Coquettish Rebirth

"Mr. Jia, that's right, this is the equipment we want. "≤Top『≤Point』≤Small『≤say," Lao Zhang said to Jia Hongjian on the other end of the phone.

This is how it happened. Wasn't Jia Hongjian leading a team in New York?When he was working hard to lead the team to win people's hearts, Ye Jing sent an email to Jia Hongjian's mailbox.Jia Hongjian opened the email and found that it basically contained all kinds of kitchen equipment they needed. Such kitchen equipment does not mean that they are finished with a stove or a range hood just like our ordinary kitchens. If it is a restaurant, what is needed is "business equipment"!This is for business use, not home use!Just talking about stoves or heating equipment, there are several kinds!There are gas stoves, steam cabinets, induction cookers, infrared stoves, microwave ovens and electric ovens, etc.This is only for heating. For the white case category, that is, pasta, there are also dough mixers, slicers, noodle presses, etc. For red cases, there are also meat grinders, and even for some If you want to cook juice and the like, you need a juicer!

Does that sound like much?This is just the beginning!There are also various cleaning equipment, such as cleaning benches, stainless steel basins, vegetable washing machines, dishwashers, and disinfection cabinets!Then the washed dishes and daily ingredients should be placed in a series of things such as flat-panel shelves, rice noodle racks, refrigerators, freezers, and cold storage.Then there are ventilation equipment, that is, more powerful range hoods, and then there are fume purifiers to deal with a lot of cooking fumes, and there are also grease traps, etc., and even to serve food on the second floor, no The waiter carries the food up the stairs, so a small food elevator must be installed!It’s just a small elevator space about the size of a 23-inch computer screen. Put dishes in it, press the button on the second floor, and the elevator will automatically transport the dishes up…you have to buy all these things.

Originally.If you want to buy these things, it doesn't mean that Jia Hongjian should buy them.After all, Jia Hongjian is not an expert in this field, is he?If you ask him to buy it, he doesn't know what to buy.Ye Jing and Lao Zhang have found some American national chain hotel and restaurant equipment suppliers in Los Angeles. The specific models are already optimistic. In order to respect Jia Hongjian, Ye Jing sent the models and prices to Jia Hongjian took a look.It was supposed to be nothing.What made Jia Hongjian able to make a phone call back?It was because Jia Hongjian discovered that they not only bought all kinds of finished equipment, but also had a sum of money to order a super large stainless steel pressure cooker and a large cast iron pot!What the hell is this for?

So after calling and asking, Ye Jing said that she didn't know what the use was for what Lao Zhang wanted to use, so she finally found Lao Zhang, and Lao Zhang said that these were what they wanted, and there was nothing wrong. "What is the oversized stainless steel pressure cooker for? The ones on the market are useless?" Jia Hongjian asked, and then he heard Lao Zhang's answer—"The ones on the market are really useless. Because we I want such an oversized pressure cooker. It is not only big, but also has a relatively high pressure. The overall pressure can reach 1.8 atmospheres, while the traditional pressure cooker used at home is only about 1.2 atmospheres. And our pressure cooker is used for stewing Rice, so the size is much larger than the ones on the market now, so it must be made to order..."

Pressure cooker cooking?Well, Jia Hongjian could understand this too.why?Because he bought a Korean rice cooker for his family in the history, and it is not as expensive as the more than 3000 rice cookers in Japan, only 1000 yuan.This thousand yuan rice cooker is a pressure rice cooker, which pressurizes itself when cooking.Not to mention how this rice cooker is.At least Jia Hongjian thought it was acceptable for him to cook rice in a pressure cooker. "But what is such an oversized cast iron pot for?" he asked again.In the end, who knew that only Lao Zhang replied: "It's also for stewing rice..." Huh?Don't you have a huge electric pressure cooker?Why do we have to get a cast iron pot to cook the rice here?What do these mean?Although it is said that the restaurant may have a relatively large amount of food, so there is no need to find two different cooking utensils?You said that you need two oversized electric pressure cookers.What does one electric pressure cooker and one cast iron pot mean?

Just when Jia Hongjian was wondering, that old Zhang seemed to know what Jia Hongjian was thinking, and he took the initiative to explain, "Mr. Jia, according to our practice, the steamed rice is more delicious. On the other hand, the rice made of iron pot, that is, cast iron pot, is also delicious. We have tried to make the inner pot of a rice cooker with a cast iron mold, and put it in an ordinary rice cooker, and the stewed rice is much more delicious! However, if you use a cast iron pot to cook on the fire, you must pay attention to the heat. If you use a cast iron inner pot to put it in the rice cooker, the cooked rice is not enough. So in the end we just put the cast iron inner pot in the steamer Steaming, but it is not as delicious as using fire and a cast iron pot. Finally, we found such a method, that is, pour water in a special large pressure cooker, and then put the cast iron pot in it, so that the cast iron pot sink, the bottom will be in contact with the bottom of the pressure cooker, which makes the cast iron pot have the effect of being placed on the fire, and then because the surrounding water will turn into steam, and because of the high pressure, the temperature of the steam will exceed 100 degrees, and finally there will be another The aroma from the rural iron pot and the taste of steamed rice, so we think this is the best way to eat!"

