Shiji Starts from the Beginning of the Month

The old man originally meant to make condiments into dishes for guests to taste, but if there is too little, the taste of seasoning will not be tasted, and if there is too much, there will be no taste of dishes.

In addition, the old man's cooking skills are not high, so the reputation of this restaurant is getting worse and worse, and there are fewer customers.

Recently, no customers have entered the store for a whole week.

When the old man was frowning and didn't know what to do, Jiang Xia came over, so Jiang Xia successfully enjoyed the special condiment newly researched by the old man.

It is made with minced chicken mixed with various spicy seasonings such as Sichuan peppercorns, peppers, chilies, etc.

And under the intentional or unintentional psychological influence of the old man, he sprinkled a lot on the fried steak this time.

"Since the old man Nakiri told you to come to me, then you must have asked me for something!"

The old man was unexpectedly sharp, and directly stated Jiang Xia's purpose.

Now that he was sure that the old man was the one he was looking for, Jiang Xia didn't intend to hide it, so he nodded.

The old man continued talking.

"In this case, then, you promise me one condition, otherwise, you can go back wherever you came from!"

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Chapter 114 Similar experience

"This request is that you have to help me try the condiments for a week!"

The old man calmly expressed his request.

Although the old man Senzaemon is not very easy to get along with, he is still showing loyalty. Not long after he wrote a letter to complain, he found a free labor force!

But Jiang Xia was upset.

Co-authored, I just escaped from the black-hearted and vicious hands of the old man in charge, so I went straight into another new trap?

Moreover, it's not a dish test, it's a seasoning test!

That girl Erina, let her eat a few dishes, she would cry and call her father and mother, oh no, she doesn't have these two for the time being, that is to say, she complains endlessly.

And Jiang Xia has to eat seasonings for a week in a row!

Moreover, it is very likely that it is the same taste just now, Jiang Xia doubts if he can return to Yuanyue alive.

"I reject!"

Jiang Xia said categorically that he really doesn't want to help, but now Jiang Xia himself has important things to solve.

"The reason why I came to you is mainly because I have some problems with my cooking skills. The commander-in-chief recommended me to come. However, since you are not a chef, you probably can't help me. Wait for the next opportunity. I'll give you another taste."

After all, Jiang Xia glanced at the steak on the table. Although he has the habit of not wasting food, he really can't eat this steak.

Picking up his luggage, Jiang Xia was about to leave, and went to find his kitchen elsewhere.

"I guess, you came to me, it should be because of the field."

Seeing that Jiang Xia wanted to leave, the old man was not in a hurry, he just said that word unhurriedly.

And this also successfully stopped Jiang Xia from leaving.

"Do you know anything about the field?"

Jiang Xia is a little strange, this old man's culinary skills are ordinary, but if he has a field, he is not like this, or is this old man pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?

Seemingly seeing Jiang Xia's doubts, the old man chuckled.

"You don't have to look at me so surprised. I'm really not good at cooking, and I don't know any domains. It's just that I once helped a person gain the power of domains."

Oh, and this thing, Jiang Xia liked the story, he sat back on the stool, took a sip of the already cold soup, fortunately, the old man's top-quality seasoning was not added to the soup.

The old head seemed to predict that Jiang Xia would stay. He knew very well that if a chef knows that there is a power in this world that can greatly improve his cooking skills, he will definitely not miss out on understanding and pursuing that power.

Just like him back then.

"My name is Oikawa Shigeru Saburo, and I was a student in the same class as the old man Nakiri."

The old man Ji Chuan began to tell his own story, but what shocked Jiang Xia was that this guy who looked much younger than the head coach was actually in the same class as the head coach.

Although Oikawa is not very good at cooking, but because he has a talent far beyond ordinary people on the road of arranging condiments, he was admitted by Yuanyue exceptionally.

At that time, he, the commander-in-chief and another young chef all lived in the same dormitory, and the three of them quickly got to know each other and became friends.

Among the three of them, the young chef has the highest basic cooking skills, and the lowest is of course Oi Chuan old man.

In Yuanyue, the young chef won all the food halberds with his excellent cooking skills, and he never lost a single defeat. Everyone believed that the young chef would be Yuanyue's future star, because he was so strong, and his cooking skills Every step, every movement, is perfect and impeccable.

No one could find his weakness. The person in charge of Yuanyue at that time even praised him as the hand of God, because his hands could grasp every detail of cooking ingredients with precision and elegance.

However, during the self-study practice in the third year of high school, the young chef went to a remote place. When Ji Chuan saw him again, he found that he was extremely haggard and decadent.

He kept murmuring in his mouth.

"How could this world have such power? It's impossible. No matter how perfect it is, it can't surpass that dish. No, it should be said that the more perfect, the more mistakes!"

The boy who came back was like a different person, he refused all the halberd duels and locked himself in the room.

Oikawa could hear his voice coming from the room.

Domain, domain!

From then on, the commander-in-chief and Oikawa knew that there was a kind of chef who could naturally put themselves into a certain state, and the food made in that state would receive various bonuses.

The young chef also wanted to get that kind of power, but he found desperately that no matter how hard he practiced, he couldn't enter that state.

According to the young man's description, that state should be a state of mind, unconsciousness, and instinctive control of the body, but this is completely opposite to the young man's own cooking skills.

Because the cooking method of a teenager is to control everything with will, let the body act according to will, in order to do the best in every detail.

Hearing this, Jiang Xia suddenly realized that the situation of the boy Oi Chuan mentioned was exactly the same as her own?

They are all because of this reason, and they are completely unable to let themselves enter the state of the field.

"Hey, old man Oikawa, since you can tell this story, then the boy in the story must have obtained the domain in the end, how did he do it?"

