The story of a cook

Chapter 197

After returning from Master Chen, Lin Yan has already left for work. She sits at the desk where she studies every day and writes down what she sees and gains today. At the same time, she begins to try to make her own dish standards.

Everything has to be learned and everything has to be done.Good things can't be let go, they look like nothing now, they seem to be useless, and they will become my powerful capital in the future.After so many years, I have been constantly learning, constantly enriching and strengthening my head, otherwise I will be eliminated.

When I was studying, I summed up an experience, that is, you have to use what you have learned. If you don’t use it, it is the same as learning for nothing. Everything is equal to zero.

Bacon once said that "knowledge is power". What I want to say is that knowledge is just the accumulation and retrieval of knowledge, not power, and the use of knowledge is power. *** said that all learning is for application, this is the truth.

Summarize the dishes you have made, and start to make processes and standards for each dish.When I first started cooking, it was very laborious, and I felt that I was very good and smart, but when I was making the dish process, I found that I was still at the stage of understanding the dish making. I knew how to make this dish, but I had to It is a bit ambiguous to say that this dish is completed in several steps, and it is a bit ambiguous when each step needs to meet the standard.This is the result of my long-term work that is not rigorous. If my work is rigorous, this phenomenon will not occur.

Take Guobaorou as an example, I know how to do it, I know how to do it, and I can do it myself, but now I have to summarize the whole production process and production standards of Guobaorou, and I can say it, but the standard can’t say no Well, just estimating.When it was written how thick and big the pot of meat should be cut into, there was no clear figure to express it. I knew how thick and big it was, but I couldn’t tell. how thick?I can't tell whether it is three millimeters or two millimeters. I took out the ruler to look at the scale on it. I felt that it should be three millimeters, but I was not sure. I thought that I must use a ruler to measure the thickness of the meat in the pot in the future. I know what I know.

The thickness of the meat in the pot is calculated according to three millimeters, so what about the length?In my heart, the total should be five centimeters, but when I saw the length of five centimeters on the grid, I immediately overturned five centimeters. I felt that five centimeters was too long. I saw the scale and realized that it was just my imagination. I followed the length on the grid Looking at the length of the pot of meat should be eight to ten centimeters is just right.

The length and thickness of the pot-packed meat are known, and the feeding of a plate of pot-packed meat is calculated as six taels, so how many slices of six taels of meat are there?Still don't know.The cut pork slices need to be soaked in water to soak out the blood in the sliced ​​meat, so how long does it need to soak?Is it one hour or two hours?I used to know that I needed to soak in water. I soaked the meat in water after cutting the meat. I didn’t care about soaking it. I didn’t calculate the exact time. Sometimes the water was too long and the meat was fried. There will be a phenomenon of breakage when making it. At that time, I told myself to soak in water for a while, but I didn't pay attention to how long to soak in water, and I didn't calculate it carefully.

Now there is a standard for the knives forming of the pot-packed meat, what about the paste?

Three kinds of starches are needed to make the pot-packed meat paste, cornstarch, cornstarch, potato starch, and the three kinds of powders are mixed together according to the proportion, and then add water to rise for a day before it can be used. Every time the three kinds of starches are mixed Grab it with your hands, and weigh it if you don’t have it on the scale. It’s all about the feeling, and the feeling is almost enough.Obviously this is not rigorous enough, but now I am asked to tell the proportions of the three starches.

The standard of pot-packed meat starch paste can no longer be achieved.

You have to boil the sweet and sour sauce to make the pot-packed meat. Every time you make it, you have to cook it fresh. If you do it yourself on the stove, you will be able to do it successfully. You can use as much sugar, vinegar, salt, and tomato sauce as you like. Use a hand spoon to grasp it well, but I don't know the exact amount, but I can estimate the amount, and I don't know if it is accurate.

This is still imprecise.