After talking about this, Lao Zhang paused, "Especially this kind of electric pressure cooker, because the heating heat is fixed, so after you are proficient in the operation, you only need to set the timing, and you don't have to worry about overheating. Mr. Jia, in this way, when the time comes, the equipment will be ready. The New York branch has been sent to our store. I will make you a meal in person and let you taste our handicrafts. I guarantee that you will bite your tongue if you eat delicious food! Just white rice can make you bite your tongue!" "Really Fake ones?" At this time, Jia Hongjian didn't care about pressure cookers and cast iron pots anymore, because these things sounded serious, so what else did he care about?So his attention was immediately attracted by the white rice that Lao Zhang described...Uncle, are we really exaggerating?White rice!Is this thing edible enough to bite your tongue?Jia Hongjian really didn't believe it!

It’s not that he has never eaten stewed white rice in his previous life, which is said to be particularly good. After some colleagues went to Japan, South Korea and other places, they brought back high-priced rice, such as the best Koshihikari rice in Japan, which costs 70 yuan per kilogram. , the family bought a few catties and gave it to Jia Hongjian.Jia Hongjian made it with a good rice cooker.I think the taste is much better than the rice he usually eats, but it's not so good that you can bite your tongue?So Jia Hongjian really didn't believe it at this time!As a result, before he said that he didn't believe it, the old man seemed to have guessed what he was thinking!So the old Zhangtou laughed and said at this time: "Mr. Jia, if you don't believe this, the cast iron pot is ready in two days. I will make it for you in a cast iron pot first. How about it? Make sure you eat it. The rice at the state banquet level feels different afterward!"

"Okay! Try it!" Jia Hongjian immediately became interested. Although Zhang helped Jia Hongjian and the others set up a snack bar run by laid-off workers in the Northeast, they all used industrial assembly lines. The method is made, the selling point is never the taste!But the taste is decent and cheap!It is to invest in vegetables before they are planted, reduce the purchase price by reducing the risk of farmers, and then use machines to cook vegetables like large-scale industrial production, thereby greatly reducing the cost of semi-finished dishes.Finally, it was delivered to various stores, and people only needed to heat and cook the half-cooked dishes.So this taste is definitely not the taste of a state banquet!Jia Hongjian has never tasted the taste of a state banquet until now. Now that he has the opportunity, he is willing to try it, even if it is just white rice that is as good as a state banquet!

As a result, this super-large rice cooker cannot be made in a few days after all, but the cast iron pot is different.Just find a small steel factory to make a mold for this cast iron, and then pour molten iron into it.There is no technical content at all!In order to give Jia Hongjian and the others an early adopter, when ordering the cast iron pot, Lao Zhang specially asked them to get an extra small cast iron pot the size of the inner pot of the rice cooker.After the cast iron pot is finished, all kinds of burrs are removed through the machine, and after polishing, it is treated with antirust.Then that's it!So a week later, Lao Zhang and Ye Jing came to New York together to show how to cook in a cast iron pot!Originally, Jia Hongjian thought that if the state banquet master cooks white rice, it is no different from ordinary people's cooking?The result is known from the very beginning.There is a big difference—ordinary people wash rice, it only takes a few times to wash off the stones and rice husks, and the water soaking the rice in the end may still be translucent, so put it in the rice cooker to cook up.But this old master Zhang washed the rice for countless times, so according to the time, it took half an hour to wash the rice!After half an hour of washing, the water soaked in rice is completely transparent and clear!

Damn, the craftsmanship of the state banquet master is really fine!That's what Jia Hongjian thought at the time, but soon he discovered a different way of cooking than ordinary people.I saw that the old master Zhang did not put the rice soaked in water on the stove to start burning, but poured out the clear water, and then used something like a sieve to put the rice on it to drain the water. Dry!At this time, the rice looks much whiter than the rice after washing rice casually!Then such a time of emptying the water lasted for more than ten minutes, and it was estimated that the rice had completely emptied the water.This old Zhang got another mineral water, poured the mineral water into the cast iron pot, and then put the rice in it. "I feel that the water here in New York is still a little hard. It is better to use softer water to soak the rice, and the taste will be better..." Lao Zhang said very masterly.

Hearing Lao Zhang's words, why did Jia Hongjian suddenly feel that cooking rice has become metaphysical?Is there a difference between hard water and soft water?He knows what hard water is. The so-called hard water is water with a lot of calcium salts—in short, it is the kind of water that will leave scale in the kettle after a long time!This kind of water has no effect on health, so in places like Shanghai where the quality of tap water is not very good, the tap water is generally hard water or even very hard water!In short, it is easy to leave a ditch in the pot of boiling water.In the United States, there is no requirement for the hardness of the drinking water. Jia Hongjian didn’t really feel the overall hardness of the water, because he usually lives in Los Angeles, and it feels okay there. New York He has never lived there!But whether the water is hard or not, it affects the taste of the rice...maybe it's because of the calcium salt in it?But how much is that content?Does this stuff have that much impact? (to be continued..)