How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 270 The Reasons for Failure

In the courtyard of the Xiang family mansion.

Unlike Kagawa, who stared at the bread in front of him and questioned his existence, Ouyang Yating and the other two followed Kagawa's example and broke the bread open. When they clearly saw that the bottom half was not burnt, they all exclaimed in surprise.

"Is this what bread looks like when it's baked successfully?" Ouyang Yating curiously broke off a small piece that wasn't burnt and boldly put it in her mouth to chew. "Indeed, it's very different from steamed buns and mantou."

"It's a pity that too few parts were successfully baked. If the whole thing had been baked, it would have been amazing."

As he spoke, Aino picked up a knife and cut off the intact bottom of his square loaf of bread. As for the charred part, he threw it directly into the trash can next to him.

This trash can will probably be busy for the next two months. Kagawa thought to himself, as if escaping reality.

"Sigh... Where did things go wrong? Isn't this how Europeans used to bake them?"

Kagawa opened Geegle's search page and found some vlogs he had saved earlier about baking bread in medieval European ovens, and began to ponder the differences between them.

Seeing Xiangchuan like this, Ouyang Yating and the other two knew it wasn't appropriate to disturb her, so they quietly began to discuss the taste of the half-eaten bread and what to dip it in.

After a long while, when Daxing came over to tell the four of them it was time to have lunch, Kagawa still couldn't figure it out.

"There's no need for one person to just watch. Send us the footage so we can see it too. Maybe we'll spot the problem then?"

Ouyang Yating gently patted Xiangchuan's shoulder, comforting him.

Kagawa tilted his head: Well, maybe it's better than her just watching alone.
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The Xiang family's dining table was relatively quiet on the first day of summer vacation.

Xiang Weiguo and his wife went to work as usual. Xiang Qi, who rarely gets a day off, was fast asleep in his room and had specifically asked Da Xing to save him lunch. Xiang Xue and Lin Ming were in the live broadcast room with the operations team and the heads of the Information Bureau and the Agriculture Bureau because they were going to broadcast the first episode of "A Bite of China" live that evening. Da Xing had also brought them lunch in advance.

So at this dinner table, there were only the four members of the "A Bite of China" group and Rivière, who had been sitting in the living room all morning reading "Don Quixote".

The moment Kagawa stepped into the restaurant and saw Rivi, he felt the three people behind him hold their breath. Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong were simply nervous, but the problem was Aino, who looked like a lion with its mane standing on end.

While waiting for Daisei to bring the food to the table, Kagawa secretly glanced at the two of them and wondered: Could it be because handsome men repel each other?
However, Kagawa forgot about this eccentric idea after Daisei served the tomato and cucumber noodles.
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After returning home yesterday afternoon, Kagawa had been thinking about adding some summer-appropriate dishes to the family's menu. However, considering that the mung beans had only recently been planted in the experimental field, Kagawa had no choice but to abandon the most popular summer dish, mung bean porridge, and instead focus on noodles and pasta.

Noodles that don't require cooking are undoubtedly a popular summer dish. Kagawa first prepared a bowl of tomato and minced meat soup, using minced beef, then sliced ​​cucumbers, chopped red chilies, and poured hot oil over them, while asking the chef to help fry a small piece of steak and cut it into chunks.

And so, this not-so-authentic tomato sauce noodle dish made its grand entrance.

Last night, I made this bowl of noodles right after my family finished dinner. As soon as they smelled the appetizing aroma of tomatoes, all the gourmands in my family reached out to Kagawa for some.

As a result, last night, everyone in the family had to lean against the wall to walk out of the restaurant. Xiangxue even had to exert the strongest willpower she had ever shown to resist rubbing her stomach like Lin Ming next to her in the live broadcast.

Kagawa, however, had the foresight to eat only a small bowl before returning to his room to rest.

She just ate two servings of fried rice, so how could she possibly eat a big bowl of noodles like her family does? It's obvious she wouldn't be able to finish it.

But things were different this time. After a brainstorming session that morning, the four of them were starving. Sweet and sour tomato and minced meat soup was poured over cold noodles that had been cooked and then rinsed in cold water, topped with black pepper beef chunks and drizzled with bright red chili oil. The vibrant red and green colors, combined with the natural sweet and sour aroma of tomatoes, were incredibly tempting. "If only we could have some Cantonese char siu or cold pig's ear salad," Xiangchuan thought, slurping his noodles with relish.

Perhaps because they weren't familiar with each other, or perhaps because the tomato sauce noodles were too tempting, the only sounds at the table, besides the constant slurping of noodles, were the occasional calls for Da Xing to bring them another bowl of noodles.
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When someone around you is showing off their food, you might find yourself wanting to eat more as a bystander. This is why many people in the 21st century watch food documentaries or mukbang vlogs during mealtimes.

Kagawa couldn't escape this rule this time either.

Seeing the three people around him and even Rivi sitting opposite him starting to slurp up their second bowls of noodles, Kagawa couldn't resist and asked Daisei to give him another bowl as well.

As a result, she actually had to lean against the wall to walk out of her own restaurant.

Fortunately, Kagawa had originally planned to review the reasons for the repeated failures in baking bread with Ouyang Yating and the other two in the afternoon, so even though she was lying on the recliner rubbing her stomach to digest, it didn't stop her from forwarding the Vlog videos saved on her terminal to the three of them.

The video wasn't long; the blogger edited out the unnecessary waiting scenes of the dough fermenting and proofing and the bread going into the oven, but the key steps were still clearly filmed.

This is what Kagawa doesn't understand: he copied the blogger's steps almost exactly, so why did he still burn the bread?
However, there are some things that only modern people can see.

After watching the video, Ouyang Yating rewound to the scene where the blogger was putting firewood and charcoal into the oven, pointed at the firewood and charcoal, and asked:

"What are these for?"

"Hmm? These are used to start fires to ignite the charcoal and heat the oven. Don't underestimate these things; they can raise the temperature inside the oven to 300 degrees Celsius."

This is what Kagawa found when he was planning to make that brick oven.

"Aino, our oven can be temperature controlled, right? What temperature did you set it to before?"

"It was 250 degrees at first, then it was adjusted to 150 before the holiday, and this time it was adjusted to 140. What happened?"

"Have those fuel penetration tests been done? Especially for starchy foods."

Aino: ...It seems there really isn't one.

Xiang, a complete novice in modern physics, secretly sidled up to Liang Gong and asked, "What is a penetration test?"

Liang Gong explained earnestly:
"Simply put, it tests whether energy consumables can fully exert their energy on a specific material. For example, some energy sources can penetrate metals, so they can be used for energy mining operations on asteroids. On the other hand, some energy sources cannot penetrate fabrics, so they can be used in the clothing industry to print different patterns on clothing without damaging the underlying fabric."

Kagawa nodded, seemingly understanding, and then asked:

"What Ya-ting just said is that the fuel we're using might be able to penetrate starch?"

“Yes, if it has penetrability against a specific substance, then releasing energy against that substance will produce an effect far exceeding the average. Yating and Aino guessed that this might be why our bread always burns.”

Kagawa: If that's really the reason, then the blame really wasn't on me before.

Who knew that modern energy could have such a "targeting ××" effect, just like the useless dog class!