I have always wanted to cook the sweet and sour sauce of the pot-packed meat in advance like the Sichuan chefs boiled the fish-flavored sauce when I was working in Xinchuang Restaurant, so that not only the standard of sweet-and-sour sauce can be fixed, but also the taste of the pot-packed meat can be fixed Come down, that is to say, in the kitchen, if a customer orders pot-packed meat, other chefs can make it if the chef who specializes in making pot-packed meat is not there. Just cook it up, simplify the operation process, and fix the taste of the dishes at the same time, which should be an improvement.But until now, I haven't boiled the sweet and sour juice, so I don't know the exact ratio of sugar and vinegar in the sweet and sour juice.

That is to say, the production process of pot-packed meat can be done now, but the production standards are not precise enough, so it can’t be done now, and it needs to be done one by one in future work.

Put down the pen, sit there and light a cigarette and smoke.

Boiled fish is delicious, and the master can earn a high salary with a boiled fish, why?Is it simple to do?

I was wondering why it was so delicious?
Because people put their heart into it, and because they have production standards.Only with a smooth production process and production standards can there be such a good product and so many customers like it.

Every chef wants his dishes to be liked and sought after by customers, so that he can reflect his own value, get the attention of the boss, and earn an enviable salary.But to do this is to pay.

I'm far behind others.

People can make boiled fish all over the country, but we can only make pot-packed meat to the northeast. The gap is not 01:30.

They are all dishes, but their influence is different.

They are all chefs, but the money they earn is different.

When we look for poor people, we can’t complain if we don’t earn as much money as others. If we want to make more money, we have to improve our abilities. There is no good thing in the sky.

Tell yourself, work hard, now you are just a primary school student, you still have a lot to learn, and you have to do a lot, as long as you work hard, you will come out ahead one day.

In the evening, I feel a little hungry, and I want to cook a bowl of noodles but I don’t want to move, it’s too much trouble.I was a little tired after writing the dishes all afternoon, and I felt more tired than frying dishes all day.

When I was about to go out to eat a bowl of noodles, the pager rang. Seeing that it was a nearby number, I put on my clothes and went out to answer the call, and ate a bowl of noodles by the way.

It was Zhang Li who passed me the message and asked where I was. I said I was at home, but she told me to eat hot pot. She was waiting for me at the hot pot restaurant.

If you really want to sleep, someone will give you a pillow, and if you are hungry, someone will treat you to hot pot, and no one will be lucky.

When I came to the hot pot restaurant, Zhang Li had already arrived and ordered the hot pot. There was a girl with her who looked a bit like her, probably her sister.

I sat down opposite the two of them and said, "I was just about to come out to eat noodles, so you invited me to eat hot pot, so blessed."

Zhang Li looked at me with a smile and said, "It's called a tacit understanding. I figured out that you should be hungry, so I called you."

I said, "You are still amazing, I admire you."

She pointed to the girl beside her and said, "This is my sister."

I smiled and nodded at her sister.

Zhang Li went on to say: "She just came back from home today, and she came here just because she wanted me to treat her to hot pot. She wanted to ask what you were doing, but she didn't think about you being at home. She just asked, so I came over to have something to eat together." , If you’re not here, I’ll catch it, I didn’t expect you to be at home.”

I said, "This is life." Then I asked her, "Why didn't you go to work today?"

She said, "There was a power outage for maintenance in the afternoon, and I had a half-day break. Otherwise, I wouldn't have time to eat hot pot at this time. I'm busy." Then she said to her sister, "This is Brother Tan."

Her younger sister looked at me, smiled mischievously, and said, "My name is Brother Tan, I thought I had to call her brother-in-law."

Zhang Li scolded her sister and said, "Don't talk nonsense, she has a daughter-in-law."

Her younger sister said: "If you have a daughter-in-law, you still call her someone else. You can see that you have no good intentions."

Zhang Li said: "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as dumb. You can say anything."

I just laughed and said, "You two sisters really look alike."

Zhang Li said: "Is it not like it was born by a mother?"

Her sister looked at Zhang Li and said to me, "Do you look like me? I'm not as old as her." Then she laughed.

Zhang Li yelled at her sister again, and her sister resisted: "Don't yell at me all the time, if you yell at me again, I'll tell you everything—"

"Go ahead, go ahead and see what you can say." Zhang Li said angrily.