Jiang Xia interrupted the old man and asked urgently.

Oikawa was not angry when someone interrupted the story, he just smiled and answered Jiang Xia's question meaningfully.

"He didn't do anything, but one day, he suddenly found me and wanted to learn how to configure seasonings with me. Then, he really learned from me, and then he got the field."

"You shouldn't, you deliberately made up a story to fool me."

Jiang Xia obviously didn't believe it, mainly because of the old man Ji Chuan's operation, he was suspected of selling melons and boasting himself, and, combined with his previous request, Jiang Xia always felt that this was the old man trying to trick himself into helping him try the condiments.

"Besides, since that young man got the domain, he should be well-known now. He was better than the commander-in-chief back then, at least not worse now. Why hasn't the culinary world heard of this person at all."

Jiang Xia found a loophole in the story and asked, if possible, he would also like to meet this person. To be honest, he was a little curious.

"This is another story, but what I tell you is true. Believe it or not is up to you. The point is, you have no other way. Are you really going to give up trying this opportunity?"

Oikawa Shigeru Saburo looked at Jiang Xia with a half-smile, as a person who has lived most of his life, he can't do anything else, he still has a sense of seeing people.

Jiang Xia will definitely agree to him, not because of anything else, because in Jiang Xia's eyes, he saw the pursuit of a higher realm of cooking.

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Chapter 115 Trying

Sure enough, after thinking for a while, Jiang Xia agreed to Oikawa Shigeru Saburo's conditions.

"I'll try the condiments for you. You give me the knowledge of condiment configuration. The time is set for one week. If I don't make a breakthrough within a week, then the agreement will be over."

"Yes, very wise choice."

Oikawa Shigeru Saburo nodded, this young man is very organized, and in this regard, he is much better than the young chef back then.

At the very least, facing the same problem, Jiang Xia didn't sink for too long. He recovered from the blow and actively looked for a way. Moreover, he would not fall into a state of bewilderment due to excessive pursuit of goals.

This mentality is a very important quality for a chef.

Condiment configuration is a little similar to seasoning dishes, but not exactly the same. Condiments are directly configured with various seasonings to create a new taste. This taste is very complicated, but it is usually consistent with the ingredients. The taste itself varies greatly.

For example, if you make a chicken dish, diners will know that it is chicken, because it mainly tastes like chicken, but if you give him a bottle of spicy chicken sauce, he may not be able to taste it at all. .

Even, he couldn't even eat what was in it.

Serving condiments are also the most important branch in the field of condiments at present. In Chinese cuisine, there are also various seasoning sauces. In fact, including chicken essence, these can be regarded as condiments.

Condiments, from the initial oil-salt sauce and vinegar, have developed over a long period of time, and now there are more and more complex types such as chili sauce and mushroom sauce.

Its uses are becoming more and more extensive, such as bibimbap, dipping dumplings, dipping steamed buns, stir-frying, and because of the prosperity of condiments, the cooking field has also benefited a lot.

For example, ancient people stir-fried green vegetables hundreds of years ago, they might add a little garlic at most, and the taste of stir-fried vegetables was probably the taste of ordinary vegetables, but modern people would add a little bit of garlic invented a hundred years ago to stir-fried vegetables. The combination of oyster sauce, oyster sauce and green vegetables brings a completely different flavor.

Lettuce with Oyster Sauce!

This is a common specialty dish in Guangfu, which belongs to Cantonese cuisine.

Lettuce in oyster sauce is processed and fried with lettuce and oyster sauce with auxiliary ingredients. The finished dish is rich in nutrition, tender and delicious, fresh and lubricated.

Putting this dish in ancient times is an all-round dimensionality reduction blow, nothing else, because the times are developing, no matter what field, it must be progressing.

If there is really one field that is going downhill, it is only the entertainment industry!

In fact, learning the knowledge of condiments will not improve cooking skills, because for chefs, they only need to use the finished products, and knowing how to use them can exert their maximum effect.

This relationship is like a doctor and a pharmacologist. Doctors don’t know how to configure drugs. This kind of research and development belongs to the category of pharmacology, but doctors know how to use these drugs, which drugs can cure which diseases, and then prescribe the right medicine. OK.

What did the young chef learn from all this?Jiang Xia couldn't guess it either, only by experiencing it herself would she be able to know the answer.

"At present, there are 31 types of table seasonings that have been relatively determined. The characteristics and composition of these 31 types are introduced in detail in the article "Recipe Forms of Table Seasonings" written by Mr. Liang Chaoxu!"

Since he promised Jiang Xia to teach him the knowledge of condiments, Kawashige Saburo would naturally not break his promise, so he began to instill in Jiang Xia the basic concept of condiments.

There are too few people who want to do research in this direction. If Jiang Xia is not for the field, it is estimated that they will not come to learn.

Oikawa Shigeru Saburo couldn't help feeling a little worried about the future. He was worried that no one would inherit his mantle in the future, so he became more serious about teaching Jiang Xia.

At this time, Jiang Xia obediently attends class like a student. Unexpectedly, she was a teacher before, but now she is a student. The changes in her life are really unpredictable.

Hearing Oikawa Shigeru Saburo's narration, Jiang Xia discovered that the configuration of condiments is not as simple as imagined. Each type has prescribed basic ingredients, instead of just mixing various ingredients together at will.

Sichuan pot sauce, also known as hot pot bottom material, specifies its basic composition, dried chili, watercress, old pepper, pepper, tempeh, butter, vegetable oil, fennel, cinnamon, bay leaves.

Then the condiment formula researchers will adjust the amount of these materials, try, and finally get a quantitative ratio scheme with a relatively stable taste, and the process has been made!