The beginning is only when you become a chef

Chapter 32: Kaihua Guoba

See the recipe illustrations emitting purple light.

Xia An suddenly felt as if he had found gold among a pile of blue and green ordinary items.

Rare purple!
This shows that Jia Xiong, the person who created this recipe, must have had cooking skills of top grade or even higher.

"As I recall, Jia Xiong is older than the "Ten Perfect Master" Luo Tian. He was the head of the Yangquan Restaurant before Master Luo Tian, ​​right?"

Xia An rubbed his eyebrows and struggled to search his memory for some information about Jia Xiong, so he took a breath and exclaimed in admiration.

That’s amazing! No wonder Liu Maoxing calls Master Jia Xiong a legendary figure!

He couldn't help but look forward to it even more.

Compare with "Fierce Ice Fresh Sea Bream Mountain".

Similarly, if the learning progress of this recipe is upgraded to [Minor Success], what amazing techniques can he learn from the legendary Master Jia Xiong?

Xia An took a deep breath and studied the 75% recipe again.

After watching it repeatedly, his eyes gradually brightened and he clenched his fists tightly.

The ingredients, processes and steps were copied very carefully without any omissions.

But the only thing missing is the very critical unique kitchenware design drawings!
You know, the exquisite design and brilliant craftsmanship of the kitchenware of "Kaihua Guoba" amazed even Liu Maoxing at the time. He was willing to call Jia Xiong a legendary genius chef and even gave a classic line to affirm it:

"I really don't want to see such a delicious dish become a thing of the past!"

This line is very good and very impressive.

Xia An planned to be a porter, and made small repairs and small changes his motto.

Next time, find a suitable occasion where you can shine brightly and give a resounding speech in front of tens of millions of people.

"The missing 25% of the content, is it the unique cooking utensils that have been lost?" Xia An smiled and said to himself, "I have it in my mind, and I can also draw a computer drawing, draw a design drawing, and then I can even find someone to model and 3D print a set of kitchen utensils."

Xia An first searched the omnipotent Taobao, but entering keywords such as "casting" and "kitchenware customization" in succession did not work. The pages and product information displayed were very messy.

Damn it, A-Tao, when did you become so lame and useless? !

He simply stopped trying and turned to Weixin, asking several friends in the industry one by one.

“@Lu Zuguang, do you know a craftsman or organization that can make custom kitchenware?”

Same inquiry.

It was sent to Liu Hong and Tong Kun intactly.

Lu Zuguang: "Boss Xia, do you want to customize kitchenware? I know a great chef who always takes orders for top chefs."

Xia An: "How much is the fee?"

Lu Zuguang: "It depends on the number of kitchen utensils, their size and specifications. Some unique kitchen utensils charge quite high fees."

Xia An: "Wait a moment, I'll draw a design."

After sending the message, Xia An went upstairs and turned on his computer. He could still make simple line drawings.

Not a moment.

I drew a set of unique cooking tools of Kaihua Guoba in my memory with delicate lines:
A large, round, sealed iron ball.

From the middle, it can be divided into two equal halves.

If it fits tightly together, it will become a complete sphere.

On both sides of the sphere, one on the left and one on the right, there are knob handles welded symmetrically. When roasting over a fierce fire, the chef can hold the handles and quickly rotate the spherical cooker.

“This is the main pot!”

Xia An looked at the kitchenware design draft on the drawing software and nodded with satisfaction.

Continue to calm down and draw.

Soon, a second deep bamboo tube-shaped oil pan appeared on the screen.

The corresponding cooking steps flashed through Xia An's mind.

At that time, this extremely deep cylindrical pot is filled with boiling hot oil. After the rice crust balls are taken out of the big iron ball, they are immediately sunk into the cylindrical pot for frying.

Finally, there are three special chains.

"Finish!"

Xia An exhaled, packaged the design drawings and sent them to Liu Hong, Tong Kun and Lu Zuguang.

Immediately, he stretched out in the computer chair, with a slightly excited arc at the corner of his mouth.

Once the customized kitchenware is in place, you can start finishing it!

……

Two days later, a courier truck arrived at my doorstep.

"Mr. Xia, is that you? This is your large package."

Xia An and the courier boy worked together to carry several heavy boxes with thick protective wooden frames to the yard.

Afterwards, Xia An called Hojo Midori and together they used a sledgehammer to open the package.

After removing the layers of protective film, the two sets of strangely shaped new kitchen utensils were placed on the ground.

Hojo Miyoko was very confused: "Master, what are these kitchen utensils? They look so weird!"

“Unique kitchen utensils that are essential for making new dishes.”

Xia An answered casually, then looked at the two sets of kitchen utensils on the ground with relish.

The first set was obviously full of sophisticated technology, and it was exquisite to the extreme. Xia An found the product label in the box and looked at it, raising his eyebrows: "3D printing, made of titanium?"

Xia An touched another set of kitchen utensils and smiled:

“This set is made of cast iron!”

What titanium kitchenware? It's just an IQ tax. Apart from the lightness of the material, the most intolerable thing for a professional chef is that the kitchenware material conducts heat unevenly, and it is easy to burn the pot.

He took out the express delivery slip and saw that the sender was Liu Hong, and he was no longer surprised.

Liu Hong is a supply chain manager, not a chef. It seems that he heard about the concept of titanium kitchenware from somewhere and was fooled.

The other set was sent by Lu Zuguang from the imperial capital.

Made of cast iron, it has a great reputation!
Cast iron is actually pig iron, which has many disadvantages, but many professional chefs like to use cast iron pans. They can be used for frying, stir-frying, cooking, deep-frying and stewing. The advantages of cast iron being less likely to get stuck and having uniform heat conduction make it the favorite of professional chefs.

Of course.

No matter what kind of kitchen utensils you use, they must be used according to the occasion and the specific circumstances of the dishes. Blind preference will not work.

But in Xia An's opinion.

If you want to recreate the Kaihua Guoba, you must use cast iron kitchenware.

As a highly fantasy classic recipe that has trapped countless people and enthusiasts, the first thing to solve is the problem that the rice crust is easily burnt and has a burnt smell in a spherical and closed pot.

Cast iron kitchen utensils can greatly reduce the difficulty of solving the problem.

After cleaning the new set of kitchen utensils, Xia An couldn't wait to cook for the first time.

Seeing Xia An evenly spread the glutinous rice between two hemisphere cast iron pots and then smear a layer of butter on them, the number of question marks on Miyoko Hojo's forehead gradually increased.

On the stove over high heat.

A strange spherical pot was suspended on an alloy frame and was spinning at high speed in the flames.

"Master, it's confusing!"

After a while, Hojo Miyoko's scream was heard from the kitchen.

So Xia An's first attempt failed at the very first step.

He had a gloomy face and was wearing heat-insulating gloves. With a "click", he turned a switch and the spherical cast iron pot cracked into two semicircles.

Pouring out the burnt rice crust from the semicircular cast iron pot, Xia An sighed:
"The spherical pot's rotation speed has slowed down, and the fire in the fierce stove can be turned down!
"Miyoko, come again!"

"You'll turn the pot with me this time!"

(End of this chapter)