he couldn't help moaning (harmoniously).

Facing Zhao Hong's predicament, I coughed and gasped in embarrassment, and then put away my gloating attitude.

After Zhao Hong passed away from the pain, he dragged his body that was about to collapse, and continued to ask me: "Then... when they cook the meat, what 'bad ingredients' do they put in?"

In fact, most cooks would not answer this question, whether they know it or not. After all, this is a "family scandal" and a taboo.

But he Zhao Hong asked, but I dare not not answer.

No way, who made us comrades-in-arms?Even if it is "death", I will let him know how he "died"...

I thought for a while, then continued to tell him:
There are mainly two kinds of "bad ingredients" for stew, and the most vicious one is "caustic soda".The scientific name of that thing is sodium hydroxide, and there is a shocking common name in the cook industry, "Bone Powder".

As the name suggests, even the bones can be burned for you, which shows that it is violent and terrifying.

Soaking meat in caustic soda is a very dangerous and technical treatment method. When cooking, the meat should be washed clean, and caustic soda and water should be dissolved in a ratio of one to one hundred.

Then, find a quick guy, put the meat in the caustic soda solution, it must not be left for a long time, just put it into the pot and cook it immediately.

This thing is all about hand speed.

The meat cooked with caustic soda is delicious and tender, and it really has the effect of "melting bones and removing tendons". Even if it is bad, it can cook the taste of fat beef, and the meat quality will not change, and it can also increase the shelf life. Not easy to spot.

But that stuff is so good, there is only one bad thing, that is, if people eat too much, it is easy to burn the intestines.

"Ah?!" After hearing what I said, Zhao Hong held his stomach and asked, "I don't know...Is my intestines burnt?"

I immediately reassured him that he would definitely not, because caustic soda is too powerful, it might kill someone, and handling meat with it requires considerable skill and hand speed, and that kind of thing is often only used by chefs in big restaurants. Dare to use.

"If the food you eat is cooked by Lei Ren and the others, they will definitely put caustic soda on you. Ordinary country cooks..." I shook my head.

"Then what did I eat?"

I looked up, recalling the rotten red color of the beef, and told him, "It should... be 'glauber's salt'!"

"Sauer's salt?" Zhao Hong repeated while wiping off his sweat.

I nodded.

Glauber's salt, called Maya salt or "fake salt" in the cook's business, is like salt powder and as white as snow. It is a traditional Chinese medicine with a wide range of uses.

But even if it is a medicine, if it is used where it should not be used, it can only harm people.

Many places have the habit of adding an appropriate amount of Glauber's salt when cooking big meat.Cooking meat with it takes a short time, tastes good, and sells well, and is very popular with the masses.

Moreover, this thing has another advantage that caustic soda cannot compare with.

That is, it has a high fault tolerance rate, and occasionally putting more or less will generally not kill people.At most, he would have vomiting and diarrhea like Zhao Hong.

"Is it really impossible to eat people to death?!" Zhao Hong asked me worriedly.

I shook my head and said, no, everything... There are always exceptions.

In the countryside, I heard that there are still occasional records of people dying from eating Glauber's salt.However, the reason for this kind of death is often not that the cook does not know the dosage of thenardite, but because the cook mistakenly confuses thenardite with salt, and puts double or even multiple times of this thing in the meat.

No way, who called this thing a "fake salt".

"...Anyway, it's still dangerous." After I finished speaking, I patted Zhao Hong on the shoulder, handed him a bottle of water at the same time and said, "Drink more electrolyte drinks, after so much... don't collapse! ~"

Zhao Hong took the drink and toilet paper, pointed at my nose, and said viciously, "How do you know so much?"

"I've seen it before... I did it occasionally!" I said helplessly, "When I was just discharged from the army and worked in a restaurant, everyone did it. Later, I couldn't bear the condemnation of my conscience, so I came out and did it alone."

I'm telling the truth...but this truth will never make Zhao Hong happy.

After listening, Zhao Hong seemed to want to scold me, but at this moment, his stomach started a new round of "revolution".

With the progress of the revolution, he didn't say anything after all, and ran to the toilet in a panic to solve the "internal" problem.

I looked at his back as he went away, and suddenly felt a sense of loss in my heart.

Now, I am the only one left in the mourning hall.

That feeling, messy, is like a paper full of graffiti suddenly being erased with an unclean eraser.

There have been too many changes since this day, so fast that I can hardly handle it, so fast that I don't know how to deal with it, but when I looked at the familiar and anxious face of my old squad leader again, I calmed down.

Death is the most important thing...and with the death of my old squad leader, the true colors of all kinds of people have slowly begun to be exposed.

Whether it's Duan Tianshi or Lei's uncle and nephew, each of them attended the funeral of my old squad leader... definitely not by chance or purely.

Behind each of them, there must be unspeakable secrets and calculations.

And the Zhao family will definitely become a bloody "battlefield".

The truth that awaits me... what will it be like? !
(End of this chapter)