These sisters are very interesting.I remember that when I was young, the fourth and fifth sisters at home always fought like this, and it was fine when it was done, and then I didn't get angry when it was finished, as if it was not a thing not to fight a few times a day.Wait for me, no one fights with me, my sisters think I am small, and it is meaningless to fight with me.

Zhang Li asked for a bottle of white wine, and drinking with her has almost become a habit. I drink six taels of a bottle of liquor and she drinks four taels just right, not much.

"If you quit there, where do you plan to go?" Zhang Li said, "If not, go back to Blue House."

I said, "I won't go back after I come out, and I will find another job. It's easy to find a job."

Zhang Li said, "Why don't you go back to the Blue House, isn't it good?"

I said, "It's pretty good, but I still want to find a Chinese restaurant to cook. I don't want to always work in Xianzu restaurants. I can't cook a few dishes a day."

Zhang Li said: "It's enough to make money. Where is it not to make money? Chinese restaurants are even more tiring. You are so brisk and familiar with the Blue House. If I go back to the Blue House." Then she said earnestly: "There are still a few months. It's the Chinese New Year, so why bother?"

I said, "Look, let's talk about it when I come back from home. If I really can't find a job, I can go back to Cheong Wa Dae."

Sister Zhang Li said: "Brother Tan, your will is too weak, so I was persuaded by others. Do you know why she wants you to go back to the Blue House?" : "She wants to see you every day."

Zhang Li yelled at her sister and said, "Eat your hot pot."

Zhang Li's younger sister has a temper: "You still hate me, it doesn't hurt, and you still make such a big effort, stop hating me, and don't eat anymore!"

Zhang Li said: "It's best not to eat, save it."

Sister Zhang Li said, "I'll pack it."

Zhang Li said: "You'd better take all the pot at home, and see if the boss will let it go."

I laughed at the side, thinking that this is really two sisters.

Sister Zhang Li ignored Zhang Li and asked me, "Brother Tan, the two girls living upstairs in your house are my classmates, do you know that?"

I said, "I heard from your sister."

Sister Zhang Li said: "My classmate said your wife is doing well."

I said, "Really."

Sister Zhang Li said: "My classmate always goes to your house to borrow washboards from your wife to wash clothes, and also borrows the rope from your house to dry clothes. I get along very well with your daughter-in-law. Sometimes your daughter-in-law calls them when she cooks at night." Go down and eat."

I said, "I said, why is my rice growing so fast?"

Sister Zhang Li laughed and said, "See, you're not a stingy person. Someday I'll talk to my classmates about buying a bag of rice for your family."

I said: "Thank you, my family is short of rice."

Sister Zhang Li asked: "Is your family short of a daughter-in-law? I happen to have one here, and I will give it to you for free." After speaking, she immediately said to Zhang Li, "Tell you, don't hate me. I didn't blame you. You just hate me." you."

Annoyed, Zhang Li slapped her hard and said, "I'm still giving it away for free, I'm so worthless!"

Zhang Li's younger sister said: "Tell me again, tell you Zhang Li, if you are not my sister, I will fight back." Then she said to me: "Do you want it? If you want it, take it away immediately, and I will give you free hot pot."

I was laughed at by both sisters and said: "You two sisters are really interesting."

Zhang Li said: "She's like this, talking like crazy all day long."

I said, "Your sister is much more lively than you."

Zhang Li glanced at me and said, "How old is she, how old is I? Even in her thirties, she acts like a child all day long. Isn't it a joke?"

"Is it still a joke? I don't even want to say it." Zhang Li's sister said, "Brother Tan, let me ask you, did you drink in the rain one day?" "

I said, "It seems to be once."

Sister Zhang Li said: "It seems that there is, and there is. That time when Zhang Dali came home, she thought I was asleep. She sat there in a daze, like a fool, shed tears while she was in a daze, and put a hand in her hand. Tear paper and play." As she spoke, the little girl picked up the napkin on the table and said, "I'll learn for you." Then she began to tear the napkin, gnashing her teeth as she tore it, and said, "The surname is Tan, the surname is Tan, the surname is Tan -"

I started laughing, and Zhang Li's face turned red.

(End of this chapter)