How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 265 The Theme of Summer Vacation

As we all know, the closer it gets to the holidays, the less students can concentrate on their studies.

This natural law will still apply to all students in school even 30,000 years from now.

In the last week of the semester, more and more students were strolling to the Tongue Tip Club's small restaurant in the afternoon. Some club presidents even brought their own people to pack takeout, and the way they were doing it didn't look like they were preparing to continue their club activities at all.

Fortunately, the school was very open-minded. In order to reduce the pressure of the small restaurant, the school cafeteria was specially approved to provide takeaway services to students in the afternoons of the last week. These included staple foods with less soup, such as steamed buns, mantou, fried dumplings, and steamed dumplings, as well as fried snacks such as French fries and potato wedges, which were finally authorized by Yuexiang Group.

When Xiangchuan learned about this, he muttered to himself at home, "Wouldn't it be too much to eat such big buns this afternoon? Couldn't they make the buns smaller?" Xiang Weiguo overheard him.

Two days later, diners discovered that university cafeterias and Yuexiang restaurants across the country had started selling smaller buns, about the size of a baby's fist. Like the larger buns, they had thin skins and lots of filling, and were priced at about one-third of the larger buns.

This delighted many diners with smaller appetites. They were craving the various buns at Yuexiang Restaurant, but those buns were as big as an adult's fist, and it was difficult to eat a third after eating one or two. These small buns solved this problem for them. Diners could choose several flavors of small buns at the same time, each with a different taste, and they could even eat them like opening a blind box.

But these are all things for later.
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At this moment, Kagawa moved a chair over and sat in front of the oven, staring blankly at the oven that was emitting the aroma of bread.

If you smelled it carefully, you could also smell a hint of meat mixed in with the aroma of bread. The gluttons of Class 8, led by their class monitor Lu Daiqing, were also swallowing their saliva and staring intently at the oven.

"Do you all need to crowd around here?" Ouyang Yating looked helplessly at her classmates standing to the side. "We're not having a barbecue party today."

"Don't be so rigid, Ya-ting. Kagawa is going to use the grill now, and since we've already lit it, it would be a shame not to grill some other things as well."

Nancy chuckled and came closer, holding a disposable bowl filled with the eggs and beef from the previous round of grilling.

Ouyang Yating gave her a disapproving look, picked up the chopsticks in the bowl, took a piece of meat, and stuffed it into her mouth, which was taken as tacit agreement with Nancy's statement.

Just then, the timer on the oven rang. Aino operated the oven's control device, lowered the heat, and opened the oven valve. The rich aroma of meat and bread wafted out, making Liang Gong, who was about to take the baking tray out with a spatula, swallow hard.

The beef was bought by the students of Class 8 a few days ago when they heard Kagawa say he was planning to grill something in the oven. The lean cuts were put into the oven for sealed grilling, while the marbled beef brisket was grilled directly on a griddle instead of being grilled by Kagawa.

The marinated lean meat is placed in the oven along with the dough kneaded by Kagawa, and they will be taken out of the oven together.

The first bread she took out was from Kagawa. Her face twitched as she looked at the black dumpling in front of her. She put on oven mitts and weighed the obviously burnt bread in her hand.

Compared to the one I made before, at least this one wasn't completely burnt; the bottom still had some snow-white and golden-brown parts. As for whether it's edible... well, for a discerning ancient person like me, I'd rather eat a steamed bun.

Compared to the gloomy Xiangchuan, the students of Class 8 in the first year of high school were much happier after receiving the grilled lean beef. The lean meat, marinated with salt and pepper and then grilled in a sealed container, became a delicious hand-torn snack. Class monitor Lu Daiqing, along with the other class officers, used a compressed laser cutter to divide the large piece of meat into thirty equal portions, each about the size of a bamboo tube. Some students immediately started tearing and gnawing on the meat, while others put some into takeout boxes to take home and enjoy while watching Xiangxue's drama series live that evening.

Those members of the "Tongue Tip Club" who didn't participate in the fundraising to buy meat managed to snag a few bites from their classmates.

At this point, only Kagawa wasn't really in the mood to pay attention to these things.

"So, it failed again this time?"

Ai Nuo, holding her disposable bowl, approached Kagawa, with Ryoko close behind. The two stared at the dough in front of Kagawa, which was ninety percent carbonized, their faces a mixture of disbelief and embarrassment.

"It's a little better than before." Kagawa reluctantly showed the two the bottom of the black unidentified object.

“It’s only slightly better.” Sitting next to Kagawa, Ouyang Yating reached out and took the black object, then scooped out the white parts. “The unburnt parts account for about 10% of the total volume. For a food made from wheat flour, the conversion rate of edible matter is quite low.”

Kagawa slumped back in his chair, head tilted back, and sighed, "Ah... if only I had an oven. At least an oven could bake the bread properly..."

“But currently, there’s a lack of necessity to ‘use an oven.’” Aino looked at the Class 8 members who were grilling meat on a teppanyaki grill. “The roasted chicken, roasted beef, roasted eggs, and roasted vegetables we’re currently making are all very popular, but for these ingredients, ‘roasting’ is not a necessary cooking method. Whether it’s Moon Echo Restaurant or the cafeteria, they mostly offer products prepared by stir-frying, steaming, and boiling. Even the wheat flour that is your current carbonized prototype can be processed using other cooking methods; roasting is not the only method.”

“That’s the downside of missing history.” Kagawa frowned as he looked at him. “Bake is clearly the most primitive cooking method, but it’s the most restricted in modern times. It’s absurd! People used to bake flatbread, roast meat, and bake bread to enrich their diet. Steamed buns and mantou only appeared later.”

"Doesn't that mean that the method of 'roasting' has been gradually abandoned by people as times have changed?" Liang Gong added.

“But bread, cakes, pizzas and the like are still mainstream foods in the 21st century, they just don’t fit Asian eating habits.” Kagawa said, sighing deeply and looking at the oven with a resentful expression. “If I had known this would happen, I would have thought about making bread and the like from the beginning. Now that we have so many recipes, the Agriculture Bureau and the Culture Bureau think that baked goods are not important, which means we have to outwit and outmaneuver this thing now.”

"We? Kagawa, you mean...?"

Ouyang Yating and Aino looked at her with complicated expressions.

“This is the theme of our summer outdoor study tour.” Kagawa pointed to the carbonized material in Ouyang Yating’s hand with her thumb. She chuckled and looked at her three club members. “I can’t be the only one struggling with this thing. This is a big project. If we do it well, we’ll have plenty of food to eat in the future.”

The three members of the "A Bite of China" group: No, we are already very content. Eating carbohydrates... is completely unnecessary.

However, the club members had no right to protest during club activities, and in the end they could only watch helplessly as Kagawa submitted the application for the Taste Club's summer outdoor study tour.